Your perception is always filtered through the experiences you hold as dear. What experiences do you hold dear?  Those that make you feel fearful?  Those that bring you pain?  Or, those that take your breath away through the beauty or joy you gain from them? Spend a day looking at the experiences you have that …

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. – Charlie Chaplin –

I had a conversation with a friend yesterday wherein she asked me if I had recently spoken with a mutual friend. I answered, “No, I haven’t seen him online.” As soon as I said that, I realized it was the ‘Small-of-It.’ My response wasn’t a lie, I hadn’t seen him online, but there was something …

Violence does indeed recoil upon the violent. [As uttered by Sherlock Holmes] – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle –

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. – Khalil Gibran –      

Look at your hands. Go ahead, hold them out in front of you, and take a good long, look at them. These hands do a lot. Think about what these hands do for you during the course of a day. The value of these hands in your life is immense. Now picture the most precious …

Have you ever watched a child play when they didn’t know you were watching? When left alone, most children will assume some affect that doesn’t reflect reality, as you know it. They will pretend to be someone different, or have a larger experience of things or people around them than you can see. If you’ve …

Many people think of meditation as a scantily clad person sitting on a rock someplace contemplating their navel. In fact meditation is so important to becoming a conscious person that it is a recommended essential part of your life.    [continued below picture] Meditation can be many things. There are moving meditations, done while exercising, such …

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” – …

Who you are, who you bring to the table of life, governs what the table of life serves you.