“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” Ralph Marston

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking

 

Creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao Tzu

 

A film by RSA Animate.

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“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” Lao Tzu

“Accept your past without regret, handle your present

With confidence, and face your future without fear.”

Unknown

“Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is not uncommon for people to spend

Their whole life waiting to start living.”

Eckhart Tolle

“Change is inevitable. Growth is intentional.” Glenda Cloud

Our lives begin and end the day we

Become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King Jr

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. - Confucius -

“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”

Basho

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel—not a destination.” Roy M. Goodman

“It’s not the events of our lives that shape us

But our beliefs as to what those events mean.”

Tony Robbins

“You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.” Yogi Bhajan

“Every really new idea looks crazy at first.”

Abraham H. Maslow

“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” Raymond Lindquist

“In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that

Makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.”

Brother David Steindl-Rast

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Update 01/21/14

  

Let us remember the past, so we don’t have to repeat it!

If you are too young to remember this, you must watch

This historic speech by Dr. Martin Luther King! As a side-bar

I was part of the group of broadcasters that helped to bring

About the national King holiday.

Video from KarmaTube

“Change is not a process for the impatient.” Barbara Reinhold

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

William James

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” William James

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

 Nelson Mandela 

Video from KarmaTube

 

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Update 01/07/14

 

It’s a new year and I intend to provide more information like this which follows. I received this from my neighbor, Ms. June Rodricks, and found it to be uplifting and share it here.

 

I wish you enough...........................

 

Recently, I overheard a mother and daughter in their last moments together at the airport as the daughter’s departure had been announced. Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the mother said: “I love you and I wish you enough.”

The daughter replied, “Mom, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Mom.” They kissed and the daughter left.

The mother walked over to the window where I sat. Standing there, I could see she wanted and needed to cry. I tried not to intrude on her privacy but she welcomed me in by asking, “Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever?” “Yes, I have,” I replied. “Forgive me for asking but why is this forever good-bye?”

“I am old and she lives so far away. I have challenges ahead and the reality is the next trip back will be for my funeral,” she said.

When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say, “I wish you enough.” May I ask what that means?”

She began to smile. “That’s a wish that has been handed down from other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone.”

She paused a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in detail and she smiled even more.

“When we said ‘I wish you enough’ we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with just enough good things to sustain them”.

 

Then turning toward me, she shared the following, reciting it from memory,

“I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.”

She then began to cry and walked away.

Nurture Relationships.

As they say, It takes a minute to find a special person.

An hour to appreciate them.

A day to love them, and an entire life to forget them.

 

PEACE & BLESSINGS,

 

SAM

 

 

“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” Raymond Lindquist

Video from KarmaTube

“Your belief determines your action and your action determines

Your results, but first you have to believe.”

Mark Victor Hansen

A film by Our Better World.

Video from KarmaTube

“Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.” Osho

Nelson Mandela from Joel Gautraud on Vimeo.

“All the wonders you seek are within yourself.”

Sir Thomas Browne

Video from KarmaTube

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” Charles Swindoll

A good head and a good heart 

are always a formidable combination.

 Nelson Mandela

A film by Rob Gaut. More at Five Story Pictures.

Video from KarmaTube

“Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.” Maori Proverb

“Children see magic because they look for it.”

Christopher Moore

Video from KarmaTube

“Sometimes in tragedy we find our life’s purpose. The eye sheds a tear to find its focus.” Robert Brault

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, 

but the triumph over it.”

Nelson Mandela

Video from KarmaTube

 

 

“The smallest act of kindness is worth More than the grandest good intention.” Oscar Wilde

“The secret of happiness is to count your blessings

While others are adding up their troubles.”

William Penn

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, But you can decide not to be reduced by them.” Maya Angelou

“Everything that happens to you is a 

reflection of what you believe about yourself.

We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem.

We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.” 

Iyanla Vanzant

Video from KarmaTube

After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box. - Italian Proverb -

“When there is no enemy within,

The enemies outside cannot hurt you.”

African Proverb

Mom's 70th Surprise Birthday Party - Sept 24, 2013 Hillsborough, NC

“The journey is the reward.”

Proverb

“Don’t miss all the beautiful colors of the

Rainbow looking for that pot of gold.”

“Kindness is the language which the deaf

Can hear and the blind can see.”

Mark Twain

The Boykin’s & The Lee’s

September 24, 2013

The measure of a life, after all,

Is not its duration, but its donation.

Corrie ten Boom 

May God bless you with TEARS…

To shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation and war,

So that you may reach out your hand to comfort them,

And to turn their pain into JOY.

And may God bless you with enough FOOLISHNESS…

To believe that you can make a difference in this world.

- A Franciscan Benediction -

Just for Fun -Try the 

Year of “YOUR” Birth    

The screen is going to fade to black; have your

Glasses on, and follow the instructions below.

You'll be pleasantly surprised ...  it is indeed fascinating

Click your cursor in the box marked year of birth

Type the year and then click on the question mark.

Sit back and enjoy!!

Click below...

Year of your birth

THE SCREEN MOVES BY ITSELF.

Finally, always remember!

After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.

 Italian Proverb 

After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box. - Italian Proverb -

“Don’t wait for your feelings to change to take the action.

Take the action and your feelings will change.”

Barbara Baron

Life always waits for some crisis to occur Before revealing itself at its most brilliant.” Paul Coelho

“Sometimes in tragedy we find our life’s purpose.

The eye sheds a tear to find its focus.”

Robert Brault

Video from KarmaTube

It is customary to make a wish on one's birthday. On her sixteenth birthday, nine months after being shot in the head in an assassination attempt by a Taliban gunman in northwest Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai addressed the United Nations Youth Assembly in New York with a wish for universal equality, universal opportunity, and universal education. Once targeted for death because of her outspoken advocacy for her own education and those of other Pashtun girls, she now speaks on behalf of women and children everywhere. Her message is one of fearlessness and hopefulness. It is an inspiring call to justice. 

If you are always trying to be normal, You will never know how amazing you can be.” Maya Angelou

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.

Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

Rumi

Kindness with NO strings attached is Love

“Faith is taking the first step even

When you don’t see the whole staircase.”

Martin Luther King

“The lives we lead have everything to do With the questions we ask ourselves.” Lori Deschene

Giving is so often thought of in terms

Of the things we give, but our greatest giving

Is of our time, and kindness, and even comfort

For those who need it. We look on these gifts as

Unimportant - until we need them."

Joyce Sequichie Hifler

Service doesn't start when you have something to give; It blossoms naturally when you have nothing left to take. Nipun Mehta

“We are formed and molded by our thoughts.

Those whose minds are shaped by selfless

Thoughts give joy when they speak or act.

Joy follows them like a shadow

That never leaves them.”

Buddha

It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge. - Caleb Carr -

Learn to appreciate what you have before

Time makes you appreciate what you had.”

Unknown

“What we see is mainly what we look for.” Anonymous

“Life is a process of becoming.

A combination of states we have to go through.

Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it.

This is a kind of death.”

Anais Nin

Truly Important - Must Watch!

“Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places” Unknown

“We are formed and molded by our thoughts.

Those whose minds are shaped by selfless

Thoughts give joy when they speak or act.

Joy follows them like a shadow

That never leaves them.”

Buddha

05/28/13

“The poor man is not he who is without A cent, but he who is without a dream.” Harry Kemp

“What we see is mainly what we look for.”

Anonymous

Update 05/21/13

Many of you that know me and my background are aware that my spiritual development arises out of my experience grounded

In the Christian traditions of the black church.

Specifically, the AME tradition.

That being said does not mean I only see life from

this perspective.

I feel I’ve been blessed my entire life, and I’ve

Found that my God & my relationship is the same no matter where I am.

I hope you enjoy the above video.

If you did then be sure and click on this link sent to me by my friend and business associate, Leland Heath: “The Purpose of Life – Part 2.”

You may learn more about her at her web site Heaven & Earth Oasis.

As I always, “I thank you for yourtime.”

Sam

“If you correct your mind, The rest of your life will fall into place.” Lao Tzu

Those who wish to sing, always find a song.

Swedish proverb

Update 05/14/13

Life is good. I ran across a movie called” Money & Life.” You will find it in the Money Section on the right menu. It is worth

your time. Enjoy!

As I always, “I thank you for your time.”

Sam