If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. – Lao Tzu
Whether  you call it God, The Universe, or Source, whatever it is it sure has a funny way of teaching you some valuable lessons in the most simple, but in your face way.  Saturday evening after work, I headed [...]

I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don’t know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten – Eckhart Tolle The Power of Now
Here lately when it comes to the lessons I am learning in life I am often finding myself asking God, “Didn’t [...]

I just completed an overnight sleep study and as I was driving home I began to contemplate and meditate on different aspects of my life such as accomplishments, goals, and challenges that lie ahead.
One of my biggest hurdles right now is that I know where I am headed, I can see the steps, but a [...]

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“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pour a cup of coffee, kick back, because I think this is going to be another long winded post.
In my early twenties I was introduced to the writings [...]

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. – Denis Waitley
I have not been blogging much this last half of the year, but I would like to remind not just my limited numbers of readers, but myself, that does not mean there is nothing [...]

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Xanadu is a mystical magical place where anything and everything can happen.  Where is Xanadu?  Well I guess the question should really be when is NOW Xanadu?
I woke up this morning and life was still breathing within this body [...]

The future is called “perhaps,” which is the only possible thing to call the future.  And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. ~Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, 1957
Over the past couple of months I have devoted most of my free time to take care of some existing health problems, only [...]

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“With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world” – Dalai Lama

Sometime around 1997 I began to develop panic attacks that at times were so crippling it ended up in my being hospitalized.  I reached a point in my life where I was even [...]

Age is an issue of mind over matter.  If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.  ~Mark Twain
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!
Today I begin my third year of the best decade of my life so far, and one thing I have learned over the last year is that as you age, pride is a trait best left [...]

No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients.  ~Hindu Proverb
As I was working out tonight for some reason or another a negative thought tried to enter my head telling me how I just don’t do enough to improve my life.  Here I am, I have finished four books  in a [...]