For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.

The commitment to love always transforms, heals, and opens new avenues of creativity.

To experience relationships of substance and depth requires approaching and entering into relationships with consciousness and concern for the other.

You lose power to the people and circumstances you judge. They capture your attention in the same way that a movie does.

The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

Does anyone pray before they cut a tree? I haven't seen anyone do that yet in the timber industry. But my vision is that that day is coming. I have a vision of a world in which we relate to each other as souls - not as personalities - not as bodies and minds and capabilities to accomplish things in this domain of the five sense, but as immortal spirits learning together how to co-create this world.

You have a sacred contract with the Universe, and no one can fulfill it except you.