"A total immersion in
life offers the best clasroom
for learning to love."
L. Buscaglia

"Just because the message
may never be recieved
does not mean it is not
worth sending."
Segaki

"All learning involves searching,
finding, analyzing, evaluating,
experiencing, accepting, rejecting,
practicing and reinforcement."
L. Buscaglia

"Learning is a complicated life-long process.
To learn to love is to be in constant change.
The process is endless,
for man's potential to love is infinate."
L. Buscaglia

"One can only move toward change
when he willfully arrives at a
proposal to do so.
L. Buscaglia

" 'To be is to do,'
say; the existentialist."
L. Buscaglia

"One only becomes real (Human)
at the point of action."
L. Buscaglia

Doubt is an invitation to think.
M. Alibrando

"Don't be afraid to climb out on a limb,
That's where the fruit is."
L. Buscaglia

Originally written - November 23, 1993

Language is only one expression of our thoughts.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - November 21, 1993

Each new year is best begun with a reflection of the past to help map out the path ahead.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - May 26, 1995

See yourself as being many things and as
being capable of being many more things.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - September 16, 1993

"Once we truly know the life is difficult -
once we truly understand and accept it -
then life is no longer difficult.
M. S. Peck

"Life is a series of problems.
Do we want to moan about them
or solve them?"
M. S. Peck

"Yet it is this whole process of
meeting and solving problems
that life has it's meaning.
M. S. Peck

It is natural for rain and water to
fill up empty spaces
on the ground.

Puddles, ponds, lakes
and oceans all
get filled and refilled.

But even if there was no water,
these same spaces would
be filled with atmosphere.
Air replaces water.

Take away the air and
all you have left is
light or darkness to
fill the empty spaces.

M. Alibrando

"The mind and the spirit are one and the same."
Me misquoting M. S. Peck

"The journey of spiritual growth is a long one."
M. S. Peck

"Life is difficult."
M. S. Peck

"...face the blank page."
Me misquoting N. Kelton

"...express what is in your heart and mind..."
Me misquoting N. Kelton

"The more you write,
the freer you'll become ."
N. Kelton

"The way to get better is by writing."
N. Kelton

"Discipline requires both
flexibility and judgment."
Me misquoting M. S. Peck

"Balancing gives us flexibility."
Me misquoting M. S. Peck

Learn when to let go.
M. Alibrando

"...the loss of balance
is ultimately more painful
than the giving up required to
maintain balance."
M. S. Peck

"...the withholding of essential information is
the most common form of lying."
M. S. Peck

"The more honest one is,
the easier it is to
continue to be honest,
just as the more lies one has told,
the more necessary it is
to lie again.
M. S. Peck

"You know, it's about seeing the world as what it can be and not what it is."
K.R. Sridhar

"Two wrong make a fight."
Anonymous

Let it go.
M. Alibrando

In the eternal tension of opposites
there can be only one winner.
M Alibrando

"Love is the only rational act."
"Love wins. Love always wins!"
L. Buscaglia

Often a great triumph comes after many failures.
M. Alibrando

Keep writing even after
you are successful.
Whatever makes you successful
will keep you successful long after
your first triumph as long as you
remember what brought you to it
in the first place.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - December 29, 2009

Before we can do away with prejudice, hatred and war,
we must all obtain stable, secure lives free from fear and anxiety.

It is impossible to become a self-actualizer,
if your needs for learning and understanding are not met.
Your self-actualizer is the "real-self" within the eye of the "storm-self."

To begin to develop the "real-self" one must make the journey inward
through the layer after layer of "storm-self."
M. Alibrando

Originally written - December 3, 1994

You can face your fears by putting them on the page.
M. Alibrando

What is you legacy?
What will you leave behind?
M. Alibrando

Good writing is always personal.
M. Alibrando

"Don't wish for apples.
Grow strong trees.
L. Buscaglia

To achieve bliss one must
write what one feels.
M. Alibrando

Truths are useless unless
you share them
with other truth seekers.
M. Alibrando

"Everything in the universe
goes by indirection.
There are no straight lines."
R. W. Emerson

"Indirection is everything.
Metaphor is medicine."
R. Bradbury

"So, it seems, we are all science-fictional children
dreaming ourselves into new ways of survival."
R. Burdbury

"Everywhere we look: Problems.
Everywhere we further deeply look: Solutions.
R. Bradbury

"Dream and learn and build."
R. Bradbury

"What we are trying to do is find a way
to release the truth that lies in all of us."
R. Bradbury

"What do I really think of the world?
What do I love, fear, hate?"
R. Bradbury

"Let the world burn through you."
R. Bradbury

"By work, by quantitative experience,
man releases himself from obligation
to anything but the task at hand."
R. Bradbury

"The writer must let his fingers run out the story of his characters,
who, being human and full of strange dreams and obsessions,
are only to glad to run."
R. Bradbury

"To fail is to give up."
R. Bradbury

"Quality gives experience.
From experience alone can quality come."
R. Bradbury

"All arts, big and small,
are the elimination of waste in motion
in favor of concise declaration."
R. Bradbury

"His greatest art will oft be
what he does not say,
what he leaves out,
his ability to state simply
with clear emotion,
the way he wants to go."
R. Bradbury

What path are you on and why did you choose it?

Did you choose this road for the direction it is heading -
the destination -
or for the road itself -
the material it is made of?

Or, are you simply on this road for the scenery?
M. Alibrando

"You need to keep finding yourself a little more each day."
R. Bach

"Overcome your limitations in order, patiently."
R. Bach

"Like everything else - practice..."
R. Bach

Originally written - November 15, 2009

A book of a thousand pages begins with a first sentence.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - August 13, 2009

"For I believe that eventually
quantity will make for quality."
R. Bradbury

"Each of you,
curious about creativity,
wants to make contact
with that thing in yourself
that is truly original."
R. Bradbury

Work.
Be not it's slave,
But it's partner.
Make work a joy,
not a burden.
M. Alibrando

"Listen to yourself."
Me misquoting N. Kelton

A writer writes because he or she cannot NOT write.
A singer sing because he or she cannot NOT sing.

What do you do because you cannot NOT do it?
What is you passion?
What brings your words forth?
What makes you sing?
M. Alibrando