“So, how do you get back to heaven? To begin with, just notice the thoughts that take you away from it. You don’t have to believe everything your thoughts tell you. Just become familiar with the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness. It may seem strange at first to get to know…
“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…
“Your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.” ~ Raymond Charles Barker So, my friend, what have you decided your life shall be? Do you realize that where you are now, the conditions that define your life, are the ones you have decided upon by your thoughts? I ask that because many…
“Stubborn problems always require a shift in paradigm.” ~ Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness So exactly what is a paradigm? Well, my friend, it’s your pattern of thoughts, beliefs and habits that control your behavior, actions, and life. Do you like the results you’re experiencing — life as you know it? If not, you…
Achieving your goals requires paying the price of: “…understanding emotionally as well as intellectually that we literally become what we think about; that we must control our thoughts if we’re to control our lives. It’s understanding fully that… “as ye sow, so shall ye reap.” ~ Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret The bottom line, my friend, is…
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.” ~ Swami Vivekananda In every moment, with every thought you think, you are generating a vibration which you offer to the world. A single thought in and of itself lacks the power…
“Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.” ~ Swami Vivekananda Every religion, every teaching, has goodness and truths. There’s nothing new out there. In all these thoughts and quotes we share, not one is unique. But it may just be,…
“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…
“If you fill your heart with love and gratitude, you will find yourself surrounded by so much that you can love and that you can feel grateful for, and you can even get closer to enjoying the life of health and happiness that you seek. But what will happen if you emit signals of hate,…
“Unlike animals, we have the ability to turn on the fight-or-flight response by thought alone. And that thought doesn’t have to be about anything in our present circumstances. We can turn on that response in anticipation of some future event. Even more disadvantageous, we can produce the same stress response by revisiting an unhappy memory…”…