Leonard Dubrow ONCE YOU SEE the ego for what it is, it becomes much easier to remain nonreactive toward it. You don’t take it personally anymore. There is no complaining, blaming, accusing or making wrong. Nobody is wrong. It is the ego in someone, that’s all. Compassion arises when you recognize that all are suffering from the same … Read more
B. J. PALMER 1882-1961. CHIROPRACTOR. “The Unknown Story of B.J.Palmer and Chiropractic” “THE HISTORY OF CHIROPRACTIC began in 1895 when Daniel David Palmer of Iowa performed the first chiropractic adjustment on a partially deaf janitor, Harvey Willard. Palmer … Read more
J.B.PRIESTLEY. 1894-1984. “1929’s The Good Companions”. TO SHOW A CHILD what once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own — this is happiness. THE MORE WE ELABORATE our means of communication, the less we communicate. TO … Read more
Q: How can our words be a chant and incense unto the people? The answer . . . Go down deeper than all sounds, to the very heart of the earth and there you shall be alone with Him who walks upon the Milky Way. KHALIL GIBRAN. “The Garden of the Prophet” THE LONGER I LIVE … Read more
JAMES THOMSON 1700-1748. “The Seasons”, “The Castle of Innocence”. INGRATITUDE IS TREASON TO MANKIND. … Read more
WHAT IF our religion was each other. If our practice was our life. If prayer, our words. What if the temple was the Earth. If forests were our church. If holy water — the rivers, lakes and ocean. What if meditation was our relationships. If the teacher was life. If wisdom was self-knowledge. If love was … Read more
KNOWING OTHERS IS WISDOM, KNOWING YOURSELF IS ENLIGHTENMENT. LAO TZU DEATH is the last enemy: once we’ve got past that I think everything will be alright. ALICE THOMAS ELLIS THE ANSWER TO OLD AGE is to keep one’s mind busy & to go on with one’s life … Read more
THE ASSUMPTION that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. … Read more
For me the novel is character creation. Style is nice, plot is nice, structure is OK, social significance is OK, symbolism worms its way in, timeliness is OK too, but unless the characters convince and live the book’s got no chance. LARRY MCMURTRY ONE OF THE SADDEST LESSONS OF HISTORY is … Read more
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO REINVENT YOURSELF. START A NEW career at 40. Fall in love at 50. Learn to dance at 60. Start a whole new life at 70. Stop saying you can’t. You can and you should. Dreams don’t have an expiration date. Life begins at 80. Younger I didn’t appreciate being … Read more
