Brian Weiner

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise us to the divine.  LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN How devoted to your artistic expression are you? Do you expend your energy being perfunctory or exemplary? Are you committed to understanding…

I saved some people’s reputations by not telling my side of the story. It’s best to stay silent through the storms. Bad people usually destroy themselves in the process of trying to destroy you.  RICH WALTERS Is it always wise to speak up? It depends on the situation. Sometimes it…

When I was in my late teens and going through heartache, I read a greeting card at a car wash which said… “I don’t know what it’s like to be old, but I think it’s living long enough to look back at the things that were once breaking your heart…

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. DENIS WAITLEY Are you truly happy? How often do you feel like that? Happiness is transient, whether we wish for this to be true, or not.…

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. Can you imagine what life would be like without ever having heard one note of music? I wonder if you truly can. If music had never been thought of, our existence…

Judge me by the people I avoid. We are quick to judge one another by the company one keeps, but isn’t equally valid to consider judging them by the company that they avoid? In a world of perfection, we would be more wise not to judge anyone at all. But,…

All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction. BUDDHA As I selected this aphorism for my musing today, I could not help but wonder why something that is so apparently obvious, could not have been rooted out…

Forgiveness is a strange medicine. If you give it to others, it heals the wounds in your heart. Why is it that some of the most obvious aphorisms, explaining the most rudimentary philosophies, can be the most difficult to actually employ in real life? This one in particular, seems very…

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. KAHLIL GIBRAN Does it require suffering to emerge as one of the strongest of souls? Perhaps it does. I could fill my musing this morning with a giant laundry list to make a point,…

No one can know you the way that you do. Therefore, never put what others say about you above what you know to be true yourself. Every human being deserves the opportunity to develop a very healthy self image of themself. Given the opportunity to create such an image, everyone…