May Soul-Biz

History of Mother’s Day  Three special celebrations dating back to antiquity were the inspiration for Mother’s day.   The Greek Spring Festival in honor of Rhea (she who flows), both sister and wife of Cronus in Greek mythology who save her last child Zeus from being swallowed up by Cronus; Roman festival Hilaria in honor of Cybele, mother goddess 250 years BC who rescued Attis from the river bank (March 25 –...

March Soul Biz – 2012

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell. C. S. Lewis Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C. S. Lewis All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain? Buddha An insincere and...

February Soul Biz – 2012

“We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character”  Henry David Thoreau (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)   ******   “If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”  Henry David Thoreau...

January Soul Biz – 2012

Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve.  Middle age is when you’re forced to.  ~Bill Vaughn Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better...

December Soul Biz – 2011

Come out of the circle of time,  and into the circle of love.  Rumi ****** We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin  ****** I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round,  as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of,  in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by...

November Soul Biz – 2011

Bluebird by Mark Catesby [Bluebirds] make their nests in holes of trees, are harmless birds, and resemble our robin-redbreast. Mark Catesby *** A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. Chinese Proverb *** I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been...