Present

Eyes

Since we cannot change reality,
let us change the way in which we see reality.

The Best Day

Friendship With Oneself

Friendship with oneself
is all-important,
because without it
one cannot be friends
with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Changes

All changes,
even the most longed for,
have their melancholy;
for what we leave behind us
is part of ourselves.

We must die to one life
before we can
enter another.

Anatole France

Beautiful Aloneness

Palace

Be thy own palace
OR,
the world's thy jail.

John Donne

Stay Away

Link

Now and again,
it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountains
and hidden valleys
to restore your link to the source of life.

Breathe in and let yourself soar to the ends of the Universe;
Breathe out
and bring the Cosmos back inside.

The Art of Peace

Up From the Table

Center

Move like a beam of light;
Fly like lightening,
Strike like thunder,
Whirl in circles around
A stable center.

The Art of Peace

Solitude

Explore

No pessimist ever discovered
the secrets of the stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new heaven to
the human spirit.

Helen Keller

Thoughts

Iron

Iron is full of impurities that weaken it.
Through forging, it becomes steel and is transformed into a razor-sharp sword.
Human beings develop in the same fashion.

The Art of Peace