From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.

Preaching vs Teaching:The difference between preaching and teaching: one makes you feel good, the other makes you grow.

When you grow your own garden, it grows you.

Given the opportunity of 'Earth-School' enrollment - some are humble enough to learn and grow, stubborn enough to fail and repeat, and wise enough to graduate and never return.

When 'Dirty Mack' salts your flow, get beyond feelings of hurt, anger, bitterness, and especially vengeance. Be glad, and take refuge in knowing light has been cast on the shadow of hatred, envy or jealousy that has mocked your shine. And press forward with your purpose - allowing time and space to clear the way for karmic justice on your behalf.

My borrowed power insists that negative situations, too, assist me on the path to greater becoming. It's never about the circumstance(s); these are surface level 'symptomatics'. How we deal with the energy it brings, however, is telling of how we choose to respond. There's no escaping Earth-School lessons. Embrace that it's still about your development, and not the illusion of fear's representative attempting to lead you astray. Be conscious and see free.

Tough love may be tough to give, but it is a necessity of life and assurance of positive growth.

You'll never cross an emotional bridge, if you keep rushing back to the other side.

Do more than just exist; create to inspire!