Ambition devoid of compassion is as devastating as power disjointed from wisdom. May our progress not be built on the grave of another's joy or well being.

Indulgence can quench a longing only as long as the longing is not rooted in love. However, there is no longing devoid of love. Hence, no amount of indulgence ever brings complete fulfillment. All indulgence is ever tainted by a sense of dissatisfaction. Love is the only adequate and complete response to all longing.

Many are the ways in which we ignore life, as are the ways in which she seeks our embrace. Start doing more of what you keep telling yourself you will get to eventually. There is no coming back to where you are today. Life knocks. Open the doors.

It's hard to appreciate water without being familiar with thirst. 
It's difficult to accommodate people without having experienced alienation. 
It's easy to misunderstand silence without having known love.

All that we have is there for us to share. It's not ours to claim or to keep. Give abundantly, share generously, live magnanimously.

In understanding there is no forgiveness. Understanding is compassion; forgiving is judgmental. When we truly understand we cannot but accommodate, love.

Don't attempt to run away from the world or from yourself by going many places or doing endless things. Instead, wherever you are, however you are, abide in your Self. The Self is the only refuge, the only true home coming beyond all running, away from all escapes.

Today much of what is cheap for one carries a very high price tag for the many - the people, the animals, the planet. Be mindful of consuming processed foods, GMO, fancy packaging, slick marketing, farmed animals, plastics, overdosing on medicine, shortcuts to good health, and magical claims to instant gratification. We are not a point in an empty space but a link in an endless chain that relies on our integrity and intelligence to retain its strength.

Dear Universe, thank you for taking care of us. For the trials that make us strong, for the gifts that make life pleasant, and for the gratitude that makes everything beautiful heart emoticon

Life's a game of hide and seek. Sometimes we spend a lifetime seeking. At others, we hide in plain sight -waiting, hoping, praying - to be found.

Time rushing back as memory,
Memory gushing forward as time.
A moment no different from millennia,
Without memory, without time.