“The role of a writer is not to say what we can say, but what we are unable to say.” — Anais Nin Given we are sometimes unable to face ourselves with the unvarnished truth at whatever stage in life we are, it is necessary for us to continue growth on any level. Oh yes, [...]
“You are neither behind the point of perfection, nor are you advancing toward it. You are at the point of perfection and from there you must understand yourself.” — Mary Baker Eddy Understanding oneself is for most . . . challenging, for others . . . improbable and for a select few . . . [...]
“Time is an odd thing. Currency is what it is. Once spent . . . it’s gone forever.” — Andy Andrews from “The Noticer Returns” Due to the conspicuous obsolescence of how we waste our precious time, the quote above relates the obvious . . . we are subjectively controlled by minutiae, false priorities/assumptions/narratives and [...]
“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.” —– Galileo The words of Galileo in the above quote dictate the infusion of you teaching someone else to intrinsically see within themselves. You may only be capable of teaching another something, when you have done the work within yourself [...]
“We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.” — Sir Winston Churchill Finding yourself in the beginning, middle or sunset of your life doesn’t get you off the hook in taking responsibility for the conscious decisions you [...]
“For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.” —– Ralph Waldo Emerson How many times during this past week have you experienced a dilemma of some kind, conscious or otherwise? You felt as if no matter which way you turned, there seemed to be no [...]
“If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.” —- Dietrich Bonhoeffer The strange bizarre feeling that something is wrong sweeps over you. It feels as if a shadow was hovering and closing in on the space around your existence, and you have little power or [...]
“”Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. —- Rumi The above quote may seem a bit quixotic, however, by observing yourself in this present moment there exists several obvious clues. Most of us view ourselves, environment, personal relationships and business connections from a firm subjective experience. We [...]
“If you fail to direct your subconscious mind, it produces under a law of averages, and you are a nice ineffective, sweet person.” — Raymond Charles Barker We’ve all met over a number of years individuals who may be less than splendid regarding character traits, integrity or lack thereof, incapacity to know that they don’t [...]
“At this late date, it is your defenses not your wound, that cause the problem and arrest your journey.” — James Hollis Very early on, I learned the meaning of dealing with defensive personalities. The matrix that is used by a plethora of individuals to hide their life wounds, becomes an on going manipulation of [...]