While waiting to pick up a friend at the airport in Portland, Oregon, I had one of those life-changing experiences that you hear other people talk about — the kind that sneaks up on you unexpectedly. This one occurred a mere two feet away from me. Continue reading A Must Read Story
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The key to Life
“When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life” John Lennon
Gratitude
This man’s home was destroyed by the tornado in Alabama. In the picture he is grateful after finding his dog alive. Devastation makes us realize what’s important…
Gratitude: “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what you have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of your past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow” Melody Beattie
Love…
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own”
Robert Heinlein
Sometimes the worst things turn out to be the best things
Isn’t it funny how sometimes the adversity we experience that we thought was the worst thing that could possibly happen, turns out to be the best thing that could have happened! I’ve known so many people who went through an excruciatingly devastating event in their lives….even to the point of losing everything, just to emerge happier, more authentic and finding more meaning from their downfall than they could have imagined. I was thinking about this last night watching the Grammy Awards. Adele won 6 Grammys last night for her song and album about a relationship that broke her heart. She talks openly about this when interviewed, how she writes songs about love and love gone wrong. She channeled her heartache into growing and overcoming. From her song writing she has emerged victorious in her resolve to move on better than ever.
Discover the answers in the misfortunes that happen to you, and know it is exactly where you are meant to be. There is something here in this storm of life that you need to know, something that needs to change, or a new you that needs to emerge. Learn and grow from your challenges instead of letting them own you. You are worth it.
Love…Our Ultimate Reality
Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Love is who we are and love is what we are here for. Nothing else is real and nothing else matters.
When we attach ourselves to things, we are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It’s not that they’re bad. It’s that they’re nothing.
Denying love is the only problem, and embracing it is the only answer. Love heals all of our relationships: to money, the body, work, sex, death, ourselves and one another. Through the miraculous power of pure love, we let go of our past history in any area and begin again.
It doesn’t matter who we are, where we came from, what Mommy said, what Daddy did, what mistakes we made, what diseases we have, or how depressed we feel. The future can be reprogrammed in this moment. We don’t need another seminar, another degree, another lifetime, or anyone’s approval in order for this to happen. All we need is a gentler perception. All we have to do is ask for a miracle and allow it to happen, not resist it. There can be a new beginning, a life unlike the past. Our relationships shall be made new. Our careers shall be made new. Our bodies shall be made new. There can be a new beginning, a life unlike the past.
Marianne Williamson “A Return to Love”
Love
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own”
Robert Heinlein
Character
“Be more concerned with character than your reputation because character is who you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are” John Wooden
Love Yourself
“You cannot be any good for anyone else until you are first good for yourself. I also think it is impossible to really love anyone else unless you first love yourself. How can you give another person your best if you do not believe you have anything wonderful to offer” Larry Winget
Kindliness
“Kindliness and appreciation can make someone change their mind more quickly than all the gall in the world” Dale Carnegie
