Happiness of Others

"I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace."

 

~Dalai Lama XIV

Daily Routine

"The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine."  ~ Mike Murdock

Growth of Wisdom

“The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

Serene Encounter

"In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality."

 

~Thich Nhat Hanh

Accepting Yourself

"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself."

 

~Thich Nhat Hanh

On Perseverance

In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world, all rests on perseverance. ” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

True Success

"True success is measured by how you treat the people in your life." - Che Garmon

Time to Heal

"We must not give up. It takes so much time to heal because we are not just healing our own wounds- we are healing the world’s wounds, too. We think we are alone with our ‘stuff’, but we aren’t. With every clearing of our emotional debris, with every foray into a healthier way of being, with every excavation and release of old material, we heal the collective heart. So many of our familial and karmic ancestors had little opportunity to heal their pains. When we heal, their spirits breathe a sigh of relief. We heal them backwards, while healing ourselves forward. We heal in unison." - Jeff Brown

Human Angels

"Happiness doesn’t come from expensive things. It comes from living our own passions." - from We are Human Angels

Shedding our Past

"Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again." - Gautama Buddha

Poetry Reading

Poetry Reading by Anna Swir

 I’m curled into a ball
like a dog
that is cold....

Who will tell me
why I was born,
why this monstrosity
called life.

The telephone rings. I have to give
a poetry reading.

I enter.
A hundred people, a hundred pairs of eyes.
They look, they wait.
I know for what.

I am supposed to tell them
why they were born,
why there is
this monstrosity called life.

Believe

“It's what we believe about ourselves that determines how others see us.”
― Beth Hoffman

Mystic's Quote

Goodwill and good intentions even with the strong foundations of philosophy are no guarantee that the road will take you to contentment or favorable recompense.

I have learnt that whatever you do, whatever road you take - you will suffer in... some inexplicable way.

Then the devil in your head, lurking quietly and waiting for its opportunity does mostly manage to make you lose your way by rationalizing certain possibilities – and before you know it you are trapped and wishing for release which often comes only with death.

If this will lead you to awakening is a matter solely dependent on your attitude to life.
Guru says that under their protection you are safe and the correct path will open up under all circumstances. This is as true as it can be but the painfulness that one has to bear does not get diminished. - The Mystic's Quotes (@ Facebook)
 

 

 

“The revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.” ― Tara Brach

 

What We Attract

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

On Listening

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

Ignore

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

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)

Closer to God

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

God

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

Your Happiness

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." - The Dalai Lama 

Whole Life

"Integrate your inner life with your outer life in order to achieve a whole life." - Marianne Williamson

Extreme Views

Anchored

“If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.” - Henry Miller

Being Queen

"We're better than we've ever dreamed, and I'm in love with being queen." - Cindy Capehart

Nothing Lost

"There is nothing lost that cannot be found again if sought.” – Edmund Spenser

Inner Guidance

"Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first, not through intellectual understanding. The intellect works best in service to our intuition, our inner guidance, soul, God or higher power, whichever term we choose for the spiritual energy that animates life."

- Dr. Christiane Northrup

Balancing

"It is in the balancing of your spirituality with your humanity that you will find immeasurable happiness, success, good health, and love." - Steve Maraboli

Create Your Life

“My life didn't please me, so I created my life.”
~ Coco Chanel

A Hero

"I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward." - Lord Chesterfield

Being Beautiful

"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself."

 

~Thich Nhat Hanh

Like the Lotus

"May I live like the lotus - at ease in muddy water." - Unknown

Our Own Lives

"The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. Our job is to straighten out our own lives." - Joseph Campbell

You Belong

"Like a snowflake, you are same and different from all others. In a bed of snow, every snowflake belongs and every snowflake is unique." - Myra Salas

Malleable

"The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape." - Bono



(Painting by Jackson Pollack)

Be the One

"Life can beat us down. The insensitivity of people can deter us from following our path. Let not the darkness of others diminish your spirit. Rise above the madness. Be the strong one. Be the one that not only survives but transcends. Be the one who reaches through the darkness to guide people into the light. Be the one who seeks to change the world for the better. Be the one who respects the gift of life. Be the one who creates a new reality where love and spirit flow through everything. Be the one." - Michael Teal

A Sandcastle

"We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass. The castle is ours, off limits to others. We're willing to attack if others threaten to hurt it. Yet despite all our attachment, we know that the tide will inevitably come in and sweep the sand castle away. The trick is to enjoy it fully but without clinging, and when the time comes, let it dissolve back into the sea."

 

~Pema Chödrön

Blessing You

Caring

“The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.” ― Carson McCullers

Imagination

"Forget about the ugly monster waiting to devour you. He is a figment of somebody else's imagination. Your own imagination can take you to far brighter places." - Alan Cohen

 

Painting by Jackson Pollack

Your Identity

Honestly & Gently

"The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently."

 

~Pema Chödrön

Adversity

Wonderful Things

Thank You

Reflect on Our Actions

“We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.” ― Pema Chödrön

The Words You Speak

God in Your Life

"As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Shine

The world may tell you to keep quiet.
Speak.

The world will tell you to silence your soul's music.
Play on.

The world will tell you you're not enough, you're too old, you'll never make it on your own.
Stand.

The world will tell you that hope is hapless, that faith is false, and that love is merely a lark.
Forgive.

The world may tell you to dim your light, to dull your spirit, dampen your heart.
Shine! Brightly, unapologetically, boldly, fully. Shine!

You are not here to please the world. YOU are here for LOVE.

I celebrate your spirit, I see your beauty, I behold your light. Shine!

 

 - Angels' Insight

A life You Were Not Meant to Live

"To live a life you were not meant, is to create confusion within yourself. This confusion you are feeling will only manifest itself negatively into your physical world. You are here for a reason. You are here to provide a gift to this world. Until you present your true self to the world. Your present to the world will go unopened." - Paradigm Shift

Don't Take Anything Personally

"Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering."  - Miguel Ruiz

What Matters Most

"What matters most is how quickly you do what your soul directs." - Rumi

Our Purpose

"Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose."

 

- Leo Buscaglia

A New Way

“One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.” — Henry Miller

Seeing Yourself

"What matters most is how you see yourself." - Buddha

Your Path

"If you see your path laid out in front of you -- Step one, Step two, Step three -- you only know one thing... it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else's path. That is why you see it so clearly."

- Joseph Campbell

Forgive

"Look for the good and forgive all the rest." - Sonia Ricotti

Making Everything Beautiful

Changing the World

"I am not here to change the world. I am changing the world because I am here." ~ Lisa Wilson

Alright

"I'm alright with me." ~ Erykah Badu

Waves

"You ripple outward in waves, and those waves carry what you see and what you focus upon. ~ Divine Mother (Leia Love)

Authentic Self

"Be your authentic self and let the chips fall where they may." - Doreen Virtue

What Life Is

"We cannot know what life is unless we know what love is." - Emmanuel Swedenborg

Wisdom in Your Body

"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

New People

Church Without Walls

"Spirituality emanates from the heart, the church without walls, your own sacred temple." - The God Light (@ Twitter)

What You Truly Want

Peace and Love (Yourself)

"When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive."  - Wayne Dyer

Go Within

Work

“Work is about a daily search for meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor, in short for a sort of life, rather than a Monday-to-Friday sort of dying.” - Studs Terkel

Chemistry

"The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body." - Bruce Lipton

Find a Place

"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain."  - Joseph Campbell

Attracting What We Want

"We do not attract that which we want, but that which we are." - James Allen

Places

“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.” - Carson McCullers

Universe

"You create your own universe as you go along." ~ Winston Churchill

Happy With Yourself

"When God is happy with you it is sheer nonsense to be unhappy with yourself. Be happy with yourself. Let happiness be the ultimate value." ~ Osho

Whispers

“Listen to the quietest whispers of your mind. They are telling you the choices that will help you the most.” - Unknown

Alive

"Stay close to any clues that make you glad you are alive." ~ Hafiz

Our Personalities

"Our personalities are truly a mix of nature & nurture. For example, two people can grow up in the same type of toxic, chaotic environment & person A can react to their past by becoming defensive, hypersensitive to rejection, aggressive & so unable to connect with others that they keep alienating those who could help them.

On the other hand, the emotional wounds experienced by person B can cause them to be empathetic, open-hearted, kind, gentle & so good at connecting with others that people are drawn to them & really want to help & support them. 

The way that we process our childhood trauma is as important as the kind of trauma we experience. Ultimately, no matter what happened to us, we need to see that being able to get along with other people, not pushing away those who could be of assistance & creating a social support network are essential aspects of our healing.

If you find yourself inadvertently driving people away b/c you take offense too easily or because your unconscious, leaking hostility or paranoia give offense, it makes sense to work on your personality. Otherwise, you'll inadvertently recreate the experience of rejection & alienation of your childhood, which will cause you to remain hurt & angry & which will make it nearly impossible for you to break free of this pattern." - The Ruthless Compassion Institute

Living Harmoniously

"Inward spiritual practices such as meditation, breathing techniques and self-analysis generate insights and enhance abilities, but none are so useful as learning to live harmoniously in a committed relationship, being a skillful parent, or juggling the demands of daily life." - Dan Millman

Solutions

What You Love

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." - Rumi

When You're Different

“When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”  ― Jodi Picoult

More Than Once

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." - Margaret Thatcher

Listen to the Birds

"Do not listen to all the negative things going on in the world. Listen to the birds." - A Lady Dying From Cancer (from the Daily Guru)

Intuition

“Learn to feel what you think, and think what you feel.” ~ G. I. Gurdjieff

Fully Living

"Fully living requires embracing the not-beautiful, the not-spiritual, the confusion, and the aversion to it all." - Lilly Ann (@Twitter)

Inner Sun

"Inner confusion and turmoil will pass, just as the weather changes. Your situation will change as your inner sun rises again." - The God Light (@ Twitter)

Who You Are

Transforming

No Feeling is Final

Offer

"Somewhere someone is looking to find what you have to offer." ~ Louise Hay

Being Upset

‎''Don't do something permanently stupid, just because you are temporarily upset.'' - Anita Menon



               (50th anniversary of my mother's death - March 5, 1963)
                                      

Uniqueness

"Embrace your uniqueness rather than trying to fit into the crowd, family, group of friends, society. Let the inner spark and inspiration shine. Your unique vibrational energy when expressed from the level of Soul is what is needed upon the Earth at this moment." ~ Dipali Desai

A Diamond

"A diamond is just a piece of coal that handled stress exceptionally well." - Unknown

Next

"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer." - Waitley

Accepting What is

"There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be." ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Shared Joy

"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings."  - Friedrich Nietzsche

Purpose

"Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny. He has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, and some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally. You are here meaningfully.

There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you."

- Osho

Deeper Understanding

"Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant." - A.H. Almaas

Legacy

"The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain your legacy." - Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
 

Satisfying the Soul

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”  ― Walt Whitman

Keep Afloat

“Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.” - Audre Lorde

Thoughts

"Every thought you have makes up some segment of the world you see. It is with your thoughts, then, that we must work, if your perception of the world is to be changed. -  A Course In Miracles

Creating Joy

"Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy." ~ Milton Erickson

Becoming Whole

"There is a part of every living thing that wants to become itself, the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one. That is spirituality." -
Ellen Bass

A Baby's Needs

Transform Life

"Life can be transformed only by changing your inner world, by turning something lower into something higher, something coarser into something finer." - The School for Gods (@ Facebook)

Our Depleted Souls

"Certain activities, attitudes, foods, and persons support the cultivation of an unconscious life. They draw us away from our center. They throw us off balance. They deplete the soul." - Patricia Lynn Reilly

Let Go

Serve with Love

"When you serve with love, the universe finds ingenious ways to pay you."  ~ Alan Cohen

Inner Voice

Value Most

"Life unfolds along the lines of what you value most." - Adyashanti

Your Inner World

"Concentrate on your inner world. That is where your heaven and hell are created." — Philip Arnold

Goodness in the World

Shamanism

Good To Be Alive

"I'm laughing. I'm chanting. I'm dancing. I'm dreaming. I'm living. I'm loving. It's good to be alive!" ~ Tzol
 

Life Unfolding

"As you expect circumstances to get better and better, they will. As you believe that your life is unfolding perfectly, it will. As you trust that you are encountering all the right people, at all the right places, at all the right times, then your life will be on track as it is meant to be." – Dr. Jeff Mullan 

Palace

"Be your own palace, or the world is your jail." - John Donne

Pearls

The Way You Are

"Things aren't the way they are, they're the way you are." ~ Anais Nin

Clutter

“Clutter isn’t just the stuff in your closet. It’s anything that gets between you and the life that you want to be living, whether it's in your home, in your head, in your heart, or on your hips.”
— Peter Walsh
 

Give Life a Meaning

What You Love

"The first step is to find out what you love, and don't be practical about it. The second is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible." ~ Barbara Sher

January 1, 2013

"We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives, not looking for flaws, but for potential." - Ellen Goodman