The Secret to Contentment

Good is not good where better is expected. – Thomas Fuller Good is often all we strive for. Or, more accurately, what we often settle for. But good isn’t good when your standards are higher. When you decide that merely “good” isn’t enough, your life will transform. But you must make that decision for yourself – no one…

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. – Pablo Picasso Some people have a vague sense that we can play a role in how things seem. But this sense is – generally – woefully incomplete, and below (our) consciousness. We do play a role in how things…

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it’s bottomless, that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. – Pema Chodron Do…

Since your experience in any given moment is exactly equal to what you are thinking in that very moment, that means that when you’re thinking about your monster, you feel your monster. And when you’re not thinking about your monster, your monster does not exist. – Amy Johnson I loved reading the article from which…

I found this in my “share-with-others” pile and am pleased to offer it now; it was an e-mail from a mentor, Steve Chandler: Get out of the future, stay in the now. You want to glance into the future when you make your goals, your objectives, your master plan, but then set that aside and…

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. – C.S. Lewis Each move forward requires letting go of a bar to reach forward to the next one. So it is with life. To move forward we must let go…