I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if...

Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there’s something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to...

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

What I must do is die now. I must accept the justice of death and the injustice of life. I have lived a good life – longer than many, better than most. Tony died when...

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.

You say you just want to be my friend. I know that you mean you want to relate to my mind but not my body. I can understand that and will not ask you to...

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Today I acknowledge that I am not in position to judge what mistakes anyone is making or what lessons anyone needs to learn. I don’t know how far someone has come or when that person...

The heart loves, but moods have no loyalty. Moods should be heard but never danced to

Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself doubt when I am believing. Surely neither God nor Accident need my consistency.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

It’s not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don’t think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.

Perfectionism is slow death

Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.

Next time I will …””From now on I will …”- What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?

Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.

No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves

Love expands.

Egos clash. That’s the nature of egos.Treat these outbursts as sneezing fits.

Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

By approaching my problems with “What might make things a little better?” rather than “What is the solution?” I avoid setting myself up for certain frustration. My experience has shown me that I am not...