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All month I having been working with my theme of “just doing my best” and how this impacts my image

My theme this month is “Doing your best”. Twice in the Bhagavad Gita, the subject of “doing your best” comes

My theme for May is the Fourth Agreement — Always Do Your Best —as outlined by Don Miguel Ruiz.  The Bhagavad Gita

My theme this month has been “Don’t take it personally” and I have cited Byron Katie who said what others

This month as I have reflected on my theme, “Don’t Take Personally”, I began the process of witnessing.  As I

The Austrian neurologist and holocaust survivor, Viktor Frankl, wrote: Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space

Continuing my theme of “I will not take anything personally” here is a great edited quote of an old Buddhist saying

For my theme for April, I have chosen “The Second Agreement.  In his book “The Four Agreements,” Don Miguel Ruiz’s

“In order to empathize with someone’s experience, you must be willing to believe them as they see it, and not

If I am going to be impeccable with my word, I must be capable of communicating my needs. Abraham Maslow

If I am going to be “impeccable in my word”, I have found that I need to use a process

For my final thought on “understanding I found a quote where Maya Angelou summed it up beautifully in the following

Sometimes we need someone to simply be there*• Not to fix anything or do anything in particular, but just to

  “When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do

Following up my discussion of compassion empathy and sympathy, there is a Buddhist story that shines a light on sympathy,

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know

Davidji has challenged me to have a theme for each month.  My February theme is “understanding”.  It is a profound

January’s theme is “Move from the Ego Perspective to the Soul Perspective” where everything is measured by what special moments