Post Written By Eugene Morgan Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.— Buddha Sometimes we keep our pain because we want to keep the person or the event in our lives that caused the initial pain. Therefore, we can’t move forward in our lives. If the person(s) or the […]
Eugene Morgan
Eugene Morgan has been posting each day of the week (Monday through Friday) brief messages to encourage to inspire, to invoke, and to humor others to get through their week . He's been a blogger since 2009 and now an author.
Birth and Death
Post Written By Eugene Morgan I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. — T. S. Eliot Birth is access into this world while death is to exit this world. We live our lives between two unknowns birth and death. We have no memory of our birth and just like sleep we won’t […]
Heavy Burden To Carry
< Post Written By Eugene Morgan I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. — Jewish Proverb We do want to have a lighter burden but that’s not always possible if we want to make a difference in our progress. Instead of looking for a short cut why not grow into the […]
Work Supports Happiness
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness. — Galen It is through work that we value ourselves the most. Work increases our self-worth. When we don’t have self-worth, we drown in our self-doubt. Our value increases when others rely on the work we do. No matter how […]
What things Can We Discover About Ourselves?
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. — Frank Herbert It is through our struggles we have experienced new learnings and, discover something about ourselves along the way. We’ve discovered we can do some things better than other things. We’ve discovered what our strengths are as […]
It’s In The Struggles
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below. — Noam Chomsky Now we are at the speed at which our learnings have slowed down since we’ve been adults. We’ve experienced being stuck because we’ve become set in our ways but now we have […]
Where Do We Find A Way To Fulfill Our Desires?
Post Written By Eugene Morgan When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.— Paulo Coelho It is through our resources that we can fulfill our desires. We have a lifetime of experiences that we have accumulated over the years that no one can take away. These […]
What Can We Learn From Obstacle?
Post Written By Eugene Morgan If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.— Frank A. Clark We shouldn’t see obstacles as our nemesis but rather as a way to measure ourselves. Obstacles can tell us how we’re growing in our personal journey. We have all experienced obstacles in our own unique way. […]
Valuing Our Talents
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. — Malcolm S. Forbes We overvalue what we are not when our egos are inflated. We don’t want to settle for what we already have. Therefore, we don’t use our talents or appreciate our talents enough. Each […]
Water Your Grass
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Don’t water your weeds. — Proverb How come we do things that we know will be harmful to us emotionally, or we sometimes sabotage the very thing that will help us? This is what we called a self-filling prophecy. We say that negative things will happen to us, or we […]
Add Better Things
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future.” — Shiloh Morrison When we add better things to our future to correct the bad things in our past, we begin to see a trail of happiness. When the better […]
The Waves of Life
Post Written By Eugene Morgan You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Life is about learning. We learn about the world and how we react to the world. We learn about ourselves as we experience life each day. We learn how to deal with life difficulties through […]
On Becoming A Habit
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful. — Doug Henning It is easy to find us admiring another person’s talent in how he or she uses what seems to be without effort. We forget that it took that person time and dedication […]
The Joy Of Creating Joy
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.― Milton H. Erickson Milton Erickson is saying here in the above quote is that we have the power to create joy. Pain reminds us that we’re still alive and that we can feel. Pain is a mechanism […]
Big Dreams and Small Fears
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears.— Richard Wilkins Fears can interfere with our dreams. Our dreams become smaller when we spend so much energy in self-doubt. Dreams are really our hopes for what we wish to do […]
Start Crawling
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.” — Rumi In other words, what abilities we already have, use them. We don’t necessarily need to have new abilities for us to do something. However, we can’t do anything without our abilities. Thus, we need to use our abilities for us […]
Change The Eyes
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.— Nikos Kazantzakis Reality always presents itself to us daily. We can’t resist trying to change reality on how we see the world. If we accept reality as is, then we’re forced to use the inner resources that have […]
Sowing The Seeds Of Success
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.”— Paramahansa Yogananda In other words, we can always learn from our failures and to use that learning to help us to succeed. Failure is just an indicator that what we’re doing now to fail, will not work […]
Be The Master Of Ourselves
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “No man is free who is not master of himself”. — Epictetus It is not easy to master over ourselves, when we’re used to being trained to follow directions of our parents, teachers and now our boss. Every one of us has a rebellious streak where a part of us wants to […]
Prepare Today for Tomorrow’s Wants
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.” — Aesop Preparation is a form of planning for the future. While we still have our mobility, still have our faculties and our health, it is thrifty to prepare today so we don’t have to worry about tomorrow or our […]