Snips

We do not have to be so somber and serious. We do not have to be so reflective, so critical, so bound up within the rigid parameters and ourselves others, and often ourselves, have placed around us.
This is life, not a funeral service. Have some fun with it. Enter into it. Participate. Experiment. Take a risk. Be spontaneous. Do not always be so concerned about doing it right, doing the appropriate thing. Do not always be so concerned about what others will think or say. What they think and say are their issues not ours. Do not be so afraid of making a mistake. Do not be so fearful and proper. Do not inhibit yourself so much.
God did not intend us to be so inhibited, so restricted, so controlled. These repressive parameters are what other people have imposed on us, what we have allowed to be done to us.
So many rules. So much shame we've lived with. It simply isn't necessary. We have been brainwashed. It is time now to free ourselves, let ourselves go, and enter fully human into a full life.
Have some fun. Loosen up a bit. Break a few rules. God won't punish us. We do not have to allow people to punish us. And we can stop punishing ourselves. As long as we're here and alive, let's begin to live.
Today, I will let myself have some fun with life. I will loosen up a bit, knowing I won't crack and break. God, help me let go of my need to be so inhibited, proper, and repressed. Help me inject a big dose of life into myself by letting myself be fully alive and human.
Melody Beattie ©

This is the spiritual meaning of intimacy: growth inward, past our mask and fears and recklessness, to the sacred place where we are naked before God and each other.
Marianne Williamson

AAThought of the Day / In every case, pain had been the price of admission into a new life. But this admission price had purchased more than we expected. It brought a measure of humility, which we soon discovered to be a healer of pain. / 12 & 12, p. 75

The choice is yours. Why not choose to be at peace with yourself and feel good? Confront what you are doing to yourself. You have only so much time and energy. Choose to use that energy productively. Why choose to spend your life angry, depressed, guilty and anxious? Modify those internal statements that allow grief and misery to occupy your mind. Ask yourself, "Am I doing the best to take care of myself today?"
Lynne Namka

We must keep in mind that where the road is crooked, God makes it straight, and where our hearts are wounded, God makes us whole. As we open our hearts in purity and simplicity, admitting to God that we are completely powerless in the area of our problem, His illumination redeems us.
Marianne Williamson

"Learn to get in touch with the silence from within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from."
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross


Do more than exist, live. Do more than touch, feel. Do more than look, observe. Do more than read, absorb. Do more than hear, listen. Do more than think, ponder. Do more than talk, say something.
John H. Rhoades


We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make our world.
Buddha


"I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing Light of your own Being."
Hafiz