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
7:17am sunrise-NOT at home in our yard in LA
7:16am sunrise-NOT in my own backyard in LA
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
7:15am sunrise-NOT over my backyard in LA
Followed y brief emergence from the fog
Today I remember joyfully that the truth is already within us and I have direct and easy access to it now. …Marsha Straubing
7:14 sunrise-NOT from my backyard in LA
A 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
7:13 sunrise from our backyard in LA
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
7:11am sunrise-NOT in the backyard in LA
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. …Albert Einstein
7:11am sunrise-NOT from our backyard in LA
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
7:10am sunrise from our backyard in LA
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. … Kahlil Gibran
7:10am sunrise in the backyard in LA
Energy flows where attention goes. ....Michael Bernard Beckwith
7:09am sunrise from the backyard in LA
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
7:08am sunrise in my own backyard in LA
When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing...you are doing what you were meant to be doing. …Gary Zukav
7:07am sunrise-NOT on a rare rainy day in LA
One of the most illuminating truths which mysticism has revealed is that there is no ultimate reality to evil. No devil, no damnation outside of one’s state of thought, no punishment outside of that self-inflicted through ignorance, and no salvation outside of conscious cooperation with the infinite. Consequently, they have taught that the answer to every problem is in man’s own consciousness. … Ernest Holmes
7:06am sunrise from my own backyard in LA
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible. … Theodore Roethke
7:05AM sunrise from my own backyard in LA
Know that your heart is a captive of a holy vision of that which is invisible. …Rev. Nancy Zala
October 22, 2021 Sunrise-NOT in my own backyard in LA
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
October 21,2021 sunrise from 59th Place in LA
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play. …Julia Cameron
7:03am sunrise over my own backyard in LA
Dreams are like letters from God. Isn't it time you answered your mail? …Marie Louis von Franz
7:02am sunrise over 59th Place in LA
You've got to fall in love with your future. …George Burns
7:01am sunrise after real rain in the midst of our prolonged drought in LA
The greatest mistake you can make is to be afraid of making one. …Elbert Hubbard