“To have love and peace in your heart is a good thing but it is a far better thing to share them with someone else. Thank you.”

- Abram

I AM deeply touched by the un-
speakable nature of your work.
It's the realm of mystics and poets,
painters and Blake, Saint-Germain, and
Saint-Marie too, for that matter.

I am listening to Bob Dylan's 'Knockin' On Heaven's Door', as my mind is drawn to the brave people in Iran who are struggling for their freedom, and who must feel Heaven's Door very close at hand.

“When you are looking at the abilities you have, always celebrate yourself for having those abilities.

Never discount yourself. Always raise yourself up into being a celebration every day. And with that, celebrate every day.

Thank you.”

(c) Copyright 2008, 2009 Tom Massari. All Rights Reserved.

Occasionally an issue or topic will stir some emotion or passion. I've realized that just writing a few lines can help integrate the energy and settle uneasiness. So, I will avail myself of the opportunity to express some thoughts from time to time, seeking primarily my own sense of ease.

"I understand that these cuts are very painful and they affect real lives. This is the harsh reality and the reality that we face. Sacramento is not Washington -- we cannot print our own money. We can only spend what we have."

- Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger quoted in Time, May 22, 2009

Christmas comes early, Governor. You can print your own money. Fiscally solvent North Dakota is doing it...and so can California. Now!

“It was horrible. Horrible! Like lightning it struck. No one was prepared. The shelves in the grocery stores were empty. You could buy nothing with your paper money.” – Harvard University law professor Friedrich Kessler on the Weimar Republic hyperinflation (1993 interview)

Some worried commentators are predicting a massive hyperinflation of the sort suffered by Weimar Germany in 1923, when a wheelbarrow full of paper money could barely buy a loaf of bread. An April 29 editorial in the San Francisco Examiner warned:

“With an unprecedented deficit that’s approaching $2 trillion, [the President’s 2010] budget proposal is a surefire prescription for hyperinflation. So every senator and representative who votes for this monster $3.6 trillion budget will be endorsing a spending spree that could very well turn America into the next Weimar Republic.”1

“Success is a state of mind. Failure is a state of mind. Wellness is a state of mind. Ill health is a state of mind.

Everything you do is a state of mind. Your entire reality is a state of mind. But really – what is state of mind? State of mind really is simply choice and focus.

Thank you. I love you.”

(c) Copyright 2008, 2009 Tom Massari. All Rights Reserved.

If couples were to only understand what they are doing when they introduce anger and arguments into the relationship then they would hopefully have the motivation to solve their mental imbalances, their insecurities. The unfortunate reality is the only person who can overcome insecurities is the person with the insecurities, not the spouse, not the friends, and not the parents.