There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, Yes, I’ve got dreams, of course I’ve got dreams. Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they’re still there. Erma Louise Bombeck, 1927 – 1996
Forty years of research, work with thousands of people from all over the world and a lifelong experience of Selfgrowth and transformation have taught me that many people resist doing what would be good for them. This resistance has many reasons. There are three major reasons that I have come across 1. Christian values...
Marshall McLuhan reminds us of our responsibility for the earth that each one of us carries There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. Are you willing and able to take on this responsibility? I offer a range of support : Get one of the free courses on how to improve...
Every time I’ve done something that doesn’t feel right, it’s ended up not being right. Mario Cuomo
We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives … not looking for flaws, but for potential. – Ellen Goodman If you...
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. Eric Fromm May you live each day of this year full of conscious and vibrating joy, even in uncertain times With best wishes Ulla Sebastian
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda...
Here is a simple tip any gardener will tell you that you can try out next year. Try pulling on a plant. If it comes out easily, it’s a desirable plant. If it stubbornly resists with roots that cling deep into the bedrock, you know it’s a weed. So, too, it is with habits....
What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility. This is a genuine religious feeling and has nothing to do with mysticism. – Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
Erma Louise Bombeck, 1927 – 1996 reminds us of the polarity that we need to know the difference There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. And how do you know laughter if there is no pain to compare it with? The trouble is that many...
CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE MORNING By Pearl S. Buck He woke suddenly and completely. It was four o’clock, the hour at which his father had always called him to get up and help with the milking. Strange how the habits of his youth clung to him still! Fifty years ago, and his father had...
Somehow not only for Christmas But all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the joy that comes back to you. – Elwyn Brooks White, 1899 – 1985
Hannah More, 1745 – 1833 reminds us of the importance that each one of us has for the world One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor...
The following text is taken from the book: Growing through Joy. You can buy this book as a printed version (in Europe) or as an ebook overseas For many years, I was occupied with the question how we could shift the deep rooted Christian inheritance of guilt, sin and suffering into responsible and life-enhancing...
True love isn’t so much a dreamy feeling that you have as it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially - even, or perhaps especially, when you don’t feel like it. – William R. Mattox, Jr. This is a longer road than just being in love Use the free course on Creating healthy relationships...
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Berthold Auerbach, 1812 – 1882 We all are a piece of music. Let us enjoy the concert
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing. This insight of the Irish poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923 resonates with my life experience. For this reason, I wrote the book Growing...
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition aspired, and success achieved. Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller, 1880 – 1968 Who would know better than Helen...
Good Health or bad health is not just a question of destiny. Our thought forms play a vital role. As children, we get taught a lot of attitudes that later on influence our bodily and mental condition. Here are some cultural ‘favourites’ that you may have heard as a child Don’t be such a...
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world...