"It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there." - Robert M. Pirsig Zen saying are great. Inspirational quotes are awesome. I say them and try to believe them myself. But, Zen sayings don't actually do anything or CHANGE anything. But, they are a great place to start. You have [...]
"A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself." - Marilyn Monroe Although intuition is nature’s way of telling you something it wrong, it doesn’t always mean you should follow it or that you can. Sometimes it means learning something you need to learn. What if your intuition is right, but, you have a journey to take? What if following your intuition allowed you to skirt around the hard parts. Have you [...]
"We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love." - Walter Savage Landor There are so many self-help articles, books, blogs and dating coaches talking about self-love and how you have to have self love before you can find a partner, be your best self, get the right job, make your way in life. Self-love this. Self-love that. But, what exactly is self-love and how do you find it [...]
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. —Oprah Winfrey What exactly is the Law of Attraction (LOA)? For those of you who have never heard of the Law of Attraction the basic premise is that Like Attracts Like. The fundamental concepts of the LOA are theoretical and scientific in nature. Basically, we are all energy. [...]
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." - Walter Winchell Do you believe in negative energy? What if you don’t have negative energy, but you surround yourself with others that have negative energy? What do you think will come into your life? Ridding yourself of negative energy that surrounds you will open your vibration up to new and more positive experiences. There may be people in [...]
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass Tonight I was watching Ray Donovan on Showtime (okay, I admit I was on a binge marathon watching all six seasons) and I came to a realization. Life is nothing without struggle. Struggle is beautiful. Why do we fight against it so much and why do we have a desire to have everything be perfect all the time? I’m not sure if you’ve seen [...]
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt Yes, that's me on top of that cliff along with my fellow adventure seekers. I'm third from the right (obviously not going anywhere NEAR the edge!) That's The Mountain-the mountain they named "The Death Road" in Bolivia, so named because of its inherent danger and yearly death toll. From beginning to end its about 40 miles, straight downhill, with a drop [...]
"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide." - Albert Camus Why Do People Commit Suicide? Yesterday I found out that one of my friends shot himself in the head. We hadn’t spoken in a few years except the occasional Facebook prompt, yet I feel like I’ve lost a brother and a family member. I was sixteen when I moved out of my house and moved to Orange County, California from [...]
"I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person." - Ashton Kutcher Who doesn't want the person they are dating to be "The One"? How do you know if they are the one for you or not? There are usually plenty of warning signs when [...]
“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.” ― Anais Nin Suffering Do you constantly have a little knot in the pit of your stomach? Do you spend endless nights tossing and turning as you try to get to sleep only to wake up over and over again? [...]
