“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” ~ Yoko Ono The undeniable constant in life is change. Nature…
“The threshold is the place of expectation” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe As I anticipate my upcoming birthday, I’ve been reflecting on the symbolism of crossing the threshold into another year of life. A friend once wrote me a beautiful message in a birthday…
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes” The above quote is a line from “Songs of Myself” in Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. It can remind us that as humans we are complex and many-sided creatures. That we are…
I am a woman who loves inspiration. I also love words and writing. I actively seek out ideas, experiences, images, and others people’s reflections that inspire me to live a more enriched, meaningful, and compelling life. Conversely, this has made me more receptive to noticing or being moved by that which enlivens me. This process…
“Desire is a spiritual/emotional impulse that inspires us to move to something greater, to embrace change. If we do not desire anything, the senses shut down. We lose our aliveness. We have no impetus to move forward. The object of desire may not be necessary but the feeling of desire is the soul’s longing to…
What is a Daemon? (pronounced “day-mon”) The concept of daemon comes from Greek mythology and was considered to be a supernatural presence whose nature is intermediate between that of a godly force and that of a human being. There is a long and rich history that has perpetuated the idea that a daemon accompanies every…
“How Did It Get So Late So Soon?” Dr. Seuss “There’s not enough time. Don’t waste time. Where has the time gone? Living on borrowed time. Only a question of time. Stuck in a time warp. A race against time. Ahead of time.” The idioms about time are endless! But what is time actually? The…
“If You Want a Happy Ending That Depends, of Course, on Where You Stop Your Story” Orson Welles We all want happy endings. We are conditioned to believe happy endings are possible, especially in the United States where happy endings are synonymous with the American dream. Per Wikipedia, “The American Dream is rooted in the…
“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.” Scott Peck The above is a quote from M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and best-selling author of the 1978 bestseller The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology…