Date the person who makes your world

Don't date the most beautiful person in the world, date the person who makes your world the most beautiful.

Michael Krasny, an inspirational agnostic

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."
- Abraham Lincoln.

From his longer NPR interview, Krasny says:

....have the courage to say to your children, 'I don't know' and let them find their own path, whatever that may be.

Nowadays many of the atheists are simply quite militant about their atheism and pretty certain about it as well.


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http://www.religiondispatches.org/books/atheologies/3833/spiritual_envy%3A_michael_krasny%E2%80%99s_agnostic_quest/

And even in Stephen Hawking’s new book, he thinks he’s found answers now—he’s moved in a different direction, toward an atheism that was not clear in his previous work. It’s a jump, for maybe one of the greatest minds of our time. But I can’t continue or discontinue grappling with questions that are simply unanswerable. Okay, there was a Big Bang, but what was before it? There are mysteries on the earth that are impenetrable to us, let alone beyond our planet. So why not just accept? My dad used to say to me when I was a kid that sometimes you just have to say: I don’t know.

Something Else is More Important Than Fear

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon

Olivia Wilde on Building Lasting Relationships

When Olivia Wilde was just 18 years old, she married Tao Ruspoli, a man 9 years her senior. "You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships," she says. But 8 years later, the two are still going strong. The key to long-lasting romance, Wilde says, is to accept that nothing stays the same. The best you can do is adjust along the way.

Ease Pressure

"Even in the beginning, we never put pressure on ourselves," she says. "We were, like, 'Maybe it'll last a week.' And therefore it's lasted years." She attributes much of that to a lack of jealousy on both their parts. When you actively look for things that might hurt a relationship, you turn minor issues into larger ones.

Do Your Own Thing

"Tao is great about saying, 'You go. Have fun. I'm staying home.' It's so important to have that independence," she says. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own. If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing. Not everything has to be a couples' event.

Hold Your Tongue

Of course it's important to speak up if you feel hurt. But know the difference between a real problem and your own insecurity, Wilde says—and sort your feelings out in your mind before rushing to express them. "I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity," Wilde says. "So be secure. It can be hard to force, but you need inner peace if you want peace around you."

via: Olivia Wilde interview in Men's Health Magazine, from the January 2011 issue.

Spiritual Reflections

All of these ideas and reflections were taken from a Unity service on October 17, 2010.

We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

When we have experiences, we ought to remember that this is for me (not against me).

Spirituality: Meaning. Value. Purpose.

We are here to be real.

Ho'oponopono

I love you.
I am sorry.
Please forgive me.
Thank you.

One of Our Last Fine Days

this may be
one of our last fine days
before winter
with her chills and dreariness
claims the dreams
of warm weather folk

Winter's bleak and
unflinching grip
will not have me this season

As a boy,
winter did not take the toll
that it does on me now
I found joy
in snowballs, forts
snowmen.

Winter did not take the toll
that it does on me now.
With rosy red ears
and a runny nose
I still played, despite the cold
Now winter affords only
moments of relief
For sights of sunshine and
melting snow can ease my grief

This season may hold hope
even as gray skies take hold
there may be a candle
to sway the dark, the desolate.
For the warmth of one,
intimate progression
can out-wage the cold and dark.

Written on October 12th, 2010. A sunny fall day in Montana before winter sets in.

Airports are an interesting place

Airports are an interesting place because we are put into a few hours of inescapable limbo. It's a deluge of tension, anticipation, and ultimately, boredom.