6:23am sunrise at 59th Place in LA

Followed by emergence through the lemon tree in our backyard.

Followed by emergence through the lemon tree in our backyard.

There are only two ways to live your life: As if nothing is a miracle, or as if everything is a miracle. …Albert Einstein

There are only two ways to live your life: As if nothing is a miracle, or as if everything is a miracle. …Albert Einstein

6:20am sunrise over 59th Place in LA

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and fol…

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. …Ralph Waldo Emerson

6:17am sunrise from 59th place in LA

The experience we all need more of is love. In order to move more deeply into an atmosphere of love, we must identify less with the body and more with our love-related emotions. These are the feelings that speak to us of what has always been within …

The experience we all need more of is love. In order to move more deeply into an atmosphere of love, we must identify less with the body and more with our love-related emotions. These are the feelings that speak to us of what has always been within us but what our shabby self-image has not allowed us to see. … Gerald G. Jampolsky M.D.

7:13am sunrise at 59th Street in LA

I AM the infinite unfolding in form and IT is thriving as my life. Love unfolds graciously as me, greater than anything I experience in the world. …Jason Mitchel

I AM the infinite unfolding in form and IT is thriving as my life. Love unfolds graciously as me, greater than anything I experience in the world. …Jason Mitchel

7:10am sunrise over 59th Street in LA

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Many of us have given our power, money, and minds to people whom we believe can tell us how to live.  And many teachers have given us good advice.  But advice is useful only if it resonates deep within us in a place that feels like home.  So the teacher did not give us anything we did not already have; he or she just pointed us to what we already knew.    … Alan Cohen

7:07 am sunrise over 59th Place & Brynhurst in LA

Do I have to make myself wrong? Or is this exactly what is meant to be revealed. Simply that we are indeed perfect human beings. That “flawed human” is truly an oxymoron. So we are always exactly what we are meant to be. That seeming wrong may be th…

Do I have to make myself wrong? Or is this exactly what is meant to be revealed. Simply that we are indeed perfect human beings. That “flawed human” is truly an oxymoron. So we are always exactly what we are meant to be. That seeming wrong may be the exact thing we need to fulfill our destiny. Not that we aren’t meant to amount to anything, but that we can’t help but amount to everything we are meant to be. Plan it or not, we leave out footprint on this planet in some way, somehow. For……?

7:07am sunrise over 59th Place in LA

The one great truth I gleaned from all this was…the Darlene of my fantasy was/IS imaginary! That all of our thoughts about ourselves – The Good, The Bad, the Ugly – are all imaginary. We make ourselves up as we go along. We make our lives up so make…

The one great truth I gleaned from all this was…the Darlene of my fantasy was/IS imaginary! That all of our thoughts about ourselves – The Good, The Bad, the Ugly – are all imaginary. We make ourselves up as we go along. We make our lives up so make ‘em up Good!

7:06am sunrise out front on 59th Place in LA

So many of us are continually looking for reasons to disqualify ourselves, either as an artist or as a full participant in society or both. The reason I want to reassure you about this third voice – whether it’s a narrator or a third voice and your …

So many of us are continually looking for reasons to disqualify ourselves, either as an artist or as a full participant in society or both. The reason I want to reassure you about this third voice – whether it’s a narrator or a third voice and your experience of uneasiness in relation to that – is that that uneasiness is the inevitable consequence of your ambivalence about form and the structuring force in the world. As artists, you simply are going to have to live into that uneasiness. That’s the burden of your identity. It’s also its source. It’s also an excuse not to practice your art, if you want it to be. The one thing I can assure you is you’re not going to be any more comfortable in your skin if you’re not working. ...David Milch