PoiPriestess

One of my favorite quotes of all time. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? [...]

“If Barack Obama and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi took three buckets of water out of a lake, ran to the other side of the lake, and poured those three buckets into the lake, do you really believe there’s more water in the lake? That’s their spending plan: Take money out of the productive economy, [...]

Most human accomplishment is not the result of decisive actions or moments of truth. No, persistence — even, simple-minded persistence — is the source of the best of what we do, of real change.~ Paul Chadwick ~

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.- Rumi

I liked this. Speaks to the journey over the destination. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you becomeby achieving your goals.~ Zig Zigler ~

The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what is happening outside.~ Dag Hammarskjöld ~

We all can work ourselves into a hysterical panic over possibilities that we won’t look at. What if I have cancer? What if my job is at risk? What if my kids are on drugs? What if I’m getting bald? What if I am faced with some terrible thing that I don’t know how to [...]

I’d like to share a little about Wisdom, as I understand it just now. Perhaps it will give you joy in some way — I imagine especially those who have done Arete. I have for years considered doing Arete. First, because of a completion party I was at (also my first professionally paid fire dancing [...]

I got this in my email back in August, 2006. Love it so much. “There are 4 things you cannot recover: The stone after the throw; The word after it’s said;  The occasion after the loss; The time after it’s gone.”

“Try everything twice — the first time might have been a fluke” – Mom

The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is….Nothing should be able to harm a man but himself….What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.~ Oscar Wilde ~

By the time the average person finishes college he or she will have taken over 2,600 tests, quizzes and exams. The ‘right answer’ approach becomes deeply ingrained in our thinking. Life is ambiguous; there are many right answers-all depending on what you are looking for. But if you think there is only one right answer, [...]