Snips

Trust your instincts. Trust that small inner voice that guides you to the right, loving action. That small inner voice is who you really are. That terrible person you have imagined yourself to be is a machination of your imagination, fears, and self-doubts. Yes, you have made mistakes... haven't we all? Yes, you had instances where you were unjust, petty, and did not express loving or peaceful thoughts. Those are nothing more than experiences that you went
through -- errors in judgment. Your true inner self is still an innocent, loving being -- an angel in physical form. That is who you are. You can reclaim it now! You are free to be who you really are! A divine child of the Universe.
Marie T. Russell

Along our spiritual journey, every one of us is thrust into the desert. We find ourselves in a relationship wasteland or financially barren. We feel lost and abandoned, but it is during this time in the desert that God grows our souls.
Mary Manin Morrissey

Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps
D.Lloyd George


Let Go of what is not working in our lives. Anger, fear, resentment, perfectionism, struggle, ego, and the need for approval are just some of the emotions and beliefs that don't serve us. We may also need to let go of an abusive relationship, a dead-end job, or our preconceived ideas of how situations and people should be. Releasing the negative in our lives makes room for the positive - like love, serendipity, and abundance.
Fred Luskin, Ph.D., Director of Stanford University's Forgiveness Project

"We must give up our will, give up control, and release our expectations about a specific result. This is where the going starts to get tough. We want what we want, and usually we want it yesterday. We need to open ourselves up to the possibility that we don't always know what's best for us."
--Kathy Cordova

Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time -- just like it does for you and me.
Sara Paddison

Just as the tumultuous chaos of a thunderstorm brings a nurturing rain that allows life to flourish, so too in human affairs times of advancement are preceded by times of disorder. Success comes to those who can weather the storm.
I CHING

Everyone can be great. Because everyone can serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
G.K. Chesterton

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
Leonardo Da Vinci

"The Divine intends freedom for us..."
Ernest Holmes

Share your heart with the world. Share willingly, openly, joyfully what you have seen, what you have learned. Don't tell people how you think you should have handled things. That's shame. It teachers others to feel ashamed, too. Don't tell people how you wish you had handled things. That's needless regret that we pass on to others.
Share honestly and openly about yourself, the way you felt, the things you thought. Share how going through your experience changed you. Talk about your resistance, your pain, the imperfect way you did things, the way you handle things now.
Sharing honestly and openly teaches people around us the most helpful truth - that the imperfect way we live our lives is right for us at the time. When we love and accept ourselves enough to honestly share who we are, it helps those we touch to believe that they're good enough too.
Sharing your heart with the world and you will bring healing to those you touch.
Melody Beattie