Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door. – Vernon Howard
Brutal honesty with self is the key to enlightenment. This is the way we come face-to-face with our ego who we think is us.
Today I AM honest with self. I AM not my thoughts. I AM the thinker.
Recommendation: The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power by Vernon Howard
…love is an art, just as living is an art; if we want to learn how to love we must proceed in the same way we have to proceed if we want to learn any other art… – Erich Fromm
We must master the art of loving. According to Fromm it is an art. Something we need to learn and practice. And slowly get better at. Let’s start our practice in earnest!
Today I AM learning how to love, everything and everyone, slowly but steadily!
Recommendation: Art of Being by Erich Fromm
Do nothing with nobody all alone by yourself. – Bertrand Russell
It’s ok to be by ourselves. Let’s get more used to who we really are. When others aren’t present, we can be more of ourselves. That’s valuable. We should seek such ‘monotony’ more often!
Today I AM cool to be just by myself. I like me. I can now grow more peaceful.
Recommendation: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Impatience is a sign of hurrying, hurrying is a sign of worrying, worrying is a sign of fear, and fear is a sign, that someone has temporarily forgotten that it’s never too late to change their thoughts and, therefore, their “things.” . – Mike Dooley
We just need to relax and know that a higher power is at work. That power uses our own creativity, through our thoughts, to create.
Today I AM relaxed. I understand the power of my thoughts and imagination.
Recommendation: Notes from the Universe by Mike Dooley
The only real voyage consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes; in seeing the universe through the eyes of another… – Marcel Proust
We are voyagers through Life. We live our own life, living our own assumptions and viewing the outside world through our own experiential filters. Everyone else is in the same boat…
Today I AM interested in others. I listen and I learn. I AM curious and life is always fun!
Recommendation: Savor This Moment
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly. – Richard Bach
We are all butterflies in the making. We are diamonds in the rough. What God sees is a massively broad, parallel and multi-dimensional view of our circumscribed life.
Today I AM patient. I understand there’s a larger design. I AM faithful today. All is well.
Recommendation: Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. – David Searls
There’s only Life, there is no death, it’s a transition. The cocoon that we call life on earth just gives birth to the butterfly that we’re becoming. After we’ve mourned those that have left us, let’s rejoice in the gift they were to us.
Life really is good. There’s nothing but life. I fear not but praise God for the innumerable gifts he’s bestowed on us…
Recommendation: Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tse
