6:34am sunrise in LA

Life is not a duality; it is a polarity, and in Life’s polarity there is room for the paradox that it is eternal, yet always changing.  …Michael Bernard Beckwith

6:32am sunrise over LA

God/the Universe needs me to empty myself out so completely that I become fully available for something far beyond myself to begin to animate my life, illuminate my mind, light up my heart and drive me forward into a radical way of being that will be an example for everybody else, of humanity’s potential.  It’s the Radical Call of the Spirit.   …Craig Hamilton

6:31am sunrise in LA

Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.   ...Lord Byron

6:31am sunrise in LA

Awakeness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and our wisdom, available in each moment of our weird, unfathomable, ordinary everyday lives.   …Pema Chodron

6:30am sunrise in LA

You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you are doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.   …George Lucas

6:30am sunrise in LA

More than anything else, try to remember each morning -- before the winds of this world pick you up and carry you off -- that you want to be more awake to yourself than you were the day before; that you want to have more choices today -- in who you are and what you embrace -- than you did yesterday.    …Guy Finley   

6:29am sunrise in LA

Confusion is where we may hide out and avoid being the bold expression we are meant to be.

…Rev. JoAnne Coleman

6:28am sunrise in LA

Everything that happens is supposed to happen because it does happen.   In the past, we would have done better if we had known better and had the skills to perform in a different way.      ...Carol Wingate

6:27am sunrise in LA

People always say "Motivation is great but it doesn't last." I just tell them, bathing does not last either, that is why I recommend it daily.   …Zig Ziglar

6:27am sunrise in LA

There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can. There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of desires.    …. Mark Epstein

6:25am sunrise in LA

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person. …Albert Einstein

6:25am sunrise-NOT in LA

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.   … Buckminster Fuller

6:24am sunrise in LA

The paradox is our world is a world of polarity, not neutrality.  Being balanced 100% of the time in this reality really means you are stuck -- not growing -- or dead.  …Aluna Joy Yaxk'in

6:23am sunrise-NOT in LA

Challenges are the calling card of transformation and I courageously enter them knowing  that they are the rich material for my awakening.   …Michael Bernard Beckwith

6:22am sunrise in LA

To experience the joy, the self-confidence, and the excellence that comes with living in the present, you must find a way to let go of what you think should be happening, in order to immerse yourself in what is happening.    … John Kuypers

6:22am sunrise in LA

Far away there in the sunrise are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.    … Louisa May Alcottt

6:21am sunrise in LA

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.    …Ralph Waldo Emerson