…if we do this right— and by that I mean with grace and compassion— perhaps we’ll see ourselves in strangers. Really see ourselves for the global family that we are. And wrap our hearts and our mighty intellect around protecting,…
Our wounded world can be healed If we look to where the YES is revealed It’s in the flight of the flock that’s turning In desire that keeps on burning It’s in the running rivers flow It’s in the bud…
Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go…
I sleep. Then awake. Still it is now. —anonymous Happy Daylight Savings Time! Do you ever wonder what happens to that hour that disappears while you’re sleeping? Where does it go? Do people on the opposite side of…
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. —Marianne Williamson This quote used to confuse me. I…
It’s no use to go back to yesterday because I was a different person then. ~ Lewis Carroll from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Ignorance is bliss. When I read a book about the many benefits of becoming vegan for…
The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid. ~Frank Baum from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz One of my teachers says that fear is False Evidence Appearing Real. Courage is facing fear, not danger. Sometimes,…
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You don’t grasp the fact that what is most alive of all, is inside your own house. ~Kabir Air surrounds everything, is in every living…
Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. ~Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby, 1873 I am very proactive when it comes to my health. I brush and…
Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ~novelist Susan Ertz I don’t want immortality. Knowing there will be an end adds meaning to my life and makes me…