How is it that....

....colour television ever caught on?  After all, most people seem resolutely determined to view the world in black and white. They want clear-cut, simple, unambiguous answers to even the most complex questions. They yearn for rights and wrongs that they can easily relate and react to. It is a very natural human thing to seek certainty but it is often, too, a dangerous and divisive quest.

If something now is unclear, that is most likely because it is multi-faceted. Seek a deeper understanding, not a swifter resolution.

If you fail to respect your dreams and goals, those around you will do the same.

You have to at least aim for it....

It's one thing....

....to drift with the tide because you are happy to leave your fate to the twin protectors of serendipity and synchronicity. It's another to be passive because you dare not make a decision. In your heart you most likely know what you want. Are you loath to admit it?  Do you feel as if you dare not reach for a dream; or that you do not deserve to have a wish fulfilled?

Your boat has a rudder, an engine and a compass. You are not obliged to use any of these, but remember, you are entirely entitled to employ all three!

  

              

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Two horses run....

....neck and neck to a photo finish where one is seen to have beaten the other by a nose. Is that really the way of the world? We can have only one winner? Actually, such a belief system is for losers! Real winners, surely, would have come up, long ago, with a more refined, sensitive and intelligent way of evaluating success or failure. Isn't the competitive culture terribly Neanderthal? 

Don't go the way of the dinosaurs.  Uphold a value system based on something smarter than silly numbers.

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.    (Hazrat Inayat Khan)

Mother Teresa's words....

....'Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing'. 

She wasn't interested in complicated arguments and debates. All she ever wanted to do was help make the world a lighter, brighter, happier place. She understood the power and importance of a gentle gesture.

So can we.

Look back and smile on perils past.   (Walter Scott)

I suppose we could....

....argue that the world divides up into two types of people. Some would call them the pots... and the kettles! Or, if you prefer, the hypocritical and the inconsistent. We are all as bad as each other. We all look suitably horrified and outraged when we discover other people's glaring contradictions. And we all manage to turn a convenient blind eye to our own, equally bad, double standards.

The grass may be always greener on the other side of the fence, but the snow always tends to be whiter on our own side of it.

Don't expect to enjoy the cream of life if you keep your milk of human kindness 

all bottled up.

People talk about....

....'being in control'. That's a strange notion. Very few of us are in control of very much, least of all ourselves! We can't entirely control our own appetites, let alone our thoughts and feelings. If we can't manage that, how can we ever be expected to make anything in the wider world behave according to our wishes?

What are our wishes anyway? What do you want? Are you entirely in agreement with yourself, at the moment? Deal with that first; the rest will come.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on

 creating oneself endlessly.  (Henri Bergson)