These Days
Well I’ve been out walking
I don’t do that much talking these days
These days
These days I seem to think a lot
About the things that I forgot to do
And all the times I had the chance to

And I had a lover
It’s so hard to risk another these days
These days
Now if I seem to be afraid
To live the life that I have made in song
Well it’s just that I’ve been losing for so long

Well I’ll keep on moving, movin’ on
Things are bound to be improving these days
One of these days
These days I sit on corner stones
And count the time in quartertones to ten,
Don’t confront me with my failures
I-- had not forgotten them

When you no longer believe in your own limitation and you’re out in the world doing what you love to do, asking for what you want, saying no when you want to say no, saying yes when you want to say yes, have the greatest self-esteem, the whole world will change. - Don Miguel Ruiz

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. - Kabir

Dance....as though no one is watching,
Love....as if you've never been hurt.

A heart is a terrible thing to waste.

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not be diminished. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

We can have excuses, or we can have love, abundance, health, happiness and adventure. We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we’ve made our choices by default, when we have not designed our lives on our own.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. - Emiliano Zapata

Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love. Then, for the second time, man will have discovered fire. – Teilhard De Chardin

If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s. – Joseph Campbell

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. – Robert F. Kennedy

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bow lines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain

Love is an act of endless forgiveness. - Peter Ustinov

I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet—a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and fearful passionless force of non-human things. – Bertrand Russell

SUFFERING IS OPTIONAL

The choices that we make
Determine how we feel.
Choose joy and feel joyous.
Choose pain and feel that.
How easy it really is,
To feel however
We want.

The challenge
Is to be present
And remember.
Remember,
Who we are,
Why we are here.

Suffering is always
Optional.

HOME

The fear that shows up
Sneaks in cunningly
Controlling the body,
Mind and emotions
Like a mickey slipped into
An unsuspecting drink.

So easy it is to forget
One’s power and to be
Swept away in an ocean,
An ocean of fear.

To feel the fire again
Is a relief, a joy.
I am home again.
The jaguar now has returned
To his lair.
He is always on the ready,
Always alert, and always confident.
(With trust) in knowing
His power and strength.