Snips

How often we waste our time and energy wishing we were someone else, were
doing something else, or were someplace else. We may wish our present circumstances were different. We needlessly confuse ourselves and divert our energy by thinking that our present moment is a mistake. But we are right where we need to be for now. Our feelings, thoughts, circumstances, challenges, and tasks - all of it is on schedule.
Come back home to yourself. Come back home to the present moment. We
will not change things by escaping or leaving the moment. We will change things by surrendering to and accepting the moment.
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. 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 ©


Service is the highest activity to which we can aspire. Albert Schweitzer wrote: "I do not know what path in life you will take, but I do know this: If, on that path, you do not find a way to serve, you will never be happy." We are not alone. We are part of something bigger, and we experience the connection by giving with grace a portion of our time and talent to service.
Mary Manin Morrissey

AA Thought of the Day / The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it. / AA, p. 83

It takes courage to let intimacy into our lives. It takes a strength of purpose... our purpose being to create relationships that are truly loving, supportive, and comfortable. Yes comfortable. A relationship where we can really be ourselves without fear. Somewhat like with a friend that we've had "forever"... with these old friends we can let all aspects of our personality act out, and know that we will still be loved. We need to develop that intimacy with everyone in our lives.
Maria T. Russell

Courage, willingness and love are the universal qualities of the brilliant human heart that bring us to compassion. We go within. We develop our capacity to be with ourselves. We deepen into our own experience of life. Everything is there for us, nothing missing – and this discovery is not just a feel-good affirmation. It is a deep experience of who we really are, arising from the love, courage, and willingness to simply be with all of life.
Julie Interrante

in the changing skies
of consequence
let us be
as flocks of birds
guiding each other
by touching wings

by touching wings
guiding each other
as flocks of birds
let us be
of consequence
in the changing skies
Claire J. Baker

Inward spiritual practices such as meditation, breathing techniques and self-analysis generate insights and enhance abilities, but none are so useful as learning to live harmoniously in a committed relationship, being a skillful parent, or juggling the demands of daily life.
Dan Millman

If one speaks with a cruel mind, misery follows, as a cart follows the horse. If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.
The Dhammapada

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
Angela Monet