Gratitude and Trust: Six Affirmations That Will Change Your Life

Clarity, Faith, Gratitude, Guides

I DON’T UNDERSTAND

  I don’t understand electricity. I use it anyway. Every day.  My ignorance has little effect on the value of the voltage. Recently, on late night radio, I heard that a light bulb isn’t really a constant light. It’s something like 60 flashes Per second. We see it as a constant.   I did a little research and found this. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/solar-at-home/2011/08/18/how-optical-illusions-can-build-a-better-bulb/ Okay.  Got it. Not really. It’s fascinating but, a little above my pay grade. It’s information that sent me racing… Read More

Ego, Emotions, Gratitude, Guides, Living Fully

SECOND BANANA SYNDROME

  second banana noun Informal. 1. a comic who supports the leading comedian, often as a straight man, especially in burlesque or vaudeville. 2. any person who plays a secondary role or serves in a subsidiary capacity.   This is a very interesting blog for me to write, especially this week.  But I have been thinking if not this week – when? I’m writing it for several reasons; the first might be selfish, as I discover much about myself when… Read More

Guides, Letting Go, Trust

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Fear, Guides, Hanging In There, Living Fully

Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

Guides, Patience

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

Clarity, Guides, Living Fully

All know the way; few actually walk it.

Bravery, Freedom, Guides, Hanging In There, Happiness, Living Fully, Mindfulness, Patience

LET IT BE or SOMETIMES DOWN DOG IS ENOUGH

Sometimes in life you just have to let things be.  Now, this is not always easy for me and for many it’s often easier said than done. It’s a topic we address here are at Gratitude and Trust from time to time.  But last week I was blown away by an example that I just had to share. I tend to be a serious type A. I worry when I’m not accomplishing and doing, and I have the not so… Read More

Guides

SEEING STARS ANEW

My favorite health benefit of smoking cigars is the opportunity they offer simply to think. A few nights ago, I mulled over Paul’s recent blog on love and home with a Cusano 18 under the stars. The meditation on gratitude, trust, and starlight brought to mind one of my favorite Robert Frost poems, A Question: A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul and body scars Were not too… Read More

Guides

BUILDING TRUE WEALTH – DR. DAN’S THREE ECONOMIES

  Thank you Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson for having blessed and enriched us all with the new website “Gratitude and Trust ”.  I look forward to reading the 2014 release of your book as well. I am honored and grateful again in accepting your invitation to become a Gratitude and Trust guest author. In this first writing I plan to share some simple secrets of building true wealth. I hope by the time you finish reading this that you… Read More

Guides

MAKE FRIENDS WITH YOUR MIND

Last weekend I was reunited with my friend Peter after not seeing him for a year and a half.  Peter is a fascinating man, who happens to be a masterful haircutter. Peter has been cutting my hair for many years. Peter is also deeply spiritual.  In fact the reason I had not seen him was Peter took off from his successful career (he also had his own reality show) and spent the last eighteen months in an ashram in India.… Read More