A Thought For The Week Of September 3, 2007

"Things change moment to moment, things are impermanent. We worry over the past, we anticipate the future, and we barely perceive a shred of the passing moment."

~ The Dalai Lama

A Thought For The Week Of August 27, 2007

"On this day I pledge neither to shy away from growth in myself, nor to require perfection in order to like myself. I will recognize through self-love that I am in a continual state of renewal and evolution."

~ Eric V. Copage

A Thought For the Week Of August 20, 2007

"Sometimes it's hard to even know that you've got it good until it's gone and you feel the absence. Appreciation makes you observe the details, to attempt to see what you haven't noticed before and be glad that you finally did notice it. It makes life richer and is not the kind of thing you need to spend money on."

~ Soanya Ahmad

A Thought For The Week Of August 13, 2007

"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.
And be it gash or gold it will not come
Again in this identical disguise."

~ Gwendolyn Brooks

A Thought For The Week Of August 6, 2007

"Courage is the other side of fear."

~ Conchette

A Thought For The Week of July 30, 2007

"Don't be afraid of failing. It's the way you learn to get things right. It doesn't matter how many times you fall down. What matters is how many times you get up. And don't wait for everybody else before you do something."

~ Marion Wright Edelman

A Thought For The Week Of July 23, 2007

" You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction."

~ Alvin Toffer

A Thought For The Week Of July 16, 2007

"Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece."

~ Nadia Boulanger

A Thought For The Week Of July 9, 2007

"There is one thing we can do, and the happiest people are those who can do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can . . . give all our attention to the opportunity before us."

~ Mark Van Doren

A Thought For the Week of July 4, 2007

"If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything."

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Surrounded By Caterpillars

Most of the time we set out to fix things, when what we should do is just be. We think of so many things as chores that must be done instead of something to enjoy doing.

Some days there may simply be nothing to "fix." Some days it feels like everything is a caterpillar with no signs of becoming a butterfly. But just maybe that's how it is supposed to be, and our task is simply to enjoy the caterpillar.

A Thought For The Week Of June 11, 2007

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

-- R. Buckminster Fuller

A Thought For The Week Of June 4, 2007

"Politicians are like diapers. They need to be changed frequently and for the same reasons."

-- Anonymous

A Thought For The Week Of May 28, 2007

"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies
And be it gash or gold it will not come
Again in this identical disguise."

-- Gwendolyn Brooks

A Thought For The Week Of May 21, 2007

"Adversity is a profound teacher. We should rejoice and give thanks when difficulties occur, not because of the suffering itself, but because of what will come of it."

-- Joan W. Anderson

A Thought For The Week Of May 14, 2007

"One of the great liabilities of life is that all too many people find themselves living amid a great period of social change and yet they fail to develop the new attitudes, the new mental responses that the new situation demands. They end up sleeping through the revolution."

-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A Thought For the Week of May 1, 2007

"On this day I pledge neither to shy away from growth in myself, nor to require perfection in order to like myself. I will recognize through self-love that I am in a continual state of renewal and evolution."

-- Eric V. Copage

A Thought For The Week of April 23, 2007

"I'll tell you something else that helps. That old saying, 'Take life one day at a time,' is mighty good advice. If I find myself becoming overwhelmed by it all, I focus on getting through the rest of the day, or maybe through dinner, or maybe just through the next hour."

-- Sarah Delany

A Thought For The Week of April 9, 2007

"No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow."

-- Alice Walker

A Thought For The Week of April 2, 2007

"One thing you must set aside in order to fulfill your unique possibilities is conformity."

- - Dennis Kimbro