On Being Humbled
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
― Maya Angelou
The Wolf Twins
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus
Treat Yo’ Self!
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
― Audre Lorde
Codependence, Independence, Interdependence
“Man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”
― Viktor Frankl
Acorn Flour
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
There is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
Doesn't make any sense.”
― Jelaluddin Rumi
Natural Oral Health
“The doctor of the future will give little medicine but will interest his patients in care of the human frame, diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.”
― Thomas A. Edison
Change Your Story, Change Your Life
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
― C.G. Jung
Meandering Thoughts on Being Barefoot
“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
Face to Face with the Trickster
“The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you.”
― Barry Lopez, Of Wolves and Men
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