Perhaps my favorite quote on forgiveness is from Mark Twain: “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds, on the heel that has crushed it.
If you are facing in the right direction, all you need to do is keep on walking.
Any problem, and I emphasize “any” problem, represents our inability to consciously connect to our Source in the moment.
Do the Tao Now Spend an hour, a day, a week, or a month practicing not giving unsolicited advice. Stop yourself for an instant and call upon your silent knowing. Ask a question, rather than giving advice or citing an example from your life, and then just listen to yourself and the other person. As Lao-tzu would like you to know, that’s “the highest state of man.
Living by being instead of trying.
Give thanks for everything that you are and everything that you have – that’s the first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality.
It is the space between the notes that makes the music. Without that emptiness, that silence in between, there is no music, only a noise.
Seek the pleasure in what you’re doing, rather than in how it might ultimately benefit you.
Release Others’ Expectations. If you focus on what others expect of you, you’ll continue to act on and attract more of what they desire for you. But when you can shift your inner thoughts to what you intend to create and attract into your life, you will no longer have to give mental energy to what others want for you...
Let’s go on a road trip and like it, not dread it! There are no barriers, there is no fear.
Love vanquishes all attackers, it is impregnable in defense. When heaven wants to protect someone, does it send an army? No, it protects him with love.
Maslow notes that the self-actualized person has a strong desire for privacy; vehemently resists enculturation, but always has a freshness of appreciation; and has a genuine desire to help the human race. Yet “when it comes down to it, in certain basic ways he is like an alien in a strange land. Very few really understand him, however much they may like him.
Our purpose in life isn’t to arrive at a destination where we find inspiration, just as the purpose of dancing isn’t to end up at a particular spot on the floor. The purpose of dancing – and of life – is to enjoy every moment and every step, regardless of where we are when the music ends.
Make your future dream a present fact, by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled.” This.
It’s through giving that we receive; it’s through acts of kindness directed toward others that our immune systems are strengthened and even our serotonin levels increased!
Have you lived 75 years, or have you lived one year 75 times?
My outer world looked great, but my inner world, where I do all of my living, felt incomplete and restless.
In fact, some people who rate very high marks on the ego-based indexes of success are the ones I find most difficult to be around – and totally uninspiring.
Once you can change your thoughts, your new feelings will begin to emerge, and you will have taken the first step on the road to your personal freedom.
What Is Your Self-Concept? Simply put, your concept of yourself is everything that you believe to be true. And everything that you believe to be true about yourself has landed you precisely where you live and breathe every day of your life.