SIMPLY TRADITION

"What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too."

-ANDY WARHOL-

HANDS

"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not."

-GEORGIA O'KEEFFE-

TRUTH

"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'."

-DAN RATHER-

BEAUTY

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."

-ANNE FRANK-

SQUIRREL

"If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence."

-GEORGE ELIOT-

VIEW

"When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen."

-STEPHEN COVE-

MOLDING THE FUTURE

"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown."

-DENIS WAITLEY-

LET GROW

"Love is the flower you've got to let grow."

-JOHN LENNON-

A DESERTED SUNSET

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

-JOHN RUSKIN-

TIRE

"I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire."

-ROY ORBISON-

CHARACTER

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

-ABRAHAM LINCOLN-

SEED

"To see things in the seed, that is genius."

-LAO TZU-

CENTRAL TEXAS SUMMER

"We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it."

-WILLIE NELSON-

MUSHROOMS

"In fact, I think when we carry out a complete analysis of time, I think what we're going to discover is that like matter, time is composed of elemental, discrete types."

-TERENCE McKENNA-

YELLOW

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."

-PABLO PICASSO- 

DIRECTION

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."

-LAO TZU-

INSIGHT

"Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention."

-DEEPAK CHOPRA-

GROWING THROUGH THE MIRROR

 

"The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included."

-BODHIDHARMA-

SUN RADIO

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

-GILBERT K. CHESTERTON-

LEARNING TO GLIDE

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."

-FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE-