Cuando vas a dejar de pelear para comenzar a vivir porque no puedes hacer las dos cosas a la vez.
~ Facundo Cabral
Imitate the trees…
I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep….Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.
~ May Sarton
Lunar Letter / Another Day, Another Dollar
The thoughts permeating our being throughout the day drive our destiny. The phrase, “Another day, another dollar and we holler,” indicates we are working hard to earn a small amount of money. In the streets and hallways of offices throughout the world this, and similar phrases, are uttered thousands of times per day as people ask, “How was your day?” Though, “Another day, another dollar and we holler,” sounds nice and rhymes wonderfully, the subliminal message it sends is devastating.
“Hollering” in joy or in pain each time we make another dollar isn’t particularly inspiring unless we happen to be a professional yodeler. While earning a living is not always easy, neither should it be so difficult. Millions of people survive daily. They are involved in a wide array of different economic activities and few die as a direct result. It is true and unfortunate many do die of hunger; they, however, are not normally the people who are working and “hollering” as they make another dollar.
Working all day for a dollar or for one unit of any currency in the world isn’t very encouraging! If we are going to work hard all day long, we should be better paid.
“It’s just a saying,” you may be thinking. While it is just a saying, as with so many other “small” things in life, in the long run these thoughts have a huge impact on our destiny. A dripping faucet doesn’t cause much damage in a matter of minutes; over the course of an entire day, it can flood a house and be extremely destructive.
Similarly, the words we use and think about daily create our reality. Deciding to face a “challenge” is much different from suffering through a “problem.” Giving something “our best shot” is not the same as “trying” to do a good job. 
Saying our spouse is a wonderful person “but” has many problems isn’t even close to saying our spouse is a wonderful person “and” can improve every day in every way.
A Chinese proverb tells us, “Words are the keys to the heart.” It is the small things we say and do in life which make a tremendous difference leading us to all our heart desires. Our path is frequently the result of incidents which at the time seem relatively insignificant. When we feed our mind with powerful words creating the world we want, we achieve what others only dream about.
∞ Rob McBride ∞
LL II 12
Our lives are shaped…
Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us.
~ Karl Menninger
Flow with what we know…
Happiness depends on how we flow with what we already know and not how we long for what is not.
~ Rob
A man’s greatest battles…
A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
Ben Okri Flowers & Shadows Longman Drumbeat
Be who you really are…
Other people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things or more money, in order to do more of wha they want, so they will be happier. the way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
~ Margaret Mead
The future…
I’ve seen the future and it is very much like the present–only longer.
~ Dan Quisenberry