Snips

This moment, we are right where we need to be, right where we are meant to be. Our feelings, thoughts, circumstances, challenges, tasks -- all of it is on schedule.
Some moments are easier to accept than others. To trust the process, to trust all of it, without hanging on to the past or peering too far into the future, requires a great deal of faith. Surrender to the moment. If you're feeling angry, get mad. If you're setting a boundary, dive into that. If you're grieving, grieve. Get into it. Step where instinct leads. If you're waiting, wait. If you have a task, throw yourself into the work. Get into the moment; the moment is right. We are where we are, and it is okay. It is right where we're meant to be to get where we're going tomorrow. And that place will be good. It has been planned in love for us.God help me let go of my need to be someone other than who I am today. Help me dive fully into the present moment. I will accept and surrender to my present moments -- the difficult ones and the easy ones, trusting the whole process. I will stop trying to control the process; instead, I will relax and let myself experience it.
Melody Beattie

Spirit has placed a dream in your heart for a better world, starting with your family, extending to your work, community, country, and stretching beyond your nation. Speak up and inspire others, for you are meant to make a significant and sizable difference.
Mary Manin Morrissey

AA Thought for the Day / Every AA has found that he can make little headway in this new adventure of living until he first backtracks and really makes an accurate and unsparing survey of the human wreckage he has left in his wake. / 12 & 12 p. 77

Let life touch you. Let yourself be moved. Yes, it will hurt sometimes. But far, far deeper would be the pain if you were to build an impenetrable wall around yourself.Let it all reach into you, for you have what it takes to handle the experience. Know the joys and the sadnesses, the frustrations and the thrills, the deep serenity and the noisy commotion.Immerse yourself in the intensity of life. You were born not to hide but to live, so do it every day. Go ahead and laugh, go ahead and cry. Jump and smile and hug and sing, run and dance and shout. Let life get to you. And be truly moved by the awesome wonder of it all.
Ralph Marston

Anytime we choose to be bitchy, grumpy, or moody, all we do is make matters worse -- as I did as a moody and bored child in front of the window. The more we say our life is terrible, the more we feel it is terrible, the more we act as if it is terrible, and the more it becomes terrible. The opposite is also true. The more we act as if we enjoy being alive, the more joy there comes into and out of our life, and the more we will enjoy being alive.
Marie T. Russell

Courage is daring to take a first step, a big leap, or a different path. It's believing that things will ultimately get better even as they get worse. Courage is being responsible for your own actions, and admitting your own mistakes without placing blame on others. It's relying not on others for your success, but on your own skills and efforts. It's taking a dream and doing anything, risking everything, and stopping at nothing to make it a reality.
Caroline Kent

As you create expectations of people or situations, as you create opinions of what should or should not be taking place with yourself and others, you create your dilemmas.John-RogerIn the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.
Tao Te Ching

We are prone to seek salvation from someone out there, when meanwhile we are the salvation we seek.
Alan Cohen