Snips

The sign hangs on the wall of a bagel shop: "Don't forget to be happy." Sometimes we get so bogged down in dealing with feelings, issues, problems - the realities and details of our lives - we forget to be happy. Often happiness can be ours if we just remember to be happy. Joy is a choice - a deliberate, conscious choice. That choice is available to us each day. Our joy isn't controlled by others or by outward circumstances. Joy comes from a deeper place, a place of security within ourselves. It's an attitude, not a transitory emotion.
Remember to be kind. Remember to be loving. Remember to feel all your feelings and to take care of yourself. But most of all, remember to be happy.
Melody Beattie

" If God created you, how could you have anything other than infinite power to be a source for good in the world through the grace of God within you? The issue is: Is your mind living there? Are you living there?"
Marianne Williamson


AA Thought for the Day / Self-pity is one of the most unhappy and consuming defects that we know. It is a bar to all spiritual progress and can cut off all effective communication with our fellows because of its inordinate demands for attention and sympathy. It is a maudlin form of martyrdom; which we can ill afford. / Bill W., Letter, 1966

If you always run to some physical body to ask physical questions and get physical answers, you may not learn to tune inwardly and go into the subtle levels of your own consciousness. It is important to reach within you to the source of knowledge and strength and to know for yourself what is right to do. On those higher inner levels, you cannot be deceived.
John-Roger

We look at some people as if they were special, gifted, divine. Nobody is special and gifted and divine. No more than you are, no more than I am. The only difference, the very only one, is that they have begun to understand what they really are and have begun to practice it.
Richard Bach

"When you say, I enjoy doing this or that, it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes from what you do, but that is not the case. Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you."
Eckhart Tolle

"Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us."
Stephen Covey

"Enlightenment is not about imagining figures of light but of making the darkness conscious."
C.G. Jung

Try not to become a person of success, but rather a person of value.
Albert Einstein