"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."

"Righteous Indignation:  Yes, you have a 'perfect right' to be angry at some injury that has taken place in your life, but you also have a right to the nervous disorder or stomach ulcers that inevitably follow. For we are always dealing with law.  Your responsibility to yourself as well as to the divine law, is to keep yourself inwardly poised and to keep your thoughts positive and loving, in spite of injustice or disorder around you."

- Eric Butterworth

"If I can remove the sting of blame and shame from my own heart, I can offer that gift to you.  If I can see my own innocence, I can see yours too."

- Paul Ferrini

“Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us, when in fact, it’s the thing that’s really preventing us from being seen and taking flight.” 

-Brené Brown

". . . it is well to keep in mind, however, that happiness and well-being are strictly personal concepts.  For some people the sense of freedom and adventure is an essential part of the experience.  Trust your instinct, this is your journey, the route to take is up to you.

- Excerpt from the movie, A Five Star Life

". . . It's the kind of truth that can make hate and war as unnecessary as ignorance."

EVERY ACT OF ACCEPTANCE OPENS OUR HEART TO LOVE

"If you are going to pray, pray for Understanding."

Imagine . . .

“Develop a mind that is vast like the water, where experiences both pleasant and unpleasant  can appear and disappear without conflict, struggle, or harm.  Rest in a mind like vast water.”  - Buddha

"To heal a wound, you need to stop touching it.”

PEOPLE WHO ARE

INTIMIDATED BY YOU

TALK BAD ABOUT YOU

WITH HOPES THAT

OTHERS WON'T FIND

YOU SO APPEALING.

We Create Our Own Happiness

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

- William James

Less is More

“Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.”

- Marianne Williamson

"Every flower must grow through dirt."

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building 
the new."

- Dan Millman

"... And in the End, the Love You Take is Equal to the Love You Make." 

"Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult."

- Prem Rawat

"Everything in the universe is within you.  Ask all from yourself."

- Rumi

"My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportions to my expectations.”  - Michael J. Fox

"Belief creates the actual fact."

- William James

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."







































- To Kill A Mockingbird

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” 

- William James