Snips

What are you feeling deep down inside? Under the anger. Under the rage. Under the numb I don't care, it doesn't matter. Are you really feeling scared? Hurt? Abandoned? Go more deeply into yourself and your emotions than you have ever been before. The way to joy, the way to the heart is tender, soft gentle, and honest. The way to the heart is to be vulnerable.You don't have to be so brave. You don't have to be so strong. You don't always have to walk away with your head held high saying, I can handle this. I've been through worse before.Become angry if you must. Feel your rage if it's there. Go numb once in a while, if you must. Then take a chance, and go a little deeper. Go way down deep inside. See what's there. Take a look. Risk being vulnerable.Love yourself and all your emotions. Be as honest with yourself as you can be. Say how you really feel.-Melody Beattie-

Love is not an exclusive club with limited membership. Take what you are given and spread it around.Mary Manin Morrissey

AA Thought of the Day / For without some degree of humility, no alcoholic can stay sober at all... / 12 & 12, p. 70

God and I, in space alone, and nobody else in view,
"And where are all of the people oh Lord" I said,
"the earth below and the sky overhead and the dead that I once knew?"
"That was a dream" God smiled and said; "The dream that seemed to be true; there were no people, living or dead, there was no earth and no sky overhead, there was only myself, in you."
"Why do I feel no fear?" I asked, "meeting you here in this way?
For I have sinned, i know full well, and is there heaven and is there hell,
and is this Judgement day?"
"Nay, those were but dreams" the Great God said,
"dreams that have ceased to be.
There are no such things as fear, and sin;
there is no you, you never have been.
There is nothing at all, but me."
Ellen Wheeler Wilcox

God, Universal Energy, Super consciousness, Divine Will, or whatever you wish to call IT, manifests in wonderful and often miraculous ways. The trick is to be fearless in your quest for attainment and trust that your every true need is being sustained in ways that are most beneficial to your own path of enlightenment. Let the Power flow through you and your needs will be met. Sometimes it's as simple as just asking.
Susan de Montfort

Real spirituality is beyond hope. Hope means there is a chance things may turn out as we wish, and if we are lucky we may get what we want. Inner knowing, on the other hand, proceeds from the awareness that love is present now, well-being is our natural state, and all is really well.
Alan Cohen

“Our weaknesses are divine gifts that when embraced will enable us to make our purposeful contribution to the whole, which is why we incarnated in the first place.” Andrew Schneider

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.
Les Brown

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong