No one knows the full story. No one is in charge of how you need to feel. No one is holding you prisoner.  Get out of your own way and listen to your heart. Be grateful for the gifts you have been given and all the opportunities that come your way as you celebrate your…

Bare Witness to the Beauty Surrounding You. Keep your eyes attune to the whispers on the wind checking out what’s around the bend.  Knowing new adventures await. Bare witness to the truth. Attempt today to overcome whatever obstacles seem to come to disturb your peace.  Awake from your sleep of fear.  Stretch your vision beyond what…

Let me perceive no differences let that be the end of any story.   Let today be the end of any story that no longer serves.  Let it go doesn’t just need to be a song that every three year old in the world sings.  Be someone today who releases judgment who perceives no differences.  Separation is something…

We make our world out of seeing what we want to see.  Today is the day to accentuate the positive. Johnny Mercer’s lyric to Harold Arlen’s music for the song Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive is luscious and as always with these standards totally profound — published in 1944 capturing the mood of a world looking toward the end…

Whatever you are doing that isn’t loving, therefore not true, stop it.  Right now. It’s not funny. You are as Pink sings “a hazard to yourself.” STOP IT. Take the time to understand the deeper cause of your behavior and don’t act it out. Recognize the story you are running on yourself and stop. Life…

Free your mind and honor your expression’s deepest truth. “My mind is a bad neighborhood, I don’t like to go alone.”  — Anne Lamont Kick out the offending elements and the crazy self talk. Let drop any thoughts that are not loving and take a stroll through your mind in the warm embrace of freedom. Standing…

Are you living the life you are supposed to live?  Are you being the person who is a joy to others by being a light unto yourself. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them…

“We are all children of God”  “….the brute, the bigot whether they know it or not and I am supposed to treat them accordingly.”  Think about that quote from Terence “Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto“,”I am a human being, I consider nothing that is human alien to me.” Words spoken by Dr. Maya Angelou…

Our power will not be squashed.  It will be celebrated.   Meryl Streep  Thanks to the Elephant like Internet record banks the introductory remarks of Meryl Streep fresh off winning the Academy Award for playing Margaret Thatcher speaking in tribute to Hilary Clinton at Tina Brown’s Women in the World 2012 introduces one of the…

So often in our days and nights we forget the truth about who we are.  We need a reminder that Love always remains the answer.  I am as sure of this as I am that the sun rises every morning. For me  Love is my mantra. When I was going through a particularly challenging time,…

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