The Courageous Step You Never Take – Quote

The Courageous Step You Never Take – Quote

Most of my posts this month have been about finding your life path and having the courage to follow it. One of my favorite authors and poet David White writes about this here: One of the great temptations of human existence is to base your life on contingency. That...

Listening

One of my all time favorite books on writing is Brenda Ueland’s “If You Want to Write. A Book About Art, Independence and Spirit”. It is an uplifting, witty, helpful and supportive book for writers.  Written in 1938, it is still relevant today. Below...
Ease

Ease

On a day when I am crushed by the feeling of overwhelm and trying to relax the tight knot in my stomach, I stumble across Steth Godin’s new ebook: What Matters Now and find this entry:   EASE   “We are the strivingest people who have ever lived....

Quote: Every Day is the Best Day in the Year

“One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson...

Live Everything – Rainer Maria Rilke

… I beg you … to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in every foreign language. Don’t search right now for the answers, which could not be given...

Quote: Discovering the Secrets of Soul Mate Love

While I am working on a post about the mistakes women make in relationships, I came across this quote by Kathy Freston. In her book “The ONE. Discovering the Secrets of Soul Mate Love” she writes:   Love can play itself out in so many scenarios (warm...