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Master the lessons of your present circumstances. We do not move forward by resisting what is undesirable in our life today. We move forward, we grow, we change by acceptance.Avoidance is not the key; surrender opens the door. Listen to this truth: We are each in our present circumstances for a reason. There is a lesson, a valuable lesson, that must be learned before we can move forward.Something important is being worked out in us, and in those around us. We may not be able to identify it today, but we can know that it is important. We can know it is good.Overcome not by force, overcome by surrender. The battle is fought, and won, inside ourselves. We must go through it until we learn, until we accept, until we become grateful, until we are set free.Today, I will be open to the lessons of my present circumstances. I do not have to label, know, or understand what I'm learning; I will see clearly in time. For today, trust and gratitude are significant.Melody Beattie ©

Listen for God's guidance. No one will meet exactly the same number of people this week that you will meet. Nobody will have access to exactly the same mix. The people on your path offer you a silver platter to be God's voice, God's hands, right here and right now. In each moment, Spirit gives us an opportunity to express God's love, and to receive it. You have an absolutely unique opportunity to make a difference in someone's life. Stop for a few moments, and listen.Mary Manin Morrissey

AA Thought for the Day / We learned that if we were seriously disturbed, our first need was to quiet that disturbance, regardless of who or what we thought caused it. / 12 & 12, p. 47

Learning to follow your intuition can sometimes feel a bit like "living on the edge". In a sense, it's learning to live without the false sense of security that comes from trying to control everything that happens to us. It's recognizing that as we follow our inner guidance, wonderful things are going to unfold for us, things that we may not yet even imagine.Gradually we become less afraid and more comfortable with uncertainty. We can learn to enjoy not knowing! It's actually a very exciting, alive feeling. We can learn to move into the unknown with the confidence that we have a guiding force within us that is showing us the way.Shakti Gawain

When people come to me with a problem - I don't care what it is - poor health, lack of money, unfulfilling relationships, or stifled creativity - there's only one thing that I ever work on, and that is loving the self. I find that when we really love, accept, and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, everything in life flows. Joyous self-approval and self-acceptance in the here and now are the keys to positive change in every area of our lives.Louise Hay

If we really knew how unhappy it was making this whole planet that we all try to avoid pain and seek pleasure - how that was making us so miserable and cutting us off from our basic heart and our basic intelligence - then we would practice meditation as if our hair were on fire. We would practice as if a big snake had just landed in our lap. There wouldn't be any question of thinking we had a lot of time and we could do this later.
Pema Chödrön
"The difference between being a neurotic and a no-limit person isn't whether someone has problems. Everyone has problems. It's attitude. Do you look for solutions or more problems?"Wayne Dyer

The Law of mind, the giant within and around us, is always creating for us. But what specific direction are we giving it? Our every thought is a direction.Ernest Holmes

It is only when we step outside of thought, that we can see things as they really are.Bertram W. Salzman