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We deserve the best life and love has to offer, but we are each faced with the challenge of learning to identify what that means in our life. We must each come to grips with our own understanding of what we believe we deserve, what we want, and whether we are receiving it.There is only one place to start, and that is right where we are, in our current circumstances. The place we begin is with us.We can begin the journey from deprived to deserving. We can start it today. We can also be patient and gentle with ourselves as we travel in important increments from believing we deserve second best, to knowing in our hearts that we deserve the best, and taking responsibility for that.Today, I will pay attention to how I allow people to treat me, and how I feel about that. I will also watch how I treat others. I will not overreact by taking their issues too personally and too seriously; I will not under react by denying that certain behaviors are inappropriate and not acceptable to me.Melody Beattie ©

Is it possible that Higher Power holds a vision for you that is bigger than your own? This is a vision that extends beyond material success or finding a life partner or the healing of a disease. While any of those things may occur, the Divine vision for your life extends beyond your own desires such that it brings good to others. Ask God to help you embrace a vision that may be beyond your current understanding.Mary Manin Morrissey

AA Thought for the Day / We are not saints. The point is, that we are willing to grow along spiritual lines. The principles we have set down are guides to progress. We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection. / AA, p. 60

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.
W. H. Murray

A cardinal principle of the Spiritual Warrior is: It is not what is happening that is important; what is important is what you are doing with it. Thus the Spiritual Warrior says, "Regardless of what it looks like, regardless of my perception, I will use everything for my advancement, upliftment, and growth."John-Roger

The next 24 hours are guaranteed to excite us, to lift us to new levels of understanding, to move us into situations with others where we can offer our unique contributions. All that is asked of us is a willingness to trust that we will be given just what we need at each moment.
Maria Yraceburu

Then indecision brings its own delays, and days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Goethe

The soul of music slumbers in the shell till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour a thousand melodies unheard before!Samuel Rogers

Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.Rumi