Kathzoofus

"May the sun bring you new energy by day... May the moon softly restore you by night... May the rain wash away your worries... And the breeze blow new strength into your being... And all of the days of your life may you walk... Gently through the world and know its beauty." Happy New Year!!!

"The concept of total wellness recognizes that our every thought, word, and behavior affects our greater health and wellbeing. And we, in turn, are affected not only emotionally but also physically and spiritually." –Greg Anderson, author of "The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness" What thoughts, words and behaviors are affecting your health and wellbeing these days?

"It takes courage to show your dreams to someone else." -Erma Bombeck

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. ~Harrison Ford

"I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright." ~Anthony Robbins If you could change one thing about yourself right now, what would it be?

"Faith is not being sure where you’re going, but going anyway. A journey without maps." -Frederick Buechner

"The first step towards change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do. It's something you allow." –Will Garcia For some reason this quote makes me think about dealing with fear. My belief is that you can do things to reduce your fears and while it is possible to eliminate fears completely that is unusual. I think more often people find new ways to cope or deal with their fears rather than overcoming them completely. For me what works when dealing with my fears is that I have to get to a point where I accept them. I acknowledge them. "Hello, Fear. I see you standing in the shadows of my life." Then I have to get a little frustrated by my fears. I have to recognize that they are holding me back in their shadows and not allowing me to step out into the sunlight. "Yo, Fear, you bastard. I'm getting damn tired of standing in your cold, dark shadows." From ...

"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working, and just so you learn to love, by loving. All those who think to learn in other ways deceive themselves." ~Saint Francis de Sales

"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not." –James Gordon, M.D.

"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him." ~Epictetus How do you deal with people that anger you?

"I wanna be dancing with my magic If thats not asking too much Cause life is so much sweeter When its got that magic touch And the angels clear the path Through the underbrush" ~Bonnie Wren, My Magic

"A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl." ~S. Heller What wound or injury from your past has made you into something beautiful?

The following is a snapshot of some of my favorite book and movie quotes from one of my journals. Enjoy! From Raising Your Emotional Intelligence, Jeanne Segal: "We are told to value the head and devalue the heart; instinctively, we value the heart and feel wrong for doing so. WE ARE NOT WRONG." From The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Mitch Albom: "...all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time." "Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else." From Under The Tuscany Sun, starring Diane Lane: "Regrets are a waste of time. They are the past crippling you in the present." From Something's Gotta Give, starring Diane Keaton: "I let someone in and I had the time of my life." From Stillness Speaks, by Eckhart Tolle: "Surrender comes when you no longer ask, 'Why is this happening to me?'" What are some of you...

October gave a party; The leaves by hundreds came - The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples, And leaves of every name. The Sunshine spread a carpet, And everything was grand, Miss Weather led the dancing, Professor Wind the band. ~George Cooper, "October's Party"

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." ~Ambrose Redmoon

"Defeat doesn't finish a man -- quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits." ~Richard Nixon

"Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor." ~Sholom Aleichem What is your life like these days?

This is from a rather new journal that I received from Krush last summer. I haven't officially named it yet but it tends to reflect some of the rules I have for my life. Specifically around what I will and will not tolerate from people around me. This entry is dated 10/08/2004: Broken, fearful & wounded are not attractive qualities. Ever.

If you take a looksy over to the left side of this page you'll see that I have a link to the website for Oriah Mountain Dreamer . I absolutely adore her work and have read and re-read her books many many times. Right now I'm reading (again) The Invitation . I remember the first time I read the book, reading a passage about solitude and it made me feel sad that I had no experience ever truly being alone with myself. Over the years I have gotten better at appreciating true solitude. The kind of solitude that leaves you sitting alone, in silence, lost in the sounds of your own thoughts. This is the passage that I read last night and as I read it this time, I was filled with happiness knowing that I can absolutely find peace with my own company: "When I ask if you can be alone with yourself, I am not asking if the idea of being alone appeals to you but if you can actually be present, with yourself, for longer than a couple of hours, without flipping on the TV or the radio ...

I believe that if we stand up and take responsibility for our mistakes we risk many things but the knowledge we gain is worth much, much more. I believe that risk and failure and success and experience and about a million other things build character ...or take away from it. I believe that happiness is not about good luck or good fortune but rather a decision that we make with each experience that we have. I believe that all peace and happiness starts within and moves without . I do not believe you can reverse that. I believe we can waste a lifetime blaming ourselves or blaming others for the problems in our life or our world or we can spend a lifetime doing something about it. I believe whether you make a conscious decision or not, you are setting an example for somebody. I believe like attracts like , who and what do you want to attract? I believe good memories are better than good inheritances . I believe what you say isn’t half as important as what you do . I ...