If Oprah digs him, I can too

"We live in stressful times and are bombarded daily with bad news.  In contrast, how little we hear about the trend of tremendous good that is being done, the trend of compassionate, generous humanitarian action that is occurring on the planet.  Here's some good news: we have the power to unlock ourselves in this very instant, to drop the cell phone, the earplugs, and just for a while, sit still and simply be.  Not be someone, but rest in our pure being.

"Right on the ground where you now stand, dare to unhook from all of the complaining, excuses, projections onto others, blaming - all the rackets that we run in order to cope with life.  It is absolutely within our ability to rejuvenate, regenerate, and resurrect ourselves.  When we hear about others who have transcended their individual challenges, we can be confident that they have first transcended the tyranny of trends by beholding a deeper dimension of their innermost core."

From "Spiritual Liberation," by Michael Bernard Beckwith