words from my lips

To Justify Existence

The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. 
 -- Eric Hoffer

Be Fully Born

Living is the process of continuous rebirth.  The tragedy in the life of most of us is that we die before we are fully born.  -- Eric Fromm

Begin It!

Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it -- for action has magic, grace, and power in it.  -- Goethe

Works in Progress

We are all works in progress.  We are all rough drafts.  None of us is finished, final, "done."--Julia Cameron

Becoming Whole

Too often, racing through life, we become the "hole," not the "whole."  -- Julia Cameron

Taming the Mind

Just as harshness doesn't work to tame a wild animal, it also doesn't work to tame the wildness of our minds. . . use gentleness to train the mind.  -- Pema Chodron

Be Bewildered

Sell your cleaverness 

and buy bewilderment.  -- Rumi

Monsters of our mind

We can spend our whole life escaping from the monsters 

of our mind.  -- Pema Chodron