Snips

Keep practicing your new, healthy behaviors, even when they feel awkward, even when they haven't quite taken yet, even if you don't get it yet. Sometimes it takes years for a concept to move from our mind into our heart and soul. It is unreasonable to expect this new way of life to sink in overnight. We may have to "act as if" for months, years, before new thoughts become ingrained and natural. Even after years, we may find ourselves, in times of stress or duress, reverting to old ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving.We may have layers of feelings we aren't ready to acknowledge until years into our process. That's okay! When it's time, we will.It takes time to get self-love into the core of us. It takes repeated practice. Time and experience. Lessons, lessons, and more lessons. Then, just when we think we've arrived, we find we have more to learn. That's the joy. We get to keep learning and growing all of our life!Keep on taking care of yourself, no matter what. Today, I will practice loving myself until I really do.Melody Beattie ©

Practice spiritual principles over and over again. First, they awaken, and then they inspire. If we remain true to these principles, in time, they transform.Mary Manin Morrissey

AA Thought of the Day / As long as we placed self-reliance first, a genuine reliance upon a Higher Power was out of the question. That basic ingredient of all humility, a desire to seek and do God's will, was missing. / 12 & 12, p. 72

If you can place yourself in the company of people who are infused with spirit, their energy gives you spark and facilitation - a confidence boost. Fortunately, the electricity of spirit is contagious. When this positive energy of well-beingness circulates through your system, people often refer to you as being "lit up." Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higherthan you think.Benjamin Disraeli

"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds: your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person than you ever dreamed yourself to be." Patanjali

"If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities." Marie-Louise von Franz

It has been dramatically revealed to me time after time that the Biblical pronouncement of "Ask and Ye Shall Receive" is a veritable truism. It only needs a deep-seated belief and a fervent affirmation to successfully execute it.
Susan de Montfort

If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page.Mark Houlahan

To dare is to lose one's footing temporarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
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