I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is after all, to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
––Leo C. Rosten


I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is after all, to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
––Leo C. Rosten

All the world’s possibilities in man are waiting, as the tree waits in its seed. --Sri Aurobindo

What you love to do the most is the shortest distance between where you are now and your dreams.
   ––Emmanuel (Pat Rodegast)

“Creativity
is the urge to wholeness,
the urge to individuation
or to the becoming
of what one truly is. 
And in that becoming
 we bring the cosmos into form.”   ––Jean Houston

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
––Ambrose Redmoon


Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind
of bad training.––Anna Freud

Somethings have to be believed
to be seen. ––Ralph Hodgson

There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it.
The poor you may have right in
your own family.
Find them. Love them.
––Mother Teresa


Speak tenderly to them. Let there
be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth
of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don’t only give your care, but give your heart as well.
––Mother Teresa


“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
–– Charles Kingsley

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
––Martin Luther King, Jr.

Each person
has his own safe place––
running, painting, swimming,
fishing, weaving, gardening.
The activity itself
is less important
than the act
of drawing on
your own resources
––Barbara Gordon

“Those times of depression
tell you that
it’s either time
to get out of the story
you’re in and
move into a new story,
or that you’re in
the right story
but there’s some piece of it
you are not living out.”
––Carol S. Pearson


Excerpt from
“The Power of Now”
by Eckhart Tolle

Humanity
is under great pressure
to evolve
because it is
our only chance of survival
as a race.
This will affect every aspect
of your life
and close relationships
in particular.
Never before
have relationships been
as problematic
and conflict ridden
as they are now.
As you may continue
to pursue the goal of salvation through a relationship,
you will be disillusioned
again and again.
But if you accept
that the relationship
is here to make you conscious
instead of happy,
then the relationship
 will offer you salvation,
and you will be aligning yourself
with the higher consciousness
that wants to be born
into this world.
For those who hold
to the old patterns,
there will be increasing pain,
violence, confusion, and madness.


“Success is not the result
of spontaneous combustion.
You must set yourself on fire.”
––Reggie Leach