February 17, 2013

"A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life." --James Allen

"The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities." --James Allen

"In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result."  --James Allen

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."  --James Allen

"For true success ask yourself four questions:  Why?  Why not?  Why not me?  Why not now?" --James Allen

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." --Maya Angelou

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."  --Maya Angelou

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." --Maya Angelou

January 1, 2013

"A prime example of a miracle worker is Pollyanna. The ego knows this, which is why she is constantly invalidated in this culture. She walked into a situation where everyone had been in a nasty mood for years. She chose not to see the nastiness. She had faith in what lay beyond it. She extended her perception beyond what her physical senses revealed to her, to what her heart knew to be true about every human being. It didn’t matter how anyone behaved. Pollyanna had faith in the love she knew existed behind anyone’s fear, and thus she invoked their love into expression. She exercised the power of forgiveness. Within a short time, everyone was nice and everyone was happy!" --Marianne Williamson

"Forgiveness is the choice to SEE PEOPLE AS THEY ARE NOW. When we are angry at people, we are angry because of something they said or did BEFORE THIS MOMENT. But what people said or did is not who they are [NOW/CURRENTLY...IT'S WHAT THEY WERE IN THE PAST]. Relationships are reborn as we let go perceptions of our brother’s past. ‘By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past.’ By letting the past go, we make room for miracles." --Marianne Williamson (emphasis and other words added)

"When we’re truly honest with ourselves, our problem is not that opportunities for success haven’t appeared. We are given plenty of opportunities, but we tend to undermine them. Our conflicted energies sabotage everything. To ask for another relationship, or another job, is not particularly helpful if we’re going to show up in the new situation exactly as we showed up in the last one. Until we’re ...healed of our internal demons, our fearful mental habits, we will turn every situation into the same painful drama as the one before. Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we’re frantic, life will be frantic. If we’re peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace. Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state." --Marianne Williamson

 

"Thirty-five thousand people a day die of hunger on earth, and there’s no dearth of food. The question is not, “What kind of God would let children starve?” but rather, “What kind of people let children starve?” --Marianne Williamson

 

"The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us." --Marianne Williamson

 

 

 

December 28, 2012

"We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present." --Marianne Williamson

Positive Assumptions

Here's a challenge for us all....

The next time you are with someone or see someone and they say or do something and you IMMEDIATELY "assume" the worst, or something negative.....ask yourself WHY YOU ASSUMED THE NEGATIVE???? someone looks at you strange and you think "Boy, they hate me." WHY do you assume that???? Is it possible that their "look" was positive? some involuntary facial thing? a response to something or someone other than you? some other explanation OTHER than negative? WHY DO WE ASSUME? WHY, when we assume, is it NEGATIVE???? What is the risk, if any, to ASSUME POSITIVITY???????

December 23, 2012

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” --Marianne Williamson

“You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think. ” --Marianne Williamson

“"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.”
― Marianne Williamson

"We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right." --Marianne Williamson

October 31, 2012

"How people treat you says more about them than it does about you.  In fact it says nothing about you and everything about them"  --Unknown

Your Power

YOU have the POWER, the CAPACITY, the ABILITY to change your THOUGHTS and BELIEFS and your REACTIONS to people and things. YOU HAVE CHOICES

Did you ever notice that you have the power and capacity to CHANGE YOUR THOUGHTS in a instant! Think about it....as you read this message you are not thinking of other things....if I say...think of an Elephant in a swiming pool...what happens.....you think of an Elephant in a swiming pool......so IF you have that power and capacity....CHOOSE THE POSITIVE THOUGHTS. When a negative one comes in....choose a positive one to replace the negative. You can't think of two things at the same time....CHOOSE THE POSITIVE! Keep at it until it becomes so natural you don't even know what a negative thought is.

HEY THERE! .....

Do you really realize just how powerful and influential you are?

Do you????

In any given moment YOU affect at least one other person!!!!....

He/she in turn affects at least one other person and so forth.

As a result, for example, your smile today and/or act of kindness and/or words of encouragement could bring about a HUGE change in the universe...

YES! YOU ARE just that powerful.

Please...Make each moment count and spread POSITIVITY for yourself and for the universe!!!

Beliefs, Thoughts & Choices

1. What do you BELIEVE?

2. Realize the power of your BELIEFS

3. What do you THINK?

4. Realize the power of your THOUGHTS

5. What do you CHOOSE?

6. Realize the power of your CHOICES

 

Your Choices

YOU have the POWER, the CAPACITY, the ABILITY to change your THOUGHTS and BELIEFS and your REACTIONS to people and things. YOU HAVE CHOICES

"You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it". - Robert Anthony

 

Anything is Possible

As you "think" about your life and your being and ALL that you are....ask yourself "What do I want?" Realize that ANYTHING is possible. Remove the doubt, the skepticism, the denial...YOU have the power to CHANGE your circumstance(s).....Break down your goals into tiny, manageable steps and the DO them...ONE AT A TIME...Take that first step...it's small but significant...you CAN do it. Remove the doubt, the skepticism, the denial...YOU CAN...YOU MUST....YOU WILL.

Dream....Believe....Achieve!

 

 

 

ld in a POSITIVE "rose colored" light and give you that new perspective.
Do it.

I'm reading Jill Bolte Taylor's "My Stroke of Insight" If you have not read this book yet, I highly recommend it. She is a neuroanatomist (brain specialist) who at the age of 37 experienced a significant stroke to her left hemisphere (left side of her brain). From the moment it began she saw its POSITIVE side and was amazed at what was happening to her and what she was experienced. As she recovered she continued this POSITIVE perspective and her recovery took 8 years! From that she has learned and shows us that we each have the CAPACITY and POWER to CHANGE OUR THOUGHTS.....WE HAVE CHOICES as to what to think and how to BE. Great inspirational book.

ld in a POSITIVE "rose colored" light and give you that new perspective.
Do it.

I'm reading Jill Bolte Taylor's "My Stroke of Insight" If you have not read this book yet, I highly recommend it. She is a neuroanatomist (brain specialist) who at the age of 37 experienced a significant stroke to her left hemisphere (left side of her brain). From the moment it began she saw its POSITIVE side and was amazed at what was happening to her and what she was experienced. As she recovered she continued this POSITIVE perspective and her recovery took 8 years! From that she has learned and shows us that we each have the CAPACITY and POWER to CHANGE OUR THOUGHTS.....WE HAVE CHOICES as to what to think and how to BE. Great inspirational book.

ld in a POSITIVE "rose colored" light and give you that new perspective.
Do it.

I'm reading Jill Bolte Taylor's "My Stroke of Insight" If you have not read this book yet, I highly recommend it. She is a neuroanatomist (brain specialist) who at the age of 37 experienced a significant stroke to her left hemisphere (left side of her brain). From the moment it began she saw its POSITIVE side and was amazed at what was happening to her and what she was experienced. As she recovered she continued this POSITIVE perspective and her recovery took 8 years! From that she has learned and shows us that we each have the CAPACITY and POWER to CHANGE OUR THOUGHTS.....WE HAVE CHOICES as to what to think and how to BE. Great inspirational book.

 

My Stroke of Insight (by Jill Bolte Taylor)

I just finished Jill Bolte Taylor's "My Stroke of Insight" If you have not read this book yet, I highly recommend it. She is a neuroanatomist (brain specialist) who at the age of 37 experienced a significant stroke to her left hemisphere (left side of her brain). From the moment it began she saw its POSITIVE side and was amazed at what was happening to her and what she was experienced. As she recovered she continued this POSITIVE perspective and her recovery took 8 years! From that she has learned and shows us that we each have the CAPACITY and POWER to CHANGE OUR THOUGHTS.....WE HAVE CHOICES as to what to think and how to BE. Great inspirational book.

Rose Colored Glasses

How many of you out there walk around with "dark, gloomy, negative" glasses...you know the ones that cloud your vision and show you only the negative, the bad stuff in the world...put a dark vision to all that you see? Take them off.....burn 'em. Get out your "Rose Colored Glasses" and put them on instead. See the world from a more POSITIVE view....it will paint your world in a POSITIVE "rose colored" light and give you that new perspective.

 Do it.

Daily Questions

Every day questions:

1. Have I done my best in all that I did?
2. Have I expressed love to the people around me?
3. Have I received love that was offered?
4. Did I do at least one act of unconditional kindness?
5. Did I enjoy the day?
6. Was I grateful to all that presented itself to me?
7. Did I express enthusiasm with all that I was required?
8. Was I generous with myself?...

9. Did I show compassion when needed?
10. Did I experience the day with an open mind?
11. Did I attempt to stretch myself?
12. Did I challenge myself?
13. Did I face a fear?
14. Did I live to my full extent?

July 18, 2012

"The way I treat myself reflects the way I treat others.  When I treat myself with dignity and respect, it will be reflected in the way I treat others."  --Kevin Hall

"I don't see the world as it is.  I see the world as I see myself."  --Kevin Hall

June 15, 2012

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." --Pablo Picasso

June 2, 2012

"If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions." --Og Mandino

April 21, 2012

"Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you." -—Carl Jung

"It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves." --Carl Jung

April 17, 2012

"Within you is the seed for everything you seek. Everything. Start there. The miracle is YOU.”—Kute Blackson

"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become." --Carl Jung

April 3, 2012

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget." --Thomas Szasz. 

“Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat......Forgiveness does not create a relationship. Unless people speak the truth about what they have done and change their mind and behavior, a relationship of trust is not possible. When you forgive someone you certainly release them from judgment, but without true change, no real relationship can be established.........Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive. But should they finally confess and repent, you will discover a miracle in your own heart that allows you to reach out and begin to build between you a bridge of reconciliation.........Forgiveness does not excuse anything.........You may have to declare your forgiveness a hundred times the first day and the second day, but the third day will be less and each day after, until one day you will realize that you have forgiven completely. And then one day you will pray for his wholeness......” --William P. Young (The Shack)

February 20, 2012

ALWAYS DO what you set out to do....Success requires COMMITTMENT TO THE INTENSION

"Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, thoughts and habits. Don't ever give up and don't ever give in." -- Unknown