One of the prohibitions many of us learned in childhood is the unspoken rule; don't have fun and enjoy life. This rule creates martyrs - people who will not let themselves embrace the pleasures of day-to-day living.Many of us associated suffering with some sort of sainthood. Now, we associate it with codependency. We can go through the day making ourselves feel anxious, guilty, miserable, and deprived. Or we can allow ourselves to go through that same day feeling good. We eventually learn the choice is ours.There is much to be enjoyed each day, and it is okay to feel good. We can let ourselves enjoy our tasks. We can learn to relax without guilt. We can even learn to have fun. Work at learning to have fun. Apply yourself with dedication to learning enjoyment. Work as hard at learning to have fun as you did at feeling miserable.Our work will pay off. Fun will become fun. Life will become worth living. And each day, well find many pleasures to be enjoyed.Today, I will let myself enjoy life as I go through my day.
Melody Beattie ©
The challenge is to not look to circumstances for the evidence of what's possible, but to look with the eyes of faith to that which we would bring forth. Hold the highest vision today for what you would create.
Mary Manin Morrissey
AA Thought of the Day / Demands made upon other people for too much attention, protection, and love can only invite domination or revulsion... / 12 & 12, p. 44
If I am feeling sad, I might crawl into bed and cry, taking time to be very loving and nurturing to myself. Or I might find someone caring to talk to who will simply listen to me until some of the feelings are released and I feel lighter. If I have been working too hard, I learn to put work aside no matter how important it seems I take time to play, to take a hot bath or read a novel. If someone I love wants something from me that I don't want to give, I learn to say no firmly yet with love. I trust that he or she will be better off than if I did it when I didn't want to. This way when I say yes I really mean it.
Shakti Gawain
I do not want to step so quickly over a beautiful line on God's palm as I move through the earth's marketplace today. I do not want to touch any object in this world without my eyes testifying to the truth that everything is my Beloved. Something has happened to my understanding of existence that now makes my heart always full of wonder and kindness. I do not want to step so quickly over this sacred place on God's body that is right beneath your own foot as I dance with precious life today.
Hafiz
When human beings stand by one another, testify to their faith, and witness each other's pain, miracles happen. If we are loved enough, we are emotionally healed and spiritually made whole.
Marianne Williamson
Buried deep within each of us is a spark of greatness, a spark than can be fanned into flames of passion and achievement. That spark is not outside of you it is born deep within you.
James A. Ray
To the luckiest of people, a time comes when they join or launch a cause that forever changes their lives and the lives of others.
Guy Kawasaki
Living is a thing you do now or never - which do you?
Piei Hein
Melody Beattie ©
The challenge is to not look to circumstances for the evidence of what's possible, but to look with the eyes of faith to that which we would bring forth. Hold the highest vision today for what you would create.
Mary Manin Morrissey
AA Thought of the Day / Demands made upon other people for too much attention, protection, and love can only invite domination or revulsion... / 12 & 12, p. 44
If I am feeling sad, I might crawl into bed and cry, taking time to be very loving and nurturing to myself. Or I might find someone caring to talk to who will simply listen to me until some of the feelings are released and I feel lighter. If I have been working too hard, I learn to put work aside no matter how important it seems I take time to play, to take a hot bath or read a novel. If someone I love wants something from me that I don't want to give, I learn to say no firmly yet with love. I trust that he or she will be better off than if I did it when I didn't want to. This way when I say yes I really mean it.
Shakti Gawain
I do not want to step so quickly over a beautiful line on God's palm as I move through the earth's marketplace today. I do not want to touch any object in this world without my eyes testifying to the truth that everything is my Beloved. Something has happened to my understanding of existence that now makes my heart always full of wonder and kindness. I do not want to step so quickly over this sacred place on God's body that is right beneath your own foot as I dance with precious life today.
Hafiz
When human beings stand by one another, testify to their faith, and witness each other's pain, miracles happen. If we are loved enough, we are emotionally healed and spiritually made whole.
Marianne Williamson
Buried deep within each of us is a spark of greatness, a spark than can be fanned into flames of passion and achievement. That spark is not outside of you it is born deep within you.
James A. Ray
To the luckiest of people, a time comes when they join or launch a cause that forever changes their lives and the lives of others.
Guy Kawasaki
Living is a thing you do now or never - which do you?
Piei Hein
2 comments:
I choose living ! :)
I also believe that saying "no" is fine. Sometimes tough if one is a giver , but I've come to realize that I deserve the right to put myself first sometimes.
Saying No was a tough one to learn for me. But learn it I did, and then I had to relearn saying yes. Now I choose to think about it for a bit. The bigger the decision, the longer I have to decide. But I eventually do make a choice. By not deciding, we have really decided to stick to the status quo of life as it is.
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