What the planet needs most…
The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.
~ Dalai Lama
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Colorful days
Your life is a canvas…make sure you paint yourself a whole lot of colorful days.
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Be kind to one another
Be kind to one another, even if you disagree on stuff.
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Gratitude for what “is”
Forever is composed of Nows.
~ Emily Dickinson
Something to think about…
Gratitude for what “is” prepares us for the blessings just around the corner. What is so necessary to understand is that our wait for what’s around the corner closes our eyes to the joys of the present moment.
We have only the 24 hours ahead of us. In fact, all we can be certain of having is the moment we are presently experiencing. And it is a gift to be enjoyed. There is no better gift just right for us than this moment, at this time.
We can, each of us, look back on former days, realizing that we learned too late the value of a friend or an experience. Both are now gone. With practice and a commitment to ourselves, we can learn to reap the benefits of today, hour by hour. When we detach from the present and wait for tomorrow, or next week, or look to next year, we are stunting our spiritual growth. Life can only bless us now, one breath at a time.
Source (modified): Each Day a New Beginning | Hazelden Meditations
A new beginning
If you’re looking for a happy ending and can’t find one, find a new beginning instead.
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Diamonds vs. charcoal
A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally well.
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Don’t be afraid of change
Don’t be afraid of change, because it’s leading you to a new beginning.
Something to think about…
Everything changes. Nothing stays the same. And letting go of the way things are, anticipating instead what they might become, frees us to live each moment more fully.
Time marches on, and our destiny marches with it. There is purpose in how our lives unfold; the ups and downs serve our growth. We must neither resent the doldrums nor savor too long the elation. Giving too much attention to either state interferes with our awareness of the present. And the present has come to teach us.
We must move with time. We must focus our attention on the moment and accept whatever feelings each experience elicits. Emotional maturity is accepting our feelings and letting them go, and facing the next moment with fresh receptivity. Our lessons are many, and they accompany the lows as well as the highs. We can be grateful for both.
Nothing lasts forever, and within each struggle is the opportunity for real growth.
Source (modified): Each Day a New Beginning | Hazelden Meditations
Live a life of love
Live a life of love, honesty, appreciataion, kindness, and strength…sprinkled with a little silliness.
Parents can only give good advice
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
~ Anne Frank
Annelies “Anne” Marie Frank was one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. She was a person of great character and spirit. The full quote from her diary was this: “How true Daddy’s words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.”
Success vs. Happiness
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
~ Albert Schweitzer
We are healed in our healing of others
In giving, we heal ourselves.
Something to think about…
Someone will be helped today by our kindness. Compassionate attention assures others that they do matter, and every one of us needs that reassurance occasionally. Offering words of encouragement to others, or a willing ear, can be unexpected gifts. They will be deepy appreciated.
A secondary gift, though, is to ourselves. Helping someone in need benefits the helper just as much. Our own closeness to God — and thus, assurance about our own being — is strengthened each time we do God’s work, each time we do what our hearts direct.
We are healed in our healing of others. God speaks to us through our words to others. Our own well-being is enhanced each time we put someone else’s well-being first.
We’re all on a trip, following different road maps, but to the same destination. Be ready to lend a helping hand to a troubled traveler today. It will breathe new life into your own trip.
Source (modified): Each Day a New Beginning | Hazelden Meditations
The tapestry of life
We don’t accomplish anything in this life alone…and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.
~ Sandra Day O’Connor
Something to think about…
We each are spinning our individual threads, lending texture, color, pattern, to the “big-design” that is serving us all. Person by person, our actions, our thoughts, our values complement those of others, those of the entire human race. We are heading toward the same destination, all of us, and our paths run parallel on occasion, intersect perdiodically, and veer off in singleness of purpose when inspiration calls us.
It’s comforting to be reminded that our lives are purposeful. What we are doing presently, our interactions with other people, our goals, have an impact that is felt by many others. We are interdependent. Our behavior is triggering important thoughts and responses in someone else, consistently and methodically. No one of us is without a contribution to make. Each one of us is giving what we are called upon to give when we are in a right relationship with God, who is the master artist in this design we are creating.
Source (modified): Each Day a New Beginning | Hazelden Meditations
The happiest people
The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything.
Being kind or being right
If you have to choose between being kind and being right, choose being kind and you will always be right.
Courage is not the absence of fear
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
If you always speak of your troubles
If you always speak of your troubles, you will always have troubles to speak of.
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