"Sometimes letting go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on." ~ Eckhart Tolle

“...the life we have is the life we attract to us. We may/may not be its architect, but we assist in its creation.” Robert Fripp

“I’ve had thousands of problems in my life, most of them never actually happened.” ~ Mark Twain

Unfolding

"Every experience that we are given reveals to us a word in the language of our own wisdom which only we can start to learn." ~ Mark Nepo

Return to Nature

Send the crowds away, go up to the mountains and silently commune with trees and flowers, animals and birds, with the sea and sky and stars.  It is a spiritual exercise to gaze at these things around you...hopefully the words will drop, the concepts will drop and you will see, you will make contact with reality.  That is the cure for loneliness.  

Excerpt from Awareness - The Perils And Opportunities Of Reality by Anthony deMello

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle. ~ Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality...

dropping ones illusions, making contact with the real.  You can only know what aloneness is when you drop your clinging, when you drop your dependency.  When your illusions drop, you are in touch with reality at last and you will never again be lonely, never again...

Excerpt from Awareness - The Perils And Opportunities Of Reality by Anthony deMello

Genius

Acceptance

The Ego's M.O.

If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up. ~ Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Stillness Speaks

“A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you. When you become aware of silence, immediately there is a state of inner alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of years of collective human conditioning.”  ~ Eckhart Tolle

Photograph by Bill Schwab

Presidents' Day

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.  
~ Thomas Jefferson

Someone once said....

The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements.  They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.  

Excerpt from Awareness - The Perils And Opportunities Of Reality by Anthony deMello

Reflection

“It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?” ― Carl Sandburg

Acceptance

Acts of Kindness

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. 
-Dalai Lama

Unless you make being happy a priority, it might pass you going in the other direction without you ever realizing it.

"Not letting your mood determine your manners. A friendly greeting in the morning to everyone in the house is non-negotiable." ~ Lisa Borgnes Giramonti, A Bloomsbury Life

"Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed into the future." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

All is flux, nothing stays still. ~ Heraclitus

"Everybody's got a past. The past does not equal the future unless you live there." ~ Tony Robbins

The creative life is the best life of all. ~ Chuck Close

Stratocumulus Cloud Cover Over Pacific

On Jan. 4 a large presence of stratocumulus clouds was the central focus of camera lenses which remained aimed at the clouds as the Expedition 34 crew members aboard the International Space Station flew above the northwestern Pacific Ocean about 460 miles east of northern Honshu, Japan.

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life. ~ Confucius

Paying it forward...

Acts of Kindness

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing. ~ William Shakespear

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.  ~ Victor Hugo

Relationship Drama

When relatively insignificant disagreements trigger arguments, emotional pain, at the root of such experiences lie the basic ego patterns:  the need to be right and for someone else to be wrong; that is to say, identification with mental positions.  There is also the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between "me" and the "other" without which it cannot survive. ~  Eckhart Tolle