Our Lives are Not Neutral

All we are is peace, love, and wisdom, and the power to create the illusion we’re not. – Jack Pransky Every instant of our life is a choice point. Through habit or conscious choice we decide what we’re going to do, or not do, and how we’re going to do it. These choices come from…

When you make a mistake, the first time, and it costs you (and it will cost you something), learn from it and call it (the cost) tuition. If you make the same mistake, and it costs you (and it always does, in some way), it’s a tax (and the mistake (i.e. lesson) will keep showing…

Success is a skill. It’s not something we arrive at, or get, or have bestowed upon us or finally possess. It’s something that must be developed, over time, and continually re-made and renewed. It’s what we choose to think. It’s how we choose to think. Are we choosing useful and constructive thoughts? Are we meditating and…

Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky. – Hafiz I recently had a realization similar to the quote above. I was waiting for love to come to me, to be loved and cared for…

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. – Mark Caine That step comes when you believe, sufficiently, in your ability to be okay in some other reality than your current one. That step comes when you trust that your Identity…

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. – Og Mandino Of course you can never fail, because every action produces a result (even if only to teach you a difficult lesson). When your determination to succeed is strong enough whatever happens – good or bad – is just part of the…