Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature –if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you –know that the morning and spring of your life [...]

Love:  A Suggested Definition – The ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose to be for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you. — Wayne Dyer, Your Erroneous Zones
There isn’t a single person out there who could accuse me of being normal, I dare you to [...]

If a man were never to fade away like the dews of Adashino, never to vanish like the smoke over Toribeyama, but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us!  The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty. — The Buddhist Monk / Poet Kenko
After visiting [...]

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. – Howard Thurman
Sometimes life propels you in the right direction, and sometimes it creates situations that force you to get up off your ass and get moving.  In [...]

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog’s ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.  ~Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia, 1833
There once was a time [...]

“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
Never have truer words been spoken than in today’s quote.  I see daily examples in my life how this pattern has led me to [...]

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. – Reinhold Niebuhr
Tuesday morning a situation arose in my life which at first seemed to be something horrible, but as it progressed, I saw how absurdly funny it [...]

“Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It’s not hard. Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s looking.”
Everyone needs a Teri in their life.   One of those quiet unassuming friends who day by day makes subtle changes to their life that amount to huge progress the likes that most never achieve.  No fan fair, [...]