And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom . ..Anais Nin
6:45am sunrise from 59th Place in LA
Boredom is the energy it takes to block creativity …Michael Bernard Beckwith
6:45am sunrise over Starbucks' parking lot in Culver City
Follow your bliss and the Universe will open doors for you where there were only walls. …Joseph Campbell
6:47am sunrise-NOT over LA from 59th Place
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. …Albert Einstein
Followed by emergence through the lemon tree in my own backyard.
6:48am sunrise over Starbucks parking lot in Culver City
We invent structure to keep us feeling safe. But safe we ain’t. Real life is too big, too awesome, too dynamic for safety. And that’s quite all right. Safety is over-rated. ...Darlene DeMille
6:48am sunrise at Surfriders Beach in Malibu
We can't stand the silence because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves. ...Agnes DeMille
6:49am sunrise from 4th Street in Santa Monica
Beware how you take away hope from any human being. ..Oliver Wendell Holmes
6:49am sunrise from 59th Place in LA
Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny. …M.K. Gandhi
6:52 AM sunrise in Mar Vista
If you can look into the mirror without laughter, you have no sense of humor. …Anonymous
6:52am sunrise over Starbucks parking lot in Culver City
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. ..Albert Einstein
6:52am sunrise from 59th Place in LA
Flawed human being….Oxymoron
6:53am sunrise over LA from Modjeska Place in Mar Vista
We must re-learn to be alone. Instead of planting our solitude with dream blossoms, we choke the space with continuous music, chatter, and companionship to which we do not even listen. It is simply there to fill the vacuum. …Anne Morrow Lindbergh
6:55am sunrise at Surfriders Beach in Malibu
What you see as stagnation is gestation. You have to yield up things so the gift that wants to come through you can emerge. ..Michael Bernard Beckwith
6:54am sunrise from 59th Place in LA
The soul never acts alone. Whenever the soul undertakes anything, there is immediate and direct assistance from the Supreme. What the soul begins, God will finish. God will cause it to be. …Christian Larson
6:54am sunrise in my own backyard in LA
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. ..Dalai Lama
6:55am sunrise from 59th Place in LA
The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hope only makes sense when it doesn’t make sense to be hopeful. This is your century. Take it and run as if your life depends on it. …From commencement address by Paul Hawken
6:56am sunrise over Starbucks parking lot in Culver City
Energy is life force, our natural power or strength. It resides in our breathing. When our breathing changes, our emotions change, our movements change, and our perception of the world changes accordingly. When our vital energy is obscured by strong emotions, opinions, and concepts, our perspective narrows and our strength diminishes. When we are free of such blockages, our power is free and expansive. …Irini Rockwell
6:56am sunrise from 59th Place in LA
Blessed are those whose identity is shaken so that they can begin to discover that which can never be shaken. ….Michael Bernard Beckwith
6:57am sunrise from Modjeska Place in Mar Vista
The dream, to be valid, must be impossible. Not just difficult. Impossible. Which implies an ideal never attainable but nevertheless stubbornly to be pursued. A striving for what cannot be achieved but still is worth the effort. …Dale Wasserman
