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Life is a Gentle Teacher. She wants to help us learn. The lessons she wants to teach us are the ones we need to learn. Some say they are the lessons we chose to learn before we were born. Others say they are the lessons that were chosen for us.
It's frustrating to be in the midst of learning. It is like sitting in algebra class, listening to a teacher explain a subject beyond our comprehension. We do not understand, but the teacher takes the understanding for granted.
It may feel like someone is torturing us with messages that we shall never
understand. We strain and strain. We become angry. Frustrated. Confused.
Finally, in despair, we turn away, deciding that that formula will never be
available to our mind.
Later, while taking a quiet walk, we break through. Quietly, the gift of understanding has reached that deepest place in us. We understand. We have
learned. The next day in class, it's hard for us to imagine not knowing. It is hard to remember the frustration and confusion of those who have not yet caught on. It seems so easy . . . now.
Life is a Gentle Teacher. She will keep repeating the lesson until we learn. It is okay to become frustrated. Confused. Angry. Sometimes it is okay to despair. Then, it is okay to walk away and allow the breakthrough to come. It shall.
Help me remember that frustration and confusion usually precede growth. If my situation is challenging me, it is because I'm learning something new, rising to a higher level of understanding. Help me be grateful, even in my frustration, that life is an exciting progression of lessons.
Melody Beattie ©

Do you remember the birthday candles that come on again after you blow them out? That's like the light of life that refuses to go out in any of us. We may think we are in darkness. It may seem as if our problem or our pain is simply too big to handle. But these moments of darkness are the time when, instead of looking at our big problem, we can look to our big God, and know the light is always here.
Mary Manin Morrissey

AA Thought of the Day / ...we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. / 12 & 12, p. 106

There are times when we have to get a new sense of ourselves, a larger
consciousness that heals the hurt places in us so that we can stop going
through people and circumstances looking for the 'right one.' WE'RE the
right one, and this is the right time for us to access the presence of God
in us more completely.
Margaret Stortz

Seldom does this voice penetrate the outer world of human experience, seldom does anyone allow it to perfectly express through him. We must learn to listen for this voice. Call it conscience, intuition, or what we will, it is there. No man need go unguided thru life, for all are divine at the center and all are Images of the Most high!
Ernest Holmes

"Mastery does not come from dabbling. We have to be prepared to pay the price. We need to have the sustained enthusiasm that motivates us to give our best."
Eknath Easwaran

What men and women need is encouragement. Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues.
Eleanor H. Porter

”When you cease trying to control and manipulate your experience, meditation spontaneously happens.”
Adyashanti


"Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows."
Ralph Waldo Emerson