What's more crucial....

....than life itself? Nothing - absolutely nothing. If the angry people of this world ever finally understand this, they might grow less angry. And the confused people might grow less confused. Life is not meant to be thrown away for a cause any more than it is meant to be wasted in emptiness or greed. 

It is a gift. The most precious gift you will ever be given. Appreciate it. Don't seek 'Life Plus...' or demand 'Life Minus...' Love it for what it is, and the more you love life, the more life will love you.

When you are content to simply be yourself and don't compare or compete, 

everybody will respect you.

Thank you....

We all have ideas about....

....how other people ought to act and/or think (and some even think they have a right to verbalise those ideas). In much the same way as we sometimes launch into a great explanation of where the government is going wrong or what the authorities are failing to organise properly, we can find fault with friends and colleagues too. Or at least we can, until we stop and remember that we ourselves don't get everything right all the time. 

You can help to create a much more constructive climate by making a gentle allowance for the extenuating circumstances which often lurk beneath the surface.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, 

it will not change you. (Wayne Dyer)

A meaningful life....

Change - I know some who are....

.....close to being scared of it.  In truth, we are all comfortable when we are in our element. We all grow edgy - some a lot more than others -  when we feel that we are out of our depth. We cannot remain in our comfort zone forever. Life has a way of challenging us to master new skills and acquire additional abilities. So we must expand our comfort zone to the point where we feel comfortable about our own ability to broaden experience and pass fresh tests. 

If you feel that you are required to cope with something difficult, look for a way in which you might be able to make this easy.

The real voyage is not in seeking new landscapes but in seeing with new eyes and 

through the eyes of others.  (Marcel Proust)

The voice of caution....

....takes many tones. It can whisper conspiratorially when it suspects that this will get it the best result - or it can effectively stamp up and down, yelling through a megaphone that it has placed right up against our ear. It doesn't much care how it creates concern, as long as it gets results. There is always a reason not to do something and there may be one or two things that you have genuine reason to be wary of. 

But it could be that quite often the thing you should treat with greatest caution... is caution!

Don't give up what you want most, for what you want now. (Zig Ziglar)

To thine own self be true....

....Such phrases once passed for wisdom. These days, they raise eyebrows. It all sounds very good - 'be true to yourself' - but that assumes that you know yourself well enough to know which aspect of your personality you actually need to be true to. What if conflicting impulses pull you in two directions at once? Which bit of you are you going to be true to then? 

Being true to yourself today may involve acknowledging that you are a more complex character than you might wish you were!

Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life 

that don't really matter.