I had a deep conversation with a close friend this week; she opened up to me that there was a secret she was hiding. I am not talking about the kind of secret that you keep when you don’t want to spoil a surprise. This wasn’t the kind of secret that you keep so you won’t hurt...

Have you ever fallen into comparison mode? Wanting something someone else has? “I wish I had that life, that body, that money, that house, that spouse.” Now, it is one thing if someone inspires you to reach for something. But I am talking about coveting what someone else has. Coveting...

“Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall, and falling, they’re given wings.” – Rumi When birds are hatched from the hard shell which protects them as they develop, they are fed from the very mouth of their parents until their wings...

“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” – Colin Powell The Internet abounds with people preaching the Law of Attraction and the consciousness of abundance. At first look, the concept seems to teach that our thoughts...

“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” – Jonathan Swift Great endeavors are accomplished by those who don’t mind being the first to do things. So often, we hold back from taking action when the path before us seems untraveled. However, if it weren’t for...

“In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.” – Albert Schweitzer Bringing our focus to the earth and the plants which sprout from it, we see a world filled with opportunities to make manifest the ideas that have come to us. We...

“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.” – Samuel Johnson In the realm of all things possible, the characteristics of everything that has ever been achieved vary from endeavor to endeavor. Some were easy; some were difficult. Some...

“For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.” – Jerry Garcia It may very well be that the attempt to control forces outside of themselves led to the downfall of the first Hippie movement. As noble as...

“‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” – John Keats It is somewhat sad that in this day and age our concept of beauty is often based on Photoshopped magazine ads of painted on faces. There is a certain...

“Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe As we prepare each day to go out and face the world, we put on our best outfits in order to impress, to...