Love has no agenda …

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When we really want a relationship–or anything else–we have to risk falling down. Most of us have attached some stigma to the fall, especially when somebody is watching. But we can’t learn to walk, or dance, or fly without “falling down.” We can’t learn to get up without falling down. And we need to know how to get up! Because no matter how hard we try to avoid it, we will take a fall. We can learn to do it well, with grace and honesty.

When we let go of the notion that we should be able to pull off the happily-ever-after without some rough landings, we’re free to walk, leap, run, and fly. We’re free to be who we are! Somebody else can tune into us! And that IS the fairytale … two people who truly know each other, who aren’t denying the pitfalls, but rather learning to navigate through them! Two people who face each other and life with open eyes, whether they just landed in the dirt or they’re soaring through blue skies.

If you want happily-ever-after skies, learn to hit the dirt and brush it off, without letting it define you. Learn to get up! Way up!… More

The global peace we want starts in our own minds, our own hearts, our own hands, our own homes, our own streets. And the only prerequisite is opening to individual value, ours and that of every other human being. That means opening to their perspective and views. We can’t reach peace with others by arbitrarily deciding how they should think.

A closed mind is a scared one. An anxious mind is a scared one. And fear can’t birth peace. Love can. Because love is fearless. It is peace. … More

As you put words and pictures to your story, you see it more clearly. You remember what drove your choices. You feel the pain and the joy; and you understand what triggered them.

You free yourself to direct the story with deeper insight and trust. You know it’s an ongoing story that only gets happier. … More

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Every interaction with another human being is a chance to connect or disconnect. We will do one or the other.

To connect, we must be willing to serve humanity rather than ego, love rather than fear.

When we have done that, we will know peace. And this is true even if it means walking away from somebody. True connection is not with somebody else’s ego. It is with love. … More