The greatest gift that you can give is non-reactivity. \”Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.\”   ~Rumi~    It has been said that we must be the change we wish to see. Each of us is a microcosm of our collective […]

Reactivity and resistance are pretty good indicators that we have work to do. \”Resistance is a conditioned response of the ego; it’s the ego’s effort to maintain control, the ego’s fear of giving up the known. Often our resistance prevents us from staying in the present moment for more than a few seconds. We resist

Let go of self-definition. \”When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly it is gone. When you fully accept that you don’t know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than

Your story is still being written. \”Just let it go\” is more a philosophy than an option. If it were possible to \”just let it go,\” we’d all know freedom right now. Often our only real choice is to just let it be.  ~Ezra Bayda~  We arranged this lifetime by selecting the perfect parents, place

We are all masters in the process of awakening. The only difference between us is where we are on that journey. \”Notice your ideals and expectations. Watch your habitual patterns. Observe your emotional reactions. See them for what they are. This is the path to transformation.\” ~Ezra Bayda~  It’s important to remember that you have

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is the ability to walk forward in spite of the fear. \”The willingness to open to life’s difficulties does not depend on liking them.\” ~Ezra Bayda~  When challenges arise, when we encounter loss or disappointment or experience the upheaval of the unexpected, the first response is often

\”Our self-images define our own boundaries, limiting us to the narrow ideas of who we believe ourselves to be.\” ~Ezra Bayda~  If you’ve ever spent time with someone who criticized your every move, always found fault with your choices or nit-picked the decisions you’ve made, you’d likely consider that person to be toxic, and would

You can learn a lot about a person by listening to what they don’t say about themselves. \”We set goals that we think will guide us through the course of life. But we forget that our goals are not so much conscious choices as they are aggregates of our innate disposition, our particular conditioning, and

See yourself as a lifetime student of love. There is much yet to discover. \”Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,Love is knowing I am everything,and between the two my life moves.\” ~Nisargadatta Maharaj~  We are on an incredible journey. No matter how many lifetimes you’ve had so far, no matter how high your state of

All that we experience is a projection of our inner state of consciousness. \”Love is the bridge between you and everything.\” ~Rumi~    Whenever I see someone caught up in anger, judging, blaming, attacking or spewing hatred in it’s various forms, all I feel is compassion. Imagine going through life carrying the weight of all