Post Written By Eugene Morgan We can only do our best and sometimes our best isn’t good enough. And that’s okay. We all have different levels of growth. No ones’ path is the same. Although we each have to trek through our journey alone, we can trek through our journey together alone. So we don’t have […]
Month: February 2015
Call It Wonder and Freedom
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Don’t call it uncertainty—call it wonder. Don’t call it insecurity—call it freedom.”— Osho When we call it uncertainty, our anxiety increases. However, if we call it wonder, our curiosity about things increase. When we call it insecurity, our doubts about ourselves increase. However, if we call it freedom, then our […]
Don’t Be Afraid To Live
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of a unlived life. You don’t have to live forever; you just have to live.”— Natalie Babbitt Sometimes we get afraid of death not so much because of the unknown but because of the unknown of living. Death is part of the natural order […]
Love is Love
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “The most important thing in this world is to learn to give out love and let it come in.”— Morrie Schwartz Love accepts self and then others. Love grabs our attention, especially our hearts. Love allows others in our hearts. Love welcomes. Love is blind. Love accepts those who are […]
Practice Stress or Practice Peace
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.”— Joan Borysenko The quote above is telling us that we have a choice in the matter when it comes to choosing stress or peace. We have control to decide how we deal with stress. When we don’t deal […]
The Risk Of Giving
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “In the longrun we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.”— Sheldon Kopp In other words, in anything we do, the more we put into something, the more we get something out of it. If we think it is worth time putting into something that we […]
Conquering The Self
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”— Sir Edmund Hillary This is a very powerful message for us to understand. It is not easy for us to stay focus on a goal. Distractions are inevitable when it comes to staying on track with our goals. There are some days […]
Self-Acceptance
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “What you think of yourself is much more important than what people think of you.”— Seneca Sometimes we keep ourselves from making progress, because we’re so preoccupied about how people may think of us. What’s interesting is that many of us think about what others think of us because we […]
Live In Harmony
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world.— Marcus Aurelius When we find ourselves in conflict with ourselves, then there is conflict with others and the world. It is all right to retreat and close our eyes to look inward to see what’s going on […]
A Community of People
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.”— Unknown When we highlight our moments, we usually recall the people who touched our lives the most. We have traces of people over the years have made an impression and we have made a […]
Freedom is The Will
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.”— Friedrich Nietzsche Freedom and responsibility go hand and hand. We can be free to do whatever we please as long as we don’t harm another. We must as a society agree on a set of rules to protect others and ourselves. […]
Experience Enlightens the Mind
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The best way to get an understanding about life or about anything, we must go through some sort of experience. Book learning is good but we can only go so far with it. We both need information from a book and information from our experiences. Experiences help us to widen our […]
From Doubt To Courage
Post Written By Eugene Morgan We all have experiences with doubt, but we also have experiences with courage. Doubt can plague our abilities to do what we desire and want. Having courage is our understanding that in spite of doubts we will do things anyway to fulfill a desire or a want. Doubts are in […]
Find Ways
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find ways to do it.”— Dr. David Schwartz The mind is only instructed to do by belief. If we believe that we can’t do something, then we will find ways to sabotage, however, if we know that we […]
It Is Time To Laugh
Post Written By Eugene Morgan It is time to laugh. It is time to laugh at ourselves. It is time to laugh with ourselves and with others. We forget to laugh, when we take life so seriously. Laughter is a release of an emotion. We feel so much better after a good laugh. We should […]
When It Is Time
Post Written By Eugene Morgan When it is time to rest, then let us rest. When it is time to work, then let us work. When it is time to eat, then let us enjoy eating with family. When it is time to meet up with others, then let us meet up. Everything has a […]
Meaning We Live By
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Meaning is not what you start with but what you end up with.”— Peter Elbow Meaning is accumulations of our past experiences. The meanings are the highlight of our experiences. We tend to reflect on the highlights because they bring us back to those moments in time. We have a […]
Troubles & Blessings
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.”— William Penn It is easy to discount the positive while we’re experiencing an unpleasant event in our lives. However, it is okay to look at both the positive and negative side of things. The […]
Plan an Outcome
Post Written By Eugene Morgan We all heard the saying it is better do than to think. This is generally true, however, if we don’t have a plan or direction, then just doing is not going to work either. In other words, if we don’t have a plan or direction on what we want to […]
The Future Remains
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Just remember, when you think all is lost, the future remains.”— Dr. Robert H. Goddard There is hope in our future, when we have lost everything today.Our tomorrows are our opportunities to make up for the lost. It is only a sad ending when we lose our hope in our […]