6:59am sunrise over our backyard in LA

Someone asked a famous minister "What is the secret of your success?" “I just set myself on fire and people watch me burn."  There is new fire in every day, and if you catch hold of it, you will  brighten the lives of everyone you touch, beginning with your own.       …. Alan Cohen

6:58am sunrise over our backyard in LA

With gratitude say yes to your amazing personhood.  Yes without alteration or a nagging need for self-improvement.  Say yes to loving yourself with all your stuff, because Spirit made you just this way.  Know with me there is a reason for your being.  Perhaps you cannot put it into words but your very being is extraordinary because there is no other like you and you were made to be here at this time reading these words, and never to lose that wonderful attachment to what is eternal and sweet and kindly. That is as much “you” as anything else.  You have come this far, not in spite of your experiences, but because of them.    Reverend Nancy Zala

6:57am sunrise in the backyard in LA

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.   … Ernest Hemingway

6:56am sunrise-NOT in LA

We don’t want to be afraid of our shadow, we want to embrace it.  If you know it’s there, it can’t run you.  If you pretend it’s not there, it can take you over.   …Michael Bernard Beckwith  

6:55am sunrise from my own backyard in LA

I never figure it out too much. I feel like, as you're writing, you just find your way… I imagine different scenarios based on the things I was thinking about.                             …Sofia Coppola

6:55am sunrise-NOT in the backyard in LA

I change the world by changing myself. I am changing the world by loving myself, by enjoying life, by making my personal world a dream of heaven. I change myself, and just like magic, other people start to change.   …Don Miguel Ruiz

6:54am sunrise from our backyard in LA

Live with the beautiful side in human nature and your own life will grow more and more beautiful until you become an inspiration to all the world.    …Christian D. Larson