Most of us are probably allured by the attractive notion that effortless relationships exist. Whether happily ever after marriages, friendships which last forever, or parenting, we would all like to believe that our most intimate relationships are unconditional and strong enough to withstand whatever may come. However, at some point in our lives we need to face the reality that relationships require effort to keep them alive and positive. Even wonderful, close, strong relationships can be destroyed by neglect.
Tag Archives: Patience
We Come This Way But Once
“We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope that we get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams” Bob Proctor
Every Person Has a Talent…
Every person has a talent…and you owe it to yourself to find, use, and share that talent…
“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me.'”
Erma Bombeck
Success
“Do what you do that feels effortless. I want the freedom to do what is in my heart”
“You have two choices…endure the deprivation of failure or adjust to the sacrifices of success” Tom Ferry
Vision
“When I was a kid in school and finished my class work or a test early, I would take out a piece of paper and write my name in three columns on every line. I was the only kid in the class who did that. One day the teacher came over to ask me why I would always write my name over and over again. I told her that one day I was going to be famous and people are going to ask me for my autograph so I am practicing writing it now” Tyrone Montgomery, NFL player for the Oakland Raiders
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”
Patience
Waiting can be very powerful. If you can wait, you can sometimes achieve something you couldn’t have today. Things happen when the time is right…when we’re ready, when God is read, when the world is ready. Give up, let go, but keep the goal on your list.
Melody Beattie
