New Years Resolution

"Reflect and make a New Year's resolution that is not too big -- and doable. What is the little imprint you can make on the world?" - Rev. Chaz Howard

Being Wise

"The wise man surely carves out his own destiny." ~ Plautus

Times of Joy

"In times of joy, you become the most authentic version of yourself." - Metha Buysman

Holy Words

"How ever many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?" - Buddha

Out of Balance

"When you feel like you don't fit in with the world, realize that there is nothing wrong with you. We are living in an out of balance society." ~ Dr. Ted Zeff

Dreaming Your World

"Dream your world into being. Know in your soul that the love of Gods and Goddesses are guiding you to live more consciously and love more freely. Shamans and mystics of times gone by are connecting with your spirit in an effort to lead you to a heavenly horizon where you can be An Angel of Service. The Spiritual Truth is that a Happier and more Fulfilled Life is waiting for you in Loving Dreams and Enlightening Realities. Share what Gifts you can and the Lord of the Sun and Lady of the Moon will Bless you with the Life you have been waiting for. All you need do is Dream." - Michael Teal

Find Me

"I wait for someone to come but no one does. For some one, anyone to be close to me, to comfort me. I look to my right only to see darkness. Darkness that hovers over me like a shadow never wanting to leave. Burying me deeper and deeper into the unknown. Darkness of loneliness all around. So I look to my left, only to see more darkness, and still there is no one there to help me. They have left me ...here, and I don’t know where here is. My mind sinks lower and lower into despair. Where have they gone? Will anyone come back or are they gone forever? Will I find them if I try or will I just be mistake, a mistake I would wish I never took.

My face feels as if it has never been touched by other human. Never touched by someone with warm, gentle hands. How I want to feel the warmth of other. Mine are just so cold and bitter. I fall to the ground and let the ground take over my body, until that someone can find me before it’s to late." - Beautiful Soul Secrets

Life Missions

“When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person.” ~ Shannon L. Alder

Letting Go

"I'm letting go of clothes and things that belong to someone I used to be." - Cathy Thorsen

Many Earths

"The reality you see is where your dial is tuned to. Many earths exist, right here and now. The one you get is the one you are tuned to."  ~ Bashar

Feeding Your Soul

"When faced with a decision, choose the path that feeds your soul."
- Dorothy Mendoza Row
 

Friends

“In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.”- James Ishmael Ford

Out of our Ruts

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” ~ M. Scott Peck

Birthing Dreams

"What is within you crying out to be birthed into the world right now? What talent do you have that is ready to be used? What project have you been endlessly thinking about that is ready to be birthed into physical reality? And what dreams do you have for this precious planet? God can help midwife your dreams." - Beautiful Soul Secrets

Normal

"Life is an intolerable suffering when it is nothing else but normal." - Beautiful Soul Secrets

Well-Being

"You can't punish yourself into change. You can't whip yourself into shape. But you can love yourself into well-being." - Susan Skye

Generate Happiness

“You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.” - Ernie Banks

Beauty

"The integrity of beauty is that inner straining towards goodness and completion." - John O'Donohue

Blessings

"Quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you." - Rumi

Questions

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. And try to love the questions themselves." - Rainer Maria Rilke

Attraction

"The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.”  ~ Deepak Chopra

Negativity

"Negativity sucks away energy. If part of the negativity stems from your attitude or perspective, commit yourself at the beginning of each day and each activity to find something positive in yourself and in others around you. If the people around you are negative and you can't change that, either remove yourself from the situation or view it simply as one obstacle you face in pursuing your own potential. Stay focused on your own goals and make the best of the situation. Take a 30-second vacation.Go within and focus on the positive, thereby creating an attitude built on strength, courage, and infinite possibilities." - Social Butterfly (@ Facebook) 

Living a Dream

"Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream." - Peter McWilliams

Food

"Any form of abuse to the body is another form of attack and separation against your higher self. For example, when stuffing the body with excess amounts of food, you are suppressing the expression of your higher self and blotting it out of awareness. You are unconsciously saying, “I am separate from you and I don’t need you to be happy. I will create my own false happiness by indulging myself with this gorgeous food.”- The Daily Guru

Your True Nature

"Surround yourself with positive people who value your worth and honor your true nature." - Robert Stack

Change Behaviors

"Think about how you want your life to be, and change behaviors that don’t match up." - SoulSeedz (@Twitter)

Solution

"The solution will come, you must trust in the universe, forcing the issue resolves nothing, allow the answers to appear." - The God Light

To Be Happy

"As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: "What do I really need right now to be happy?" What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way." - Sharon Salzberg

Community

“A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.” ― Wendell Berry

Guest House

“This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.” ― Rumi

Our Own Light

“We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.” - Hildegard Von Bingen

Cats

"How well we behave toward cats determines our status in heaven." - Robert A. Heinlein

Belovedness

"If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others." — Brennan Manning

Sacred

"Now is the time to remember that all you do is sacred." - Hafiz

Life's Whisper

"Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream." - Divine Love

Impossible

"You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible." - Deepak Chopra

Top of a Monutain

"Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there." ~ Anonymous

What is Worthwhile

"Decide what is worthwhile and follow through with it. Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love."  - Colleen McCullough

Creating Yourself

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." — George Bernard Shaw

Creation

"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." - Pablo Picasso

Spiritual Strength

"A racing mind that reacts sensitively to little things indicates thinking that has lost its spiritual strength. Meditation restores that power." - Anonymous

Things We Fear

"The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity." - Margaret J. Wheatley

Seek

"What you seek is seeking you!" ~ Rumi

Our Thoughts

"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts." – Soren Kierkegaard

Dreams

"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours." - Les Brown

Meditation

"Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts." ~ Eknath Easwaran

Ecstacy

"Decide in favor of ecstasy, and whatever pain happens through that decision, accept it with joy, with thankfulness. The more gratefully you accept it as part of growth, the sooner it will disappear - and it will not leave even a trace on you; you will be unscratched by it. If you cling to it too long, it will leave wounds. Even if they heal, the marks will remain." -  Osho

What We Attract

"We attract not what we want, but what we are." - Wayne Dyer

Who You Are

"There is only one reason to do anything: as a statement to the universe of who you are." -  Neale Donald Walsch

Improvement

"Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement." - Bill Gates

Difficulties

“When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. “ - Saint Francis de Sales

Becoming Peace

"Life molds itself into the shape of your actions, - do something long enough and you become it. Fighting for peace makes more war. Loving for peace makes more peace." - Myra Salas

Identity

"Your identity is not equivalent to your biography. There is a place in you where you have never been wounded, where there's a seamlessness in you, and where there is a confidence and tranquility." - John O'Donohue

Divine Water

"The divine water says: "Live here! Don't carry me around in buckets and pans." - Rumi

Psyche

"The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room, not try to be or do anything whatever." - May Sarton

Enlightenment

"What stops us from knowing our own enlightenment is our identification with the conditioned personality." ~ Leslie Temple-Thurston

Better Days

"Speak quietly to yourself & promise there will be better days. whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. offer comfort in practical and tangible ways -- as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. tomorrow comes more brightly." - Mary Anne Radmacher (Learning Wisdom Everyday)

Find Peace

"Find peace within your heart today. It is there, hiding behind the illusions of... fear. Your level of peace is a good gauge for where your connection to God/Source is at any moment. When you find peace in the chaos, you know that you are deeply connected to God.

When you have anxiety, you know that you may have lost that connection, or perhaps your "signal" is low. Go within to boost your connection. You will know you are fully connected by the level of peace that you feel." - Sherri Lane

Managing Our Emotions

"Emotions are the next frontier to be understood and conquered. To manage our emotions is not to drug them or suppress them, but to understand them so that we can intelligently direct our emotional energies and intentions.... It's time for human beings to grow up emotionally, to mature into emotionally managed and responsible citizens. No magic pill will do it."  - Doc Childre

New Truth

"Stay with yourself, bring yourself to the present moment, maybe by just listening to your breath, maybe by looking at something in the room. Then quietly, softly, give yourself permission to make a new choice if you wish. Embrace a new truth."  - Neale Donald Walsh

About Silence

“Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.” - John Lahr

Longing

"There are lovers content with longing. I'm not one of them."  - Rumi

Listening

"With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing." - Catherine de Hueck Doherty

To Listen

"The first duty of love is to listen."  - Paul Tillich

Therapy

"The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites." - James Hollis

Courage

"It takes courage to change direction. Choose the path your heart agrees with and walk with your head high and your eyes open. Don't be afraid." - Myra Salas

Divination

"Your body is the most powerful and accurate divinination tool. Listen to and trust its signals and feelings." - Doreen Virtue

Your Body

"Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible."  - Gabrielle Roth

Making Small Differences

"I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another." - Ellen Goodman

Thinking For Yourself

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." - Coco Chanel

A Deep Untroubled Stream

"No matter what our difficulties may be, we recognize that there is a deep untroubled stream flowing below all surface troubles and that we are of one substance with that stream. The soul knows no difficulties." - James Thornton

Power of Thought

"Not only does the power of your thought determine which people make their way into your life, but the power of your thought determines how they behave once they get there." - Abraham

Island

 "We each have an island inside where we can take refuge. When you're sad, afraid, or in a difficult situation, the best thing you can do is go back to yourself and become one with your breathing. This doesn't mean you're cutting yourself off from the world. It means you're getting more in touch with yourself, becoming more peaceful. After that, your contact with the world outside can become more pleasant." - Thich Nhat Hanh

On Listening

"Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person." - Rachel Remen (from Shelby Collinge)

On Negativity

"For negativity to affect you, you must be negative." - Ships of Song (@ Twitter)

Believe

"Believe in your dreams. Believe in today. Believe that you are loved. Believe that you make a difference. Believe we can build a better world. Believe when others might not. Believe there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Believe that you might be that light for someone else. Believe that the best is yet to be. Believe in each other. Believe in yourself. I believe in you." ~ Kobi Yamada

Listen to Your Body

"If you want to get in touch with what your soul knows about the future, listen to your body - listen to what your body is telling you right now." ~ Neale Donald Walsch

Water Your Dreams

"Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream." - Lao Tzu

Succeeding

"A person can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited enthusiasm." ~ Charles M. Schwab

Freedom

"You create your own freedom. Wherever you are seeing walls that stop you, you can just as easily see doors, windows, & passage ways." - Your Joyologist (Being Tricia @ Twitter)

Anais Nin

"When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others." - Anaïs Nin

Fibromyalgia

"I am grateful for my fibromyalgia for it constantly reminds me to take care of me & kick out any bullshit.There is no room for pain or stress." - Your Joyologist (Being Tricia @ Twitter)

Emotion

"When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion!" - Beautiful Soul Secrets

Life's Blessings

"It is the spirit of appreciation of life's blessings that activates the benefit in our lives." - Beautiful Soul Secrets

Become

"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."  - Carl Jung

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Real Happiness

“Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.” - Hosea Ballou

All Those Dreams

"If life has turned into a nightmare, it is probably because you gave up on all those dreams." - The God Light (@ Twitter)

Keeping the Channel Open

“There is vitality, a lifeforce, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open…There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the other.”  - Martha Graham

Eternity

"Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now." - Charlotte Gilman

Progress

"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions."  - Adlai E. Stevenson

Value Yourself

"When you try to value yourself for being the best in something, you are bound to fail. Even Olympic champions are the best only for a few years. You are precious to God not because there is no one better than you, but because you are a unique creation of mind, body and spirit, - there is no one like you, - and that is exactly what makes you so indescribably precious." - Myra Salas

Diamond Necklace

"You wander from room to room hunting for the diamond necklace that is already around your neck!" -  Rumi

Risk!

"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." - Katherine Mansfield

Growing

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.” -  Anais Nin

Embrace Change

"Embrace all change, including the sad changes as a wonderful clearing for new and beautiful things to enter your life." - The Daily Love (@ Twitter)

Ignore Those

"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death." - Rumi

God

"Why indeed must "God" be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all?" - Mary Daly

You Are Loved

"Remember today and every day you are loved. "When things get tough, you are loved, when things are bad, you are loved, when you want to give up, you are loved.With that love comes strength. You have the strength to keep going and make your day bright again because you are loved." - from Spiritual Bliss (@ Facebook)

Falling Down

An old man once said, "There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living." - from Bill Opava (Escambia High School Class of 1976)

Don't Give Up

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." - Ella Fitzgerald

Radiant Health

“Learning to let go of the ways we inadvertently and unconsciously contribute to our own pain is the key to finding radiant physical and emotional health.”

- Ingrid Bacci

Whispers

"If we would hear the whispers, we would realize Spirit communicates with us almost constantly throughout the day, through what we hear, what we read, the inklings we get, through everything that happens in our daily life. The messages are everywhere." ~ Spirit Speaks In Whispers (from Divine Love @ Facebook)

Dreaming

"Life ends when you stop dreaming...." - Live, Laugh, Love (@ Facebook)

Successful & Happy

"If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed." - Brian Tracy

The Value of Life

"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival." - Aristotle

Reflection

"Your outer reality is a direct reflection of how you feel about yourself." - Sabine Braun

Your Environment

"Your immediate environment affects your mood. Does yours create good feelings, or is it draining you?" - Affirm Your Life (@ Twitter)

A Kaleidoscope

The universe
is a kaleidoscope:
now hopelessness, now hope
now spring, now fall.
Forget its ups and downs:
...... do not vex yourself:
The remedy for pain
is the pain.

~ Sarmad (from Beautiful Soul Secrets)

What We Are

"We do what we are, and we are what we do." - Abraham Maslow

A Pearl

"A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl." - Blissful Quotes (@ Facebook)

Broad Perspective

"If you you are having trouble clearing the clouds of confusion from your mind, it might be time to take a step back and reach for a higher, broader perspective of things. Observe your world from a place of calm acceptance within, and know that everything falls into place in its own sweet time." - Dorothy Mendoza Row

Stand Out

" Why are you trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out?" ~ Oliver James

Creating Your Dreams

"Let go of how you thought things should turn out and get about the business of creating your dreams." - The Daily Love (@ Twitter)

Wishes

"Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes." - Charles Caleb Colton

What Makes Us Happy

"We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart."

- Julia Cameron

Yourself

"What you must dare is to be yourself."

- Dag Hammarskjold  (from the Daily Guru)

An Uncommon Way

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."- George Washington Carver

Reality

"Some people who live in a dream world, and some face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other." - Douglas Everett

Identifying with Soul

"If you are willing to identify with your soul, your physical world will come into a graceful alignment with your dreams." - Ships of Song (@ Twitter)

Celebrate

"Celebrate the moments of your life for they are the droplets of paint that create the masterpiece of one’s life." - Ships of Song (@ Twitter)

Closer to God

"To be closer to God, be closer to people" - Kahlil Gibran

Theophany

“We live in a world of theophanies. Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb. Life wants to lead you from crumbs to angels, but this can happen only if you are willing to unwrap the ordinary by staying with it long enough to harvest its treasure.” - Macrina Wiederkehr 

The Enemy

"First, I saw the enemy, and it was evil. Then, I looked closer and realized it was fear. I stepped back, readjusted my vision and noticed the enemy was ignorance. Later, in a moment of reflection I became aware that the enemy was really the egoic mind. Finally, I went deeper and realized there was no enemy." - Enlighten Me (@ Twitter)

Authentically You

"When you let go of the outcome you are free to be authentically you. When you're simply you, the best things tend to happen." - The Daily Love (@ Twitter)

As You Want To Be

"Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth" - Blissful Quotes (@ Facebook)

Happiness

"Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy." ~ Osho

Come Alive

"Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” - Howard Thurman

Nothing to Lose

"When you live each moment as though you have nothing left to lose you are in the strongest position you have." - An American Monk (@ Twitter)

Letting Life Unfold

"Stand tall. Stand in peace. Stand in love. Let life unfold and reveal itself to you, step by step, moment by moment. No matter what happens and no matter what anyone else says or does, glow with the loving presence that you are, light up your corner of the world with love and peace. Just be. It is enough." - Veronica Flynn

Mother's Day

"After my mom's death, Mother's Day served as reminder of a tender love lost. This week, missing her, I sought her guidance. Her gentle voice spoke, "If you want to honor me, do something you love. In loving yourself, you honor me. In nurturing yourself, you inspire me. In celebrating yourself, you make my heart soar!" Love, nurture, celebrate your light! Oh, what a glorious Mother's Day it shall be." - Angel's Insight

Culture

Bring soul into the world

"We live in a culture that is greatly biased against the imagination, because our culture is very materialistic, objective and literal. Our culture lacks soul, and doesn’t know it, although it experiences the consequences. When you don’t know what’s missing, then of course you don’t know what to bring in, even though you feel something is missing."

“We live in a world that needs more soul, more meaning. We, as conscious beings, have, as our primary responsibility, at this time in human history, the task of bringing soul into the world, or releasing soul into the world. We do this, first of all, in ourselves and in our own personal world; then we do it in our groups – including family; then we do it in our society through our work, relationships and presence there.”

-- Andrew Schneider

Healing

"Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are." ~ Rachel Naomi Remen

Shortcomings

"It's not our shortcomings that are ridiculous, but the way we try to hide them" ~ Giacomo Leopard

On Silence

"Silence is the natural organizer. Take some today and see what is really a priority." - Spiritual Nurse (@Twitter)

Soul

"We have to decide for ourselves what’s nourishing to our souls, and do those things over others." -  Thomas Moore (from the Daily Guru)

Joy

"Joy is all there is. The rest is a preoccupation of the ego, unworthy of your holy mind." - Doreen Virtue

Our Essence

“No matter how painful our early experiences were, our Essence cannot be harmed. Our Essence is waiting for the opportunity to reveal itself. In a very true sense, we are waiting for the opportunity to become ourselves. Our spirit is yearning to break free, to express itself.

And yet, ironically, we always fear and resist opening to that which is most real in us. When we trust in the process and give ourselves over to it, however, our true nature comes forth. The result is real integrity, love, authenticity, creativity, understanding, guidance, joy, power, and serenity—all of the qualities we are forever demanding that personality supply.”

- Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson

When You Stumble

"When you stumble, make it part of the dance." - Unknown

Becoming a Butterfly

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, she became a butterfly." - Unknown

Thoughts

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."  ~ The Buddha

Your Authentic Self

"If you want to know your authentic self, just ask from your heart how you want to feel; that feeling is YOU." ~ Zenshine

Shaking the Foundation

"I complained to God when my foundation was shaking, only to discover that it was God who was shaking it." ~ Charles Weston

Problems

"Problems come bearing gifts. The bigger the problem, the bigger the gift. If you look, you'll see it." - The Daily Love (@ Twitter)

Measure of Health

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - J. Krishnamurti
 

The Bigger Picture

"Trust that everything has a reason. Look for that reason rather than focusing on the chaos. Keep your mind open to the bigger picture." - Deepak Chopra

What You Really Want To Do

"The minute you choose to do what you really want to do it's a different kind of life." ~ Buckminster Fuller

Always With You

"I am always with you, always near. The only anxiety is my imagined absence. I am never absent. I am present for you always. There is no catastrophe, no loss you can sustain that could remove me from your side. I am always here for you, always ready to be your aid, your comfort, your ally. Mine is a peaceful world. Join me here." - Julia Cameron (from "Love Letters from the Divine)

Bunny Day

"Happy Bunny Day! Rise up from the death of your past, your regret, your failures, your old junk...and HOP on into your new life today! Wiggle your tail, you fluffy, fabulous, phenomenal Being." - Oceana Leblanc

Rolling Away the Rock

"What new self is waiting to be born when you roll away the rock?" - Rev. Debra (@ Twitter)

Easter Blessings

"Beyond bunnies, baskets, chocolate, and jelly beans, Easter calls us to the profound practice of resurrection of the body. Resurrection is about entering the fire of our passion and letting it burn brightly. It is about what enlivens us and makes us feel vital. It is about feeling the full weight and lightness of our physical being. As Mary Oliver writes in a poem: "What is name of the deep breath (you) would take over and over for all of us?" or do you continue to do as Mary asks in another of her splendid poems: "Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?" What would it mean for you to open yourself fully to the sacred breath moving through and sustaining you moment by moment? How might you let your dreams and passion be resurrected this season?" - Abbey of the Arts

Meaning

"It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning." ~ P.D. Ouspensky

What is Religion For?

"We have become used to thinking that religion should provide us with information. Is there a God? How did the world come into being? But this is a modern preoccupation. Religion was never supposed to provide answers to questions that lay within the reach of human reason. That was the role of logos.

Religion's task, closely allied to that of art, was to help us live creatively, peacefully, and even joyfully with realities for which there were no easy explanations and problems that we could not solve: mortality, pain, grief, despair, and outrage at the injustice and cruelty of life." - Karen Armstrong (from "The Case for God")

Conformity

"I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself."

- Rita Mae Brown

From Mother Teresa

‎"We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world." - Mother Teresa

God

"In the faces of men and women I see God." ~ Walt Whitman

Silence

"Let silence take you to the core of life." - Rumi

Shattered Dream

"In our shattered dream we see the way to a new beginning." ~ Christopher Titmuss

On Manifestation

"Manifestation is an act of trust. It is the soul pouring itself out into its world, like a fisherman casting a net to gather in the fish he seeks; with each cast properly made, we will bring what we need to us, but first we must hurl ourselves into the depths without knowing just what lies beneath us." - David Spangler (from The Daily Guru)

Being Here Now

"Being in the present Now and living from the heart every day anew, is starting each day with a clean canvas with love written over it." ~ Grace Elohim

Shaman Wisdom

"In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person
complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they
would ask one of four questions. When did you stop dancing? When did
you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When
did you stop finding comfort in the sweet territory of silence?" ~
Gabrielle Roth

About Faith

"Faith is the ability to live at more than a mundane level: to see, to feel, and to act in terms of a transcendent dimension that is. Though it's an orientation of the individual personality, it's been nurtured and shaped by religious traditions and therefore comes in different forms: Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, etc. It enables one to feel at home in the universe - to find meaning and purpose in the world and in one's own life. That meaning is profound and ultimate, relating us as finite beings to an infinite reality far beyond us, as well as to a sense of centeredness deep within us. That sense of ultimate purpose is stable regardless of what happens to each of us personally in the buffeting of life events. In fact, a great strength of faith is how it allows us to look beyond ourselves and beyond material realities to the ideal and the absolute." - Rev. Scotty McLennan (from "Jesus was a Liberal")