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Fri or when possible! 12/31/2003 Life is not the way it's supposed to be.
It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference. 12/30/2003 When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others,
you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated by
them. 12/29/2003 Always appeal to that which is there that
can be loved. Guard against your own prejudice against others, for it may be
applied to yourself as well. 12/26/2003 A smile is the window of the soul
indicating the heart is home. 12/25/2003 Maintain a social fragrance, meaning a
person who would have friends must be a friend, to be open, understanding,
kind, non-judgmental and willing to love without expectation. 12/24/2003 Treasure your relationships, not your
possessions. 12/23/2003 God is not the mere invention of man's idealism; he is the very source of all such superanimal insights and values. - The Urantia Papers 12/22/2003People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross 12/19/2003Do all the good you can, 12/18/2003 Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can
only be expected from the strong. 12/17/2003 Achievement is largely the product of
steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation. 12/16/2003 I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.
- Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)
12/15/2003 Enter the inner chamber of your soul,
shut out everything except God, and when you have shut the door, seek him. 12/12/2003 Be at one with yourselves and all that
is. 12/11/2003 Life is largely a matter of expectation. 12/10/2003 Your planet is a member of an enormous
cosmos; you belong to a well-nigh infinite family of worlds, but your sphere
is just as precisely administered and just as lovingly fostered as if it
were the only inhabited world in all existence. 12/09/2003 Goodness is the only investment that
never fails. 12/08/2003 All that I have seen teaches me to trust
the Creator for all I have not seen. 12/05/2003 What the superior man seeks is in
himself. What the mean man seeks is in others. 12/04/2003 Work hard. Be holy and pure and the fire
will come. 12/03/2003 We possess such immense resources of
power that pessimism is a laughable absurdity. 12/02/2003 Kindness is more important than wisdom,
and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. 12/01/2003 Always live in the present, for it is in
the here and now that the work needs to be done, and so the future can and
will take care of itself. 11/28/2003 This is a fine day in which to live and
rejoice and have your being. 11/27/2003 It is the law of Spirit that we must be
that which we would draw to us. If we would draw to us love, we must love,
be loving and kind; if we would have peace and harmony in our environment,
we must establish it within ourselves. 11/26/2003 We are happy in proportion to the things
we can do without. 11/25/2003 Flow with whatever may happen and let
your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. 11/24/2003 The invariable mark of wisdom is to see
the miraculous in the common. 11/21/2003 Everything that happens happens as it
should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. 11/20/2003 There is no enlightenment outside of
daily life. 11/19/2003 Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is
nothing you will not understand. Return to the root and you will find
meaning. 11/18/2003 When you live consciously, day-to-day,
more intimately moment-to-moment, in the awareness and presence of God
within you, you will make different decisions than you have in the past. 11/17/2003 Seek the greater thing, and the lesser
will be found therein; ask for the heavenly, and the earthly shall be
included. The shadow is certain to follow the substance. 11/14/2003 We must be willing to get rid of the life
we've planned, so as to have the life that is awaiting us. 11/13/2003 There is a Power that will light your way to health, happiness, peace, and success, if you will but turn toward that light.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
11/12/2003
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and
you know what you want. 11/11/2003
When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by
falling into place easily, often miraculously. 11/10/2003
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your
hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose
them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. 11/07/2003
Once we understand that emotions arise as the reaction to an external event,
such as behavior of another human being, we can see how it is that we can
learn to control our reaction and thus begin to exercise what we had talked
about as self-control, because it is we who are deciding whether or not to
experience the emotion or not to experience the emotion. 11/06/2003
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because
they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. 11/05/2003
God is truth. And it is the desire of God that his creatures should
understand him—come fully to know the truth. Truth is eternal; it sustains
the universe. 11/04/2003
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. 11/03/2003
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were
easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that
it may not be dismayed. 10/31/2003
Where there is great love there are always miracles. 10/30/2003
People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh, and wish things
would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some
distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are
not quitters; they will not allow life’s circumstances to push them down and
hold them under. 10/29/2003
On your death bed, you too may whisper the magic words to those surrounding
you: it is the people that matter, it is the love between people that
matters. Everything else is a distraction. 10/28/2003
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray
in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. 10/27/2003
Have patience with all. Have patience in all of your dealings. While you may
feel inclined to react, it is he who can slow his reactions down so that
intelligent action can take place, who changes the world; changes whole
situations from a negative aspect to a positive, changes a bad temper into
one that is rational, changes a relationship from one of defensiveness to
one of compatibility and compromise. 10/24/2003
Love is a nutrient that stimulates energy within the mind that produces
various chemicals which maintains balance. Love is life-giving. To love
without expectation is to maintain a flow of divine energy that is
unstoppable, always circulating, always producing. To block that flow of
energy is to be judgmental, be critical, be self-aggrandizing and jealous. 10/23/2003
When the feelings of service for your fellow men arise within your soul, do
not stifle them; when the emotions of love for your neighbor well up within
your heart, give expression to such urges of affection in intelligent
ministry to the real needs of your fellows. 10/22/2003
Always remember that you can be dead right about the facts and altogether
wrong about the truth. 10/21/2003
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase
until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no
one true faith or path by which it may spread. 10/20/2003
God gave you the family so that you may learn how to love others, and then
give that kind of love to all. So we can all start right in our own homes. 10/17/2003
From this day forward, I would ask that you look upon each person you come
into contact with as a child of God. See that person as nothing else, but as
someone who needs an avenue of love to them. React only in love and display
yourselves as persons of tolerance of love of a high spiritual nature, one
that the Father can be proud of. 10/16/2003
Be of clear mind, sound purpose and hopeful intent, for all of these go into
making life worthwhile. 10/15/2003 Nothing multiplies so much as kindness.- John Ray (1627-1705) 10/14/2003
I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your
right to say it. 10/13/2003
The survival of democracy is dependent on successful representative
government; and that is conditioned upon the practice of electing to public
offices only those individuals who are technically trained, intellectually
competent, socially loyal, and morally fit. 10/10/2003 What you say is what you think, what you think is what you believe, what you believe controls your actions. The power of the spoken word. - Bill Britt 10/09/2003
Life in abundance comes only through great love. 10/08/2003
Know the sun will rise again tomorrow and the day after and the day after.
Learn from yesterday, live today, and don't worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow
will come tomorrow. Live today. 10/07/2003
You feel good not because the world is right, but your world is right
because you feel good. 10/06/2003
Spiritual living mightily increases true self-respect. But self-respect is
not self-admiration. Self-respect is always co-ordinate with the love and
service of one's fellows. 10/03/2003
Live your lives free of fear, for fear is the great oppressor. Live each day
to its fullest, not carrying more nor less than you are able. Fulfill your
duties to other human beings to the best of your abilities and rest in peace
when evening comes as you settle back into God's arms in restful sleep, the
sleep of the just, the sleep of the pure at heart. 10/02/2003
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates
profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. 10/01/2003
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in
having new eyes. 09/30/2003
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what
you were. 09/29/2003
When you have too much month for you paycheck, then what you need to do is
realize that there is abundance all around you, and focus on the abundance
and not your lack and as night follows day abundance will come to you. 09/26/2003
Do you not realize that the hope of a better nation — or a better world — is
bound up in the progress and enlightenment of the individual? 09/25/2003
Therefore look into your heart. Know that for sure there is no need for the
true seeker to need any outside source for spiritual growth. Spiritual
knowledge and understanding of the purpose of life is from within. All
growth must come from within. 09/24/2003
Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will
be opened to you. For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds,
and to him who knocks it will be opened. 09/23/2003
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be
supplied or its loss will not be felt. 09/22/2003
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that
it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside
himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for
solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found--in
himself. 09/19/2003
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be
there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You
may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change
it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of
the situation. 09/18/2003
You can't think yourself into better living... 09/17/2003
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but
reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. 09/16/2003
People say, 'God will find a way.' God can't find a way if you're in the
way. 09/15/2003
Be the kind of person your dog knows you to be! 09/12/2003
To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all areas of your
life you need to be aware that you need to think healthy, wealthy, happy and
successful thoughts twenty four hours a day and cancel all negative,
destructive, fearful and unhappy thoughts. These two types of thought cannot
coexist if you want to share in the abundance that surrounds us all. 09/11/2003
I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a
technicality. 09/10/2003
The mortals of today are beginning to recognize how powerful their thoughts
really are and that you attract to yourself those things you think of. One
who lives with daily dreading of life circumstances attracts more dread. 09/09/2003
It is up to you to look at a park bench and be grateful for a place to sit
and take in the beauty or complain that it's not a couch inside a home that
gives you shelter. Make that which you have before you the cathedral of your
heart and mind and there you will find happiness and contentment, regardless
of condition. 09/08/2003
Peace will not break out but grow within each and everyone who is tired of
war, who is tired of hatred and anger. Peace will grow within the hearts and
minds of those people who will have progressive points of view who will
unite together to bring change upon this planet and bring peace to everyone.
09/05/2003
Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow
will be determined by what you think today. 09/04/2003
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you
put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. 09/03/2003
If your expectations are low and you expect little out of life then you will
be rewarded with exactly what you expect-very little in the way of
satisfaction and change. And if your expectations are high you open yourself
up to the possibility of attaining them. 09/02/2003
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running
from, and to, and why. 09/01/2003
Remember, even if prayer does not change God, it very often effects great
and lasting changes in the one who prays in faith and confident expectation.
Prayer has been the ancestor of much peace of mind, cheerfulness, calmness,
courage, self-mastery, and fair-mindedness in the men and women of the
evolving races. 08/29/2003
Be very careful what you set your heart upon, for you will surely have it. 08/28/2003
To become acquainted with one's brothers and sisters, to know their problems
and to learn to love them, is the supreme experience of living. 08/27/2003
Life is a series of lessons that enhance your souls and strengthen your
characters. Mostly, life is about learning to love. 08/26/2003
The more balanced our lives, the more serene we feel. 08/25/2003
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky,
that would be like the splendor of the Supreme One. 08/22/2003
Fear, envy, and conceit can be prevented only by intimate contact with other
minds. 08/21/2003
If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you.
08/20/2003
There is a soul force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow
through us and produce miraculous results. 08/19/2003
Every day I will devote some time to meditation and spiritual reading. 08/18/2003
May I be peaceful and happy. 08/15/2003
The quieter you become the more you can hear. 08/14/2003
Nothing is miserable, unless you think it so; conversely, every lot is happy
if you are content with it. 08/13/2003
Turn the power of praise upon whatever you wish to increase. Give thanks
that it is now fulfilling your ideal. 08/12/2003
Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what
strengths you have, what you can accomplish. 08/11/2003
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. 08/08/2003
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that
it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside
himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for
solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found--in
himself. 08/07/2003
God is Within Each and Every Individual and wants a truly intimate
relationship that guides that person's life, being and presence. 08/06/2003
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. 08/05/2003
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything
in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all
events are blessings given to us to learn from. 08/04/2003
Goodness is the only investment that never fails. 08/01/2003
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. 07/31/2003
God is more anxious to bestow His Blessings on us than we are to receive
them. 07/30/2003
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be
there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You
may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change
it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of
the situation. 07/29/2003
Let him that would move the world first move himself. 07/28/2003
The sun rises every morning to salute you just as it does the most
powerful and prosperous man on earth. 07/25/2003
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the
same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. 07/24/2003
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
Love is also like dust; once it's kicked in the air it does get on everyone
around it. So, I encourage you to always be loving, to stir up the love
dust. It will settle upon others, and they too will come to the
understanding of the great value of being a loving creature. 07/23/2003
The immature individual arouses the antagonisms of his fellows; the mature
man wins the hearty co-operation of his associates, thereby many times
multiplying the fruits of his life efforts. 07/22/2003
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness,
consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of
eternal peace. 07/21/2003
Visualization means to create a mental picture of ourselves as we would like
to be, to hand this picture over to the universal Law for execution, and to
believe implicitly that it will act. 07/18/2003
Learning to live is learning to let go. 07/17/2003
Let no one disturb you, let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away
except God. 07/16/2003
A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inward courage
dares to live.
- Lao-tzu
07/15/2003
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is
to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. 07/14/2003
Enjoy every moment of your daily life. There is no better place to be
throughout the entire universe than where you are now. 07/11/2003 The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might
never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been
complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things
will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate
us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one
catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if
you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it
is a gift too. 07/10/2003
You are as prone to love as the sun is to shine; it being the most
delightful and natural employment of the soul of man. 07/09/2003 When we come to the last moment of this lifetime, and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is "What was the quality of our love?" - Richard Bach 07/08/2003
One thing we know: our god is also your god. The earth is precious to
him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator. 07/07/2003
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever
the day brings forth. 07/04/2003
The highest level of prayer is not prayer for anything. It is a deep and
profound silence, in which we allow ourselves to be still and know him. In
that silence, we are changed. We are calmed. We are illumined. 07/03/2003
We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we
can pray. We may not have a mystical bone in our bodies, but no matter. God
is waiting for us, and if we make even the smallest gesture of availability
he will be there. 07/02/2003
Regardless of how much trouble you are having, how hard the going seems to
be, keep your thoughts on a high and positive level. 07/01/2003
Being sensitive and responsive to human need creates genuine and lasting
happiness, while such kindly attitudes safeguard the soul from the
destructive influences of anger, hate, and suspicion. 06/30/2003
Always remember that the Father knows what you need even before you ask
him. 06/27/2003
Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is
present. 06/26/2003
To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring
one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The
key is action. 06/25/2003
This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last, to be
tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate. 06/24/2003
Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph.
Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us,
becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. 06/23/2003
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be
changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the
wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. 06/20/2003
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no
happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. 06/19/2003
They are the prudent who leave behind yesterday's mistakes in complete
self-forgiveness, but for the lessons they learned from them, and to then
face each new dawn as if it were their very first. 06/18/2003
Humility allows us to see, respect allows us to listen, and recognizing
that love dwells within each and every one of us leads us into truth,
rather than conflict. 06/17/2003
The positive always has the advantage over the negative, truth over
error, experience over theory, spiritual realities over the isolated
facts of time and space. 06/16/2003
Peace begins in the heart of each person -- not societies, not countries,
not nations. Each person. 06/13/2003
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you
must approach each man by the right door. 06/12/2003
Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what
can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to
make the picture your own. 06/11/2003
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of
mind. 06/10/2003
Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind! 06/09/2003
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they
become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear,
discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a
rational outlook, which eventually leads to success. 06/06/2003
That which we hold in consciousness will be made manifest for us, therefore
we should not hold the thought of anything that we do not want to see
appear. 06/05/2003
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. 06/04/2003
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how
unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever
steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go. 06/03/2003
There is no key to happiness - the door is always open. 06/02/2003
The spiritual is whatever allows us to notice the miraculous nature of life. 05/30/2003
You must make effort to turn your attention toward believing you deserve
good and good will follow. 05/29/2003
All prayers are answered when the individual doesn't tell God just how to
answer them. 05/28/2003
Thus, the practical and realistic aim is compassion, a warm heart, serving
other people, helping others, respecting others, being less selfish. 05/27/2003
Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his
identity by identifying. 05/26/2003
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional
acceptance of life and what it brings. 05/23/2003
See the world as your self. 05/22/2003
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world
to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and
achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if
you forget this errand. 05/21/2003
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the
certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. 05/20/2003
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes
strongly has within him the gift of miracles. 05/19/2003
Much of what a mortal would call good luck might really be bad luck; the
smile of fortune that bestows unearned leisure and undeserved wealth may be
the greatest of human afflictions; the apparent cruelty of a perverse fate
that heaps tribulation upon some suffering mortal may in reality be the
tempering fire that is transmuting the soft iron of immature personality
into the tempered steel of real character. 05/16/2003
Good guys finish first. If you don't know that then you don't know where the
finish line is. 05/15/2003 As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others. - Robert H. Schuller 05/14/2003
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a
green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and
deformity ... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man
of imagination, nature is imagination itself. 05/13/2003
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where
you least expect it, will be a fish. 05/12/2003
To think twice is quite enough. 05/09/2003
Find a path or make one. 05/08/2003
We have what we seek. It is there all the time, and if we give it time, it
will make itself known to us. 05/07/2003
Beauty is that which attracts the soul, and that which loves to give and not
to receive. 05/06/2003
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely
no good. 05/05/2003
Stop and ponder the solemn fact that God lives within you; he has in his own
way already bridged the gulf. He has sent of himself, his spirit, to live in
you and to toil with you as you pursue your eternal universe career. 05/02/2003
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a
listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of
which have the potential to turn a life around. 05/01/2003
The next message you need is right where you are. 04/30/2003
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence
of fate is strength undefeatable. 04/29/2003
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. 04/28/2003
Today will indeed be a good day in your lives. Make it so. Go forth in the
knowledge that as a child of God, His blessings are ever upon you all. 04/25/2003
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of
ourselves. 04/24/2003
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. 04/23/2003
With all your being take refuge in the Lord who resides in your heart;
through his mercy you will reach supreme peace and the state of eternity. 04/22/2003
Love is the law of God. You live that you may learn to love. You love that
you may learn to live. No other lesson is required of humanity. 04/21/2003
Freedom lies in being bold. 04/18/2003
Before me, may it be delightful. 04/17/2003
Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we
have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it. 04/16/2003 At the critical juncture in all human relationships, there is only one question: What would love do now? - Conversations with God 04/15/2003 If we really want to pray, we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks. - Mother Teresa 04/14/2003
Slow down and the thing you are chasing will come around and catch you. 04/11/2003
God's forgiveness is made actually available and is personally experienced
by man just in so far as he forgives his fellows. 04/10/2003
When you live in the present, you live in the realm that God inhabits. 04/09/2003
Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind. 04/08/2003
If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been
there the whole while, waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living
is the one you're living. 04/07/2003
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn the past, nor to
worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. 04/04/2003
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only
we, but everyone, will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace
work. 04/03/2003
Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes
the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is
ultimately a personal one. 04/02/2003
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the
ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small,
too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act. 04/01/2003
Spiritual living mightily increases true self-respect. But self-respect is
not self-admiration. Self-respect is always co-ordinate with the love and
service of one's fellows. It is not possible to respect yourself more than
you love your neighbor; the one is the measure of the capacity for the
other. 03/31/2003
May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back, 03/28/2003
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Try to live in the present for that is where the life is and that is where
God's love is. 03/27/2003
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a
spiritual life. 03/26/2003
If you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you. 03/25/2003
You make the road by walking on it. 03/24/2003
Love everyone unconditionally - including yourself. 03/21/2003
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you
realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. 03/20/2003
Hear the other side. 03/19/2003
Love of adventure, curiosity, and dread of monotony -- these traits inherent
in evolving human nature -- were not put there just to aggravate and annoy
you during your short sojourn on earth, but rather to suggest to you that
death is only the beginning of an endless career of adventure, an
everlasting life of anticipation, an eternal voyage of discovery. 03/18/2003
The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight
is in us all. 03/17/2003
The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on
this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose
of this world is not "to have and to hold" but "to give and serve." There
can be no other meaning. 03/14/2003
Accept the place that divine providence has found for you, the society of
your contemporaries, the connection of events. 03/13/2003
You often meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. 03/12/2003
What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowman. That is the entire law;
all the rest is commentary. 03/11/2003
Don't look for the path far away, the path exists under our feet. 03/10/2003
How you are going to feel today is a decision you make. 03/07/2003
Finish each day and be done with it. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well
and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old
nonsense. 03/06/2003
You want a better, more fraternal, more just world? Well then, start
building it: Who is stopping you? Build it inside yourself and around you,
build it with those who want it. Build it small, and it will grow. 03/05/2003
Give God time. 03/04/2003
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet
is unselfishness, thinking of others first… when you learn to live for
others they will live for you. 03/03/2003
Find time to see the joy in life and let that show upon your face. Reach out
to those you chance to meet and give some words of encouragement or perhaps
just listen. Life is not merely happening to you, but you are making life
happen. 02/28/2003
Hatred can be overcome only by love. 02/27/2003
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for
complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the
philosophy is kindness. 02/26/2003
We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending
it to others.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate
on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. 02/25/2003
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of the immortals. 02/24/2003
The light of God surrounds us, the love of God enfolds us, the power of God
protects us, and the presence of God watches over us; wherever we are, He
is. 02/21/2003
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives the rose. 02/20/2003
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to
others. 02/19/2003
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in
your way of thinking. 02/18/2003
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on
the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us. 02/17/2003
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to
what lies within us. 02/13/2003
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best
in ourselves. 02/12/2003
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and
breadth and height my soul can reach. 02/11/2003
Love is infectious, and when human devotion is intelligent and wise, love is
more catching than hate. But only genuine and unselfish love is truly
contagious. 02/10/2003
The mature human being soon begins to look upon all other mortals with
feelings of tenderness and with emotions of tolerance. Mature men view
immature folks with the love and consideration that parents bear their
children. 02/09/2003
To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes. 02/07/2003
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself
to life. 02/06/2003
The more deeply you understand people, the more you will appreciate them,
the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another
human being is to walk on holy ground. 02/05/2003
I asked God to take away my pain.
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness
the best relationship. 02/03/2003
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness
is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and
gratitude. 01/31/2003
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's
goodness and righteousness. 01/30/2003
What a mistake to dream of God far off in the skies when the spirit of the
Universal Father lives within your own mind! 01/29/2003
All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of
the earth. 01/28/2003
Truly it can be said, to the one who has perspective, all things work
towards the good. 01/27/2003
The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. 01/25/2003
You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. 01/24/2003
Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your
vision. 01/23/2003
When your daily activities are in concert with your highest priorities, you
have a credible claim to inner peace. 01/22/2003
If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the
sunset. 01/21/2003
Don't think about the future. 01/20/2003
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only
ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found
how to serve. 01/17/2003
I am convinced that the universe is under the control of a loving purpose,
and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship. 01/16/2003
And, in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
Learn to pause ... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you. 01/15/2003
Listen to everything, forget much, correct little. 01/14/2003
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need
completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. 01/13/2003
The more one loves, the less one fears. 01/10/2003
Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone
receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening,
our spirits expand. 01/09/2003
Profound peace is purchased with the sacrifice of fear. 01/08/2003
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's
no greater investment. 01/07/2003
As long as enthusiasm holds, so will new opportunities. 01/06/2003
Know always that as you step forward into uncertainty and break free from
the confines of settled-ness that you are upheld ever so lovingly by Him Who
Upholds All. 01/03/2003
Resolved, to live with all my might, while I do live. 01/02/2003
The weak indulge in resolutions, but the strong act. Life is but a day's
work — do it well. The act is ours; the consequence God's. 01/01/2003
Enjoy this moment, it shall never be here again. Enjoy your family while
they are still with you. Enjoy the beauty of a balmy January day, enjoy your
friends, and laughter. Enjoy the stories you tell each other, the hugs you
give each other, your health, a new year. There is so much in the present to
be thankful for, for you all know that you are beloved children of God, and
with this knowledge you are each called to become lights and to shine this
love on all you meet.
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