"People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
"
Dancing in the air, happy moments, laughter, deep connections, hiking with my dog Sophie, the ocean, creative expression, nature, foreign languages, yoga, the arts, Agape, stimulating conversations, meditation, inspiration, self-improvement, integrity, transformation, international travel, people watching, enriching each other, gratitude, friendship, reevaluating my truth on a regular basis, manifesting, daydreaming, being the change, love, life -- every bit of it
"An eagle does not make up its mind to fly: it plunges into the void and finds itself flying."
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Artists, pacifists, mystics, activists, visionaries, philanthropists, poets, dreamers, authentic, positive people who laugh and play hard, truly care, have integrity, a sense of humor, intellect, and love. In other words anyone who expands me.
"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart"
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them. What you choose to do with them is up to you."--Richard Bach
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"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
To change your life and the world, instead of complaining about what you don't want, focus your thoughts and feelings on it's opposite."
"Justice" doesn't mean "Just Us."
Peter Gabriel, Francis Cabrel, U2, Zucchero, Lili Haydn, Chopin, BB King, Collin Hay, Danielle Brisbois, Ray Charles, Tomaso Albinoni, Paula Cole, Heather Nova, Vasco Rossi, Marillion, Puccini, Don Henley, the Beatles, Macy Gray, Bob Marley, Vivaldi, James Blunt, Alanis Morissette, Sting, Robbie Robertson, Sarah McLachlan, Beyonce, English Patient soundtrack, India Arie, James Taylor, Our Lady Peace, Shakira, Annie Lennox, Nikka Costa, Andrea Bocelli, Mecano, Marvin Gaye, Bjork, Prince, Beth Hart, Pat Benatar...
"Try to unlearn as much as you learn. Enlightenment is a process of unlearning, and returning to a state of simplicity."
Published in National Geographic World Magazine (Jay Groves & I)
Amalie, Il Postino, The Red Violin, Whale Rider, The Gods Must be Crazy, Indiana Jones, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Run Lola Run, Sex and Lucia, Forest Gump, The Notebook, Life is Beautiful, La Femme Nikita, The Secret, Good Will Hunting, What the Bleep do we Know, The 5th Element, Cinema Paradiso, ET, Zeitgeist...
"The important thing is this: To be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become."
--Charles Dubois
I rarely turn it on. I prefer to live life instead of watching it on tv.
"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
Mysts of Avalon, Illusions, The Alchemist, Diaries of Anais Nin, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Four Agreements, The Naked Ape, Siddhartha, Beloved, The Mastery of Love, Camille, Chronicles of Narnia, Who Moved My Cheese, The Story of B, Ishmael, Possession, The Count of Monte Cristo, Life 101, Pride and Prejudice, The Celestine Prophecy, Surely You Must Be Joking Mr. Feynman, Tuesdays with Morrie, Flowers for Algernon, Creative Visualization, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Da Vinci Code, Poisonwood Bible, Anatomy of the Spirit, The House of Spirits, books by David Sedaris, Maya Angelou, Michael Crighton, Douglas Adams, Robert Fulghum, Wayne Dyer...
"If I stepped out of my body I would break into blossoms."
No problem
can be solved
from the same level of consciousness
that created it.
~ Albert Einstein
My baby doctor who saved my life by unwrapping the umbilical cord from around my neck while I was being born, my mom who caught my ankle as I was falling out of a second story window at age two, and my dad who hid for 45 minutes under the kitchen sink playing hide and seek while I gave up seeking and watched Sesame Street. Also great movement leaders that stood for change and practiced nonviolence such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Gautama Buddha, Lao Tzu, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Jesus, Mother Teresa, Paramahansa Yogananda, Rosa Parks, and anyone who lives deeply, madly, passionately and treats our planet and all life with love & respect.
Love and nonviolence are matchless in their effect. --Mahatma Gandhi
"To change one's life:
•Start immediately
•Do it flamboyantly
•No exceptions -- William James
"I came upon two Paths and chose the one less traveled. That choice has made all the difference." --Robert Frost