i. The person waiting inside me

my vow to support, strengthen, and awaken those devoted to the human spirit who are seeking how best to serve. May we be together in this exploration and recognition of who we are.

One day as I was about to step on a dry leaf, I saw the leaf in the ultimate dimension. I saw that it was not really dead, but it was merging with the moist soil and preparing to appear on the tree the following spring in another form. I smiled at the leaf and said, “You are pretending.”

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries

the pain of where you are has to be greater than the pain it will take to change. You want the pain of discipline or the pain of regret?”

In the end, UCLA avenged its loss to LSU and learned some valuable lessons about what it’s capable of. “You can’t give a team confidence,” said Close. “You have to put them in situations where they can learn to conquer hard things and earn the confidence that they want, and they’ve done that.”

we must be sustained by a sense of what we are for, and not just what we are against

When creating an ofrenda (Day of the Dead altar), you can include items like: marigolds (cempasúchil), candles, sugar skulls, pan de muerto (Day of the Dead bread), a glass of water, family photos, papel picado (colorful tissue paper), incense, personal items of the deceased, and traditional Mexican food; all of which symbolize guiding the spirits ... See more