“Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.” – Marcus Aurelius Each of us, whether we know it or not, is comprised of four basic parts: a heart, a mind, a body, and a spirit. It seems that so often so much...

“The warrior’s approach is to say “yes” to life: “yea” to it all.” – Joseph Campbell It has taken me a long time to get to the point where I can definitively say what my purpose is for my life here on earth. The search for this purpose has taken me on a...

“The purpose of being born is fulfilled in the state between ‘I am’ and ‘That.’” – Lalla One of the things I’ve thoroughly come to enjoy about living on a golf course is the meandering path I get to walk a few times a day through the rolling...

“Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall, and falling, they’re given wings.” – Rumi On New Year’s Day, there was a murder on the golf course behind my house. Hundreds of crows descended on the fairway and green of the ninth...

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”  – Henry David Thoreau If you’re a regular reader of Modern Hippie Mag, you may have noticed...

“If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.” – Horace Traubel As we look out into the world around us, we are seldom at a loss for needs which long to be filled. There is always a hand outstretched for help though it may not even realize what it is asking...

“A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.” – Spanish proverb Each of us is only given one body through which we experience this life. Its capacity for service to us is limited only by how much respect we give to it and...

“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.” – Marcus Aurelius As we grow older, our bodies change as the rest of the world changes around us. We have, in our society, developed a compulsion to despise some of these changes. We dye our hair from the gray...

“If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.” – Bernie Siegel For as much damage as we may bring to the earth, through oil spills, pollution, or other forms of environmental degradation, nature always finds a way...

“The spread of civilization may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.” – Nikola Tesla We are driven by a fire within us. Though that fire often burns that which we have created and that...