Too few people ever truly fall in love, which makes me sad. I think it could be because they are forever looking for the perfect partner who will finally rescue them and make them happy. They don't realize that no one can "make you" happy. A person can wait their...
02983 – Exercise Your Gifts
While cruelty is in power, do what Mozart did. Exercise your gifts. Create beautiful things. Wolfgang stayed clear of emperors and did his work, and he lives on today; and the emperors are just moldy names on marble slabs covered with pigeon droppings. If you can’t...
02722 – Butterflies are Proof
Perhaps the butterfly is proof that you can go through a great deal of darkness, yet become something beautiful.
02660 – It’s Okay…
It's okay to grieve and hope at the same time.It's okay to exhale all of your loss and sadness and pain and feel an aching emptiness words cannot express.And it's okay, in the very next breath, to inhale joy and expectation and assurance with all the strength you...
02437 – Dealing with Discomfort
Everything is dependent upon our ability to sit with discomfort, and not numb it, and not reject it, and not use it to hurt other people...everything beautiful comes from there.
02388 – Believe and Become
Speak to your children as if they are the wisest, kindest, most beautiful and imaginative humans on earth, for what they believe is what they become.
02310 – Blessed are They Who…
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
02293 – All Are Welcome; We All Belong
We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know. We are made to tell the world that there are no outsiders. All are welcome: black, white, red,...
02100 – Life: Beautiful & Hard
I can't reconcile the way that the world is jolted by events that are wonderful and terrible, the gorgeous and the tragic. Except that I am beginning to believe that these opposites do not cancel each other out. I see a middle-aged woman in the waiting room of the...
02069 – Life is Breathtakingly Beautiful
Life is amazing. And then it's awful. And then it's amazing again. And in between the amazing and the awful it's ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That's just living...