
On Vulnerability
“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
— Haruki Murakami,
Norwegian Wood

Full Moon Lion’s Gate Portal
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps he hears a different drummer.”
— Thoreau

So, how about that Cold Plunge?
“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

Spirit of the Water
“Water, stories, the body,
all the things we do, are mediums
that hide and show what’s hidden.
Study them,
and enjoy this being washed
with a secret we sometimes know,
and then not.”
-Rumi, thirteenth century

Gratitude
“My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”
-Oliver Sacks

The Story of the Two Wolves
“Human beings will always act and feel and perform in accordance with what they imagine to be true about themselves and their environment.”
-Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.IC.S., The New Psycho-Cybernetics
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