If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going. – Professor Irwin Corey
What general direction are you headed with regard to your physical, mental and spiritual health?
Sometimes we feel that the future will take care of itself. Actually it does do that, all we have to do is fine tune our present. We must be happy and healthy now as far as possible, then the future takes care of itself.
Better to change direction as needed, NOW!
Recommendation: The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power
If some one irritates you, causes feelings of resentment, you should sympathetically seek to discern his viewpoint, his reasons for such objectionable conduct. If once you understand your neighbor, you will become tolerant, and this tolerance will grow into friendship and ripen into love. – The Urantia Papers
Understanding and love among all is the only way the planet will eventually find peace.
How will such a thing happen? Not by God doing it for us or by some other magical means. It must be achieved little by little and one person at a time. It will only happen when you and I change. When such a change becomes apparent to our family and neighbors, they will wonder what it was that changed us!
Then the virus of love and understanding will spread to them and eventually to all we touch, which is the entire planet! This is the prescription for love, peace and happiness that we all seek!
Recommendation: The Urantia Book
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
– William Shakespeare
This quote more than most sums up a neat philosophy for living! I leave you with this while I’m on vacation till August 15th!
God willing your next quote will arrive on Monday, August 17th!
Recommendation: Create Your Life
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for things we did not do that is inconsolable. – Sydney J. Harris
Some other regrets come from ways we couldn’t be. And I think these regrets are worse.
However if you find your Life Purpose and/or know how to be blissfully happy then any regret can be erased.
Any regrets that you harbor cost you deeply. They stifle your growth and keep you from moving forward. This is also true of people (self included) or situations that you haven’t been able to forgive.
So take this quote with a grain of salt! Understand that you must try and be all that you’re capable of and at the same time you don’t want regret to sully your life today!
Recommendation: The Art of Being by Erich Fromm
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
You are like a seed. A seed comes with all that it needs to grow into a mighty oak. It dances with Nature to extract water/sunshine and provides life-giving fruit and shade.
Find the seed that you are, deep inside you. Once you make contact you’ll have the means to be rejuvenated and motivated like never before!
You will grow like a strong oak and know yourself. You will then give to those around you, in ways no one else can.
Find your seed and discover yourself!
Recommendation: The Center Within
Follow your bliss. – Joseph Campbell
The words are very precise, Joseph doesn’t say follow your desires or follow your happiness and certainly doesn’t ask us to follow our lusts.
Bliss is defined as follows by the Encarta World English Dictionary:
The definition begs the question, what is ‘perfect happiness’ and/or ‘spiritual joy’?
You must answer that for yourself. And to answer that question you must know yourself first.
So know yourself first, understand what makes you happy for the long run, understand your bliss and follow it…
Recommendation: Baksheesh and Brahman: Asian Journals—India (2003)–The thoughtful diary of Campbell’s life-changing trip to India
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger. – F.L. Lucan
The truth in this statement can be verified by checking against your own life or the life of others near you.
When we fear that which hasn’t happened yet, we raise the probability of such events occurring in our lives. Thoughts do contribute greatly to our lives in small and big ways. That’s where we live our lives; in our thoughts. So realize the power over your life, via your thoughts.
Become aware of how you think, when you think, what you think and assert control over your mind, after all it’s your mind, you art its master.
Be the master of your life, create lovely thoughts to create a lovely life!
Recommendation: Choose Them Wisely: Thoughts Become Things!