Monsters

“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.” Andre Gide

May the Force be with you….

May the Force be with you….. Another great post by Brad Stanton at Give Me 5 Minutes. I felt my comment would be too long so I decided to post about it. The interesting thing is that it’s much easier to have faith in a “force” that is outside of ourselves, than to have faith…

Breathe In Beauty, Breathe Out Stress

Today the sun is shining, the air is cool, the season is changing. Time to take a deep breath and savor the smells, the new oxygen, the tingling crispness that comes with autumn. Then breathe out the old season, past woes and wishes, letting go of what is gone. Today is a new day with it’s own unique…

The Answer Is….

The Answer Is….. I’ve been quoted at Finding Order in Chaos: “Life is like an ocean, always moving, changing, developing and we need to be like a well-seasoned captain of our vessel.” CSRoth

Create The Day – With A Break

Yes, take a break now and then, a break from the hectic pace of life. I’m not talking about an all out vacation, that’s different because a lot of planning and activity usually goes into vacations. I also don’t mean a 15 minute coffee break at work. What I mean is to stop all activity…

Sparks of Truth

“The most ignorant among mankind have some truth in them. We are all sparks of truth.” Mohandas K. Gandhi

Create The Day With A Little Help

Everyone needs a little help now and then. If someone were to say, “I don’t need any help, ever, from anyone”, well they would just be lying – to their self as well as to whomever they were saying this too. It’s just a fact of life that human existence is dependent on helping one another. Don’t…

Goodness

“Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on…

My Symphony

“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather that luxury; and refinement rather than fashion…to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.” William Ellery Channing, 1780-1842 American Minister

The Teaching of Buddha

“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace at all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.”

Weekly Photo Challenge – Together

This was not a hard one, except that there were too many photos to choose from. So I chose a lot of photos that express together to me. Instead of having you endlessly scroll or click on thumbnails I decided to put them in a slideshow (You have to click here or on the post…

Create The Day – With A Smile

A simple random thought or memory draws the corners of my mouth up a bit, and my son might ask, “What are you smiling at?” The twittering of a bird on a tree branch outside my front door draws my attention; I gaze silently smiling as I watch his uncontrollable song. My cat jumps from the table…