Snips

What if's can make us crazy. They put control over our life in someone else's hands. What if's are a sign that we have reverted to thinking that people have to react in a particular way for us to continue on our course.
What if's are also a clue that we may be wondering whether we can trust ourselves and our Higher Power to do what's best for us. These are shreds of codependent ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving, and they signal fear.
The reactions, feelings, likes or dislikes of others don't have to control our behaviors, feelings, and direction. We don't need to control how others react to our choices. We can trust ourselves, with help from a Higher Power, to handle any outcome -- even the most uncomfortable. And, my friend, we can trust ourselves to handle it well.
Today, I will not worry about other people's reactions, or events outside of my control. Instead, I will focus on my reactions. I will handle my life well today and trust that, tomorrow, I can do the same.
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 of the Day / Dear God, My spiritual awakening continues to unfold. The help I have received I shall pass on & give to others, both in & out of the Fellowship. For this opportunity I am grateful. I pray most humbly to continue walking day by day on the road of spiritual progress. I pray for the inner strength & wisdom to practice the principles of this way of life in all I do & say. I need You, my friends & the program every hour of every day. This is a better way to live. / 12th step prayer

"And what is healing? Healing is joining. Healing is the coming together that brings peace and denies separation. And healing, as I have told you, is quite simply the release from the past. Because it is the past that determines where you are, that defines your ego, that places within your ego the demand to get and to become. And all of that is really the demand to isolate yourself from your brothers and your world. And as you would release the past, you shall be healed."
Brent Haskell

At This Moment..... We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other. To meet, to love, to share. It is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parentheses in eternity. If we share with caring, lightheartedness, and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other, and this moment will have been worthwhile.
Deepak Chopra

To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it.
Jean Shinoda Bolen

There is some place where your specialness can shine... somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.
David Viscott

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

If you accept a limiting belief, then it will become a truth for you."
Louise Hay