When you know what you're doing, you can do what you want." -Moshe Feldenkrais

Be careful what you tell yourself, and do not belittle yourself, even in jest. Negative, deprecating self-talk can do significant harm to your self-image.

It is through our imperfections that our true beauty shines through.

Getting older is inevitable--being old is a choice.

Never underestimate the power of the written word, especially when you put them down in your own voice." -Cheryl L. Ilov, Forever Fit and Flexible: Feeling Fabulous at Fifty and Beyond.

Never underestimate the power of the written word, especially when you put them down in your own voice.

Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the borders bleed we watch with dread the lines of ink along the map turn red.

Death is complicated."-Johann Kraus

I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.

Her feelings she hides Her dreams she can't find She's losing her mind She's falling behind She can't find her place She's losing her faith She's falling from grace She's all over the place

From a Buddhist perspective, it is incorrect to always assume that we know what is best.

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it.

The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day.

If you want to get the body you've always dreamed of, you have to earn it.

Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.