There’s nothing ego loves more than to be right, which makes it an important and satisfying attachment to practice letting go of.” – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Almost nothing in this world comes close to the importance people put on the notion of “being right.” The conviction of one’s beliefs, and the degree to which an individual will stand firm in those beliefs, can certainly be an admirable quality. But what happens when you have conflicting beliefs between parties whose…..
Then Pilate said to him, ‘So you are a king?’ Jesus answered, ‘You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world – to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.’ Pilate said to him, ‘What is truth?’ After he had said this, he went back outside . . . .” – John 18:37-38
In A Philosophical Dictionary, Voltaire…..
And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.” – 1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)
For something that represents what I believe to be the core of all existence – our universe, our very essence, one’s primary gift to the world – the word Love is so very often misused, misidentified, misconstrued, and/or misdirected. How is it that we can say that we “love” someone while, simultaneously, declaring that we are not “in love” with that same…..
Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man That he didn’t, didn’t already have.” – Tin Man (America)
The 1939 cinematic classic, The Wizard of Oz, is a story about the quest of four characters who are on the road trying to find what they most desire – somewhere out there (“over the rainbow”). Dorothy wants to return home to Kansas, the Scarecrow wants a brain, the Tin Man wants a heart, and the Cowardly Lion wants courage. They…..
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.” – Benjamin Franklin
How often in life have we said (or heard others say), “If I had only done this or that, I would have been happy,” or “If I could only move here or there, I’d be happy,” or “If I only had more money, I’d be happy?” It seems to be part of humanity’s DNA to second-guess how much happier we would be if we…..
A voice seemed to cry within me, ‘This is He, He without whom there is no life. To know God and to live are one. God is life.’
Live to seek God, and life will not be without God. And stronger than ever rose up life within and around me, and the light that then shone never left me again.” – Leo Tolstoy, My Confession (1882)
Leo Nikolayevitch Tolstoy (1828-1910) was the only writer who could get Ernest Hemingway to…..
Thus it came about that the most beautiful bird of the air was the little wee finch that waited its turn.” – How The Finch Got Its Colors (A Flemish Legend)
It wasn’t until I was 20 years old that I found out the meaning of my surname. I was flying aboard Sabena (the national airline of Belgium) from Frankfurt am Main “back to the States,” to outprocess from my Army tour of duty, at Fort Dix, New Jersey. I…..
Life is like a giant smorgasbord with more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste.” – Ray Dalio
My earliest memories of growing up in Miami, Florida, in the late 1950s and early 60s, were of going out to dinner – a lot. You see, for the most part, my mother didn’t cook, and Dad’s idea of fixing dinner was heating a can of pork and beans. So, we ate out a lot – not because we were…..
We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Twelve days ago, during Friday Prayer at two separate mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, an armed individual indiscriminately murdered 50 innocent people, between 3 and 77 years old. The first victim was a Muslim man who greeted the individual at the entrance to the Al Noor Mosque with the words, “Hello, brother.” For the next six…..
The Ascension is actually the birth of the Inner You expressed as the spiritual individualism of the inner particle state.” – Stuart Wilde
I am in a constant state of ascension – not only because of all that has happened in my life – but also in spite of all that has happened in my life. By definition, most would assume that the pathway of ascension is upward. I have found the opposite to be true. Whatever glimpses of enlightenment…..