ayurvedium

Most of us act as though we think the future is something that happens to us,
rather than something we create every day.

Many people explain their current activities in terms of where they have been rather than in terms of where they are going.

Because it is over, the past is unmanageable.

Because it has not happened, the future is manageable.

~Herbert Shepard~

I still don't know what I was waiting for and my time was running wild. A million dead-end streets and every time I thought I got it made, it seemed the taste was not so sweet. So I turned myself to face me but I never caught a glimpse of how others must see the faker----I was much too fast to take that test.

I...
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hey, it's a whole new week, so....

live with intention.
walk to the edge.
listen hard.
practice wellness.
play with abandon.
laugh.
choose with no regret.
continue to learn.
appreciate your friends.
do what you love.
live as if this is all there is.

--- mary anne radmacher

Hold me tight
Keep me cool
Going mad
Don't know what to do
Do I need a friend?
Well, I need one now

All the days of my life
All the days of my life
All the days I owe you

All I've done
I've done for me
All you gave
You gave for free
I gave nothing in return
And there's little left of...
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the piece i performed at l.a.'s m-bar last night:

Over the years Ive learned something about myself. Im want to share it with you this evening: Im a shopaholic. This is a tough admission for a guy, because lets face it: shopping is something that my wife does.

Shopping is gathering and guys dont do that.

We kill something and then we bring it home....
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if you want it
come and get it
for crying out loud

--d. gray

for jamie, who has been brought to her knees by her addiction:

Oh
Life
Is bigger
It's bigger than you
And than me
The lengths that we will go to
The distance in our eyes

Oh no
I've said too much
I haven't said enough

That's us in the corner
That's us in the spotlight
Losing our addictions
Trying to keep up with god
And...
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"Everyone has fears.

I have them and so do my wife and children.

Every leader, great or small, has had fears at some point in his or her life.

So, the question is not whether or not you have them but, rather, what do you do with them and what you let them do to you.

It is a question of, 'Who's in control?'

To...
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look
if you had
one shot
one opportunity
to seize everything you ever wanted
in one moment
would you capture it or just
let it slip?
yo

his palms are sweaty
knees weak
arms are heavy
there's vomit on his sweater already
mom's spaghetti
he's nervous
but on the surface he looks
calm and ready
to drop bombs
but he keeps on forgettin'
what he...
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help!

i think i have attention surplus disorder.

xxxooo

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

--John Ruskin


Be careful what you look for. You may not like what you find.

--Dr. Zaius

What is a saint?

A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence.

A saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the...
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