The Past Is Prologue...

I feel like the 1960's is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past. Paul McCartney

Photo: The National Library of New Zealand

real value...

If we only knew the real value of a day, nothing would contribute more to put us in possession of ourselves. Joseph Farrell

Photo: flickr (Sheila in Millstone)

Growing Up in Los Angeles...

"If I told you I grew up living in L.A. I'd be lying. No one ever grew up in L.A."
- from the upcoming film The Informer


Photo: flickr (Benjamin Page)

Astral Plane

I feel like I've come back from an astral plane. And I'm still getting used to life on this planet. John L. Parker, Jr. (author)

the body

The body is the mystery we know nothing of; it works its own will and goes its own way, like a cat or a god. Stephen Mackenna

carefree

Being carefree is of the essence in this world. Anton Chekov

Reaching the light...

You reach the light at the end of the tunnel only after passing through darkness. Kevin Nelson

decisive

What is the meaning of life? Finally, an easy question. Be decisive.

Goh Nakamura

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Accept all with joy

During the past 10 years I have learned strength, I have learned suffering, battle and self-conquest. I have learned courage to accept all with joy. Yukio Mishima

the mind

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

John Milton

light

I know that there's a light at the end of the tunnel no matter what I've been through. Ken Volonte

change

We must adjust to changing times and still hold on to unchanging principles. Ms. Julia Coleman (President Carter's high school teacher)

now

Run the mile you're in. Ryan Hall

On the road to find out...

Everything you need you already have. You are complete now; you are a whole, total, person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. - Wayne Dyer

On and on I go, the seconds tick the time out

There's so much left to know and

I'm on the road to find out. - Cat Stevens

the passage

Now he was going to bury his grandfather. He couldn't shake the feeling that it wasn't supposed to be like this, that there was something important he had forgotten to do that had caused everything to go wrong.

Is it possible, he thought, that getting older is a process of losing pieces of yourself along the way, and that it just goes on until there's nothing left?

John L. Parker, Jr. - Again to Carthage

courage

It takes courage to be a runner. Because it's about more than fatigue. It's about pain, and dealing with it for a long time. And it's about resolve.

You can't really be much of a runner unless you have courage.

John L. Parker, Jr.

Cat Run...

The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat. Bill Squires

The distance between...

It's not the failure that kills you, as much as the hope. That's what gets under your skin and makes you believe that things can change, that life matters, that the distance between possibility and reality is nothing compared to human ingenuity, hard work and a trace amount of God's genius. - Peter Ames Carlin

reality and illusion

If reality is a subjective manifestation of beliefs, then
maybe illusion is our greatest treasure. Jenny Dalton

life

Life is so strange, you're always tested and things always change and you waver and the destination that you think you're going towards changes. Jenny Dalton