What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail.

When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature

Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others’ versions of ourselves.

It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.

As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.