Snips

Many of us spend thousands of dollars in therapy and years of our lifetime disentangling our thoughts from the belief of our parents, belief that were passed on to them by their parents, and their grandparents, and even further on down the ancestral line.Sometimes, the effects of other people's thoughts are less blatant, and even more controlling. We can react instinctively to the silent demands of a spouse or lover, or a boss. They smile or frown-or just look at us-and we know what they mean and expect. Sometimes a casual comment by a friend can send us into a tailspin when he or she suggests, You can't do that; it won't work. Do it this way. Months later, when the way we're trying to do it isn't working out and we still keep trying and wonder why, we look back and say, "Oh. My friend told me to do it this way. Maybe he was wrong."An important part of living in harmony with others mean we enjoy doing things that please them, and we don't unnecessarily or maliciously hurt those with whom we interact. And important part of being true to ourselves means checking ourselves from time to time to see if the things we're doing are really what we want, or if we're just a puppet and someone else is pulling our strings.God, help me respect the power of belief.
Melody Beattie ©

The Tao Te Ching says, "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need." Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God's law.
Mary Manin Morrissey

AA Thought for the Day / One qualification for a useful life is give-and-take, the ability to compromise cheerfully. Compromise comes hard to us "all-or-nothing" drunks. Nevertheless, we must never lose sight of the fact that progress is nearly always characterized by a series of improving compromises... Deciding when to compromise and when not to compromise always calls for the most careful discrimination. /
Bill W., 1962 - c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 59

Renowned Ayurvedic doctor Vasant Lad says, “Within every drop is the ocean and within every cell is the intelligence of the whole body.” When we grasp the enormity of this we can start to see the vastness of who we are. Men and women are created equal in that they share the same full range of human qualities. We all have power, strength, creativity, and compassion. We all have greed, lust, anger, and weakness. There is no trait, quality, or aspect that we don't possess. We are filled with divine light, love and brilliance, and equally filled with selfishness, secrecy, and hostility. We are meant to hold the entire world within us; part of the task of being fully human is to find love and compassion for every aspect of ourselves. As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind. Most of us are living within a narrow vision of what it is to be human. When we allow our humanity to embrace our universality, we can easily become whatever we desire.
Debbie Ford

“Not only our Bible, but the scriptures of all the nations of the world, testify to the existence of an invisible force moving men and nature… It is fair to say that the Bible is the allegorical record of humanity under many aliases… The fact is that the entire theme of the Bible is man in his various states of mind, represented as persons, tents, tabernacles, temples.”
Charles Fillmore

If you're a silent sufferer, as I was, good luck. Whatever it is you're suffering over is growing like an overfed weed. Same thing if you're a controller, nagger, worrier, or people-pleaser. You have to take your relationship-killing focus OFF whatever it is that's closing your valve and put it ON to what you want in life. In other words, take your focus off your Don't Wants, put it on your Wants and keep it there.
Lynn Grabhorn

"Never use violence of any kind. Never threaten violence in any way. Never even think violent thoughts. Never argue because it attacks another’s opinion. Never criticize because it attacks another’s ego. And your success is guaranteed."
Mohandas Gandhi

Don't follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail.
Ruby Bridges

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your Soul.Walt Whitman