Awaken Your Inner Heroes

It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…
Thomas Merton
Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone.  And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of [...]

It takes a long time to grow young.
Pablo Picasso
June 8, 2009
I was born 63 year ago today. Almost exactly nine months after the official surrender of Japan, August 15, 1945, on the battleship U.S.S. Missouri, officially ending World War II. Germany had surrendered a few months earlier.
I had never thought about it too much until [...]

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone
Jesus Christ
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices
Benjamin Franklin
The more one judges, the less one loves
Honoré de Balzac
I am a recovering judgment-aholic. Not yet fully recovered. Not by a long shot. But I am better than I used to be. And I am working [...]

It’s true. Read the title again…read it slowly…let it soak it… see if you can let it soak in…see what gets in the way of letting it soak in…replace the “YOU ARE” with “I AM”…and then read it a few more times, slowly, before continuing with today’s message.
Let’s start with a definition. Powerful simply means [...]