the conflict with Peace … (03/27/12)

“Behind all seen things lies something vaster. Everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening onto something greater than itself.” ~ Antoine de St. Exupery If we can’t do much about war abroad, let us at least make Peace at home …… Make PEACE real today — be Kind to someone you […]

on Salvation … (03/27/11)

“Always do good to others. Be selfless. This is divine life. This is the direct way to salvation.” ~ Swami Sivananda . “If you understand these things, blessed are you while you DO them.” ~ Jesus (John 13:17) . “Courage is a kind of salvation.” ~ Plato . “Human salvation lies in the hands of […]

becoming HOLI … (03/27/13)

“Let the colors of Holi send the message of Peace & Happiness deep into your Heart.” ~ anonymous Evolutionary biology is now showing that every human being on this planet did indeed stem from a single man & a single woman — that we truly are one BIG Family. Let us go forth today in […]

on Courage … (03/27/11)

“If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything.” ~ Win Borden . “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and banish them with illumination and forgiveness.” ~ August Wilson . “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day […]

recognizing your Self … (03/26/13)

“Those who cannot feel the littleness of the great things in themselves, are also apt to overlook the Greatness of the little things in others.” ~ Kakuzo Okakura The key to knowing real Compassion is realizing that the enemy whose one finger is pointing critically at you has three fingers pointing accurately back at himself […]

The Woman & the Stone … (03/26/11)

There was once a wise woman traveling in the mountains who found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and she opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked if she might give it to him. She did […]

on Contentment … (03/25/11)

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty” ~ Socrates . “When you think of yesterday without regret & tomorrow without fear, you are very near Contentment.” ~ unknown . “Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug.” ~ Og Mandino

All that truly matters … (03/25/13)

“The world is a wonderfully weird place — consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security is a delusion, and the tyranny of the dulled mind forever threatens. But our lives are not as limited as we think they are — all things are possible, laughter is holier […]

agents of real Change … (03/24/12)

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ~ Viktor E. Frankl Now that the “find & punish Joseph Kony” craze has died down a bit — now that the emotions that were provoked by the […]

on Enlightenment … (03/24/11)

“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.” ~ Lao Tsu . “If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can find our own individual enlightenment … while letting the rest of the world go to hell.” ~ Satish Kumar . Being kind to others is the only way to truly […]

Rediscovering your Destiny … (03/24/13)

It is each man’s destined quest to rediscover who he truly is, but the answer to that searching lies in the present, not in the past … The past is a construct of the mind. It blinds us; it fools us into believing what it so desperately wants us to believe: that we are weak […]