Intuitive Mind

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein

Rainbow

Find a rainbow and live your world of dreams always remember life is better than it seems.

Something

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Allan K. Chalmers

Happiness

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Others

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung

Nothing New

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
Marie Antoinette

Conditions for Creativity

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.
Erich Fromm

Challenged

Sometimes, familiarity and comfort need to be challenged.

Oragnizations

The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Tension

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
Carl Sagan

Castles

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

All My Life

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.
I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory.
I was naïve.
I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with:
that I am nobody but myself.

Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"

Look within...

Live

“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how.'”
Viktor Frankl

Discovery

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A.A. Milne

The One Thing.....

“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.”
Viktor Frankl

A Loving Relationship...

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself - to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
Leo F. Buscaglia

If Someone Loves You.....

If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, not only because they love you, but because they are teaching you to love and opening your heart and eyes to things you would have never seen or felt without them.

Life..

Happiness is...

Music...

Music warms the heart and soothes the soul.

Love all...

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare

Most Important

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.
Rod Steiger

Beginning

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson

Challenged

“When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Viktor Frankl

Yourself

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Andre Gide

Ideas

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
Edward de Bono

Write

If you wish to be a writer, write.
Epictetus

A Canvas

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
Henry David Thoreau

From the heart...

If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart; if they come from the tongue, they will not pass beyond the ears.
Sufi proverb

Impossible Things

I wonder?

One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else.

In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple do not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear.

Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.
Gay Hendricks

Originality

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter

SImplicity

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci

Mind

"It's not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
René Descartes

Creativity

The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?"
But it is "why in God's name isn't everyone creative?"
Where was the human potential lost?
How was it crippled?
I think therefore, a good question might be not "why do people create?" but "why do people not create or innovate?"
We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
Abraham Maslow

Life is Pretty Simple

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Leonardo da Vinci

Beware

Beware of the man whose belly does not move when he laughs.
Chinese Proverb

Change

"Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary."
Viktor Frankl from Man's Search for Meaning

Love is...

“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.”
Viktor Frankl