Occupation: Author Birth: 1942
Reignite the fire in your heart. Live on purpose..
That which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit..
Forgiveness in no way justifies the actions that caused your wounding, nor does it mean that you have to seek out those who harmed you. It is simply ….
I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a to….
The practice of kindness is the daily, friendly, homely caring form of love. It is both humble-a schoolboy bringing his teacher a bouquet of dandelio….
Through fear of knowing who we really are we sidestep our own destiny, which leaves us hungry in a famine of our own making...we end up living numb, ….
The moments you are given are your true wealth. You don't need power, influence, or fame. The sunlight brings the power; the wind carries the influen….
From the time we begin school, if not sooner, we are taught to be blind to our assets and only see our deficits. We are carefully marked on how many ….
Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that wh….
Living on purpose requires us to find what we love fiercely, give it all we've got and then pass it on, as if it were a torch, to those who follow.
Gratitude is like a flashlight. If you go out in your yard at night and turn on a flashlight, you suddenly can see what's there. It was always there,….
When cancer first came into my life, people all around me treated it as the enemy. I was told I had to join the medical team and we'd fight together ….
If you took a blue spruce tree and planted it in the desert, it would obviously perish. How do we forget that we too are living systems, and each of ….
As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to foster their open-hearted hopefulness, engage ….
I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own d….
I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk my significance..
When we find ourselves devoid of passion and purpose, the first thing we need to do is stop. But that's not easy. The rest of the world is zooming by….
As with any other great force of nature, there is both glory and danger in the stories we tell ourselves. Some are toxic and keep our problems fester….
I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to m….
I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river..
The future exists only in our imagination it is a collective story waiting for our voices to express that can only happen when you and I are will….