Snips

You've got to take life by the cojones and let it sweep you up in its extravagance. There's generally too much "me" - too much ego - trying to take life and chew it up. Relax and let life smother you. Life will consume you if you let it. You're the ring on the carousel and life is coming around to grab you. Don't shy away. When life comes around to grab you, throw yourself out there. Just the colors in a room and people's faces, which are all treasure houses of impressions, can elevate you to states of mystic clarity. Watch even the nastiest person carefully enough, once or twice a week, and you'll have to be moved to compassion and tenderness.
Lee Lozowick

All the things in our lives, all the complicated structures we spent so much time and energy creating, are built on sand. Only our relationships to other people endure. Sooner or later, the wave will come along and knock down what we have worked so hard to build up. When that happens, only the person who has somebody's hand to hold will be able to laugh.
Rabbi Harold Kushner


We are not victims. We are not helpless.
Teachers may come our way, but they will not rescue. They will teach.
People who care will come, but they will not rescue. They will care.
Help will come, but help is not rescuing. We are our own rescuers.
Melody Beattie ©