Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. – Oscar Wilde Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping...
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. – A. Milne Trees that are slow to...
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. – Eckhart Tolle (all quotes...
A Greeting for the Day Good morning, new day! Through the birds you relay news that makes me smile. I...
Tripping on sounds, I hear birds outside my window, muffled, over the swish-throb of a heartbeat in my ears, a...
In his mind, Brian O’Shea was not a farmer’s son. In his mind, he didn’t live on the prairie with...
That which does not kill us makes us stronger. – Friedrich Nietzsche Pain can change you, but that doesn’t mean...
As I was walking through the Shechen Ogyen Chodzong nunnery in Bhutan with my guides Tsering and Lobsang, a lone...
Wrapped in a white sari, she sat cross-legged on her paper thin mat waiting to die. The solemn look on...
Ten Reflections on Why We Write 1. A poet writes, a baker makes bread. Hungry mouths will eat the bread;...
Fragile It doesn’t take very much to wash away all we know, obliterate every landmark. I went out to a...
Excerpted from How to Survive Life (and Death): A Guide for Happiness in This World and Beyond . Love is the current...
I’ve been around a while, 58 years in fact. As many of us have come to realize, there’s more to...
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. – Langston Hughes Find...
This article was excerpted from Vironika Tugaleva’s book The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness. A flower...
Part I Peter stood on the cement edge of the bridge, staring at the river swiftly flowing towards him. There...
Long before the cross was appropriated by Christianity and associated with the crucifixion, this ancient symbol had an entirely different...
Drop by drop we suck from the infinite pond of life experience, dumping experience after experience into our buckets. With...
Thomas Potter sat at his desk, massaging his aching temples. “Only five more files to go through, and then I...
I’ve lived in the State of Wisconsin all my life, but have recently been spending time in a different state,...
Meaning shows up not when you really want it, but when you’re ready for it. It doesn’t matter how busy...
Something whizzed by my head and on beyond as I sat on the floor holding onto the pale green bars...
When introduced to the concept of being mindful of my daily routine, I was skeptical; in my opinion I was...
A few years ago I took two weeks off to hike the John Muir Trail in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains...
























