Brian Weiner

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. Why is it that something so apparently simple would be so intensely difficult to master? At face value, this aphorism appears self evident. If you want to get calm, you have to do so in your…

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. BUDDHA Why is it that when we see a video of incredible kindness or compassion on social media, we are transfixed to watch to the end? Over the years, I can think…

Democracy… while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. John Adams I love being a citizen of the United States. My family has been here…

Maybe I’m mistaken expecting you to fight Or maybe I’m just crazy, I don’t know wrong from right But while I am still living, I’ve just got this to say It’s always up to you if you want to be that Want to see that want to see that way…

Do what is right, not what is easy, nor what is popular. More often than not, this is a lesson that is learned under numerous circumstances, when we are children. It is most often taught to us by our parents, assuming our parents had an ethical and moral responsibility in…

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have, you’ll never have enough. OPRAH WINFREY I think my first exposure to Oprah Winfrey was in The Color Purple. She was breathtaking, heart-wrenchingly brilliant in that role. Later, at…

The meaning of life is not to be discovered  only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary,  it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life  and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can. PAUL…

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Can you state with certainty that you know whom you will evolve into? Or for that matter, what? Presumably, none of us can. Think way back to your earliest age response to…

Love is the outreach of self towards completion. RALPH W. SOCKMAN When we love someone or something, what exactly is happening? Can you define it? You might start by saying that you are feeling an intense feeling of deep affection towards someone or something. But that is not actually defining…

That’s what learning is, after all: not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. RICHARD BACH We’ve…