“The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.”

— Dr. Joan Borysenko

"The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them—especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are. The fundamental reaction to any mistake ought to be this: “W

Act today as if you experienced yourself as a powerful presence in the world, full of confidence and energy whose influence is important to others.

-Understanding the Enneagram, 125

why do we lock doors? usually because we’re afraid of the dark... the darkness outside; the darkness inside.

“You know

so very well

the edge

of darkness

you have

always

carried with you,”

writes the poet David Whyte.

Marie Howe’s New and Selected Poems “The Meadow:”

… Bedeviled,

human, your plight, in waking,

is to choose from the words that even now sleep on your tongue,

and to know that tangled among them and

terribly new is the sentence that could change your life.