No matter how it may feel, no moment is the same as any other. Things are always changing around us. Some changes we like, some we don’t notice, and some we don’t like at all. Of course we’re open to the changes we like. Who isn’t open to a pleasant surprise! But when we don’t notice what’s happening around us, […]
Here we are once again in the middle of the holiday season, getting ready to welcome the New Year. Many of us, especially as we get older, wonder at how quickly the year has passed. It seems just yesterday we were putting up last year’s holiday decorations, and now we’re about to take down the ones from this year. Every […]
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. Novalis (1772 – 1801)
Everything in the universe goes through cycles, including human life on earth. And right now we human beings seem to be going through a cycle of pain, confusion, and lashing out at one another. On the large scale wars have broken out across the globe. On the smaller scale, everywhere we see people complaining, criticizing, and showing a lack of […]
A writer is a world trapped in a person. Victor Hugo (1802 – 1885)
Have you ever looked back on your life and felt a surge of regret over past mistakes and lost opportunities? It’s quite common for people to rue the past and then feel discouraged over their future possibilities. A disturbing inner voice tells us all is lost. It says we’ve made a bad beginning and now we’ve shut ourselves off from […]
This is excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behaviour — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity: fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an […]
A pack of blessings lights upon thy back; Happiness courts thee in her best array; But, like a misbehaved and sullen wench, Thou pout’st upon thy fortune and thy love; Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Why rail’st thou on thy birth, the heaven, and earth? Since birth, and heaven, and earth, all three do meet In thee at once; which thou at once wouldst lose. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Discovering the truth of oneself is a basic requirement for a more fulfilled and meaningful life. But the process of self-discovery is an adventure with twists and turns and many surprises along the way. Just look at some descriptions of the experience from ancient times to modern: If thou but settest foot on this path, thou shalt see it everywhere. […]
