"Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt."

~Abraham Lincoln

"Sometimes it takes an overwhelming breakdown to have an unbelievable breakthrough."

“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled!"  

Attributed to Mark Twain

"A man who believes everything knows nothing."

Schopenhauer said of Napoleon:

“He was possessed of the very ordinary egoism that seeks its welfare at the expense of others. What distinguished him was merely the greater power he had of satisfying his will.”

"Energy is such an interesting thing. It’s so powerful. We humans can’t see it with our eyes so we often ignore its existence. It was only when we started living with animals that I became aware of energy and how it affects the people and animals we live with.

Animals are very aware of energy. They have to be in order to stay alive.
If I try to interact with our donkeys and I’m thinking about something that makes me angry, or if I’m in a rush and walk towards them too fast, they can feel my energy. They react by running away. But if I stay present in the moment and think only of the love I have for these beautiful, sensitive animals, they come right up to me.

This lesson changed my life. I started seeing energy everywhere. It’s helped me to connect with our animals and care for them without having to come from a place of dominance.
It’s also helped me understand why a fight with anyone made me feel awful or why a negative comment from a stranger could hurt me. I was taking in that energy. I also became aware of how good energy can make me feel. I can feel the love from our animals when I stay present when I’m with them.

It’s changed my relationship with the people in my life as well. It’s also why I share our life with you all. I know how wonderful it feels to share what I’ve learned because it connects me with people who love what I love.

I know this may sound very “California Granola” to some of you, and that’s ok. All I ask is that you think about it for a moment next time you interact with a person or an animal in your life.

If you change the thoughts in your head, does it change how you two relate? Can you feel it?"

“Don’t trade your authenticity for approval.”

"If you want to see a man's true character, give him power."

-Abraham Lincoln

"Sickness and deceit fear The Light."

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
     - Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence

It also says ..."it is the peoples duty to abolish a corrupt government."

Awareness

"The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."

- H.L. Mencken

"There are three type of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics." 

- M Twain

TRUTH: Left for President Trump, but it was thrown out.

President Obama's "Playbook":

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6819258-Playbook.html#document/p2

"When small acts of bravery are stamped out by governments, big acts of bravery follow."

"And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently.” ~ Kitty O’Meara

"Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread."

“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.”

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

"There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.” 

- Sir Winston Churchill

"One moment of incompetence can be fatal."

- Frank Herbert

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” 

― Voltaire