The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn't already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder.

I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being .

She said, 'Hi handsome My name is Rose. I'm ( Read more... )

The slate's been wiped clean, the past has released its grip, and before you sparkles eternity, yearning for direction. Kelaino, all that lies between you and the life of your dreams is just one teeny, tiny, gentle, little rule. Only one condition, prerequisite, principle that matters.

It's not love. It's not God. It's not fate, or luck, or karma. ( Read more... )

You get as many "do-overs" as you like. Of course, you never know you're living a "do-over" until it's over.

There are lots of reasons for wanting a "do-over." Most of all, people want another chance to do things they were afraid to do the first time, and to say things they were afraid to say. Oddly enough, it's not their mistakes they want to ( Read more... )

These are the times, when hopes are dashed and chaos abounds, that golden opportunities, prized ideas, and new friends emerge into the view of all, but are only seen by the few who look.
Let's go crazy,
    The Universe

They're everywhere,
    Everywhere.

Sometimes when you're ready for a change and you kind of know it but won't admit it, when it comes, not only are you surprised, but it hurts.

Yeah, I know that doesn't help much, unless you remember the "ready" part. Because there is simply no change that might ever transpire in time and space that happens before you're fully able to use it for ( Read more... )

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I have decided that today will be the start of something new and wonderful ( Read more... )

Truth is by nature self-evident, as soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

-Mahatma Gandhi

Hands restrained,
feet restrained
speech restrained,
supremely restrained--
delighting in what is inward,
content, centered, alone:
he's what they call
a monk.

A monk restrained in his speaking,
giving counsel unruffled,
declaring the message & meaning:
sweet is his speech.

-Dhammapada, 25, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

Anything you could ever hope that I might one day do for you is something you can begin doing for yourself today, making the whole thing happen about 7,000 times faster.

But that's just if you're in a hurry,
    The Universe