Quote for Today: Lao Tzu
Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with …
Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with …
There are no self-made heroes or leaders. No matter how rugged or self-assured, everyone requires a cast of players – friends, mentors, lovers, critics, villains and supporters – who …
I thought home needed to be tall and luminous, a glowing building with a luxurious setting. Status. What I failed to understand is home is not where I place …
I felt part of a group for the first time in my life. Not a family, just a group of people who liked being together, who sat as we did, …
The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end …
Every human relationship begins with a coincidence. Even the most fundamental relationship – that of parent and child – begins entirely with a coincidence. The child is produced by whatever …
Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives. Numerous studies of …
Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was supposed to be family and …
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. –Marc Chagall Image: Shaded Colour Wheel, Moses Harris (1731-1785)
Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is a life that’s forgiving. …