“Our tendency is to believe that while things are not going well outside of us, everything is just fine within ourselves. That’s an idea we need to examine… We should not think the problem lies outside us. We have accumulations of suffering and conflict within us. We have a war going on inside.” ~ Thich…
“We must practice separating ourselves from our negative moods and thoughts in the midst of all the troubles and disasters of daily life. No one can be different from what he is now unless he begins to separate himself from his present reactions and to identify himself with his aim. Detachment from negative states and…
“The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.” ~ Julie Cameron Make it your top priority to find yourSelf, my friend. Be still and listen carefully. Determine what feels right to you, what feels best to you, what brings you joy. You are the…
“You never can tell what a thought will do In bringing you hate or love – For thoughts are things, and their airy wings Are swifter than carrier doves. They follow the law of the universe – Each thing creates its kind, And they speed O’er the track to bring you back Whatever went out…
“Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.” ~ Joyce Meyer Everything boils down to attitude. How you feel, the response you receive, the results you get, they all reflect your attitude every step along the way. So, would you like to change your experience? If…
“Find a place inside where there’s joy and the joy will burn out the pain.” ~ Joseph Campbell Polar opposites are the two extremes of the same continuum: dark and light, hot and cold, rich and poor. When you’re experiencing one, you’re not experiencing the other, right? Learn how to work with them, my friend.…
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath…
COMPASSION EXERCISE Honesty with yourself leads to compassion for others. Objective: To increase the amount of compassion in the world. Expected Result: A personal sense of peace. Instructions: This exercise can be done anywhere that people congregate (airports, malls, parks, beaches, etc.). It should be done on strangers, unobtrusively, from some distance. Try to do all five steps…
The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea; And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes. But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure; And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is…
“Prayer is a concentration and fear is a concentration, and as prayer brings things that are desired by the prayerful, so fear brings things that are feared… Mastery lies in creative concentration of mind. The mind impressed by one’s faults and by one’s weaknesses becomes feeble and meets failures, and cannot hold a desired thought…