Anne McClain on Common Ground

We can be united by a cause that’s not based on fear, threat or common enemy but rather on a bold endeavor, an insatiable curiosity to go beyond what is known and to do what has never been done. We Humans were built for Exploration.

Anne McClain,
U.S. Astronaut

Hal Borland on Time

Year's end is neither an end or a beginning, but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Hal Borland


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St. Augustine on Truth

The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose it will defend itself.

St. Ausgustine


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Alan Simpson on Humility

Those who travel the high road of humility in Washington, D.C. are not bothered by heavy traffic.

Sen. Alan Simpson
Eulogy for George H.W. Bush
December 5, 2018

Joseph Campbell on Interesting Times

I have read somewhere of an old Chinese curse: "May you be born in an interesting time." This is a very interesting time. There are no models for anything that is going on. It is a period of free fall into the future, and each has to make his or her own way. The old models are not working; the new have not yet appeared. In fact, it is we who are even now shaping of the new in the shaping of our interesting lives. And, that is the whole sense (in mythological terms) of the present challenge: we are the ancestors of an age to come, the unwitting generators of its supporting myths, the mythic models that will inspire its lives.


Joseph Campbell
1904 - 1987
Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine, 2013

Joseph Campbell on Coping Skills

As you proceed through life following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off. Getting a comedic view of your situation gives you spiritual distance. Having a sense of humor saves you.

Joseph Campbell
A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

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Earth Day Wisdom

Humankind must be a steward of the Earth;
Caretakers for all that dwells upon it;
To be of one heart with all things.

Human beings must learn to share
the tears of every living thing,
To feel in our hearts the pain
of the wounded animal,
each crushed blade of grass;

Mother Earth is our flesh;
the rocks, our bones;
The rivers are the blood of our veins.

We are all children of God.
Traditions are open to anyone
who wants to learn.

Huichol Holy Man

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John Stortz on Expectations

Good people, a good view and a half obedient mutt are about all you could ever ask for. 

John Stortz
Photographer

johnstortz on instagram

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Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee on Nature

There are so many ways to pray for and with creation, to listen within and include the earth in our spiritual practice. Watching the simple wonder of a dawn can be a prayer in itself. Or when we hear the chorus of birds in the morning we may sense that deeper joy of life and awake to its divine nature. At night the stars can remind us of what is infinite and eternal within us and within the world. Whatever way we are drawn to wonder or pray, what matters is always the attitude we bring to this intimate exchange, whether our prayers are heartfelt rather than just a mental repetition.

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee 

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Jeff Brown on Heroism

There are heroes everywhere on this planet. EVERYWHERE. If we only listen to the unconscious media and manipulative marketers, we will only recognize a small few. It serves those systems to focus our energies away from our own heroic nature. But if we look beyond those agendas, we will see heroes everywhere we look: parents who sacrifice so their children will have better lives, individuals who courageously challenge inhumane paradigms, brave folk who steadily overcome their emotional debris and find the faith to go on, homeless people who find their optimism again after a night on the streets. Simply overcoming the distracting and repressive weight of the world is a heroic gesture, seldom acknowledged. It takes a hero to brave this life. It takes a hero to live authentically. It takes a hero to keep their heart open after a lifetime of disappointment. Let's expand our definition of heroism. Let's look for heroes in unexpected places. Let's look for them in quiet corners. Let's even look for them in the mirror. There are heroes everywhere on this planet.

Jeff Brown

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Les Brown on Forgiveness

Forgive anyone who caused you pain or harm.  Keep in mind that forgiving is not for others, it is for you. Forgiving is not forgetting.  It is remembering without anger. It frees up your power, heals your body, mind, and spirit. Forgiveness opens up a pathway to new places of peace where you can thrive despite what has happened to you.

Les Brown

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Leo Buscgalia on Love

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

Leo Buscaglia

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Movie Wisdom: We Bought A Zoo

Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon): You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.

Benjamin Mee, book
Aline Brosh McKenna and Cameron Crowe, screenplay
We Bought A Zoo
2011, Twentieth Century Fox

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Zelda Fitzgerald on Love

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Zelda Fitzgerald

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Elie Wiesel on Indifference

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Elie Wiesel

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