Snips

Controlling, worrying, and forcing don't work.
Detachment - letting go of our need to control people - enhances all our relationships. It opens the door to the best possible outcome. It reduces our frustration level, and frees us and others to live in peace and harmony.
Detachment means we care, about others and ourselves. It frees us to make the best possible decisions. It enables us to set the boundaries we need to set with people. It allows us to have our feelings, to stop reacting and initiate a positive course of action. It encourages others to do the same.
It allows our Higher Power to step in and work.
Today, I will trust the process of detaching with love. I will understand that I am not just letting go; I am letting go and letting God. I'm loving others, but I'm loving myself too.
Melody Beattie ©

Look at the world through "soft eyes." Hard eyes distinguish and judge, noting the differences between ourselves and others. Soft eyes discern instead our commonality, the web of life that weaves itself through all humanity and nature.
Mary Manin Morrissey

AA Thought for the Day / Gradually, I have come to believe to the very core of my being that a God exists and that that God loves me. I am never alone, and I am never without comfort, support or hope. / AA Grapevine, December 2003, p. 42

When we come out of a dark room into a bright sunshiny day, we have to shield our eyes until they adjust to the light. Spirit is like that light. You move toward Spirit, but you can only go as far as you can endure its brightness and fill yourself with that brightness so you can then move on to the next level of brightness.
John-Roger

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstien

Cherish your vision; Cherish your ideals; Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. If you remain true to them, your world will at last be built.
James Allen

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.
Ram Dass

At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
Thich Nhat Hanh

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Wayne Dyer