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Continue reading →: There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are responsible for our own life. If you’re holding anyone else accountable for your happiness, you’re wasting your time. You must be fearless enough to give yourself the love you didn’t receive.Wouldn’t it be so much easier if we could lay all of our problems at the feet of another and expect that they would rectify all of the wrongs, and make everything right and whole again? Sadly, not only is this fantasy, but it is a bad fantasy at that.…
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Continue reading →: If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.Have you ever tried starting off your day with a moment of gratitude? Of course, here on Thanksgiving, we are all sharing and expressing gratitude in abundance, so it feels omnipresent. But what about the other 364 days of the year? Many of the self help gurus share that gratitude…
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Continue reading →: There is a message in the way a person treats you. Just listen…Over the course of a lifetime, we are treated in countless ways by countless numbers of people. We experience the full range of experiences through a spectrum of encounters, relationships, opportunities and circumstances. One thing seems to remain a constant. If you look past anything that is being said, and…
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Continue reading →: Somewhere, somehow somebody Must have kicked you around someSomewhere, somehow somebody Must have kicked you around some Tell me why you want to lay there Revel in your abandon Honey, it don’t make no difference to me baby Everybody’s had to fight to be free You see you don’t have to live like a refugee (don’t have to…
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Continue reading →: Being kind is more important than being right. What people often need is not a brilliant mind that speaks, but a caring heart that listens.It surprises me that learning how to listen is an acquired skill. If we were to look at life, we start off listening in order that we might learn how to speak. So it is most certainly the first of the skills to take root, in partnership with sight, touch,…
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Continue reading →: What if our religion was each other? If our practice was our life. If prayer, our words. What if the temple was the Earth? If forests were our church. The holy water – the rivers, lakes, and oceans. What if meditation was our relationships? If the teacher was life. If wisdom was self knowledge. If love was the center of our being?You might say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will live as one.
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Continue reading →: More difficult is really to decide… how committed are you to really do something about your life?More difficult is really to decide… how committed are you to really do something about your life? It’s not knowledge which is the problem, it’s not inspiration, which is the problem. The problem is… after you have all this inspiration, how are you going to transform it? How are you…
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Continue reading →: If you focus on the hurt, you will continue to suffer. If you focus on the lesson, you will continue to grow.If you focus on the hurt, you will continue to suffer. If you focus on the lesson, you will continue to grow. Going through life with the expectation of never getting hurt is wholly unrealistic, and, when practiced, is most certainly destined to failure. Hurt comes from so many directions…
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Continue reading →: Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.What is a visionary? At first blush, the title strikes me as lofty and full of oneself. I have resisted seeing myself as such because it felt pompous and self gratuitous. I noticed that I was continually gravitating to biographies of visionaries, without consciously making such a decision. From da…
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Continue reading →: We know what we are, but know not what we may be.Everyone has dreams. Aspirations. Desires. We expect that some or all of them will come to fruition and we march diligently into the future with expectations of such. Those dreams catapult us into many scenarios which we might never have anticipated. They infuse us with a specific energy that enables…
Hello,
I’m Brian
I believe it is truly possible to change the world, one thought at a time. If anything I have written connects with you, please share it with others. My goal in creating this is to help others with ideas that are thought-provoking, stimulating and cathartic.
Brian Weiner 