What is the limit of your ability? This is one of the areas where we fall short almost every day. We underestimate just how much we can learn, do and feel. Excuses The true issue is not our ability to learn, to grow or to love, the issue is we simply don’t want to …
Trees have so much to teach us, if we just stop and think about them. This time of year many of us are enjoying as the first bright colors of fall appear in the foliage. Soon we may be cursing the gift of leaves the trees have given us as we rake them up, but …
Praying for peace on earth is a wonderful thing, but sitting in your room praying is not enough. You see, there is already peace on earth, it is the actions of people that are not supporting peace on earth. This is where we run into a duality of life; God, The Universe, All There Is, …
We are all creative beings, no matter how you look at yourself, you are a creative being. Everything about us cries out to be creative on some level or another. This is why destruction affects us the way it does. Destruction of buildings, habitat, relationships all affect us; for some it is a thrill, for …
Here’s one of those things I am not all that proud about; my quest for approval. Know what I mean? When you know what is the right thing to do yet you do something else simply because you believe it is what someone else wants? Not a great feeling is it. Humans are, by nature, …
On my first day here in Japan my lady and I boarded one of the many,many trains which serve Tokyo to travel into downtown. At first I was kind of in amazement at all the people moving about, all in their work uniforms, looking at their electronic devices or reading. But very soon I started …
One of the really wonderful things about finding more candles on my birthday cake is that every day I learn something, that is I learn something if I listen. The flip side of this continual learning is sometimes I discover that along the way I have told someone something I believed to be true, then …
Those little boxes, you know the ones I mean, the boxes which define who we are, what we believe, who we should like, or dislike. The little boxes which define how much we should earn, where we should live (in a little box of course!). Those little boxes are so comforting. they keep us warm …
