Feelings are not just emotions that happen to you. Feelings are reactions you choose to have.
Love is a word that has as many definitions as there are people to define it. Try this one on for size. The ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Rather than looking for miracles, shift to seeing everything as miraculous.
A composer once told me that the silence from which each note emerges is more important than the note itself.
I think Khalil Gibran stated it perfectly in The Prophet: “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Remove all unloving thoughts from your mind, and practice kindness in all of your thoughts, words, and actions. Cultivate.
Focus on understanding yourself instead of blaming others.
Don’t die with your music still in you.
The things we love we have to learn to leave alone.
I contemplate myself surrounded by the conditions I wish to attract into my life.
Remember that every use of force, even the smallest, creates a counterforce.
Remind yourself daily that there is no way to happiness; rather, happiness is the way.
You are not necessarily what you say. Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words. What you do in your present moments is the only indicator of what you are as a person.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw.
What you fight weakens you; what you cooperate with strengthens you.
When you seek happiness for yourself it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for others you will find it yourself.
Until you transcend the ego, you can do nothing but add to the insanity of the world.
When you’re connected to the power of intention, everywhere you go, and everyone you meet, is affected by you and the energy you radiate. As you become the power of intention, you’ll see your dreams being fulfilled almost magically, and you’ll see yourself creating huge ripples in the energy fields of others by your presence and nothing more.
You feel good not because the world is right, but your world is right because you feel good.
I don’t believe that God is concerned with whether or not we show our love by building magnificent edifices for worship, by attending services, or through practicing rules laid down by religious organizations. It seems to me that if God were to speak to us, the message would simply be to love each other and offer reverence rather than enmity toward all of life.