“It all boils down to who is in charge of your consciousness. Is it the past? Is it society? Is it the environment? Or is it you?” “When I tell you to think deliberately, I am not addressing your mind, I am addressing you. The mind is a good tool and storage device, but on…
“If we have true yearning for realization, we must struggle, and through struggle growth will come. We shall make mistakes, but they may be angels unawares.” ~ Swami Vivekananda We live life and we learn. We have to take action and move forward in our life’s journey and, of course, it’s not all going to…
“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is no escaping nature. You are a part of nature. Your actions, in great or small ways, affect all around you just as you…
“‘Beginning anew’ means being determined to not repeat the negative things we have done in the past. A new era begins when we commit ourselves to living in mindfulness. When we vow to ourselves, “I am determined not to behave as I did in the past,” transformation occurs immediately.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, you are here…
The Dalai Lama was asked what surprised him the most; he said, “Man, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in…
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ~ Albert Einstein This isn’t just in reference to the outer world. What’s true for the macro is true for the micro, my friend. It’s your thinking that’s created your personal life experiences, just…
“There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe With every thought you think, every word you speak, every act you perform, come from your heart. And don’t worry should you ever fall from this space of…
“Freedom and forgiveness are indissolubly linked. Not to forgive is to be at war with ourselves, for we are freed according to our capacity to forgive.” ~ Neville Goddard, Awakened Imagination & the Search Today is Easter, a time for new beginnings, a time to rise transformed. And that can only happen by you giving up the old for the…
“It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.” ~ B.K.S. Iyengar How much have you thought of your body, my friend? I’m not talking about whether you like it or not or what you’d like to change about it. Have you thought about the fact that it started as…
“Ambition focuses your power and gives it something to aim at. Honorable ambition is aligning with goals that not only benefit you but spread benefit into your community. Blind ambition would be the inverse of the honorable use of power, where success is treasured at any cost.” ~ David Pond, The Pursuit of Happiness As long…