“Anytime you can get thrown off your sense of well-being by conditions outside of yourself, you are powerless, in a state of reaction to the world around you. When the source of your experience is external, you have given away your power.” ~ David Pond, The Pursuit of Happiness Have you ever noticed how your immediate…
“Thoughts are like data programmed into a computer, registered on the screen of your life. If you don’t like what you see on the screen, there’s no point in going up to the screen and trying to erase it. Thought is Cause; experience is Effect. If you don’t like the effects in your life, you…
“The words ‘This, too, will pass’ are pointers toward reality. In pointing to the impermanence of all forms, by implication, they are also pointing to the eternal. Only the eternal in you can recognize the impermanent as impermanent.” ~ Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth You know, my friend, we are spirit having a human experience, but…
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt Life is either expanding or contracting, my friend, and it doesn’t take long once the expansion stops before the contraction begins. What state is your life…
“By seeking and blundering we learn.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There’s no such thing as a mistake. Oh, you may look back with regret about something, but those are the very “mistakes” you’ll be sure to not make again. Chalk everything up to experience and simply strive to be better. It’s now water under…