lara simmons

  " The only way to enhance one's power in the world is by increasing one's integrity, understanding, and capacity for compassion. "    --David R. Hawkins, MD, PhD   I have been thinking a lot about INTEGRITY today because we are trying to buy a home in a super-hot real estate market and we seem to be running into a LOT of greed and not a lot of integrity. It's disheartening.    The temptation is to play "the game" along with everyone else; make promises you know you won't keep, make offers you have no intention of honoring, throw a little BS of your own onto the pile. But it just doesn't FEEL RIGHT. So we aren't. We are staying in our integrity, being honest about who we are and what we are willing to do and hoping...that our integrity attracts the right and perfect home for us.   Either way, I am finding that there is a certain power in doing the right thing, even if it doesn't yield the result you want. It's an internal power that ...

Simple kindness to one's self and all that lives  is the most powerful transformational force of all.  -- David R. Hawkins  ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ Be a force for good. Practice kindness. 28 Days of Kindness .

"...[T]o forgive is to be forgiven." --David R Hawkins from his book, Power VS Force

 Aside from (a photo of) Tony Danza at the top of the Empire State Building, I thought we would be leaving New York without a true celebrity citing, but while sitting at Gate 9 in Terminal 5 at JFK waiting for our flight to be called, we saw a young man surrounded by paparazzi and soon learned that he was none other than Phillip Phillips (in red plaid). What struck me about him was how young and how average he looked. He was no one you would expect to be followed by a crowd of people all documenting his every move. And it occurred to me just how random celebrity is. Not that he isn't talented. He is . Probably very talented. But he's also just a person. Like all of us. And, like him, we are all talented, each in our own way. Some of us in ways that are quiet and go mostly unnoticed, others of us in ways that are loud and can't help but be seen and heard by all of the world. Whatever your talents, may they be noticed and appreciated. And as you move about the worl...

"A mind that's being watched becomes more humble and begins to relinquish its claims to omniscience - a growth in awareness can then take place." -- David R. Hawkins, MD, PhD, from his book " Power vs. Force "