Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~~ Buddha ~ If we want something done right, don’t we usually have to do it ourselves? Independence is when you don’t need help from others to get things done. The world can be a difficult place. We make friends, we lose friends, friends move…
We don’t see the world as it is, we see the world as we are. People see beauty differently. Colors look brighter to some people, more so than to others. There is beauty all around us. It is in the sky, in the leaves and trees, in the flowers and the grass. Life can be…
Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~ Throughout the span of 24 hours, a great deal of work can be achieved. But then, Time…
The gift of friendship is a willingness to listen, a pair of helping hands and a whisper from the heart. It lets us feel that someone cares and understands. If you have a friend you consider to be happy, you are more likely to be happy and you are able to spread that happiness to…
As much as we crave the rest a vacation offers, we often resist it. Many of us have set up our lives so that we are constantly busy, living on a kind of adrenaline that poses as energy. This is an insidious trick of the negative mind – building a wall of frantic activity that…
We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it. ~~ John Lennon ~ If…
Religions in general are simply different paths to an ultimate reality. The Universal Religion can be visualized as a mountain, with many spiritual paths to the summit. Some are hard, others are easy. There is no one correct path. All paths eventually reach the top. It is believed that one day a new universal religion…
Loving Spirit: Love, justice, mercy, wholeness, peace and compassion are values we aspire to live daily. May our focus on these core beliefs guide everything we think, say or do. We are aware of the effects of our decisions on other people and species. Thank You for clear direction and for the unfolding pattern of…
The Tiger’s Eye stone enhances good luck, and brings prosperity. The Tiger’s Eye is a stone of protection. Always carry one during travel. It is known for its grounding and stabilizing properties. It is a crystal with bands of yellow-golden color running through it. This beautiful stone is a type of macrocystalline or fibrous quartz…
Being emotionally strong doesn’t mean you don’t experience pain. Weak people are the ones who run from their problems, while strong ones are the ones who face their life problems and look for ways to make things better. You cannot control what life throws at you, but you can choose how you react. Take responsibility…
Be still. Be still. Be still. God in the midst of you is substance. God in the midst of you is love. God in the midst of you is wisdom. Let not your thoughts be given to lack, but let wisdom fill them with the substance and faith of God. Let not your heart…
As a result of the universal law of every result has a cause, the energy you give out must come back to you. It is important to have a regular meditation or spiritual practice to keep your mind clear and on the right track. Meditation helps your thoughts and actions naturally go in the direction…
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren’t certain we knew better. They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts, appear to know about death. Being such wonderfully uncomplicated…
Ego is not Self, it just pretends to be. Without ego, there’s still someone who likes chocolates or avoids cooked carrots, who cusses up a storm or speaks very gently, still someone who represents a unique snowflake of God’s power operating through one individuated form. ~ Bo Lozoff (It’s a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes…
Movement and change are the ways of the Universe. We never want or expect misfortune to come our way. It is much more pleasant to have success, health, good fortune and a fun and interesting life all the time. Life doesn’t happen that way. Each negative event in our life carries with it opportunities, no…
Everyone dreams. From the time we are babies until the day we die, our minds constantly produce dreams. They are believed to be the mind’s way to maintain sanity. From early morning until late at night, our mind registers data delivered by our senses. The subconscious retrieves and processes this data when we sleep. Your…
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use ~ Galileo Galilei ~ The physical senses can’t discern spiritual things. This isn’t speaking only of understanding spiritual truths with our minds; this also applies to seeing spiritual realities with…
It’s possible to mend our world only by finding the courage to mend ourselves. ~ Dr. Sonya Friedman ~ If for no other reason than for yourself, forgive to release yourself from the negative experiences of the past. Take time to meditate, and give thanks for the wisdom and knowledge gained from your suffering and pain….
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. ~ Maya Angelou ~ Start by pretending to be happy. Smile, and smile a lot! Happiness is something you can fake until you feel more positive. While making yourself smile should start to make you feel better, it’s even better…
According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world – and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative…
Life is like a rainbow. You need both the sun and the rain to make its colors appear. Don’t miss all the beautiful colors of the rainbow because you are too busy looking for the pot of gold. The only way to see a rainbow is to look through the rain. Are you one of…
The angels stand between us and God, but they are translucent, even transparent, and they beckon us to penetrate their luminosity. ~ Peter Wilson But are we to pray to the angels? God has given us the unseen angels, who are “ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation” (Hebrews 1:14). But we…
I’ve Learned: That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere. Feelings of bitterness can affect the way a person is with friends and family. These feelings surface where deep hurt has been caused. It causes you to put up personal boundaries to prevent you from getting hurt again, as you are hurting inside. Bitterness…
I am sowing seeds of joy, peace and love. The angels guide my steps. St. Thomas Aquinas says that human beings need guardian angels to guide them to choose what’s right because sin sometimes weakens people’s ability to make good moral decisions: “By free will man can avoid evil to a certain degree, but not in…