Snips

Try harder. Do better. Be perfect. These messages are tricks that people have played on us. No matter how hard we try, we think we have to do better. Perfection always eludes us and keeps us unhappy with the good we've done.Messages of perfectionism are tricks because we can never achieve theirgoal. We cannot feel good about ourselves or what we have done while thesemessages are driving us. We will never be good enough until we change themessages and tell ourselves we are good enough now.We can start approving of and accepting ourselves. Who we are is goodenough. Our best yesterday was good enough; our best today is plenty goodtoo.We can be who we are, and do it the way we do it - today. That is theessence of avoiding perfection. GGod, help me let go of the messages that drive me into the crazies. I willgive myself permission to be who I am and let that be good enough.Melody Beattie ©

If you love somebody, set them free, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.Kahlil Gibran

AA Thought of the Day / Self-searching is the means by which we bring new vision, action, and grace to bear upon the dark and negative side of our natures. With it comes the development of that kind of humility that makes it possible for us to receive God's help... we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life - the one that did not work - for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever. / As Bill Sees It, pp. 10

Life is what you make it! You can clean out the cobwebs in the old programming and revamp the guidelines to reflect your new vision of yourself and of the life you choose to have surrounding you. Be aware of your present thoughts. In a sense, you need to be "watching" your thoughts at all times to spot the ones that sabotage your goals. Once you detect the thoughts that are 'against' your highest good, you can proceed to change them.
Marie T. Russell

"We are not channels, we are instruments. Channels give nothing of their own; they just let water run through them. In our action, we are instruments in God's hand and He writes beautifully." Mother Teresa

"The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination." John Schaar

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment- the moment in which a person finds out, once and for all, who they are.Jorge Luis Borges

Pursue not the outer entanglements, dwell not in the inner void; Be serene in the oneness of things, and dualism vanishes by itself.
Seng-t'san

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.John Holt

namaste...