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Dream Log

- I dreamt we lived way out in the boonies in a raised above the dirt by 1ft house, dirt roads, Mark was an aborigine who came home to tell me he didn’t get the job at Google. In the dream I was looking around and in my head thinking with dismay about the aborigine and the dirt roads and the dirty home, “This isn’t my life”.

- dreamt that I got out of bed 7:10a, got dressed, and came out of my bdrm to sit at a receptionist’s desk, in the dream thinking it was good I got up early and dressed because I didn’t know I was supposed to be at work. Then Mark arrived, and we retreated to the bedroom right near the desk area, the bdrm had glass walls, he got out of his clothes and was wearing only underwear, and he was helping with a phone call to a business boss who was telling me to have some kind of food brought in regularly for a meeting, and people showed up at the receptionist desk, but I’m stuck on the phone in the bedroom, and Mark’s not catching on to get dressed and go greet those people at the desk.

- I dreamt that I was in a bigger room at a dept store and in came about 20 models. They had major futuristic plastic surgery that hadn’t healed, and some of them had taken a rubber band and scrunched their faces with it as a beauty regimen, and they were all there talking about some celebration. I was confused what was going on. A co-worker sitting next to me wouldn’t stop whispering disparaging remarks in my ear, she was irritating me and I was trying to ignore her. Behind me was seated a few older women and I finally asked them what was going on and they explained the models were all sharing Purim with us. They brought out big and many platefuls of raw fish. (in real life I don’t know what the celebration of Purim is other than it is Jewish, and don’t know if that’s how it is celebrated).

- bad sinus infection. major meds w/side effect of 2 hrs sleep in 2 days. Finally fell asleep today. Dreamt my twin's family lived in England, and I was on the phone giving her news. I can't remember what the 2 pieces of news were, and she got off the phone briefly while I commiserated a little on telling her the bad news. I hesitated as she got back on the phone, "Carol, I have some bad news." She said Mom's dead, isn't she. I said, "No, but she has cancer and she's dying."

- I keep dreaming about my kids as little kids, and I'm chasing after them, and trying to protect and rescue them from danger. I'm tossing and turning.

- From a best friend online, "I dreamt about both of you last night. lol I'll write as much of it as I can remember. Margaret posted she was going to have a party (another one. lol) and was asking about Lay's potato chips. She said she wanted to get hold of some but said they did not sell them out there. So, I boxed up a bag and mailed it...to the email list. I realized that mailing it to the email list was probably a stupid thing to do. Not because you can't email potato chips but because I never made clear who they were supposed to go to. lol So, I decided to go out West to make sure they got to her. I ended up in California. I found Cheryl's house. Den and I were walking along this alley and Cheryl and Mark were outside in the back yard of their place. They had music playing and they were dancing around, all carefree. I told Den 'There's Cheryl'. For whatever reason, Cheryl climbed onto a garage roof and Mark followed. Cheryl kept dancing on the roof, almost like a ballerina. There was a long plank connecting their garage to a neighbor's garage. Cheryl was dancing on this plank and I started telling Den that she was going to fall because it was a very narrow plank. Mark by then was gone (no idea where). Den said not to worry, she wouldn't get hurt if she fell. He said she wasn't that high off the ground, she'd be fine. AbBout then, Cheryl kneeled down on the plank and jumped off. And, yes, she was fine. I kept thinking to myself during the entire dream 'Why didn't Margaret get some other potato chips than Lay's?' OKay...make any sense? No? I have no clue either."

- I'm at a concert sitting in the back row. My sister Pat is to the left of me. She's feeling a little awkward since we haven't spent much time with each other in years. My neice Cheryl Lee is to my right. My twin Carol is to the right of my neice. I adjust my legs, and in the process cut my big toe on the seat in front of me. I remove my shoe to examine what I thought was a superficial cut. As I touch my toe, my toe comes off, and I'm holding it between two finger, seeing blood, tendons, blood, blood vessels on my foot and the toe, I turn to Pat. She's stunned, and doesn't know what to do. I turn to Cheryl, same thing. I turn to Carol knowing she can spring into action. I show her my toe, "Carol, call 911! I need to go to the hospital!" For a split second she's stunned, but I count on her to take charge. I woke up. ***interpretation***We need these to give balance as we stand, and in dreams we are looking at where we stand in our life, in relation to others, our home and finances etc. The big toe is of most significance as this is the largest and is therefore telling us we need to create more balance in our life. Are you working too hard or playing too hard? Are there some areas that you are over focussed on while neglecting other things or people who are important to you. It is a good time to make changes that will set a new pace for the future. Imbalances need to be adjusted or corrected to bring in a more harmonious blend of the different aspects of your life. ***my response***Moving this week into condo, contemplating often about finally having better balance in my life.

- Mark and I moved to a scientific community, where he had a job. He'd gone ahead of me on their ship (like a pirate ship), and I stepped on the ship as a wave caused it to lean parallel, a wave of water washed me into the ship, and I reached out to a man holding a pole. Turned out he was a very drunk scientist who didn't even realize he was helping me. The scientists were from Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and other labs. We got off the ship, I'm walking up the walkway, stop to say hi and make a few more scientist friends, and as I'm walking away they're all agog. Mark and I live in a house on the compound, our yard surrounded by chain link fence, and unbeknowst to us the scientists are using binoculars to watch our every move.

- I just remember it was a broadway musical about my twin's life, couldn't hear the music or the words, but realized upon waking it would have been an extremely clever musical if I could remember and write it down.

- My twin had terrible burns and scars on both cheeks and she was not aware of them. In the dream I'm puzzled and carefully ask her, "What do you see when you look at your cheeks?"

- Wandering a high school, finally jump in a pickup truck with family, me driving turns into my mother driving when she was about 40years old, in the dream she falls out of the pickup, onto the highway, and I turn to watch her bounce and her head run over by a car. She's repeatedly screaming, "Let me out!" as her face and body turn into an old woman. I'm screaming "Let me out" of the pickup truck, but the door won't open.

- We're at Hotel Coronado in San Diego with John and other family, with the intention of beginning to plan his wedding. I'm aware that Marlene and Ron are there planning their renewal of vows. I'm planning to contact them. I'm walking around the grounds, and see Marlene walking up a hill. We look at each other, then slowly and deliberately walk toward each other and give each other a long hug. She leads me to Ron who's in a meeting room at a table planning their renewal of vows, but they also have legal issues to resolve in a meeting with their attorneys that's beginning. The attorney looks at me with concern and I assure him that I'm leaving and I don't need to know what's going on. I ask Ron and Marlene if they want to meet us for breakfast the next morning when John and us are meeting to plan his wedding. They say yes, and I leave.

- Marygrace was about 8yo, she and I were waiting in line at a McDonald's. We notice George Clooney is sitting by a window at table, facing the line. I shyly look and acknowledge him, tell Mary who doesn't quite understand who he is, and toy back and forth with looking and saying hi. Meanwhile behind us 3 other B stars do a dance routine. The people in McDonald's don't realize they're stars from old tv. They aren't "old". Altho the one tv star is the star from Mr Ed, in the dream I keep thinking he's Bill Bixby. I finally go over with Mary to say hello and thank him for the tv show.

- Therrin brought Haley 2 our home. She was about 3. I was seated. Therrin was standing holding Haley talking to Mark and I. Therrin wanted me to hold Haley before she left and put her in my lap. Then Therrin walked upstairs chatting with Angela. They both had had heart surgery, had scars in their chest, and were chuckling about "can u believe how far we've come" imo heart surgery is about broken and healed hearts.

- I'm in the waiting room for all jurors. I'm not thrilled about being called to jury duty. I'm hunched down on a couch beside a man who conspiratorily leans over to whisper that Disney had released their new movie, the judge was a fan, and thus wasn't in, so we weren't going to have to be serving on a jury today. I was happy.

- Cruise entertainer Kris Collins, George Harrison, and another character actor I recognize but don't remember his name were all at a movie shoot that I was hired as a lowly worker at. I was showing up daily for the movie shoot. There were lots of actresses, actors, and shenanigans going on. I found an opportunity to tell George that Mark and I enjoyed his reality show (the dance show) and he was gracious, but the assistant beside him told me the actors aren't allowed to talk to us because there might be "memoirs" written about the movie. The old woman from Northern Exposure was an assistant and a growing friend with me. One day she sat beside me to ask, "Are you going to be sitting beside the computer?" I was puzzled and asked why she asked. She said because she was going to be doing something fun (in otherwords not working) and she didn't want to be concerned about who was sitting beside her. I lol and said no, I wouldn't be sitting by the computer. She was tickled. Then the character actor drove up in a very beat up van, threw me his keys and mumbled something to me. I chuckled, and got up to give the keys to someone he should have given the keys to. All around me actors were practicing physical prowess scenes (no, not sex) and I was thinking to myself about all they had to learn and practice, and how hard it is to be an actor.

- I'm at a friendly gathering of churchgoers after a talent show. We're sitting around talking. (My high school spanish teacher from Cuba in real life) is a member who's 8yo daughter (in real life I never knew her family) was recently in Mexico for a talent show, but things went awry. So she announces at the friendly gathering that her daughter's decked out to come out and perform as what should have happened in Mexico, and I pull out my camera happy for them.

- John & Tanya are parents of my twin and I who are about 13yo. We're sitting at a restaurant table outside. We suddenly notice a weed growing out of the top of my foot, the weed about 8" high, with a bud on top. We're looking at it in wonder.

- Years ago I had a dream I never forgot, that felt like one of those extremely significant past life dreams (the only one I've had). I was a pioneer woman feeling extremely sad, lonely, abandoned, watching my husband leave me riding his horse slowly, he was dressed like a poor pioneer cowboy, and he wasn't coming back. In the dream I sensed it was a past life with my current ex.

- Mark and I were working at our own desks in a company with a large number of desks. Something was spilled on the floor, and he decided to clean it up, tossing water out of a bucket that got my skirt wet. I yelped. He apologized and continued washing. My twin worked in a different dept but was in our room talking to the travel guy cuz she and 2 co-workers had to do some travel. When my skirt got wet, I moved from my desk, and during that time someone started doing their own work on my desk. I watched him for awhile pondering when to get back to my own work. He was taking too long using my desk, so I finally walked over, bent over, looked into his face cutting off his conversations with 2 other co-workers and said this is my desk, you have to leave. At first they tried to continue their conversations, but I calmly assertively stayed bent over and looking in his face, repeating that he needed to move. He reluctantly did. However as he was moving, now I realized it wasn't my desk at all, I was mistaken. I felt a little aghast but kept quiet as he continued to gather his stuff and move. I said thank you and patted him on the shoulder and he said you're welcome. Then my great dane was visiting at work, and Mark had drenched another co-worker with water. That co-worker and I were taking a break with my dog, when another dog romped over, and smelled my dog, and left.

- *moan* one of those nights awake asleep all night, with dream conversations going on constantly. The only one I remember was family of origin and friends are outside a mall restaurant about to go inside for a big party. I see a car drive by with my neice Sharon driving. I wave at her enthusiastically surprised to see her and a little pleased that she chose to come. She drives right by looking at me a little nervously. My heart sinks slightly that she's leaving and I'm puzzling if she's coming back. My sister Pat comes out of the restaurant happy and buoyant, responsible for most of the planning of the party, and I tell her a little happily that I saw Sharon. Pat kind of shrugs her shoulders and says it would be nice if she came, then excitedly talks about she's running to get the ice cream for the party.

- I was in my childhood family room, as an adult, there was a gathering of people. It turned out a few of the people were the actors for Ren & Stimpy (I don't watch the cartoon and only recognize the name). There is a mild sexual attractioni between the Stimpy actor and I. I have an interest in acting too. I accompany him to a casting director's office. But in the dream I'm holding back, a little reluctant, in being open and friendly with Stimpy, and in pursuing my own meeting with the casting director.

- My first husband was vice president of the USA, and I his wife. He was flying in an airplane he'd successfully developed. I was in an audience, all of whom were watching the news on tv about the plane. His parents arrived late and sat in the back of the room. I swung my head around to let them know the good news of the successful flight, but they were ignoring me. In a little disgust I told my seatmate that they never cared. It was time for me to leave and join my husband now that the plane had landed.

- I can't remember ever having a dream about someone I just met, but I did after my first night at Meadowlark Country Inn
. I dreamt that Mark and I were at the Rio Grande River. In the dream a big celebration was going on. You could walk on a suspended clear bridge to overlook the river and see all the people and parades, or you could walk on the sidewalk beside the river to watch the celebrations. We ran into our hosts from Meadowlark, Kurt (sp?) and Richard. At that moment a group of protesters paraded by. They were protesting that God had permissions. After they passed Richard was angrily telling me that God does not have permissions. He let me know he used to be a priest. *Sunday's breakfast I asked my new friend, and no, he was never a priest, he was an attorney LOL

- my twin Carol was getting married. My sister Pat and I were in a reception area at the church discussing that I felt hurt that Pat and I weren't asked to be bridesmaids, and discussing what to wear. I had 2 dresses in the closet there that I was showing Pat, one looked like a bridesmaid dress, and I was leaning towards the shorter more businesslike dress.

- Previous dreams are posted here.

My Favorite Quotes

- "Make your mess your message." Robin Roberts Good Morning America
- "Alice laughed, 'There's no use trying. One can't believe impossible things.' ' I dare say you haven't had much practice. When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.' The Queen"
- "We're all more than the worst thing we've ever done." Dead Man Walking
- "There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being." James Joyce
- "If you are aware of the fact that the fight of life is taking you somewhere, you can not only make the journey better but also be more determined and resilient during the many battles." Gail Sheehy
- "It's almost as if you have to forgive the things that happened in the first half of your life--the people who failed you and the ways you failed yourself--in order to go on for the second half." Gail Sheehy
- "...consider what it means to ‘let everything be as it is.’ I discovered that resistance of any kind to the experience of life, inner and outer, as it is, creates the painful illusion of a separate self that then has to struggle for its own existence against the onslaught of forces beyond its control. Simply relinquishing this position results in the overwhelming discovery that one never actually existed as the person one thought one was, a discovery that is simultaneously unsettling and liberating. In that recognition all boundaries disappear, as one's self-sense expands infinitely in all directions...” 11 Days at the Edge
- "Often care of the soul means not taking sides when there is a conflict at a deep level. It may be necessary to stretch the heart wide enough to embrace contradiction and paradox." Thomas Moore
- It was a song called “Clouds” by As Cities Burn that said: “Is your god really God? / Is my god really God? / I think our god isn’t God / If he fits inside our heads.” Dustin Junkert
- There's our plan, and then there's God's plan.
- "Along the way, I realized that the barbed labels cast my way had very little to do with me. They reflected everyone else's fear of change and of not being able to lean on me. My job was to save the only life I could save--my own!" A Weekend to Change Your Life
- "When you make a mistake, you'll either learn from it or benefit from it."
- "Fifty-two. Standing up here right on top of the middle of it has to be the happiest time. I mean, it's the only time you get a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree view--see in all directions. Wow! What a view!" Edward Albee, Three Tall Women
- "When we walked into this restaurant I was playing the fool. People started laughing. To you it was the bad kind of laughing, because they were laughing at me. Just to be around me made you feel embarassed. You're a person who thinks he might have a soul. I'm a soul who knows he's playing the role of a person." Why God is Laughing
- "Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause--that it must be lived forward." Soren Kierkegaard
- "I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations." Huston Smith - "She is neither apologetic nor unapologetic: She writes more for a fierce private truth than for any published effect. 'I understood what it was like to be in the presence of some version of your life you'd rather not see.' Now we understand too." Review of This Lovely Life
- "A brilliant person learns from their mistakes. An amazingly brilliant person learns from others' mistakes." Anonymous
- "Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, teh reciprocal nastiness and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other mortal trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore." Love in the Time of Cholera
- "As a friend says: 'Secrets don't get buried anymore.' People live too long to live out a life. At the same time, they live long enough to hold out for a Last Hurrah of love--in marriage, in friendship, in family relationships." As Time Goes By
- "How I wish we didn't hate those years while we lived them." Li-Young
- "Whatever else a life of 100 years would bring, it would be the post-doctoral course in letting go. That scares me to the core. But being afraid is the signal to start being brave, and trying to make the brave choice is part of what's gotten me this far. So, yes, I think I would sign up." Marion Winik
- "More than anything else, being an educated person means being able to see connections that allow one to make sense of the world and act within it in creative ways. Every one of the qualities I have described here--listening, reading, talking, writing, puzzle solving, truth seeking, seeing through other people's eyes, leading, working in a community--is finally about connecting. A liberal education is about gaining the power and the wisdom, the generosity and the freedom to connect." (William Cronon, "Only Connect: The Goals of a Liberal Education," The American Scholar, Autumn 1998)
- "Many students of aging agree that the core of our personality tends to remain rather constant through our life, concluding that we are, in old age, the person we've always been...except maybe more so." Judith Viorst Necessary Losses
- "Integrity...it is a state of mind assured of order and meaning, a capacity for postnarcissitic love, and the serenity to bless and defend one's own life history: 'It is the acceptance of one's one and only life cycle as something that had to be...it thus means a new, a different love of one's parents." Erikson
- "Blood is thicker than water was invented by undeserving relatives." Camelot
- "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night. "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity." The Alchemist
- "Those responsibilities we have to those in our lives that we love: If we're lucky, we rehearse them on paper. There's so much to overcome, both on the page and off. It's easy to think, Where to begin? But I take heart from an analogy of EI Doctorow's about the act of faith involved in writing fiction. He once remarked that writing a novel was like driving alone at night: You could only see as far as your headlights. But you could go the whole way like that. " Jim Shepard
- "A life complete is a crime scene forever withholding its mysteries from even the most dogged and ingenious investigator. The biographer soldiers on out of fanaticism, obsession, or the delusion that somehow HE will find the key that unlocks the life." Todd DePastino author of Bill Mauldin, A Life Up Front
- "...both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love." Love in the Time of Cholera
- The practice of the university is "to analyze, judge, look beneath the surface, question prejudices and easy assumptions--to make you see and hear and think in terms altogether different from those of daily life." Joyce Carol Oates
- "God is the ultimate Rorschach test, and how we interpret him, her or it says everything about how we ultimately understand life and reality." John Haught
- "The whole concept of growth, self-acceptance and looking to others and the bonds of friendship to help you grow and be true to yourself is amazing. It's like in real life -- the people who have the biggest effect are the ones you least expect." Actor Teal Wicks playing Elphaba in Wicked
- "What might appear to be chaos even decay is really a system’s way of smoothing out differences, a search for equilibrium." Numbers TV Show
- "Each time we forgo a selfish desire and choose selfless behavior - each time we choose our response instead of reacting - we make a change in our lives. And with each change, we receive a little more Light. And our efforts benefit our families as well, giving them additional strength to identify and transform their own selfishness. And as a family experiences the power of spiritual transformation and connects to the world of Light, those benefits extend to its friends, neighbors, and community." Kabbalah Tune-Up
- "For nonsense, as Chesterton liked to tell us, is a way of looking at existence that is akin to religious humility and wonder." Martin Gardner The Annotated Alice
- "I created a new mantra 'How she loves these years as she is living them'" Right Words
- "But in her loneliness in the palace she learned to know him, they learned to know each other, and she discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them." Love in the Time of Cholera
- "Everyone wants to be on the mountaintop all the time. It's a beautiful sight when you get there. But nothing grows on the highest peaks. The growth is in the valleys. I'm just growing." Gary dying of lung cancer
- "You don’t find out who’s naked until the tide goes out." Warren Buffett on financial managers on the run
- "In the small sphere of our life. we can stare into the past, but only our future is within our control." Numbers TV show
- "It always amazes me how little influence I have on making her happy, and how much influence I have on making her unhappy." Ilene Beckerman about her adult daughter
- "Happiness is a state of mind, I haven't a clue as to how to drive to that state." famous psychologist
- "A pioneer is the guy with all the arrows in his back." Anonymous
- "Love is a wonderful thing, but it hurts." Joan Erikson
- "Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God." Bokonon
- "...my left mind full-heartedly expected the rest of my brain to believe the stories it was making up! Throughout this resurrection of my left mind's character and skills, it has been extremely important that I retain the understanding that my left brain is doing the best job I can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know. I learned that I need to be very wary of my story-teller's potential for stirring up drama and trauma." My Stroke of Insight
- "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants." Justice Louis Brandeis
- "This is the true joy in life,... being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one... being a force of Nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy...Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations." George Bernard Shaw
- "The outstretched heart and open mind also seem to be important in the endurance of the centenarians. They view the world with bemused detachment, and very little bitterness. Rather than be dogmatic, they are still curious, still absorbing, and accepting of the new." Hugh Downs
- "Dreams always come true. It might not be in your lifetime, but they'll happen." Ghostgirl
- "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." Dr Seuss
- "Nothing can shade a seasoned soul. It's all the loss that makes it whole." Song for the Hopeful
- "Con remembered, ‘The moment Gert caught sight of her, the transformation in her face. It was not just relief, it was joy -- extravagant, embarrassing -- at the sight of her daughter.’ Finally Con grasps one profound truth: she was greatly loved…Con may not have been able to say a last goodbye, but in realizing how much her mother loved her she determines to live so that final farewells no longer matter. It is worth the journey to get to such an understanding.” The Secret Mother
- "We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is...all live on, and throught them, so do we. It's not about what you had, but what you gave. It's not about how you looked, but how you lived. And it's not just about being remembered. It's about giving people a good reason to remember you." Ghostgirl
- "My right mind character is adventurous, celebrative of abundance, and socially adept. It is sensitive to nonverbal communication, empathtic, and accurately decodes emotion. My right mind is open to the eternal flow whereby I exist at one with the universe. It is the seat of my divine mind, the knower, the wise woman, and the observer. It is my intuition and higher consciousness. My right mind is ever present and gets lost in time." My Stroke of Insight
- "You don't ever want a crisis to go to waste; it's an opportunity to do important things that you would otherwise avoid." Rahm Emanuel
- "We never touch people so lightly that we do not leave a trace." Peggy Tabor Millin
- "Chemistry didn't change me--passing chemistry did...I learned that if I tried, I could do things that were difficult for me. I learned not to fall back on, 'This is hard for me, therefore I won't do it'...I thought, 'Hell, if could pass chemistry...How ironic that such an important life lesson came from a class I'd tried to dodge." Right Words at Right Time
- "...the jury foreman whispered to me, 'What makes you think you're so much smarter than the rest of us?' What he obviously didn't understand was that I never considered my opinion any better than his--or any other juror's...I only knew what I believed to be true, and just as Kris had predicted, I did what I thought was the right thing." Right Words at the Right Time
- "...and only then did he understand that a man knows when he is growing old because he was the only son of an unmarried woman." Love in the Time of Cholera
- "Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there." ~Clarence W. Hall
- "Sadness is when everything matters. Depression is when nothing matters." Gloria Steinhem
- "It was partially my fault we got divorced. I had a tendency to put my wife under the pedestal" Woody Allen
- "Every woman is the leader she was looking for." Maria Shriver
- "Maybe you’ve got to sit with the past before you walk away from it." Criminal Minds
- "I see the eyes of one who can do anything...I also see one who is blind to all that he has already done." Right Words at the Right Time
- The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.” Wendell Berry
- "I'm not exactly where I want to be, but I sure as heck know where I was." Anonymous
- "Suddenly you’re like a pirate, you’re 65 years old and you’ve got an ear-ring."
- "...the date of birth and the date of death, but the dash speaks for all the time one spends on earth." A Walk on the Beach
- "'My husband just died and I have spent the last hour screaming at God.' 'At least it's a relationship,' said the rabbi." Right Words
- "He's a character whose entire childhood is defined by the people that die around him and by how comfortable he gets with that. Imagine that you're raised with a bunchof 85-year-olds. They're not sweating the same things teenagers are. And that's where he learns everything." Mr Fincher @ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- "When I was younger I was a little disconnected. Now my ability to notice things and respond to things and be here is far more profound. With that comes happiness, with it comes sadness. But it's a beautiful life." Nicole Kidman
- "Most psychologists and biologists look at human behavior in terms of three instincts: survival, sex, and power. I believe, however, that you cannot understand human behavior without recognizing a fourth one—the instinct for transcendence, the instinct to connect to the part of us that goes beyond our materiality and survives our death, that connects with our soul. That's what explains our search for meaning, whether it drives us to art or to religion or to altruistic behavior that cannot be explained purely in terms of self-interest.... You could say that the fourth instinct drives the evolution of consciousness—and the evolution of consciousness is the foundation of everything." Arianna Huffington
- "A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts." Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
- "I don't believe in such miracles, but others do, and my life is richer as a result. This twilight of half belief is, I think, not a bad space to inhabit." The Geography of Bliss Eric Weiner
- "What a wonderful life I've had. I only wish I'd realized it sooner." Colette
- May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the crotch of the person who screws up your day and may their arms be too short to scratch.
- "Such a man feels himself a citizen of the universe, enjoying freely the spectacle that it offers and the joy that it affords, untroubled by the thoughts of death because he feels himself not really separated from those who will come after him. It is in such a profound instinctive union with the stream of life that the greatest joy is to be found." Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
- “Wherever you refuse to succeed in life, you’re punishing one of your parents.” Wise Person
- "Scott had never been as free from worry as I had so blindly assumed. He was just in control of how he expressed it. I had always thought that love was all about communication and openness. But Scott had been showing me all along that the greatest love can sometimes exist in silence; in the pauses where one person chooses to carry a heavy burden alone, quietly and without resentment." Sick Girl
- "...the sum of a person's life is not what she has accomplished but what she has experienced, not her legacy but her memories...Pippa is about to embark on a new adventure, the star of her own life story at last." Book Review San Fran Chronicle Private Lives
- The courage to wonder about other life-perspectives than presently held unprovoked by people and circumstances, especially when they may contradict lifelong convictions, takes not only a spiritual giant with a child's curiosity, but a blazing desire for more of everything life has to offer. Yeah, you have it nailed. The Universe
- "A woman with grace is the hero of her home. She makes everything happen for other people in her life but never forgets to make herself a priority too. She runs the household, where she is the strength and foundation. She teaches by examples as much as she does with her words." Sandra Lee
- "I offered a sincere opinion and you replied by painting me as gullible. Please point out the flaws in the argument instead of me." Speak Strong Inc
- “Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.” Eugene O'Neill
- "Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have." Hermione
- "There are certain individuals who, in the process of resolving their own inner conflicts, become paradigms for broader groups." Erik Erickson
- "...one of his definitions of Enlightenment was 'coming to that point in our own evolution where we no longer cause suffering to others due to acting out of ignorance and selfishness.'" 11 Days on the Edge
- “Looking at my family now, I note there have been 11…divorces, spread across generations—more than enough for a soap, and not what its members would have invented for themselves as children. But we cannot now unimagined the new fathers and step-aunts and half brothers or sisters and half grandnieces that sit around the family tables on a Thanksgiving, or wish a life for ourselves that did not include unexpected attachments.” Roger Angell
- "In order to get the devil, you're not going to have saints as witnesses." District Attorney
- "Pride is the only obstacle to Enlightenment...most people go through an entire lifetime not knowing this, and therefore no real progress is possible." 11 Days on the Edge
- "It occurs to me that the time for parting is past. If one or the other of us were going to jump ship, it would have had to happen before the kids were married, before the circle and tribe began enlarging and we began to see the potential for regeneration." A Year by the Sea
- There'll be time enough to think inside the box when you're buried in it. Anonymous
- "I was a potter. I was mad about that craft. D'you realize what it means to take a lump of mud and make what you will out of it? Ffrr! You turn the wheel and the mud whirls round, as if it were possessed while you stand over it and say: I'm going to make a jug, I'm going to make a plate, I'm going to make a lamp and the devil knows what more! That's what you might call being a man: Freedom!" Zorba
- "We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." Richard Dawkins
- I really think parents should be prepared for kids and understanding what the hell they are getting into. I've made peace with it by now. It is amusing when its not infuriating. I repeat my mantra and move along. Enjoy the grandkids when I can. In the Jewish culture it is said the only thing you can get from your kids (if you are lucky) is "nachas". Nachas is the good feeling you have when your child does something well or is kind or good or the kind of person you would like them to be. It is nothing you get FROM them, it is your own enjoyment of their successes. I really believe that's all you get and every child should come with a warning label. Carol
- "You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're both breathless. They crash - you add a longer tail. Finally they are airborne, but they need more string so you keep letting it out. With each twist of the ball of twine there is a sadness that goes with the joy, because the kite becomes more distant and somehow you know it won't be long before the beautiful creature will snap the lifeline that bound you together and soar as it was meant to soar - free and alone." Anonymous
- "Why, I say, should I have bitterly blamed my body for such trifles as I have blamed it for: for having too much flesh in this spot, too little muscle in that, for producing this wrinkle, that sag, that gray hair, or this texture? Dear body! My dear body! It has gone about its incessant business with very little thanks." Janet Burroway
- "Cry. You must go through some things crying all the way if you're ever going to live with them without crying." Howard Thurman
- It's not an unusual story in the realm of families. We wander away from parents, siblings--ferociously sometimes, desperate to define ourselves as independent. But in shadowy rooms, when someone we love so much that we could never find enough words to tell them so is dying, we are reduced to our essence. We are sons and daughters. We are tied to those whose blood we share with cords so strong they can't break--no matter how far we've stretched them. Ultimately, love startles us awake, brings us home, and lets us know we never really left. Patti Reagan
- I don't date anyone who had pubic hair when I was born. Steven
- "In a world where you can be anything, be yourself."
- "The best way to predict your future is to create it."
- HOW TO STAY YOUNG 1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay them. 2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down. 3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. " An idle mind is the devil's workshop." And the devil's name is Alzheimer's. 4. Enjoy the simple things. 5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. 6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive. 7. Surround yourself with what you love, Whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge. 8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help. 9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is. 10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity. thanks to Eons' member InaMay
- "Expectations are resentments under construction." Anne Lamott
- "First husbands just drive you crazy. Second husbands are better....What I want is a third husband...My friends who have third husbands - it's all cherishing and forgiving, day and night." The Secret Mother
- "Enlightenment is as much a perspective on one's experience as a state of consciousness and that in many important ways the perspective was more significant than the experience." 11 Days on the Edge
- A “coyote” is a person who has learned the hard lessons of life and has grown from mistakes and difficulties. A coyote cuts through confusion and phoniness with heartfelt honesty, never pulls punches and always makes room for compassion.
- Lord, help me forgive those who sin differently than I.
- "I color curtains, but I don't do drapes." Hairstylist Steven
- Youth is a defect that is corrected with time.
- "What if being human rather than being a pseudonym for all our weaknesses and shortcomings instead became synonymous with all the highest aspects of what it means to be human. Human beings are capable of the greatest virtues: courage, integrity, generosity, kindness, honor and dignity. What if they became the standard for what it means to be human rather than all our weakness and frailty?" Andrew Cohen
- "On average, women outlive men by six or seven years, right? Of course, it's the last thing you think about when you're falling in love. But for a woman -- one of the most important things you choose when you pick a mate is whom you'll help die." The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
- "If a woman has her cherry after 40 it is then an olive. Turned green with envy." Eons' Steve
- ...when we believe we have to have, look like, or be a particular thing, we close ourselves to the possibility of change. We make the assumption that who we are today is who we will be tomorrow, and that what we needed last year is what we need today. If we give up what we needed last year, we believe we will lose everything that could bring us happiness tomorrow...When you are full of what you know, it's difficult to learn anything new. Geneen Roth
- We live our lives according to a tape made thirty years ago by people we wouldn't even ask directions from today. Jeanne
- When you go behind someone's back, you can expect trouble in the relationship. One of the most important principles in relationship is direct communication and full disclosure of whatever is going on in the relationship...destructiveness of indirect communication..."
- "Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it." Ayn Rand
- A man asks his rabbi, "Why does God write the law on our hearts? Why not in our hearts? It's the inside of my heart that needs God." The rabbi answered, "God never forces anything into a human heart. He writes the word on our hearts so that when our hearts break, God falls in." Whatever you hold sacred, you'll find that an unguarded broken heart is the ideal instrument for absorbing it. Martha Beck
- "When you have come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing that one of two things will happen: There will either be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly." Anonymous
- "Halloween's not about guts and gore. It's about mystery and facing your fears -- fears that aren't realistic." Choreographer Anandha Ray
- We come into the world with our authenticity intact. Slowly, we realize that our parents can't see us (because they can't see themselves), don't know us (because they don't know themselves), and if we want their love, we must dress in a costume that pleases them...we think the costume is who we are, even when it gets tight and tattered...we refuse, no matter what the cost, to give it up, it is all we remember of ourselves...We believe that because being wanted and being seen and being loved once depended on someone else, they still do. Geneen Roth
- Erotic is a feather. Kinky is the whole chicken.
- My therapist once told me, "Just because you imagine it doesn't mean it will happen." Carol
- "This love is real with no pretense or expectations or hushed history. Just acceptance." about our family, Tara
- If his life is better now, when he can't live alone, when his legs are limp, dead fish hanging from his torso, when he is in constant pain, it is because he has taken the pain and traveled with it, taken the suffering an dplanted it in the seething, fertile soil of his consciousness, where patience grows from enless hours of waiting and love pushes through. Where the sheer pleasure of friendship and work and eros are enough -- if you are willing to be melted and forged by the pain. If you are not attached to matching your life with the way you think life needs to be. If you accept yourself the way you are. Geneen Roth
- We can't prevent what we don't predict. Desperate Housewives
- As long as I keep hanging on and trying to go back to the old me, as long as I think I know what I am supposed to have, look like, and be, as long as I keep rejecting what I have now in favor of a fantasy of what I think will make me happy, I will be frustrated and in pain. Geneen Roth
- God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I ate him.
- The time to make up your mind about somebody is never. Anything can change. Anonymous per Diane Sawyer GMA
- Picked the wrong guy. Gave him the wrong finger.
- If life is about acquiring, if it's about matching our lives to our dream lives, we will not learn from our losses; we will be no different at the end of a crisis than at the beginning of it...If life is about inquiring into the ways we keep ourselves from being awake and open and true, then no pain will ever be wasted. Geneen Roth
- Can these dry bones live again? Dr Robin Smith
- Wanting is the heart's way of saying, "Don't stop here, this isn't it." Geneen Roth
- Our need to see goddesses outside ourselves is an unwillingness to integrate and absorb all the fragmented, goddess pieces of ourselves. Geneen Roth
- A fanatic is someone who can't change his mind and won't change the subject Toby from West Wing
- Don't forget that I cannot see myself, that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror. French Poet Jacques Rigault
- Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? Fanny Brice
- I'm a smoke detector, don't be alarmed.
- This is compounded if a woman is discounted or treated punitively when she initially brings information to light. This further betrayal fuels determination and fierceness, rather than shuts her up as intended. Crone
- Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so. Shakespeare
- ...the angry reaction of an exposed wrongdoer, however unpleasant it may be, is preferable to a life dominated by the darkness of someone else's secret. Martha Beck Oprah Magazine 2/07
- Sunday's sermon was: Forgive Your Enemies. Toward the end of the service, the Minister asked, How many of you have forgiven your enemies? 80% held up their hands. The Minister then repeated his question. All responded this time, except one small elderly Lady. Mrs. Jones?"; "Are you not willing to forgive your enemies?" "I don't have any." She replied, smiling sweetly. "Mrs. Jones, that is very unusual. How old are you?" "Ninety-eight." she replied. "Oh Mrs. Jones, would you please come down in front & tell us all how a person can live ninety-eight years & not have an enemy in the world?" The little sweetheart of a lady tottered down the aisle, faced the congregation, and said: "I outlived the bitches.
- Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. Kahlil Gibran
- I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several years. Daniel Boone
- Good friends are like good bras...hard to find, comfortable, supportive & always close to the heart.
- This week on Tuesday night in an ironic turnaround Iraq brought regime change to the US. Saturday Night Live
- The goal in life should be to die young as late in life as possible. The Greeks
- A lie told often enough becomes the truth. Lenin
- History is fluid.
- Taking the high road was definitely not one of his virtues...my father would have convinced himself that he owed her and us nothing. In the space of a ten minute conversation, my mother has gone from someone who tried to take my father away from me to someone who tried to keep my father with me. The Craggy Hole in My Heart
- Friends are God's way of apologizing for your relatives.
- YMMV. It stands for "Your Mileage May Vary" ... as in "this is what has worked (or not worked) for me. Your results may be different."
- The "sandwich method" (praise-advice-praise) makes the "meat" (the advice) so much easier to swallow.
- "Romantic love is a taut rope, and in some respects a fight, for you are always thrashing against, if not the beloved per se, your own undignified enslavement to someone else. It was possible that a different kind of love awaits, once you've called the tug-of-war a draw -- one that's loose and kind and safe, a love that's relaxing and quiet and easy, like leaning back with a tall vodka-and-tonic and putting your feet up on a porch rail after an exhausting afternoon of sport." The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
- Anything you can lose in a shipwreck is not really yours. Sufi
- Only people who are dead or enlightened are done with their mothers. The Craggy Hole in My Heart
- A therapist sees the problem...you had a father who treated you like an object...and tries to help you heal the wound...A spiritual teacher sees the problem and believes the wound is not in what he did, but in what you did to survive the situation. The wound is that you left yourself. With a therapist you learn that you are loved. With a spiritual teacher you learn that you are love itself. The Craggy Hole in My Heart
- Jamie's Myspace Daily Motivations
- Normal around here is just a setting on the dryer.
- Thank you god for this good life and forgive us if we do not enjoy it enough. Garrison Keillor
- Inside every older person is a younger person REALLY surprised.
- Wisdom; Seeing & responding to life situations from a perspective that transcends my current circumstances.
- Nothing you do for a child is wasted. Garrison Keillor
- I really should have looked into my wife's family a little closer.
- Religion is for those who are afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who have already been there.
- Every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone. For One More Day
- It is true that when one door closes, another one opens. It's those hallways that are the real bitch.
- Whether we are male or female, we need to develop three kinds of power. People who hold these three powers cannot be ignored. 1. Power of presence; Being really present in each moment 2. Power of communication; Speaking my truth 3. Power of position – Being willing to take a stand
Angeles Arrien
- And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin
- Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken. Karl Menninger
- A child embarrassed by his mother is just a child who hasn't lived long enough. For One More Day
- They may see the good you do as self-serving. Continue to do good... . For in the end, it was only between you and God. It never was between you and them anyway.
- Trying to direct the life of ***fill in the blank*** is like trying to nail jello to a tree!
- Three wise women would have...Asked directions, Arrived on time, Helped deliver the baby, Cleaned the stable, Made a casserole, Brought practical gifts, And there would be peace on Earth. Unknown
- A best friend is a sister that destiny forgot to give you.
- What if the Hokey Pokey really is all it's about?
- Everything before the word "but" is a lie.
- Ahh, I see the screw-up fairy visited us again.
- There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen
- ...the way you see the world isn't necessarily the way it is...you have to believe that you have a choice about which reality you perceive. Geneen Roth
- Hell is wanting to be somewhere other than where we are. Stephen Levine
- ...the ways we feel stuck and unhappy are doorways to decisions, judgements, and beliefs we made long before we knew what we were doing. Geneen Roth
- When sacred vessels used to break, they'd mend them with liquid gold. The more they broke, the more valuable they became. The same is true with hearts. Anonymous
- If I give up holding on to what I love most, I get the world back. If I give up trying to orchestrate the safety and the future of those I care about, I get to have everything as if for the first time; the gratitude of having a body...Geneen Roth *see my list of things to be happy about.
- Not everyone wants life to be a mountaintop experience...we all get our emotional half acres to tend while we are alive...it's not our business what someone else does with their half acre. Annie
- I could spend the rest of the ride throwing up or I could stand up, wave my arms, and have some fun. Either way, I will end up at the same place. Geneen Roth
- By not leaning into the simple facts...he was not the person I believed he was...I never grew up. Geneen Roth
- Whether we are sailing into the Aquarian Age or heading straight into Armageddon, the work is still the same; to quiet our minds and open our hearts and relive the suffering around us. Ram Dass
- If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.
- The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. Josh Billings
- The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change. Leo Buscaglia.
- One of the wisest things a person can do is to avoid guessing.
- What other people think about us is none of our business.
- Ninety-eight per cent of the time when I am in fear it means that I am in the future. Pulling myself back into the now, turning the future over to my Higher Power, and focusing on gratitude, frees me to have some happy moments today." Robert Burney
- We teach what we most need to learn.
- The secret to happiness isn't love, family, or even a Donny & Marie marathon on TV Land. It's delusion. Stumbling on Happiness
- Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. Jean-Paul Sartre
- Direct control problems (those involving our own behavior) are solved by working on our habits. Indirect control problems (those involving other people's behavior) are solved by changing our methods of influence. I have have personally identified over 30 separate methods of human influence--as separate as emapthy is from confrontation, example from persuasion. Most people have only three or four of these methods in their repertoire, starting usually with reasoning, and if that doesn't work, moving on to fight or flight. How liberating it is to accept the idea that I can learn new methods of human influence instead of constantly trying to use old, ineffective methods to 'shape up' someone else! Scott Peck
- Mental Health is realizing all the many choices we have.

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