Acceptance

"Once we get comfortable with the idea that our lives will be a string of problems, crises and temporary resolutions, we'll be happy. Happiness without acceptance is impossible." - Peter Zappel

The Ones

"We are the ones we've been waiting for." ~ Hopi Elder

Creative Impulse

"The primordial fire that sparked millions of galaxies is the same fire that sparks the human creative impulse."  - Cindy Spring

Life is an Echo

Highest Self

"When you feel the rapture of bliss, you are deeply connected to your highest self." - Aine Belton

Our Days

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard

Create Something

 

Complexity of Life

"The very complexity of life ensures that no one person can explain what is going on to everyone else, or assume that their point of view is the right one. We can look at this complexity as a new Tower of Babel, where we can't hear each other because of so much diversity. Or we can look at it as an invitation to come together and truly listen to one another - listen with the expectation we will hear something new and different, that we need to hear from others in order to grow and survive. ... It would be more fruitful to explore this strange and puzzling world if we were together. It would also be far less frightening and lonely. We would be brought together by our differences rather than separated by them. When we are willing to be disturbed by newness, rather than clinging to our certainty, when we are willing to truly listen to someone who sees the world differently, then wonderful things happen. We learn that we don't have to agree with each other in order to explore together. There is no need to be joined together at the head, as long as we are joined together at the heart." - Margaret Wheatley, from the article "Disturb Me, Please!"

You're Better

Be You

Greater Good

"Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think that you've lost time. There is no short-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time." - Asha Tyson

Purpose

"What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation." - Joseph M. Dodge

Medley of Life

"We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us -- how we can take it, what we do with it -- and that is what really counts in the end."- Joseph Fort Newton

Quality of Life

"With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to sustain it. The payoff is delicious in terms of improved quality of life." - Doc Childre

Emerge

‎''Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.” - Eckhart Tolle

White Satin

"You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation." - Billie Holiday

Heart and Intuition

"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already
know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." ~ Steve
Jobs

Start Immediately

"To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions." -William James
 

Come Alive

Undone

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." ~ Picasso

Perceive

"Do you want to act differently? That’s not possible until you perceive differently." - Byron Katie

Forgiving

"If we don’t forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled with guilt. And the soul cannot grow under a blanket of guilt, because guilt is isolating, while growth is a gradual process of reconnection to ourselves, to other people, and to a larger whole." - Joan Borysenko

(painting by Georgia O'Keeffe - Sunrise 1916)

Don't Regret