Words of Wisdom

Although the world is full of suffering, 
it is also full of the overcoming of it.
 -Helen Keller

The most creative act you will ever undertake 
is the act of creating yourself.
  ~ Deepak Chopra

The good life is a process, not a state of being.
It is a direction, not a destination. 
~ Carl Rodgers

I am not what happened to me. 
I am what I choose to become. 
​ ~ Carl Jung

When we are no longer able to change a situation,
we are challenged to change ourselves. 
~ Viktor Frankl 


The falling apart is a kind of testing, 
but also a kind of healing. 
~ Pema Chödrön

You are the sky. Everything else, it's just weather. 
~ Pema Chödrön






The Guest House

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 are a crowd of sorrows,
who
violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still,
  treat each
guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.


The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
meet them at the door laughing and
invite them in.

Be grateful for whatever comes.
because
each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

~ Rumi