Trula

I believe guidance comes from within. You know what you want in life, and you know how to get there. Intuitively, I believe. If you are unsure of who you want to be, what kind of life you want to have, how you wish to live, when you want to do things, where you want [...]

I hate rushing. I detest being rushed. I hate being late somewhere. For most of my life, I have been a tardy, rushed person. For years I have been saying this is something about myself I wanted to change, but for years I continued to do the same things that cause me to be late [...]

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
~anon
Sometimes it seems to me that I do things with the best of intentions, with the utmost planning to details, but then get easily thrown off track when anything slightly goes not according to plan. I am starting to understand that a certain flexibility is [...]

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
~Joseph Campbell
I’ve been struggling with some things lately, mostly health-related, that have left me feeling very sorry for myself and thrown off track. Really getting into feeling pathetic and sorry for myself. I [...]

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.
~ Robin Norwood
I love this quote because it is so pure and straight-forward, just so stunningly crystal clear that it’s almost shocking. Your recovery, from whatever it may be that is holding you back in life, should be your first priority. For someone like myself who [...]

“All I ever wanted was what I have now – to be in a stable relationship and have dogs. And yet all my life I have been like a magnet for traumatic experiences.”
~Augusten Burroughs
I read this in an interview writer Augusten Burroughs did with The Independent and it struck me to my core. This used [...]

“Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
~Jack London
I love this quote. Over the years I have used it as a reminder to myself when I don’t want to give or share my meager resources, because most of the time I have been pressed for money [...]

I think this project is a great positive step forward. Take the Civility Pledge:
I will be civil in my public discourse and behavior.
I will be respectful of others whether or not I agree with them.
I will stand against incivility when I see it.

I’ve been thinking about this for some time. The giving away of personal power and how it has manifested itself in my life. I read a post today on another blog that really made me think on this, the writer basically said being around certain people was psychologically destructive to her. Believe me, I understand [...]

I believe this because my understanding of the universe, which is strongly based on math/science, is that everything has to balance out. I feel that one of the effects of going within, to see, to understand yourself and be rooted in your soul and work on your mind, your identity, etc, is that you will [...]

The great, dominant, all controlling fact of this life is the innate bias of the human spirit, not towards evil, as theologists tell us, but towards good. But for that bias, man would never have been man; he would only have been one more species of wild man ranging a savage, uncultivated globe, the reeking [...]

Real power is usually unspectacular, a simple setting aside of fear that allows the free flow of love. But is changes everything.
~Martha Beck
I read this quote recently in O magazine in an article about power. It struck me, the truth and simplicity in it. One of my biggest stumbling blocks in life is fear, [...]

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.
~Jean Kerr
I saw this quote today and thought it was so apropos to how I’m feeling these days. Sometimes it is easy to get caught up and bogged down by all the realities of day-to-day living…in these stressful times that too often means [...]

Today’s Quote:
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. ~Henry David Thoreau
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately…that a fundamental aspect of being a person is having the ability to choose who you are, how you’re going to act/react, how you’re going [...]

The blue of the sky always gets me…it’s so open and welcoming; such an expression of hope. It makes me feel uplifted especially when I am feeling down. I look up, and the blue washes into me. Instant attitude adjustment.
Today’s quote:
What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had [...]

I’m re-reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, a wonderful book by Stephen Covey. I’ve picked up this book and read it a number of times, but have yet to take on the 7 habits as an integral part of my psyche. I know it’s good info that can help me progress in life, [...]

So I wrote on a message board community of which I am a part a long post (really, it was quite a tome) about some issues happening among members of my family.  Someone involved saw it and was very hurt by it and felt I was talking bad about her behind her back because, well, [...]

I do think the world would be a fantastic place if we all acted out of love and pride instead of shame and fear. I think people feel ashamed sometimes because they feel it was their fault that they are in the situation they are in. Even if it is, they still should have enough [...]

I am fascinated with communication. On the surface talking to another person or people seems like such a simple thing, but it can be really difficult to understand what people mean sometimes. It is also often very hard to express what I intend sometimes…this is something I struggle with and more often than I’d care [...]

Personal growth has been a big passion of mine for many years. It’s a journey, really, with no set ending as far as I can see because there is so much I need to learn about myself, about other people, about how to be a good person in this world, among other things, that it [...]