“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…
“If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.” ~ Hazel Henderson We can never know for sure exactly what the future holds. But there is one thing you really…
“Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.” ~ Mother Teresa Before you speak, before you act, before everything you do, connect with Spirit. Close your eyes, take a deep breath, ask for guidance, open your eyes, and then act. With true intention, one…
“He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.” ~ James Allen, As a Man Thinketh When you want to create a change in your life, you have to change yourself first. And that change won’t come without you releasing old…
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.…
“Champions keep playing until they get it right.” ~ Billie Jean King Anyone can be a champion, but few are. Why? Because it doesn’t happen overnight. The champion mentality is developed through training and trials and moving through all sorts of challenges. Nothing can substitute for experience — whether of success, defeat, or the entirely…
“Where there’s no thought, there’s no problem. It’s the story that we believe, prior to investigation, that leaves us confused.” ~ Byron Katie, Loving What Is Confusion can be frustrating, can’t it? Oftentimes it makes us feel stupid. And no one wants to feel stupid. But, you know what, my friend? Confusion comes one step before…