Brian Weiner

Discussions are always better than arguments because an argument is to determine who is right, whereas a discussion is to determine what is right. Don’t argue with me about this one, because you know I am right!  Or am I? Clearly, a huge component of what is fracturing our democracy…

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? ROBERT H. SCHULLER Try an exercise, just for the fun of it. You may either confine your options to those within the laws of known reality, or if you prefer, you may put zero limitations on your…

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world. JERRY SALTZ As a young lad, Leonardo da Vinci was denied any formal education. He was a bastard, born out of wedlock, and, as a result, was denied access to…

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others, you need to accept yourself. Many of us have encountered moments in which we do not feel that we fit in to a particular group or experience. This generates an innate sense of alienation that…

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise. ANAIS NIN Is it always wise and prudent to be reasonable? It depends on your tolerance for many things, including risk, stress, uncertainty,…

Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it. Have you ever had a very significant change of perspective and felt as if the world had awakened to your thoughts? What if that is exactly what had happened? We generally become fixated on our way of…

It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love. JOHN LENNON Love is an emotion that carries across a majority of the world of living things… Animal, bird, aquatic, reptilian, vegetation. It is truly…

Listen to the silence, it has so much to say. RUMI How does one get to silence? You must start by expounding upon the obvious answer of going somewhere that is silent, as you are going to get there, and find that your mind is racing. For me, the silence…

Never regret being a good person to the wrong people. Your behavior says everything about you, and their behavior says enough about them. Have you ever walked away feeling like “no kind deed goes unpunished?” It is that feeling that results from having gone out of your way to do…

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. CLAUDE MONET I have loved this quote from the moment I read it, decades ago. I wish it were more well known. I remember taking a fine art…