You, yourself, are the arbiter of your own destiny. ~ Emma Curtis Hopkins Lewis Carroll said: If you don’t know where you are going, then any road will get you there. It is important to take time to examine and discuss the details of every aspect of your life, both personal and professional, to achieve…
Category: Self Enlightenment
WHY DO WE WORRY SO MUCH?
When most people worry, they feel less anxious. Running over the problem in your head distracts you from your emotions and makes you feel like you’re getting something accomplished. Focusing on worst case scenarios won’t keep bad things from happening. It will only keep you from enjoying the good things you have in the present….
HELPING OTHERS IS AN ACT OF KINDNESS
Helping others is an act of kindness. Helping those that need us is a good thing, something a lot of people may not think about, nor do often. If a person is experiencing difficulty in life, showing them love and kindness can uplift them from the situation they are in. Showing kindness and doing good…
THE PATH TO SUCCESS
Go forward with your shoulders back firm, with your head high, and with a smile. With your enthusiastic spirit, perseverance and integrity of character, put your intelligence, talents, and passion into action. Never let setback excuse you from trying again. It often takes many attempts to be a success. Never let negative people influence you…
AFFIRMATION – DALAI LAMA
Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I…
Bo Lozoff on Change
This is the first step toward understanding the process of real, lasting change – simply knowing with certainty that you can do whatever you need to do. This understanding has a dual edge. On the one hand, it increases your confidence and dignity. On the other hand, it places full responsibility on you if you…
FLY ABOVE IT
Always seek less turbulent skies. Hurt. Fly above it. Betrayal. Fly above it. Anger. Fly above it. You are the one who is flying the plane. ~ Marianne Williamson ~ We all create our own energy. Our future can be what we think it will be, if we believe in our thoughts. The extent to…
LIBERTY AND FREEDOM
“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in…
WORDS TO LIVE BY
Promise only what you can deliver, then deliver more than you promise. Don’t compromise yourself, you’re all you’ve got. If you’re not doing your best, then you’re operating at a lower level, you’re compromising your standards and you’re setting yourself up to create bad habits and attitudes that accept consistently substandard performances. Every day, we have the…
SELF ENLIGHTENMENT – OUR INNER PEACE
To consciously enlighten oneself is the grandest way possible to know our truth. Knowing oneself within the Lotus of our Heart, is the ultimate self-revelation. Self Enlightenment is the ultimate goal of many metaphysical and spiritual practices. This increased level of consciousness is one that plenty of people strive for, but few attain. Achieving a…
CONFUSION TO CLARITY
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and…
MIRACLES
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~ Albert Einstein ~ Wikipedia gives us a number of interpretations of what we mean by a miracle:- An unexpected event attributed to divine intervention. A fortuitous event….
PEACE IN SILENCE
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Be yourself. Especially do not…
POSITIVE THOUGHTS
We have to choose to think and speak positively, and that will take practice. Our actions are the practical manifestations of our thoughts. We must bring about a change in the way we think in order to create happiness and sense of fulfillment in our life. What we think, we are. We can live in…
WHAT YOU THINK MATTERS
We can control our thoughts, both positive and negative. Some thoughts can make us smile, relax, feel frustrated, depressed and some can make us feel confident. Most of the time, our thoughts control how we are feeling, and we don’t even realize it. Every feeling we have is the direct result of something we were…
THE IMPORTANCE OF POSITIVE THINKING
Positive Thinking is important if you want to improve your life. Monks have used positive thinking in meditations for years to focus their minds on what they need in their life and how to make it come true. Start your Positive Thinking meditation by writing down three simple statements about what you want in life. …
ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST
1. Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. 2. Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and…
THE LIGHT WITHIN US and HIMALAYAN SALT LAMPS –
Monthly Horoscopes – – Daily Astrology – – We are all beacons of light. With this light, we are helping to light the path to a better way for others to follow. By being a beacon of light, we can change the world. We awaken in others the awareness towards the ultimate truth. This light enables life…
PRESENT MOMENT
Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment. You will be transformed by what you read. So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that’s just silly….
HEART AND SOUL
I trust so much in the power of the heart and the soul; I know that the answer to what we need to do next is in our own hearts. All we have to do is listen, then take that one step further and trust what we hear. We will be taught what we need…
DIFFERENT RELATIONSHIPS
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière A bell is no bell ’til you ring it, A song is no song ’til you sing it,…
We Only Have Today!
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ~ Mohandas Gandhi ~ We need to live more in the moment. Living in the moment is a state of active, open, intentional attention on the present. When you become mindful, you realize that you are not your thoughts; you…