If you ever find yourself defending a position, explaining why, or justifying anything, it means you have been defeated. It means you have not been able to accept the others point of view, or the fact that you may be wrong. Fear has conquered your mind and your heart. Your defences are up and you …
“Don’t always scrape & search for compliments. Criticism is what builds character & strength!” — Unknown “No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.” —- Edwin Hubbel Chapin “Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All …
“Growth takes place in a person by working at a deep inner level in a sustained atmosphere of silence.” — Dr. Ira Progoff “Only when one is connected to one’s own core is one connected to others… And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh …
“Stars can’t shine without darkness.” –Unknown “Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil, think no evil. Don’t engage yourself in thinking about others because of jealousy. If anyone tells you wrong things about others, then hear but don’t hear.Don’t speak about such things and spoil the hearts of others.” — Unknown “Changing the …
The Fifth Basic Fear Fear of old age is the fifth basic fear. We like to jump on this fear with both feet, and to laugh about it – because it is a lot better to laugh than to cry about it. When you have a birthday, take a year off your age instead of …
“If you focus on the hurt, you continue to suffer. Focus on the lesson and you will grow. “ — Unknown “Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” — John Wooden “Each one of us wants to move back into that oneness, that wholeness we …
Romance is fleeting, but love is long.Romance is flying, but love is a safe landing.Romance seeks perfection, but love forgives faults.Romance anguishes as it waits for the phone to ringto bring a voice that says sweet things,but love is the anguish of waiting for a callthat assures you someone else is safe and happy.Romance is …
“We let go and find the freedom that is in this movement, in this ever-higher experience of who we are. And we rejoice in the stillness, in the purity, in all that is good. And you remind us “Let’s get going. Let’s go do some good.” — John Morton “You spend most of your life …
Love can never be exclusive. The sun does not choose to shine on some flowers in the garden and not others. Love is inclusive and has many faces – caring, listening, sharing from the heart, just accepting someone for what they are right now, are all acts of love, as long as you seek nothing …
“We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.” — Orison Swett Marden “We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience …