Living by Silent Knowing This is probably the best-known verse of the Tao Te Ching. In fact, the opening two lines (Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know) are so popular that they’ve...
Knowing that you’ll always get some disapproval for everything you feel, think, say or do is the way out of the tunnel of despair. Once you expect it, you won’t be inclined to hurt yourself with it, a...
Kahlil Gibran, the spiritual Lebanese poet, once advised that if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and ta...
I’ve often quoted the enigmatic writer Virginia Woolf whenever any of my eight children appear to be questioning what direction to take in their lives: Arrange whatever pieces come your way. Such grea...
Instead of believing that you know what’s best for others, trust that they know what’s best for themselves.
Imagine having access to a very special place where we could retreat and commune
If you are facing in the right direction, all you need to do is keep on walking.
I love who I am and what I have attracted to myself up until now. I do not need another thing or even one tiny change in order to be happy or complete. I know in my heart that I am not going to get it...
Here are some lines from Walt Whitman to remind you that you’re not who you appear to be: O I could sing such grandeurs and glories about you! You have not known what you are, you have slumber’d upo...
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
From a clearer perspective, I can now see how my presence on that dock that resulted in my brother’s rescue was instrumental in giving me the information and the confidence to become a teacher and pra...
Dar amor aos outros tem relação direta como grau de amor que você tem por si próprio.
Change the way you choose to perceive the power that others have over you and you will see a bright new world of unlimited potential for yourself.
Benjamin Franklin once observed, While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Be humble. Never put yourself above others or see yourself as superior to anyone.
Be diligent.
Bad thoughts zap your energy. Happy thoughts make you strong and free. It’s a choice you make each day, so choose to be happy—that’s the way!
As a ten-year-old boy I was introduced to two ideas that were guideposts for the journey that was to become my destiny. The first is that people will respond for the benefit of all concerned if you sp...
And you, dear reader, have you really lived 10,000 or more days or have you lived one day, 10,000 or more times? A good question to ask yourself as you work toward more spontaneity in your life.
And this means that, instead of always waiting for their needs to be satisfied by some external source, human beings can work inwardly by means of their thought, their will, and their spirit to obtain...