"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." ~ Henry David Thoreau

Living Gracefully With Uncertainty

"Open-minded skepticism and living gracefully with uncertainty will keep you informed as you change and what is valuable or not valuable to you changes. . .To live with uncertainty as you discover your own truth requires courage. The good news is that this is not a timed test, you have forever." ~ Thomas Campbell, Physicist, Author of My Big Toe, a Trilogy unifying philosophy, physics, and metaphysics

"The further I wake into this life, the more I realize...

...that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.  Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, the music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe.  Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are." ~ Mark Nepo

“We cannot control the reactions of others. However, although people may initially react when you change the way you are by speaking honestly, in the end it raises the relationship to a whole new and healthier level. Either that or it releases the unhealthy relationship from your life. Either way, you win.” ~ Bronnie Ware

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"This planet is not terra firma....

It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it. Clearly, the highest loyalty we should have is not to our own country or our own religion or our hometown or even to ourselves. It should be to, number two, the family of man, and number one, the planet at large. This is our home, and this is all we've got."

— Scott Carpenter, Mecury 7 astronaut, speech at Millersville University, Pennslyvania. 15 October 1992

The Milky Way, Storms Over Africa

Genetic Biology

“If we change our interaction with our environment, we change our genetic potential ….so there is nothing fixed in our biology. It’s always changeable. Since we are not fixed… all of a sudden you realize how powerful you are as an individual in controlling your gene expression rather than buying into belief of victims of genetic determination.” ~ Dr. Bruce Lipton

Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., a pioneer in the new biology, is an internationally recognized leader in bridging science and spirit. A cell biologist by training, receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, Bruce was on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and later performed groundbreaking stem-cell research at Stanford University. He is the best-selling author of The Biology of Belief and received the 2009 prestigious Goi Peace Award (Japan) in honor of his scientific contribution to world harmony. http://www.goipeace.or.jp/english/activities/award/index.html

Trust your own process...

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." ~ Joseph Chilton Pearce