Brian Weiner

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…

Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it’s about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves. ELVIS DURAN Halloween is the day when we get it right. Strangers come to us, beautiful, ugly, odd or scary, and we accept them all without question, compliment them, treat them…

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races, one after another.  WALTER ELLIOTT Do you have what it takes to hang in there for the long haul? Life is distorted through whatever filters we opt to view it through. In one perspective, we are able to view…

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, And smarter than you think. A.A. Milne Around the time I was the perfect age, I discovered “When We Were Very Young” and “Now We Are Six,” by A.A. Milne on my parent’s book shelves.  I…

Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. INDIAN PROVERB In a world resplendent with countless distractions across myriad topics, it is quite easy for one to get lost or trapped by far too many choices.  Like the proverbial kid in a candy store, we…

It takes effort to have the faith to start, but having the faith to stay is even harder. Garnering the impetus to start anything is a unique quality.  It is considerably easier to dream and then procrastinate, than to dream and actually manifest.  Once we forego the opportunity to put…