Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values. …Dalai Lama
6:52am sunrise at 59th Place in LA
Take delight in your own light and celebrate others in theirs because, when one shines, it means it’s possible for us all to shine. …Oprah Winfrey
6:51am sunrise 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 us but what our shabby self-image has not allowed us to see. … Gerald G. Jampolsky M.D.
6:59am sunrise over 59th Place in LA
One might reasonably define mythology as other people’s religion. The definition of religion is equally uncomplicated: It is misunderstood mythology. …Joseph Campbell
6:50am sunrise in LA
Be grateful for the blessing of being alive in this moment. Then and only then will you truly know how good life is and how great thou art. …Karen Brailsford
6:49am sunrise-NOT from 59th Place in LA
followed shortly by a dramatic emergence
I may have attended a dream-shattering event but I will focus on everything I learned and envision a new, bigger dream for my life. I claim that I am not a victim, I am a victor. …Carol Wingate
6:48am sunrise from 59th Place in LA
You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ….Navajo proverb
6:48am sunrise spectacular over 59th Place 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
6:47am sunrise in my own backyard in LA
My life is whole and perfect, and the kingdom of heaven is expressing through me now. ...Rev Ed Townley
6:46am sunrise-NOT at 59th Place in LA
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. …Anonymous
6:45am sunrise over my own backyard in LA
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
6:44am sunrise spectacle from my own backyard in LA
FEAR….False Evidence Appearing Real
6:44am sunrise over the Bouganvilla in my backyard
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. …Henry David Thoreau
6:43am sunrise from 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 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
6:42am sunrise from my own backyard in LA
If I had one lovely thing to say it would be about God. About the storm in me that has dismantled my linear thinking, upended my life, and exposed my withholding. …Reverend Safire Rose
6:41am sunrise at 59th Place in LA
If we just keep on dancing, we’ll be all right. We can be fearless no matter what and know completely and forever that we are tuned in and tapped into a great and mighty power that wants only our joy and happiness. What we realize is that there is more to this business of living than we can possibly know – maybe even in one lifetime. It seems our only job is to keep on dancing. …….. Rev Karen Wylie
6:40am sunrise over 59th Place in LA
A door may ultimately close but I need not be the one to shut it.
6:39am sunrise over the Bouganvilla in my backyard in LA
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. ...Buddha
6:38am sunrise from 59th Place in LA
Don’t worry about what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and do that. Because, what the world needs, is people who have come alive. …Dr. Howard Thurman
6:38am sunrise from 59th Place in LA
To be an artist you have to have less of a stake in a stable, single identity; it’s how you function as an artist, that sense of being both inside and outside means part of you is outside. You’re less invested in the consistent self. In fact, the consistent single self is inimical to your creative process. And yet, the fact of inconsistency is experienced by many of us as we live in the world as a source of shame. “I can’t sustain, I go from one thing to another.” …David Milch