Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
As we become aware of this constant chatter, ongoing inside the head, we start to quiet our mind.
Just by being more conscious!
As we become more still, the peace and joy that resides within us, has a chance to emerge, and it does!
Recommendation: The Age of Miracles
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
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
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
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. – Norman Vincent Peale
You control your thoughts and therefore control your actions. But for these thoughts to turn into things you must be at a high vibrational level. You’re at a high vibrational level when you think positive thoughts, feel joy in your being, are happy, feel love and optimism! Then you simply leave the ‘how’ to God or the Universe.
That does the trick!
So the steps are:
Recommendation: Choose Them Wisely: Thoughts Become Things! – Mike Dooley
If you think your life is about doingness, you do not understand what you are about. Your soul doesn’t care what you do for a living – and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you’re being while you’re doing whatever you’re doing. – Neale Donald Walsch (Meditations from Conversations with God)
We pursue tasks, these tasks fulfill us and give meaning to our lives and we die while still doing stuff.
Which is all well and good because we certainly need work to be done, but did you ever wonder why we’re called human beings and not human doings 🙂 ?
There’s a beauty and sublime peace in life which can be experienced when we’re just being, because when we’re just being our mind chatter dies down, we can be in the flow and experience an equanimity which is otherwise hard to find!
Recommendation: The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
The question is not, why start off on such a path? You have already started off. You did so with the first beat of your heart. The question is: Do I wish to walk this path consciously, or unconsciously? – Neal Donald Walsch (Meditations from Conversations with God)
You’re on the spiritual path whether you know it or not.
Recommendation: Meditations from Conversations with God – Neal Donald Walsch