Life has taught me that no matter how much I want to lend my knowledge, experience and wisdom to those I care about, everyone has to do things in their own way and time. All I can really do is just be there to listen, support, understand and love them.

We tend to complicate things by denying questions that have answers we simply don’t like.

Wouldn’t it be irresponsible of the Universe to micromanage it’s inhabitants, even under the assumption there’s a master plan?

If we could have each other back, we shouldn’t take it, because the memories are already made. If we offer each other a future, we shouldn’t take that either, because expectations would set us up for a fall. But, if we promise each other the present, everything that is possible, becomes possible.

Might things be simpler if we learned to stop avoiding obstacles that are NOT in the way?

Because it operates outside of logic and emotion, lead life with intuition. Too often desires and fears take control, but intuition tells us which risk benefits will outweigh the risk consequences.

With our desires to connect with someone, how often do we see things in people that aren’t really there, and perhaps even more, ignore things that are there?

Forgiveness isn’t forgiving when it comes by indifference.

If you’re trying to protect someone you truly care about by holding back information or telling lies, understand it’s not your right to decide what they are able to handle. Contrary to what you think your intentions are, you’re selfishly protecting yourself if you can’t tell it like it is!

Crazy is underrated! It’s a state of flux that shakes up your beliefs, breaks down your conditioned thinking patterns, let’s you discard what isn’t working, and opens your mind to new possibilities. Crazy is not a gateway to insanity; it gives power to sanity, because it allows you to make conscious choices about your life. It actually may be insane to not get crazy once in a while!

Beliefs are part of the human experience, and can give us means to power-through life. However, if beliefs replace reasoning and empirical evidence, we lose power to experience being human.

Good or bad, every interaction we have with each other can be used to learn and grow. There are people that pass briefly through our lives, and some stay longer, but no experience is ever wasted time or effort. You can’t change the events, but you can change your perspective.

Finding fellowship may be one of the most important things humans can do for and with each other. Unfortunately, many of these connections are based on archaic myths, superstitions and conditioned beliefs, which have only served to separate us from one another. We should work to remove our labels of identity, because at our very cores of being we are all the same. By constantly challenging our thinking and belief systems, without judgement and/or fear, we could find all sorts of reasons to unite as one people of thought, reason and acceptance.

If it’s a posture of conceit, judgement, contempt or alienation that we view and question the world, we fail to recognize that we all live in the same glass house.

It seems likely that perception shapes reality more than reality shapes perception.

Maybe age is just a number, and through experience, wisdom is what counts.

What a great feeling when you reconnect with people from your past, and you realize you’re not picking up where you left off, but you’ve grown together while you were apart.

There comes a time when you realize your broken heart became a cure.

There may well be Universal Truths, but they are scattered throughout the Universe in an infinite number of pieces; Collect as many as you can.

Our world would be profoundly different if we changed the perception of “us and them” to simply “us”.

As convoluted as relationships are with others, it’s the relationship we have with ourselves that twist our perspectives the most.

When looking for a change, be careful you’re not mistakenly upping the dosage with more of the same.

If your life seems off script, maybe that’s an indicator that it’s time for a rewrite.

If you have to keep explaining, then maybe it’s you that doesn’t understand.

The truth can set you free, or it can scare you into denial. Only through Awareness are you given a choice.

Enlightenment isn’t about finding answers to life, love or spirituality. It’s about releasing your tethered ideas, and keeping yourself open to new possibilities. Enlightenment is not a destination, it’s the journey itself.

The state of happiness: A great place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.

I was wondering if I live as reactive or proactive, so I stopped to think about it, and that was the answer.

Meeting you was chance, becoming your friend was choice, and loving you was inevitable. Losing you was unimaginable, letting go was my only choice, but if loving you helped in finding your way I’m glad I had the chance.

There are doers and there are thinkers; I must only think I know what I’m doing, because I certainly wasn’t doing what I was thinking.

Having the ability to love and be loved are gifts that should never be overshadowed by fear.

Hope is a gamble, with the odds always favoring the house. Be grateful of your wins, and never chase your losses.

Sometimes to think clearly, you clearly have to stop thinking.

Realize that happy and sad are temporary euphoric states – Take stock in what you have, and learn from your misfortunes – The key to bettering yourself and your life, is finding contentment.

Don’t dwell on what you don’t have, or waste energy defending who you think you are. Eliminate what you don’t want, and accept who you are not. Letting go of all that isn’t will keep you open to all that’s possible, and contentment will come naturally.

When you realize that someone isn’t who you had hoped, it can paralyze you, because that someone could also be you, and you hope you’re not right on either account.

Listen to the silence, for it speaks truth more often than words.

Life; Don’t take it personally.

It’s amazing what you can learn from your children. Through their innocence and inexperience, they can give you perspectives you’ve long forgotten about.

Call it irony or a taunting paradox, but as soon as you completely, and whole-heartedly let go of an idea, person or anything else, that’s when it presents itself to you. Unfortunately, since you gave up, your circumstances don’t allow you to have what you once wanted. If you change those circumstances, then it’s almost inevitable you’ll end up back where you can’t have it again.

When your head and your heart are at odds with each other, learn to really listen to your gut. It’s always right, even when you don’t want it to be.

It’s not the answer that bothers you, it’s the question that led up to it.

Make your own realities, set your own paths in motion, and don’t let anyone choose for you.

A whirlwind fantasy, even when appearing to take form, will often without warning, remain a fantasy to the bitter end.

When you get hurt by someone you love, understand it has nothing to do with you, and everything to do with them. Unfortunately, once you realize it wasn’t about you, it hurts even more!

Staying true to yourself isn’t about desperately clinging to who you think you are, it’s about giving yourself permission to question and change who that is at any moment.

If you find it hard to smile and laugh because you’re miserable, smile and laugh anyway. Eventually you’ll realize you were miserable because you weren’t smiling and laughing.

The truth is that we all make mistakes trying to protect ourselves, and we have to forgive ourselves and others for the selfish choices we sometimes make.

When you are hurt by the choices of someone you care about, be careful that you don’t make “excuses” in their defense. Whether or not they own up to the “reasons”, you must let go of your own ideas of their nature, keep the responsibility on them, and never turn it in on yourself.

Be careful you don’t convince yourself that your identity is defined by who you want others to believe you are.