Fragrant scents of cherry blossoms and pink dogwood fill the air alongside the lake. Each of the flowering releases a gentle rain of perfumed petals to those of us in wonder, down below. Spring, in all her glory, dares the frosty air. Do we? Do we dare to shake off...

Look around you. Nothing surrounds you, which was not first imagined. Before the computer or phone came into your life, someone's creative imagination had to first fire up and move into action. Let's move to a more vital situation. Perhaps you are standing watch over a loved one in critical...

What flows through us, the invisible substance animating our very life, knows no limitation, no immoveable object, and no defeat. Ask the daffodil bulb in the cold of winter, greeting the early March sun. Despite harsh, stormy weather, she, in all her gold and green glory, comes again. Arising through...

What desire prompts the child to push that red construction paper Valentine into that little envelope this time of year? What hope lives in the heart of every youngster trotting off to school on Feb. 14? Could it be the same thing that rekindles yearning in the majority of Americans...

Now is our time, as in no other season, to cultivate affection for the heartfelt, natural dreams within us each. May we support one another to do so, as, what I call "friends of the work." While politicians do what politicians do, may we find our way, instead, into the...

It may not look like it, but this moment is the most powerful time to shift your story. This month, the planet celebrates a new beginning. Summing up the past, we're given the opportunity to witness who we really are beneath the charade, writing a fresh, preferred chapter. Perhaps I...

How do you celebrate the holidays in the wake of a national tragedy? How do you find life in the midst of carnage too horrible to imagine? While the governor of Connecticut suggested that his state would "get through" the killing spree, which took the lives of 20 small children...

There is no season that pulls our heartstrings home more poignantly than the one upon us. Memories of other holidays return when least expected, some good, some not so good. Maybe we celebrate the holiday, maybe we don't, but it is impossible not to feel that special something pregnant with...

Hear the call, "Runners, to your starting gates"? Shoppers are shopping, bells are ringing for donations, children are lining up to sit on Santa's lap to whisper into his ear. Ready or not, the holidays are on our heels. But what if all our best intentions end up leaving us...

The great mystic Meister Eckhart, has said: "If the only prayer you say in your entire life is 'Thank you,' that would suffice." But what if who and what you wish to thank is not here this holiday season? What if you are left to face some form of empty...

Look around you. Sooner or later, either you will find them, or they will "out" you. They are everywhere. It doesn't take Halloween to stir up our ghosts, particularly those ancestral creative spirits that have been with our people throughout time.

Some of you have met them in your...

Enough, already, with the excuses. I hear them every day, and suspect you've heard or said them yourself. They go like this: "I can't carry a tune." "I can't draw a straight line." "I've never been artistic, creative." "My brother/sister has the talent, not me." The problem is not that...

Welch poet David Whyte has written: "There's nowhere to go but home." This yearning to "go home" is universal. We search for that atmosphere in which we find welcome, belonging, connection, nourishment. We crave conditions that tell us we are seen, heard, held in positive regard. We want to know...

I AM, therefore I create. We create our own reality. Good, bad, beautiful, ugly -- we bring forward what we believe ourselves to be.

Those who believe they not artists might be interested to know that the artist does not create for the audience. As the great composer Aaron...

Why is it that some seem clear on their mission whereas most are not? How fortunate are those who seem to have known from the "get go" just what they were "purposed for," as the saying goes these days! Ever wish you were one of them?

The Swiss psychiatrist...

"Your security in life depends entirely on your recognition of your divine nature." -- Uell S. Andersen

Look around you. What uplifts your spirit? Wherein do you recognize a more beautiful nature within you, even if no one else on this earth understands? What helps you recognize your own greater...

"What we imagine, that we are." -- Neville Goddard

Creating what restores body, mind and soul defies "copycatting." But, when in the presence of what moves us, we know it. Suddenly all that was on our mind vanishes. Distraction comes to a halt. Stress flies out the window. We...

"There is only one real deprivation ... and that is not to be able to give one's gift to those ... one loves most..." -- May Sarton

We are here to create. But we cannot create from the soul of who we are unless we cultivate an awe and faith...

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take,
but by the moments that take your breath away." -- Author unknown

We are here to serve the purpose of a greater design, expressing spirit whole-heartedly. But how do we "get there" from where we are? How do...

The mind translates our experience as product of the good or bad, the beautiful or ugly, a transmission depending upon the GPS we choose. The fact is there is a secret power within us that is flawless (see archives, "What to Do While Searching for Your Soul's Misplaced GPS"). Connected...