“Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.” – Deepak Chopra One of the great things about following your bliss is that it’s your bliss. What you find blissful is completely unique to you and you alone. No one...

“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...

“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...

“The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.” -Lee Iacoca Most people have goals in their head, not on paper. Writing your goals on paper is a basic and important step in the goal setting process. It also is one of the most disregarded. Why is this...

“Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver.” – Ambrose Bierce Although the concept of credit has been sold, and continues to be sold, as one of the bastions of American freedom, it is an unfortunate fact that the opposite is true. In this...

“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...

“‘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...

“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.” – Michael Pollan The onset of the Industrial Revolution brought with it a forceful mindset, one beset with the notion that we can bend nature to our will. For over two centuries now, we have...

“I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate – it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.” Leo Buscaglia Given all of the problems that plague the modern world, it is very tempting to throw up our hands and simply let the chips fall where they...