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Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. —Gretta Brooker Palmer— Self-centeredness aggravates the natural flow of circumstances surrounding us; too much attention on ourselves distorts whatever might be troubling us. However, focusing on others’ needs diminishes what we’d perceive as our own pressing need. This is a simple principle we […]
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It should be impossible that anything should be produced if there was nothing existing before. —Aristotle— Everything comes from something. All the organic compounds in the world come from four elements; carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. From these simple ingredients have developed the marvelous chains of self-replicating proteins that fill the planet with jungles, gardens, […]
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The absence of love in our lives is what makes them seem raw and unfinished. —Ingrid Bengis— Love expressed softens the harsh cutting edge of any experience. Whether we’re the recipients of love or the giver, we still share the promised rewards, the greatest of which is the knowledge that we belong, that others know […]
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…my grief was to deeply rooted to be cured with words. —Orinda— …We give enormous power to words in our culture. Most of us have given words the power to hurt us, at times, and we have also given them the power to heal. Many of us say prayers that have a certain meaning, invoking […]
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind. — Helen Keller— With immeasurable ease we are able to pass through difficult times if we are tolerant of the people and circumstances that are beyond our control. Toleration is an acquired trait, but one that’s cherished once it’s securely developed. Toleration comes more easily when the […]
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“Living in the forest” would mean sinking into one’s innermost nature and finding out what it feels like. —Marie-Louise Von Frantz— Our innermost nature—that fearsome place where our dreams dwell—what would we find there? Crude passion, lust, rage, and selfishness, or a void, a sadness without end? Many people do fear themselves, and their personalities […]
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The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it. — Anthony G. Greenwald— One of the larger struggles facing us is relinquishing the need to be right always. Only when we’ve given up […]
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Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. —Sir Thomas Browne— Faults, when their closely examined, often turn out to be the other end of virtues. Carelessness in one situation might be generosity in another; secretiveness might turn out to be an expression of tact. In most of us, positive and negative […]
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are. —George Eliot— Changing cities, countries, jobs, or partners can’t change what we are; that change only comes from within us, From deep searching and redirection of our values and behaviors. Yet many of us blithly hope that […]
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Everything’s got a moral, if you can only find it. —Lewis Caroll— To say that life is full of meaning is not to say that meaning is fixed or magical. Signs come to us from within, not from outside; The morals we can draw from the little dramas in our lives have to do with […]