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Sometimes you need to relax into your struggles rather than resist them. Change often follows.

What keeps us from reaching our potential? I would say there are three types of gravity pulling us away from our dreams and accomplishments.

Almost every person I know is busy. Often too busy. On a treadmill with no off button.out of control. And then it bleeds into the other areas of your life.

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

Have you ever come across a deer in the forest? A deer knows it’s a deer. It has no inner conflict about its past, its purpose, its needs, or its destiny. It lives in the moment.

We meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it.

Adopting a present moment mindset will allow you to live your life to the fullest.

Doesn't it all come down to this in the end?

Set the stage for your own transformation and create the success and happiness you deserve.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.

What Does Your Rock Bottom Look Like?

When we persevere in our lives with the help of a gentle discipline, we slowly come to hear the still, small voice and to feel the delicate breeze of a dream, and so to come to know the presence of our life's intentions, and this is a moment when people say - ah yes…I understand now. It is the roadmap to your own heart.

What a magical moment when you wake up to where it is you are really heading, and you have the map and the compass to go with it.

Remember... where people turn back or give up on a dream is the birth place of regret.

If you really want to change in any fundamental way, discovering your life's intentions is a critical component because it keeps you moving forward when you get into the tight spots, the narrow cracks where we all get stuck.

Sometimes it's like being in quicksand, we flail around, often for years but we just get deeper into our "stuckness" and dysfunction, because it's the wrong strategy.

You don't always need to TRY HARDER, sometimes the best strategy is to take a step back, take a breath and figure out some fundamentals again.

Mindfulness is a way of entering into a relationship with the moment you are in without numbing yourself.

It's an invitation to identify with what is timeless.

It is a choice to live in a simple way without make believe and covering up the moment with concepts of how it should be.

It's waking, working, walking, breathing, bleeding, going to the bathroom, succeeding, failing, being heartbroken, falling in love, gain and loss.

It’s all of it.

Being mindful doesn’t mean that everything is “ perfect.” It means that you have decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

The search: In pursuit of knowledge every day something is added. In the practice of wisdom, every day something is dropped. he initial stage of dissatisfaction

This stage represents the man or woman who still doesn't know their true nature, but one way or another, has started the search. They wish to find it, though they are not even sure what it is, or how to recognize it when it does appear. Sometimes the search is used as an escape from present circumstances that are not pleasant or ideal. Life may be a heavy load and so the seeker asks the most basic question - surely, there must be a better way of living. Most of those that have started the "search" are at this stage.

An master carpenter was ready to retire. He told his boss of his plans to leave the house-building business to live a leisurely life with his wife.

His boss was sorry to see him go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but put no effort into it, and used cheap materials, and did not take good care as he built it. The house was poorly built.

When the master carpenter finished, his boss came to inspect the house. Then he handed the front-door key to the carpenter and said, “This is your house… my gift to you.”

When we honestly ask which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares about us in a deep way.