Sometimes the purpose of the rose is simply to draw attention to the rose.

We are all gardeners, planting seeds of intention and watering them with attention in every moment of every day.

My mind is the sun, and my heart is the moon.In the sky between them, there I am.Cristen Rodgers

Listen closely. Even the trees exhale sweet love songs that roll off their boughs and echo out to all of creation. Love is always in the air.

Be still my hand and let the words write themselves upon my heart. Be still my heart and let your pages be filled in silence.

I look into your eyes and I’m sure that some divine artist dipped her brush in the same soul and used it to paint us both.

Solitude is an unmarked place beyond the borders of the map, a place where most fear to tread. It’s no surprise, then, that this is where the greatest secrets and most valuable treasures are hidden.

Be careful not to laugh at the Phoenix when she goes up in flames, or you'll be left in the dust when she grows her new wings and flies swiftly away.

A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.

Such is the lot of the narcissist's child, to inherit her parent's umbrage over the world's indifference.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Our common future is badly served when the eloquence of our attack on the other fellow exceeds the energy with which we cooperate with them.

Well you just have to own it, I suppose. Own the character, which is difficult.

i wish i could freeze this moment, somehow delay my final decision, and just hang here in the balance between two places, two worlds, two loves.

When we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we’ve taken as reality.

Freedom is not letting your yesterday affect your today.

A star needs all the rest she can get.

My day is not that fun-filled or that filled usually with complications.