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Transitions Are Magical
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.
– Lao Tzu
What does it mean to be human?
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Limiting Behavior and My Saviors
Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
– George Addair
My $3.6K Mistake
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-Henry Ford
Not Every Itch Needs To Be Scratched
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
– Socrates
Time To Shake Things Up
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
-Albert Schweitzer
Rethinking Self Care
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
-Audre Lorde
Dancing and Pleasure
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Success, Woo-woo, and Creative Dreams
Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you’re 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or memoir written…
– Anne Lamott
Start a New Advent Tradition Tomorrow
“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”
– Lao Tzu
Anti-Establishment, Skeletons, and English Crackers – In PICS!
“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes,
even when the people in it do.”
– Andy Warhol
One Minute, Unplug FU, and Gameshows
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the
Now the primary focus of your life.
-Eckhart Tolle