Character

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” - John Wooden

Washington, DC * NDM

Faith

“Faith,
Waiting in the heart of a seed, 
Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.” 

― Kabir

Lone Star Capitol* NDM 2013

Secret Sound

“Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. 
The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all.” 

― Kabir

Suva, Fiji * 2015 NDM

Dropping Keys

“The small man builds cages for everyone he knows,   

while the sage, 

who has to duck his head when the moon is low,   

keeps dropping keys all night long for the beautiful, rowdy prisoners.” 

― Hāfez

Big Island, HI * 2015 NDM

Moon Language

“Why not become the one

Who lives with a full moon in each eye

That is always saying,

With that sweet moon 

Language

What every other eye in this world

Is dying to 

Hear?” 

― Hāfez

Pearl Harbor 2015 * NDM

Truth

“If you want the truth, 

I’ll tell you the truth: 

Listen to the secret sound, 

the real sound, 

which is inside you.” 

― Kabir

Mobile, AL * 2015 NDM

Abundance Affirmation

Abundance depends upon your connection to your creativity, the purpose in your heart and your ability to express this with enthusiasm.

God Speaking

“Everyone is God speaking. Why not be polite and listen… ?” 

― Hāfez

Luau* 2015 NDM

Sun & Moon

“the sun is within me and so is the moon” 

― Kabir

Kiribati* 2015 NDM

Stay Close

“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” 

― Hāfez

Austin, TX *2014 NDM

What We Speak

“What we speak becomes the house we live in.”

― Hāfez

Pearl Harbor* 2015 NDM

A Love Like That

“And still, after all this time,

The sun never says to the earth,

"You owe Me."

Look what happens with

A love like that,

It lights the Whole Sky.” 

― Hāfez

Honolulu, HI * 2015 NDM

Ocean Drop

“All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.” 

― Kabir

American Samoa * 2015 NDM

Invitation to the Universe

Invite new, positive vibrations into your life and open yourself to infinite possibility.
Trust the Universe to attract the exact circumstances and opportunities that fulfill your deepest desires.

Bee Caves, Texas * 2016 NDM

Starting Over

Being able to persist is not the most important thing--the ability to start over is.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Austin, TX *2014 NDM

Mosquito

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
                                                                                                              - Dalai Lama XIV

NDM 2014

Thinking

Thinking is seeing. Honore de Balzac 

As things are

We don't see things the way they are, we see them as we are.  Anais Nin

Chevrolet. Austin, 2014* NDM

First a Dream

Nothing happens unless first a dream. Carl Sandburg

Austin, Texas 2014* NDM

Seeing

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.    --Goethe

Austin, TX 2014* NDM

Live the Life

Live the life you've imagined.  Thoreau

Unmoving

Can you remain unmoving
until the right action arises by itself?
                                       --Tao Te Ching

Dallas, TX 2016 NDM

True Life

“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.” 
                                                                            –Leo Tolstoy. 

NDM * 2014

See

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.  Goethe

Dallas, TX 2016

Imagine

Because we can imagine we are free. Sartre

White Rock Lake. Dallas, TX * NDM 2016

Life

"Life is no brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch 
which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn 
as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations" - George Bernard Shaw

Springtime in Dallas. NDM 2016

The Past.

The past does not dictate the future;  it informs only the present.

NDM

Be Yourself

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.  

Oscar Wilde

NDM

Room to fill

Austin 78704 2015 NDM

A 'nervous nellie' remains in the past.

However, this is not to be confused with a person who plans for the future.

Understanding what could happen paves the way with options.

The glass can be half full with room to fill.

Be

2015 NDM

Teach, don't fix.

Empower, don't save.

Be, don't do.