6:15am sunrise from our backyard in LA

When you know that every truth you seek is available within you, you will not place someone else's idea of how you should live, above your own.  There are many roads to the mountaintop, but the only one that will take you all the way is the one with your name on it.  … Alan Cohen

6:19am sunrise-NOT on Dick's birthday-the first since his passing.

Give attention to the present; give attention to your behavior, to your reactions, moods, thoughts, emotions, fears, and desires as they occur in the present. If you can be present enough to watch all those things, not critically or analytically but non-judgmentally, then you are dealing with the past and dissolving it through the power of your presence.   You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You find yourself by coming into the present. …Eckhart Tolle

6:23am sunrise from the backyard in LA

If you talk about things you have not experienced, you are wasting your and other people’s time.  As you continue the practice of looking deeply, you will see this more and more clearly, and you will save a lot of paper and publishing enterprises and have more time to enjoy your tea and live your daily life in mindfulness.          Thich Nhat Hahn

You're not going crazy. You are being evolutionarily enhanced!   …Dr. Jean Houston

6:26am sunrise in the backyard in LA

When we are striving to live an empowered life, our every choice is important. Even the color of the clothes we wear for the day can affect us and the people around us. Certainly the attitude we choose to face the day and the people around us has an effect.   Life itself is a choice. The choice of life is one we make every day whether we realize it or not.  Every action we take either supports life, or not. We are the only ones who can make a difference - by each and every choice we make …Marie T. Russell

6:29am sunrise from our backyard in LA

I’ll die one day and the day after that the sun will rise.   And then one day the sun will die too, transformed into a supernova.  And the day after that, as each and every day before, countless suns will rise over countless planets and beings, known only in our imaginations.            2/18/07 morning pages

6:32am sunrise from the backyard in LA

It is God's play of light and shadow that has made certain creation appear as it does to us.  When you realize this, you see it as a dream motion picture.  ..Paramahansa Yogananda