This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may…

    One of the secrets to gracious, conscious living is to choose what is right for you without making others wrong in the process. Jenifer Madson — Living the Promises     Why do I have an urge to be right? Perhaps more importantly, why do I need to force other people to “be right?” Why…

  He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I always had trouble with boundaries. I didn’t know how to keep people from encroaching on my stuff. Nor did I know how to keep out of other people’s stuff. On the…

  “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”   This quote reminds that everyone, everyday, has a choice. They can choose to continue to do what they are doing or to make a different choice if that’s not working for them. For me,…

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. –Socrates In the program, we often hear “change your behavior to fix your thinking” or “do the next right thing.” Reading this quote, really cemented the ideas behind those two slogans for me. I…