Thought of the Moment

No one will come and save you. No one will come riding on a white horse and take all your worries away. You have to save yourself, little by little, day by day.

- Charlotte Eriksson

Networking. Win-Win. Mutual benefit. You scratch my back and I scratch yours. Let’s not mistake any of these concepts with the essence of true friendship.

Calculated favour-trading isn’t always evil. But its spirit lives on a different planet than that of a truly good friendship.

Family is people you want to spend time with.

If you understand that the inappropriate behavior of your children is a call to increased consciousness on your part, you are able to view the opportunities they afford you to grow differently. Instead of reacting to them, you look within yourself and ask why you react. In the asking, you open a space for consciousness to arise.

- Dr. Shefali Tsabary

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

- Dr. Alfred Adler

Whenever we reprimand and discipline, we inevitably diminish honest communication.

- Dr. Shefali Tsabary

“Do you see me?” This is the big question your child is asking every day. “Can you recognize me for who I am, different from your dreams  and expectations for me, separate from your agenda for me?”

- Dr. Shefali Tsabary

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

- Rumi

This is why we’re here. To fight through the pain and, when possible, to relieve the pain of others. So simple. So hard to see.

- Andre Agassi