We all have to deal with changes in life, we get older, move home, change jobs, lose our jobs, lose loved ones, we get sick, we get stuck...
How we adapt to change, how we react to change will determine how smoothly that transition occurs.
If we resist change, we moan, we grumble, we find no good.
If we embrace change, we find hope, we can look forward.
Friday, 6 February 2009
Thursday, 5 February 2009
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
Words
"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. "
Buddha
Buddha
Monday, 12 January 2009
Practical Life
A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life:
1. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have it.
4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
6. We never repent of having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8. How much pain have cost us the evils which never have happened.
9. Take things always by their smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.
(letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, 1825)
1. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have it.
4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
6. We never repent of having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8. How much pain have cost us the evils which never have happened.
9. Take things always by their smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.
(letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, 1825)
Thursday, 4 December 2008
Being Oneself
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open. -- Shakti Gawain
Saturday, 22 November 2008
20 rules of wisdom
20 Rules of Wisdom
1) God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.
2) Dear God, I have a problem, it's me.
3) Growing old is inevitable, growing UP is optional. **Chuckle **
4) There is no key to happiness. The door is always open.
5) Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted.
6) Do the math....count your blessings.
7) Faith is the ability to not panic.
8) Laugh every day, it's like inner jogging.
9) If you worry, pray. If you pray...don't worry.
10) As a child of God, prayer is kind of like calling home everyday.
11) Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape.
12) The most important things in your home are the people.
13) When we get tangled up in our problems, be still; God wants us to be still so He can untangle
the knot.
14) A grudge is a heavy thing to carry.
15) He who dies with the most toys is still dead.
16) We do not remember days, but moments. Life is moving too fast - so enjoy your precious
moments.
17) Nothing is real to you until you experience it; otherwise it's just hearsay.
18) It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are done.
19) Surviving and living your life successfully requires courage. The goals and dreams you're seeking require courage and risk taking. Learn from the turtle, it only makes progress when it sticks out its neck.
20) Misery is optional
1) God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.
2) Dear God, I have a problem, it's me.
3) Growing old is inevitable, growing UP is optional. **Chuckle **
4) There is no key to happiness. The door is always open.
5) Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted.
6) Do the math....count your blessings.
7) Faith is the ability to not panic.
8) Laugh every day, it's like inner jogging.
9) If you worry, pray. If you pray...don't worry.
10) As a child of God, prayer is kind of like calling home everyday.
11) Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape.
12) The most important things in your home are the people.
13) When we get tangled up in our problems, be still; God wants us to be still so He can untangle
the knot.
14) A grudge is a heavy thing to carry.
15) He who dies with the most toys is still dead.
16) We do not remember days, but moments. Life is moving too fast - so enjoy your precious
moments.
17) Nothing is real to you until you experience it; otherwise it's just hearsay.
18) It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are done.
19) Surviving and living your life successfully requires courage. The goals and dreams you're seeking require courage and risk taking. Learn from the turtle, it only makes progress when it sticks out its neck.
20) Misery is optional
Friday, 21 November 2008
In the flow...
Going with the flow means we have to stop harbouring fears, we have to drop anxiety, we have to loose all our personal inhibitions and start doing as we feel.
When we start doing as we feel, something amazing happens. We not only FEEL better, as in happier, more confident and more relaxed. But we allow more co-incidences into our lives... it's almost as though things are magnetically drawn to us.
This is because we are in the flow.
When we start doing as we feel, something amazing happens. We not only FEEL better, as in happier, more confident and more relaxed. But we allow more co-incidences into our lives... it's almost as though things are magnetically drawn to us.
This is because we are in the flow.
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