Live moment to moment instead of living so many years ahead of each day. — I want to live. I quit a mediocre life of waiting for tomorrow to be better. Today is what I have, yet I keep passing it on. Running is what I do best. I am always chasing something shiny. I have always been. …

When you focus on someone else’s suffering, you forget your own — Here is a powerful story about compassion that has stuck with me for years. It’s about a woman who lost his son, and she was inconsolable. She went from one person to another crying, wailing, and shouting for help that could bring her baby back to life. She meets a…

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man — Heraclitus — In the movie Manifest, some of the Montego Air Flight 828 passengers experience guiding voices, and visions of events yet to occur — what they refer to as callings. One particular boy Cal, responds almost so accurately to the callings. He developed the habit of drawing, and making sense of…

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too — Paulo Coelho — One day, a young man asked Carlyle how he should go about reforming the world. Carlyle answered, “ Reform yourself. That way, there will be one less rascal in the world.” In the Bible, a similar wisdom was shared by Jesus. The only way to see clearly is to first…

Don’t postpone your feeling of happiness until a more exciting, or more pleasing object comes along. I am exhausted, drained, depleted, and empty. This moment sucks, so I long for the next one, hoping it will save me. What I find in the next, and the subsequent moments is even…