“You are not your thoughts. You are not your beliefs. You are not even your emotions, though all these have much to teach. However, the closest you can ever come to the wellspring that is you is through your desires and feelings. They’re magical, they’re unique — they’re exclusively yours — and they should be…
“Fear is man’s worst enemy for you attract what you fear. It is faith turned upside down. It is really Faith in evil instead of good.” ~ Florence Scovel Shinn It’s time to face your fears, my friend. You are their only source of power — your belief in them. It’s up to you to…
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” ~ Albert Einstein Get that, my friend? Go ahead, let your imagination run wild. Oh, but wait! As long as it feels good, that is. Make sure you like what you’re imagining. Otherwise, you’ll be in for some troubled times ahead!
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt Whether others criticize you or not, your heart should be your only judge. At the end of the day, it’s how you feel in your heart that determines how well you sleep. And you know, my…
“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…
“We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.” ~ Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person Oh, my friend, we’re so good at noticing everything that’s not right. We have this ache and pain…so-and-so always behaves that way…we…
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” ~ Voltaire Have you ever noticed how great you feel when you are appreciating something? It doesn’t even matter what it is — it could be your child or an acorn. Your state of appreciation is like the…
“Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.” ~ Florence Nightingale Where would the impetus to grow and change come from if not from your discontent? Think of it as a nudge from your Higher Self. You see, my friend, everything really does serves a purpose.
“All judgement creates distance, a disconnection, an experience of difference. In fixing there is an inequality of expertise that can easily become a moral distance. We can only serve that to which we are profoundly connected, that which we are willing to touch. This is Mother Teresa’s basic message. We serve life not because it…
“I believe everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” ~ Marilyn…