Confusion is where we may hide out and avoid being the bold expression we are meant to be.
…Rev. JoAnne Coleman
7:07am sunrise at 59th Place in LA
October 25, 7:06 sunrise over Starbucks Parking lot in Culver City
7:06am peek-a-boo sunrise from Modjeska Place in Mar Vista
There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can. There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of desires. …. Mark Epstein
7:05am sunrise-NOT from Modjeska Place in Mar Vista
Followed by the sun’s emergence in my own backyard
It is never too late to become what you might have been. …George Eliot
7:05am sunrise-NOT over Starbucks parking lot in Culver City.
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person. …Albert Einstein
7:05AM sunrise through the portal to Surfriders Beach in Malibu
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. … Buckminster Fuller
7:04am sunrise through the lemon tree in my backyard in LA
Challenges are the calling card of transformation and I courageously enter them knowing that they are the rich material for my awakening. …Michael Bernard Beckwith
7:02am sunrise through the lemon tree in my own backyard
The paradox is our world is a world of polarity, not neutrality. Being balanced 100% of the time in this reality really means you are stuck -- not growing -- or dead. …Aluna Joy Yaxk'in
today's sunrise over Starbucks parking lot in Culver Ciy
7:01am sunrise from Modjeska Place in Mar Vista
To experience the joy, the self-confidence, and the excellence that comes with living in the present, you must find a way to let go of what you think should be happening, in order to immerse yourself in what is happening. … John Kuypers
7:00am sunrise from Modjeska Place in Mar Vista
There are people who have money and people who are rich. …Coco Chanel
6:59am sunrise over Starbucks parking lot in Culver City
Far away there in the sunrise are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead. … Louisa May Alcott
7:00AM sunrise over the Malibu Pier
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. …Ralph Waldo Emerson
6:57am sunrise through the lemon tree in my backyard
Set a goal so big that you can’t achieve it until you grow into the person who can. …Unknown
Today's sunrise through the lemon tree in my backyard
Nothing worth knowing can be taught. …Oscar Wilde
6:56am sunrise over the Starbucks parking lot in Culver City
A bad day for the ego is a good day for the soul! …Michael Bernard Beckwith
6:55AM sunrise in my own backyard
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. …Ray Bradbury
6:54AM sunrise over Starbucks parking lot in Culver City
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. …James Allen
6:53am sunrise over Whole Foods in Mar Vista
The role of the writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. …Anais Nin