All day, to everybody… practice kindness, and you will realize you’re already in heaven now. Philosopher Jack Kerouac wrote these words. You can see it in your life. Every time you show kindness to someone, their heart lights up, they smile, and they show appreciation, which truly is the same
The rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things without you, says philosopher Leo Buscaglia. Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, be good to yourself. We need you.
Nothing Lasts Forever You will miss the moment… if you dwell on the past or the future. “Do not look back, my friend, for no one knows how the world ever began. Do not fear the future, nothing lasts forever.” These are to me comforting words from the ancient Afghan
Gratitude… “the more you are in a state of gratitude, the more you will attract things to be grateful for.” Buddha said this thousands of years ago. So, it’s not breaking news! We manifest the very things that we think about the most. Want more things to be grateful for?
The heart has its own language. The heart has a hundred thousand ways to speak. The ancient Afghan / Persian poet Rumi wrote these words. We say so much more from our hearts than through our words. When our words don’t match our hearts, people know, and they don’t believe
“All the animals, excepting man, know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.” Samuel Butler, who was a painter, a writer, and a musician, basically an artist in England wrote those words. And I as a fellow artist have observed that that is so true, that we
“Do or do not. There is no try.” Writer George Lucas had Yoda say these words. I suppose I should be wearing green. So when we say, “I’ll try”, we’re giving ourselves at best only a 50% chance of success, because it’s a, “I’ll try, maybe I’ll succeed, maybe not.”
“We look forward to the time when the power of love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.” William Gladstone, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom said that in the late 1800’s. American musician Jimi Hendrix is also credited with saying
“Anything will give up its secrets”, said American scientist George Washington Carver, “if you love it enough.” He says, “Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they give up their secrets, but I have also found that when I
“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.” Alexander Smith, a Scottish poet, clearly a romantic man, wrote these words in the 1800’s. My observation is that we are drawn to people, whether as friends or as lovers, who are similar to us,