The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Do you understand? –Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean  I really appreciate this quote  because it reminds me that when I feel like a victim or I feel like I have no choices, that I become my own problem….

  “In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.” ~ Rollo May   Before the program, I used to fear solitude. Any moment I had alone was a moment that I tried to fill with other activities. I…

  When you get free  from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous than you thought it was. Alan Watts I am reminded that often I have preconceived notions about people and behavior. Because of this preconceived notion, I decide that I…

  Many of us find that as we practice treating others fairly, with love and respect, we ourselves become magnets for love and respect. …In All Our Affairs I remember before coming into the program, when someone was treating me in a way that I did not like, I’d get defensive and critical, or I…

  At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done, then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. -Frances Hodgson Burnett I love this quote because…