Choices

"Every day I get up and I say, 'You have to remember whose child this is.  Do not interfere.  Be there when you are welcome.  Be loving but not judgmental.' "

- President Bill Clinton on becoming a grandfather

Living With Emotional Painbody

"If you are present, the painbody cannot feed anymore on your thoughts, or on other people's reactions. You can simply observe it, and be the witness, be the space for it. Then gradually, its energy will decrease."

- Eckhart Tolle

“It came to me that every time I lose a dog, they take a piece of my heart with them, and every new dog who comes into my life gifts me with a piece of their heart. If I live long enough, all the components of my heart will be dog, and I will become as generous and loving as they are.”

"Everyone knows they're going to die but nobody believes it.  If we did, we would do things differently . . . Learn how to die and you learn how to live." 

- Morrie Schwartz

"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." 

- Max Planck

Broken crayons still color.