“Just because you don’t know your direction doesn’t mean you don’t have one. Sometimes lost is where you need to be.” –Leoben As we grow through life, we develop characteristics and values that keep us safe and help us connect to others. Sometimes, these characteristics and values that keep us safe can end up preventing us from connecting to others Read more…
“Cause I need freedom now, and I need to know how, to live my life as it’s meant to be.” –Mumford and Sons Living in our little shell can be very lonely. Sometimes being lonely is better than the potential pain that exists if we were to be exposed and rejected. But still, loneliness is painful. Isolation is painful. Being Read more…
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” Martin Luther King, Jr. I ran into that quote quite a bit last week around the celebration of King’s desire for human rights. While he is speaking on a large level, I began to think of this quote on a Read more…
It is easy to forget when life is hectic…when the to do list is a mile high and rising. We forget ourselves. We forget our relationships. We forget the small things that are important to us. Essentially, hectic becomes our focus. We somehow convince ourselves that it is okay to neglect all of those other things because they will still Read more…
A guest author on zenhabits.net, Craig Ballantyne, recently posted on his personal rules that he uses in his life. He draws the comparison with vegetarians that live by a strong personal philosophy about not eating meat. Using this, he suggests that each of us develop a philosophy or rules that we hold to in our day to day interactions. He suggests Read more…
