Author: Marvin Allen

You can’t achieve anything if you don’t believe it’s possible.It’s not magic, energy, or a mystical law? It’s simply brain chemistry. For if you didn’t think something was possible you would not attempt it in the first place.Thus, it follows that you must first believe that that which you hope to achieve is possible. The…

The art of reinventing oneself. The only thing that all great teachers encourage is finding out what’s true to you and then unapologetically living that truth.It’s what Hugh Heffner did.It’s what Caroline Myss talks about when she says that self-esteem is what’s lacking most. So, in fact there are two steps to this process: Perhaps…

What am I trying to understand? The spirit, the law, desires, attraction, life, philosophy and history. Yet, do not all spring from the same well? The most profound truth is the most ordinary one.Just as making bread can be the same as performing a sacred ritual. You! You! What are you here to teach me?A…

Goes to show again that we don’t really need new stuff just because we have old stuff that doesn’t exactly work as would like it to.Broken? Fix it! Consumerist frenzy always takes a toll. And the toll is on your soul.There is no mirroring the satisfaction gained from crafting our way to success. Success handed…

Und Leichtigkeit erfüllt die StraßenWir tanzen in Parks zusammenUnter dem ständigen Summen der Stadt People, artists, my people, gatheringAsk me what they have in common?A lightness of social graces unknown to the world. And for the first time this yearMy spirits reviveNot just my former self, my best selfWhat a world when people are at…

Some say it was meant to be.How do you know when it is? On days like these, rays beaming, laying in the park.My head in her lap, sensing the subtle whisps of her breath on my face.And all is still, yet just as it should be.And I, then, not able to whither at the moment,…