Intuition is soul guidance, appearing naturally in man during those instants when his mind is calm. Parmahansa Yogananda (1893-1952) Indian Hindu Monk, teacher of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship. Author of Autobiography of a Yogi.  “This inspires me quite a bit because it’s the essence of yoga which…

There are three rules for writing a novel, unfortunately, no one knows what they are. Somerset Maughan (1874-1965) English playwright and novelist   “This quote inspires me to remember that novels are not written as a paint by number series and that no one can really tell you how to…

A friend is someone who knows your song and sings it to you when you have forgotten it. Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken;…

In made up stories, you get a through line, straight or curved or squiggly. It connects foreshadowing to ending. To paraphrase Anton Chekov efficient storytelling requires that if you put a gun on stage in Act One of a play, it must go off in Act Two. But real life…

When people’s dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart. Mencius (372 BC-289 BC)…

Make good by standing place.                             Cathy Wild’s father     “When I was a child my father said to me, “Make good by standing place.” This idea came from Archimedes who was a Greek mathematician and a leading scientist in the classical age. He said, “Give me…

Our innate capacity for empathy is the source of the most precious of all human qualities. His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama   Orloff says, “In the depth and intricacies of being human the complexity of empathy is at the center. It’s the alpha; it’s the beginning; it inspires me…

Larry Brilliant, M.D. reminds us of something that Mahatma Gandhi said during the fight for freedom for India. He had many complicated decisions to make and many people would come to him and ask, “Mahatma, how do I know what the right thing to do? Gandhi would say, “Everybody wants…

“We need a forum where women and men of all sexual orientations can come together and speak their truth around the issues of gender and sexuality and intimacy. We need to consciously bring in spirit, spirit understood as the transcendent or universal dimension of the consciousness of humanity, which is…

When we walk on the shamanic path of direct revelation we are to love all that we see with humility, live all that we feel with reverence, and know all that we possess with discipline. This reveals that this is a path with heart, a path that reflects our honor. …