Ironically, gratitude’s most powerful mysteries are often revealed when we are struggling in the midst of personal turmoil.
An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.
Discerning our personal gifts is essential if we are to experience harmony in our lives.
This I can report from the front lines: life never calms down long enough for us to wait until tomorrow to start living the lives we deserve.
Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary.
What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn’t it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with happy endings? Suspend your disbelief? Take a leap of faith? After all, what have you got to lose but misery and lack?
When I looked at my life’s ledger I realized I was a very rich woman. What I was experiencing was merely a temporary cash-flow problem. Finally, I came to an inner awareness that my personal net worth couldn’t possibly be determined by the size of my checking account balance. Neither can yours.
Let us each grasp a new idea this year. Let us grasp the awareness of what it is that makes us truly happy. Let us consider our personal preferences and learn how to recognize, then embrace, moments of happiness that are uniquely our own.
Little changes and little choices add up to be revolutionary changes in your life.
There are several occasions in the course of any woman’s day when, without question, screaming is the appropriate response...
My philosophy is very simple: when in doubt, take a bath.
Often writers cast their words out prophetically, as a sorceress might cast a spell, and many times when the words return to you, enclosed between covers, your phantom is so fully fleshed out in its own persona, you don’t recognize your own creation.
It takes tenacity and daring to travel the darkest interior of one’s self.
Don’t wish today away. Don’t waste it. Redeem one hour to be grateful. Let your thanksgiving rise above the din of disappointment – opportunities lost, mistakes made, the clamor of all that has not yet come.
Make peace with the knowledge that you can’t have everything you want. Why? Because it’s more important for us to get everything we need.
Many of us squander precious natural resources -time, creative energy, emotion- comparing our talents to those of others. Today ask Spirit to call forth your authentic gifts, so that you might know them, acknowledge them, and own them.
When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.
Become abundant with your compliments to others. We’re all so fragile, especially when we put on a brave face. A sincere compliment can penetrate beneath even the most sophisticated masks to soothe troubled souls.
We should write an elegy for every day that has slipped through our lives unnoticed and unappreciated. Better still, we should write a song of thanksgiving for all the days that remain-now that we know how to cherish them.
Let your heart be awakened to the transforming power of gratefulness.