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Quotes - 2009

Flow with life

True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.  It can’t be gained by interfering.  – Lao-tse

Lao-tse, the father of Tao, is pointing to how your lack of reaction to events can help you master them! There are 2 essential ways to react to any event. One is to attach to an event via your thoughts (and emotions), get drawn in and in turn possibly regret your reaction later.

The other is to view the event as an observer, without identifying your personality and history with the event. In this situation you’re observing without manufacturing thoughts about the situation. You’re just being, you’re just listening, you’re just flowing with what’s going on.

That in turn allows you to be the master of that event. You control your reaction to any situation, which means that you control your own happiness!

As you do this with every event in your life you begin to flow with life, a happy unperturbed camper at all times!

Recommendation: Tao Te Ching

Quotes - 2009

Let your light shine forth!

Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

– Stephen R. Covey (Seven Habits of Highly Effective People)

Our approach to life and our own-selves must be a positive one. Let’s notice the negativities in life and turn them around. Always look for the silver lining.

A light, ever lit, shines within you, waiting to emerge. Let it out via your positive and selfless outlook. Allow it to shine, as you forgive all, even yourself. Now look for ways to help and serve others, all day.

Recommendation: David Riklan’s Video on the 7 habits

Quotes - 2009

Prayer of St. Teresa

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May today there be peace within
May you trust your highest power
that you are exactly where you are meant to be…. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith
May you use those gifts that you have received,
and pass on the love that has been given to you….
May you be content knowing you are a child of God….
Let this presence settle into our bones, and allow your
soul the freedom to sing, dance, and to bask in the sun….
It is there for each and every one of you….

– Prayer of St. Teresa

The all-powerful, all-knowing and all-loving God of ALL THAT IS, is within you.

Pause to think what that means…….

Recommendation: The Way of Perfection

Quotes - 2009

Dwell on the present moment

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. – Buddha 

Which is why the Now moment is called the eternal present. The now moment is all that exists.

When we recollect the past, it’s all in our thoughts, when we envision or worry about the future it’s all in our thoughts, it’s made up reality. This doesn’t mean we don’t reminisce on pleasant memories or design a favorable future, but it does mean that all the action is in the NOW!

To be most happy, to be healthy and disease free we ought to focus our awareness on what’s going on right now, to fully live it and to fully enjoy it!

Like they say “Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery, today is a gift, hence it’s called the Present!”

Recommendation: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle video on ‘Why not to react to the content in your life’

Quotes - 2009

Only through love

Life in abundance comes only through great love. – Elbert Hubbard 

How filled with love is your life? How about your pursuits, desires and even mundane activities?

Imagine how much bigger any relationship is when it’s full of love. How much do we look forward to our day when our job is truly fulfilling? Which can only happen if we love our job. What if you were in love with life itself? How would that make your day, week or whole year?

Here’s the problem though, you can’t easily love external objects and beings if you’re not comfortable in your own skin, if you don’t appreciate your own self, if you don’t love yourself.

Love is the currency of the universe, it’s the underlying reality of it all. Live in love and you’ve figured out one of life’s deepest mysteries!

Love it up!

Recommendation: Love: What Life Is All About – Leo F. Buscaglia

Quotes - 2009

The butterfly way of life!

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. – Rabindranath Tagore

How do you live your life?

Straddled by thoughts and resentments of the past? Or buried by anxious thoughts of the future? Both?

There has to be a better way.

Be a butterfly!

You are a beautiful person, recognize that beauty and then find and appreciate beauty all around you, just like a butterfly!

Flutter about in total delight, stay in the moment, smell roses and make nectar out of all that’s beautiful around you. Forgive the past (including the personalities) and worry not about the future, it’ll take care of itself!

 

Recommendation: DARE TO BE HAPPY by Sue Hardwig