Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

To sing with the voice of angels as we do the work of angels. To laugh with the laugh of Buddha as we go to our awakening. To extend the arms of Jesus to welcome the presence of children and let them climb into our hearts.

I live now and only now, and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.

Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.

Moods should be heard but never danced to.

No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves

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