“Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.”

-- Eknath Easwaran




"If your guard is up, let it down. If you've constructed a defensive wall to protect yourself and keep all the bad guys out, don't forget who that wall also prevents from getting in - the good guys."

Brendon Burchard

"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly."

 Thomas H. Huxley


"Presenters using visuals conduct meetings in 28% less time, increase audience retention as much as five times, and get proposals approved twice as often"

~ Claire Raines and Linda Williamson

"Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain.
The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?"

Mary Manin Morrissey



“I read like the flame reads the wood.” 

― Alfred Döblin

"The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public."

- George Jessel

... so I say TG for rehearsal. It has saved me more times than I care to count!!

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. 

-- Tom O'Connor