6:45am sunrise-NOT in a light rain at Mar Vista

When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages a sick sense of failure falls on me and I know I can never do it. This happens every time. Then gradually I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myse…

When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages a sick sense of failure falls on me and I know I can never do it. This happens every time. Then gradually I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate and I eliminate the possibility of ever finishing.    …John Steinbeck

6:49AM sunrise at the Malibu Pier.

What geniuses do is straightforward enough — they recognize their gifts, and then they fully and completely embrace their craft. This is the province of true creative genius, a place of no boundaries, no restraints, and no taboos.   …Suzan…

What geniuses do is straightforward enough — they recognize their gifts, and then they fully and completely embrace their craft. This is the province of true creative genius, a place of no boundaries, no restraints, and no taboos.   …Suzanne Falter-Barns

6:50am....full sunrise on 59th Place in LA

compassionate city is an uncomfortable city!  A city that is uncomfortable when anyone is homeless or hungry.  Uncomfortable if every child isn’t loved and given rich opportunities to grow and thrive.  Uncomfortable when any group any…

compassionate city is an uncomfortable city!  A city that is uncomfortable when anyone is homeless or hungry.  Uncomfortable if every child isn’t loved and given rich opportunities to grow and thrive.  Uncomfortable when any group anywhere in the world is marginalized or oppressed.   Uncomfortable when as a community we don’t treat our neighbors as we would wish to be treated.   ….Karen Armstrong

6:53am Sunrise over LA from Mar Vista

Often, we try to run away from feeling. And, as we avoid feeling—in a kind of “spiritual bypass”—we cannot plunge into oceanic Oneness. We get stuck between the surface and the deep and can’t touch the Divine Depths. What we really need to do is to …

Often, we try to run away from feeling. And, as we avoid feeling—in a kind of “spiritual bypass”—we cannot plunge into oceanic Oneness. We get stuck between the surface and the deep and can’t touch the Divine Depths. What we really need to do is to feel so deeply that we reach the Universal. To know the wholeness that is beneath our experience of brokenness. To see the pearl caressing the grain of sand.   …Jane Bolton

6:57AM Sunrise-NOT for John deLancie at the Malibu Pier

You might be in casual conversation and people will tell you how bad life is. How it will be getting worse.  And you will be standing and nodding in agreement,  eventually wondering why your life is full of potholes and disappointments. …N…

You might be in casual conversation and people will tell you how bad life is. How it will be getting worse.  And you will be standing and nodding in agreement,  eventually wondering why your life is full of potholes and disappointments. …Nancy Zala

7:00am sunrise in Mar Vista

When you let go of trying to get more of what you don’t really need, it frees up oceans of energy to make a difference with what you have.  When you make a difference with what you have, it expands.  …Lynne Twist

When you let go of trying to get more of what you don’t really need, it frees up oceans of energy to make a difference with what you have.  When you make a difference with what you have, it expands.  …Lynne Twist

6:07am sunrise at the Malibu Pier

The ordeals that seem to crucify us are not a sign that we're doing something wrong. They are an essential part of the spiritual path, and the only efficient response is a state of surrender. I find that, for me, the clearest, simplest and most effe…

The ordeals that seem to crucify us are not a sign that we're doing something wrong. They are an essential part of the spiritual path, and the only efficient response is a state of surrender. I find that, for me, the clearest, simplest and most effective prayer is simply "Show me the good!"   …Evelyn Underhill