Snips

Let your powers emerge gradually, gently. Go gently on your path and look around. See what you have learned to define as power. See with the eyes of your heart.
You used to think you were powerful when you resisted your emotions, when you held back and didn't express yourself. You thought power came from who you thought you should be, instead of who you are. Now you have learned that only when you are who you really are, can true power emerge.
The powers you've discovered are many. Your power to be decent, loving, and kind. Your power to heal, to be gentle, to comfort others. Your power to see and know the truth, and at times to see more than you can see with your eyes. Your power to take your place in the dance of universal love, and let the universe dance for you.
These powers have been gifts. You've seen them. You understand them. You know they're real. The choice to embrace and use them is yours.
Melody Beattie

Love is like a brilliantly glowing candle. If you step into its presence and ignite your own candle from the flame, there is not less light, but more. We are not meant to hoard light, but to shine and share it by becoming love in action. Mary Manin Morrissey

A Thought of the Day / Such is our process of growth in unity and function. Such is the evidence of God's grace and love among us. / A.A. Comes of Age, p. 106

If we believe we are souls with bodies rather than bodies with souls, then the invisible, eternal part of ourselves is always available to us for assistance. Once this belief is firm and unshakable it can never be doubted, regardless of the rational arguments of those who live exclusively in the physical world. For some this is called intense prayer, for others it is universal, omnipresent intelligence or force, and for others it is spiritual guidance. It matters not what you call this higher self or how you spell it, since it is beyond definitions, labels, and language itself.Wayne Dyer

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. Rumi

When we are able to be there without saying, "I certainly agree with this", or "I definitely don't agree with that", but just be here very directly, then we find fundamental richness everywhere. It is not ours or theirs, but is available always to everyone.
Pema Chödrön

The experiences of the multi-sensory human are less limited than the experiences of the five-sensory human. They provide more opportunities for growth and development and more opportunities to avoid unnecessary difficulties.
Gary Zukav

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh