Receiving the grace of God's love has nothing whatsoever to do with the conditions of our life. It has everything to do with the condition of our heart. - Mary Manin Morrissey
*The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Toffler
A good daily exercise for soul loss would be to stare at something in creation until it begins to stare back. As Gerard Manley Hopkins said, ‘What you look at hard seems to look at you. These wise words could be rephrased, What you look at intensely awakens you to the reality that everything is alive. All creation looks at and can talk to those who are not soul-dead.’ - Edward Hays in The Ladder
The opportunity for perfect love is given to us every day. All we have to do is look at a circumstance that feels imperfect and recognize it as a gift. We can take whatever faces us and find the good. We can take whatever is in our hearts and find perfect love. - Mary Manin Morrissey
You are a rich and creative spiritual being. You can never be less than this. You may frustrate your potential. You may identify with that which is less than what you can be. But within you now and always is the unborn possibility of a limitless experience of inner stability and outer treasure, and yours is the privilege of giving birth to it. And you will, if you can believe. - Eric Butterworth, Spiritual Economics
One of the great mental laws is the Law of Substitution. This means that the only way to get rid of a certain thought is to substitute another one for it. You cannot dismiss a thought directly. You can do so only by substituting another one for it. If I say to you, Do not think of the Statue of Liberty, of course, you immediately think of it. If I say, I am not going to think of the Statue of Liberty, that is thinking about it. But if you become interested in something else, you forget all about the Statue of
If you had a car outfitted for the Indy 500, would you fill it with low-octane fuel and recycled oil? If you thought you had a shot at winning the Boston Marathon, would you subsist on a diet of Twinkies? Of course not. What you put in a car determines its performance. What you put in your body affects its health. Yet we often ignore what we're putting into something even more powerful, and that is our minds. We fill our minds with the junk food of gossip, fear, anxiety or television. In Proverbs, we read: As a man thinketh in his own heart, so is he. Think kind thoughts. Fill your mind with love. Empower your life by empowering your mind to the highest possible thought. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. - William Bragg
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God. - Peace Pilgrim 190? - 1981
*We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know. - W H Auden
The mind will tend to think most about that to which it is most exposed. Whatever enters the mind repeatedly occupies and shapes the mind, and ultimately, what we become. The events we attend, the material we read, the music we hear, the conversations we hold, the daydreams we entertain, ultimately determine our destiny. This week, make a decision to pay attention to your own thought life. Attend to your thought life. Ask yourself: What am I thinking? The first step toward transforming thoughts is becoming aware of them. - Mary Manin Morrissey
When viewed correctly, fear can be reinterpreted as our mind's invitation for us to rise to a higher level of freedom. We are not being called to run away from danger, but toward safety. And there is a world of difference between these two directions. - Gerald G. Jampolsky, MD, Teach Only Love
*We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. - George Bernard Shaw
The Apostle Paul said, Whatsoever things are pure or lovely or of good report, if there be any excellence in it, think on these things. Think on these things. Prop up your life to support the thinking you want to do. Listen to that still, small Voice inside you and say yes when it asks you to stretch, to take the bold step even when you feel afraid and to trust God more than your fear. And look where your mind - and your life - will lead. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Keep your eyes on me, Jesus told Peter. And as long as Peter believed, he, too, could walk on water, because the light of Christ was inside him as well. It's only when he started looking at the waves beneath him, at the difficulty, that he became frightened and sank. We, like Peter, are invited to trust that when we keep our eyes on love, we will be upheld. - Mary Manin Morrissey
There are only two emotions: love, our natural inheritance, and fear, an invention of our minds which is illusory. Each instant of the day we choose between these two, and our choice determines the kind of day we have and how we will perceive the world. - Gerald G. Jampolsky, MD, Teach Only Love
Lama Tsongkhapa suggested that instead of jealousy we try to cultivate the habit of extracting joy from the good things we see in others. He commented that by rejoicing in a good quality or situation that we perceive in others, we share in the joy of having it ourselves. - Glenn Mullin in Gems of Wisdom from the Seventh Dalai Lama
*Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if he or she were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. - Og Mandino
God has seeded us with greatness, and deep down, we know that we're not meant to live ordinary lives, but extraordinary ones. We are meant to make a difference. God is calling us each by name, saying, There is a great purpose and a divine plan for your life. Partner with me by remembering and honoring your true self. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Love has reasons that reason knows not. -
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -H. L. Mencken
Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a trip around the sun. -
*A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months. - Madame Swetchine
*Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real - Iris Murdoch
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. - Bertrand Russell
When we analyze our behavior, become self-critical, and treat ourselves unkindly, we automatically make for ourselves a world that is angry, unloving and in despair. We then fail to realize that our only enemy is the attack thoughts we dwell on and the unloving attitudes we hold to. As we learn to recognize these mental errors, we can retrain our minds to look past them and see the world that reflects what God made. By letting go of all our distorted self-concepts, we can remember that the only thing real about us is love, which has always been here, the one Self that God created. - Gerald G. Jampolsky, MD, Teach Only Love
There is a beautiful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble. -
*Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Health is inner peace. Therefore, healing is letting go of fear. To make changing the body our goal is to fail to recognize that our single goal is peace of mind. - Gerald G. Jampolsky, MD, Teach Only Love
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island...to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. - Balthasar Gracian
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. - Elizabeth Foley
Friends are people who help you be more yourself. - Merle Shain
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. - Mother Teresa
*One kind word can warm three winter months. - Japanese Proverb
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. - Barbara De Angelis
Forgiveness is not a lack of discrimination whereby we let all the criminals out of prison; it is an attitude that permits us to relate to the pain that led to their errors and recognize their need for love. – Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Guilt is the Teacher, Love is the Lesson
Giving is receiving. When our attention is on giving and joining with others, fear is removed and we accept healing for ourselves. - Gerald G. Jampolsky, MD, Teach Only Love
Love is not blind - it sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less. -Will Moss
Judgment and love are opposites. From one come all the sorrows of the world. But from the other comes the peace of God Himself - A Course In Miracles, Foundation for Peace
Becoming a master is mastering our thinking and our emotions and our behaviors so that the Master's eyes can look through our eyes; the Master's hands can reach out through our hands; and the Master's love can reach out through our hearts. - Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey
Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender. - W.C. Fields
Our work is to make God real through the lens of our life for all the lives that we touch so that when others have passed our way, they have felt the touch of God, they have been encouraged, they have been supported, they have been blessed by the presence that we bring to whatever it is that we're doing. That is our REAL work. - Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey
Decisions are made by learning to listen to the preference for peace within us. There is no right or wrong behavior. The only meaningful choice is between fear and love. - Gerald G. Jampolsky, MD, Teach Only Love
Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness. By not judging, we release the past and let go of our fears of the future. In so doing, we come to see that everyone is our teacher and that every circumstance is an opportunity for growth in happiness, peace and love. - Gerald G. Jampolsky, MD, Teach Only Love
If you think I can't love this, but I can go over there and love that, when you get over there, the same you is going to be there that was over here not loving this. And before long, that same you is present. So, before you make a move, make peace with where you are. - Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey
Every job is a self potrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence. - Jessica Guidobono
What is not love is fear. Anger is one of fear's most potent faces. And it does exactly what fear wants it to do. It keeps us from receiving love at exactly the moment when we need it most. - Marianne Williamson, Illuminata
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reigns of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me. - Abraham Lincoln
The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend. - Abraham Lincoln
Ships are safe in the harbor, but ships are not meant to stay in the harbor. - anonymous
*Worry does not prevent disaster, it prevents joy. - anonymous
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. - Walter Winchell
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same. - Viktor Frankl
Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here! - Groucho Marx
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein
*A rabbi was giving instructions to some children, and he posed this question: How do you know the night is over and the day has come? One child ventured, When at dawn, you look at a tree and you can tell whether it is an apple or pear tree. The rabbi acknowledged this response but repeated the question. A second student offered, When you see an animal in the distance and you can tell whether it is a donkey or a horse. The rabbi acknowledged this response, too, then gave his answer: You know the night is over and the day has come when you look into the eyes of any human being, and you see there your brother or your sister. - Mary Manin Morrissey
A man may fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else. - Knox Manning
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. - Mark Twain
Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people. Nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding. Nonviolence seeks to defeat injustices, not people. Nonviolence holds that suffering for a cause can educate and transform. Nonviolence always chooses love instead of hate. Nonviolence holds that the universe is on the side of justice and the right will prevail. The goal of nonviolence is reconciliation and the beginning of healing. -Mary Manin Morrissey
How do we create a new world? There's only one way to do it, and that's to change ourselves. There are going to be times we're tempted to make choices that lead to separation - if someone's rude to us, we snap back - but let us begin to make a stand for something bigger. Make a stand for something better. At the very core of our being, we resonate Love's Presence. Love is more powerful than fear or hate or retribution. Seek to defeat injustice, not people. - Mary Manin Morrissey
*Anywhere is walking distance if you've got the time. - Steven Wright
It is not the critic who counts, not the man that points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. -Theodore Roosevelt
*Illumined spiritual teachers die of heart disease and cancer just like the rest of us, while cantankerous pessimists who smoke cigarettes and eat lots of hamburgers sometimes live to be a hundred. And all of us, no matter how many bean sprouts we eat, miles we run, affirmations we say, hours we meditate, and hard we pray, are all going to die sometime. The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. - Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Guilt is the Teacher, Love is the Lesson
*When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision - it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. - Audre Lord
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced... Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. - Cherokee Proverb
Recall the famous scene with the evil queen in the fairy tale Snow White. She would stand in front of her mirror and ask, Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all? A prayer exercise that I would like to suggest is a playful parallel to those words. Daily, after you have finished with the practical use of your mirror, stand for a moment in silence. Then look directly into your mirror and with great devotion pronounce this short prayer:
Mirror, mirror on the wall, may I look with love on all. - Edward M. Hays in Holy Fools and Mad Hatters
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. - Henry Van Dyke
Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jesus of Nazareth, the Buddha, did not have a greater capacity than you to discern truth. These great teachers have demonstrated what's possible in a human being by developing their God-given capacity. They struggled with that side of themselves that we call lower nature, but they continued to move into a greater experience. The great teachers were not endowed with anything that you do not possess. - Mary Manin Morrissey
When we are in harmony with the truth of our being, we feel fulfilled. The cost of living separate from God is that we find ourselves feeling insecure or fearful, we find ourselves angry, resentful, full of self pity. But when we recognize the truth of our relationship with God, we find our lives becoming more and more prosperous, not just materially, but in relationships and security. We live as free beings. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -D.H.Lawrence
*...thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. - Dave Barry
Partnering with the Truth means practicing honesty. This goes beyond cash register honesty that is, if the clerk gives you back too much money, you return it to her. You must practice rigorous self-honesty with Higher Power. If you fall off track, pull yourself back again. Make a commitment to continually yoke your life to the Truth. - Mary Manin Morrissey
We are co-creators with God, not puppets on a string waiting for something to happen. - Father Leo Booth, Creation Spirituality
He who prays for his neighbors, will be heard for himself. -The Talmud
The things that count most in life are usually the things that cannot be counted. - Bernard Meltzer
Each of us must sooner or later learn to stand alone with our God. Nothing else matters. - Emily Cady, in Lessons on Truth
The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or even touched... they must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller
No matter how long a room is dark, turn on a light and the room brightens. Today marks a new beginning. You can claim a clean slate with God. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Boundaries emerge from deep within. They are connected to letting go of guilt and shame, and to changing our beliefs about what we deserve. As our thinking about this becomes clearer, so will our boundaries. - Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly. - author unknown
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There's no use in being a damn fool about it. - W.C. Fields
Once you exercise fear and make it your practice, once you try resentment and make it your habit, once you employ aggression and make it routine, those actions will dominate your destiny. No matter how painfully you've been wronged, stand in love in the midst of a huge temptation to be vengeful, prideful or hold back. The real nature of love is that the person you think has betrayed you the most is actually an agent of the divine offering you the opportunity for grace. - Mary Manin Morrissey
...our life crises tell us that we need to break free of beliefs that no longer serve our personal development. These points at which we must choose to change or to stagnate are our greatest challenges. Every new crossroads means we enter into a new cycle of change - whether it be
adopting a new health regimen or a new spiritual practice. And change inevitably means letting go of familiar people and places and moving on to another stage of life. - Caroline Myss, PH.D., Anatomy of the Spirit
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. -
The how of teaching children what we really hope they will learn is astonishingly simple: We must learn to be-to live-the way we want them to be. We must begin to find out who we really are beneath the social conditioning we have lived with all of our lives. - Cheri Huber and Melinda Guyol, Time-Out for Parents
In the second Star Wars movie, The Empire Strikes Back, Luke Skywalker asks Yoda, the wise one, How am I to know the good from the bad?' Yoda answers: You will know through peace and calm. You know you are making the right decision how to deal with betrayal, because you will find peace and calm. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The mind is a magnet and we attract that with which we identify the self. In order to get the most out of life we must learn consciously to change many of our habitual thought patterns. If you are filled with fear, refill yourself with faith, for faith always overcomes fear. - Ernest Holmes, This Thing Called Life
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. –Benjamin Franklin
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. - Thomas Sowell
*Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.-Gordon R. Dickson
Treat every person with kindness and respect, even those who are rude to you. Remember that you show compassion to others not because of who they are but because of who you are. - Andrew T. Somers
*I have heard it said that whining is anger coming out through a very small opening. - James Finley in The Contemplative Heart
New Thought teaches that there is no separation between God and ourselves. The only separation exists in our minds, in our beliefs. We are in God and God is in us. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eyes the mystery of the soul ... He saw that God incarnates himself in man and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of this world ... He declared he was God; thus He is, and as I think, the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man. -Mary Manin Morrissey
If we live fully in the present moment, the mysteries of yesterday will gradually be unraveled for us. - Caroline Myss, Ph.D., Anatomy of the Spirit
*If you leap into a well,
Look past the body, past the personality, past the behavior, into the window of one another's souls. There we make a connection. The God in me recognizes and honors the God in you. -Mary Manin Morrissey
The person who fears life gets but little pleasure from living. - Ernest Holmes, This Thing Called Life
Aristotle said: Those who say there is only one road to
Having feelings and acting on them are two very different things, and it is crucial to understand the difference. - Cheri Huber and Melinda Guyol, Time-Out for Parents
Resisting or repressing thoughts and feelings does not change us or turn us into the person we want to be or think we should be. It puts us in resistance to reality. It makes us repressed. Eventually, it makes us depressed. Acceptance turns us into the person we are and want to be. Acceptance empowers the events and circumstances to turn around for the better. - Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go
Freedom is not worth having if it doesn't include the freedom to make mistakes. - Gandhi
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. - Henry Miller
Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton. - Albert Einstein
If we look at a field as our life, the crop we harvest is our experience of life. If we don't consciously sow our thoughts, the seeds we plant may just be weeds from our past so that we repeat the same patterns over and over. If we sow new thoughts and tend the field with care, we can realize the
The universal human journey is one of becoming conscious of our power and how to use that power. Becoming conscious of the responsibility inherent in the power of choice represents the core of this journey. - Caroline Myss, PH.D., Anatomy of the Spirit
People who injure us are doing us a great favor because they are providing us with the opportunity of passing on the mercy that we have received. By showing mercy, we increase the mercy we receive. - Thomas Keating in Active Meditations for Contemplative Prayer
In the game called life, everybody's on the playing field. If we don't understand the rules, life can feel happenstance, leaving us uncertain of the direction we're headed. By knowing the rules, practicing these principles, and making conscious choices to interact lovingly with other players, our lives become filled with meaning and purpose. - Mary Manin Morrissey
People who truly love themselves do not become destructively self-centered. They do not abuse others. They do not stop growing and changing. People who love themselves well, learn to love others well too. They continually grow into healthier people, learning that their love was appropriately placed. - Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go
*Never limit your view of life by any past experience. - Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind
We are enrolled in a full time, informal school called, Life. Each day of this school, we have the opportunity to learn lessons. We may like the lessons or hate them, but they are part of the curriculum. The greatest lessons we learn are about love and fear, that every action is either an expression of love, or a call for love. And the great blessing is that every lesson repeats itself until we learn it. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Errors offer insight. Consider the biggest mistake you've ever made, the one that brings you the greatest shame, the one you'd rather give up your two front teeth than tell another living soul. The truth is, God already knows all our mistakes and loves us anyway. Our biggest blunders have been designed by our souls to bring us to a point of awakening. There is a lesson, a gift in our mistakes that can bring us to greater awareness and compassion. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Spiritual instruction teaches us to keep our focus on ourselves-not in an egocentric way but as a way of consciously managing our energy and power. So, your task is to learn what rather than who draws power from you. - Caroline Myss, PH.D., Anatomy of the Spirit
Our past is neither an accident nor a mistake. We have been where we needed to be, with the necessary people. We can embrace our history, with its pain, its imperfections, its mistakes, even its tragedies. It is uniquely ours; it was intended just for us. Today, we are right where we need to be. Our present circumstances are exactly as they need to be, for now. - Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go
Before studying Torah, the Baal Shem Tov would say to God: Ha Shem, I'd like to be in
The Hindu tradition talks about the veil. When we look at someone, we see our perception of that person. When we look with judgment, the veil becomes more opaque. But when we remember God's inclusive love for all of us, the veil thins, and we begin to see one another as our true selves, the children of God. -Mary Manin Morrissey
You may be facing a challenging question right now. You may be pondering your life's path. Perhaps you are struggling over a creative new idea or wondering how to parent in a new way. Whatever challenge you encounter, know that your answers exist within you. Others may inspire and assist us, but only we know the resonance in our hearts that says, Yes, this is right. God imbued us with perfect truth meters that we can trust, when we are still, and really listen to the voice for God within. - Mary Manin Morrissey
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open; no gulf that enough love will not bridge; no wall that enough love will not throw down; no sin that enough love will not redeem... - Emmet Fox, Sermon on the Mount
*A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratliffe
*Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. - Winston Churchill
To love another person is to see the face of God. - Victor Hugo
What we give, whether it's love, time, talent or dollars, circulates back to us. As scripture says, As you sow, so shall you reap. When we sow seeds of gratitude and joy, we take a percentage of all the good that comes to us and bestow it on the universe and we harvest a life of abundance, touching and transforming every aspect of our lives. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. - Unknown
When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own physical and spiritual systems. By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. It disables a person's emotional resources. The challenge...is to refine our capacity to love others as well as ourselves and to develop the power of forgiveness. - Caroline Myss, PH.D., Anatomy of the Spirit
*Without the rocks, the stream would lose its song. - Proverb
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joy is the emotion excited by the expectancy of good. - Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind
*Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. - Cecil Beaton
Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. - Les Brown
You are what your deep, driving desire is.
As your desire is, so is your will.
As you will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny - The Upanishads, As Translated by Eknath Easwaran
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. - David Grayson
*Service is the highest activity to which we can aspire. Albert Schweitzer wrote: I do not know what path in life you will take, but I do know this: If, on that path, you do not find a way to serve, you will never be happy. We are not alone. We are part of something bigger, and we experience the connection by giving with grace a portion of our time and talent to service. - Mary Manin Morrissey
I do not know what path in life you will take, but I do know this: If, on that path, you do not find a way to serve, you will never be happy. - Albert Schweitzer
The point of life is not to be married or single - it is to be. We are human beings, or humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose - it's what we make of the opportunities to grow, that counts. - Alan Cohen, Rising in Love
Those who enjoy the greatest lives are not extraordinary people, or even ordinary people with something added. They are not necessarily the wealthiest or most professionally acclaimed. Those who sparkle with aliveness are ordinary people with nothing taken away. They have not lost their wonder of the moment. They cherish the presence of a friend; they marvel when a child takes their hand. They find a gift in each moment of living. - Mary Manin Morrissey
When life hands you lemons, throw them at your neighbor. - Anonymous
A problem, at its core, is really just an opportunity to learn and explore. - Stephen Coleman
For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something else. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
I have often been asked what I thought was the secret of Buddha's smile. It is - it can only be - that he smiles at himself for searching all those years for what he already possessed. - Paul Brunton quoted in Zen Soup by Laurence G. Boldt
Give it all up and you get it all back. I believe that this is an immensely potent formula for finding freedom and joy in living. Every time I have put this principle in action, it has worked. Whenever I have let go of something, God has either given it back to me, or given me something better, or shown me that I'm better off without it. More and more, I have come to see that God is always giving us exactly what we need for our highest good, and at no cost to anyone. - Alan Cohen, The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore
*Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. - Edwin Hubbel Chapin
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic. - John Ruskin {1819-1900 British Social Theorist}
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. - Joseph Addison
...everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. - Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning
Teachers open the door, but you enter by yourself. -Unknown
What we see in the outer is but a reflection of the inner, because we surround ourselves with a picture of our own beliefs. In other words, we manifest in general what we seriously think and believe. So if we want to find out what our habitual thinking is like, we have but to look around us and ask ourselves what we really see. - Stake Your Claim, Emmet Fox
Confidence comes not from always being right, but from not fearing to be wrong. - Unknown
*It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. - Betty Friedan
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves - Thomas Edison
Trungpa Rinpoche called spiritual practice manual labor. It is a labor of love in which we bring a wholehearted attention to our own situation over and over again. In all sorts of weather, we steady and deepen our prayer, meditation, and discipline, learning how to see with honesty and compassion, how to let go. How to love more deeply. - Jack Kornfield, A Path With Heart
Jesus looked into the eyes of every person, no matter what the infirmity, whether it was physical or emotional and offered a chance to begin anew. Any pain we've suffered or caused, the people we've disenfranchised, all the meanness we've employed, all the ways we cooperated with - Still, in this moment, we have the opportunity to wash the slate clean and begin again. We are forgiven and offered the opportunity to live a better way. - Mary Manin Morrissey
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