Snips

"The choice is ours. Will we let ourselves feel? Will we take a spiritual approach, including gratitude, toward the challenges in life? Will we question life and our Higher Power by asking what we're supposed to be learning and doing? Or will we use challenging situations to prove old, negative beliefs? Will we say, "Nothing good ever happens to me... I'm just a victim... People can't be trusted... Life isn't worth living...
The choice is ours."
Melody Beattie

AA Thought of the Day / My stability came out of trying to give, not out of demanding that I receive. / The Best of Bill, p. 46-47

Maintaining your beliefs feels safe mostly because they're familiar to you. They may feel safe, but in reality beliefs can be dangerous. On the pretense of helping you, they may be severely limiting. Though beliefs are supposed to define your world, they can often confine your world. They narrowly shape what and how you experience life. Sticking stubbornly to your beliefs is not a virtue if they're harming you. It's like driving your car with the brakes on.
Rich Rahn

“Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they rekindle and melt the soul.”
St. Theresa of Avila

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
Lord Byron