Worthiness

Contrary to popular thinking, being worthy isn’t something you earn, it’s something you recognize. And once you do, you won’t be able to think, speak or behave in any other way than as if what you most wanted was meant to be. ~Mike Dooley

Brotherhood

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being. - Jane Wyman (thank you John for this one)

The opposite of resistance

Should you want to contain something, you must deliberately let it expand. Should you want to take something away, you must deliberately grant it access. Should you want to eliminate something, you must deliberately allow it to flourish. - Living the Wisdom of the Tao (thank you Karen for this one)

Give your heart, but not into anyone's keeping

"but let there be spaces in your togetherness,
and let the winds of the heavens dance between you

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf

Sing and dance together and be joyous,
But let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone
Though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and cypress grow not in each other’s shadow."

~Kahlil Gibran

(thank you to Greg for this one)

Delicate vs. Strong

A tree that is indoors, always catered, taken care of, etc... is delicate. Fragile. Its wood is tender and weak. Now a tree that stands in storms, outside, through harsh weather, now that tree is strong. Firm. It's wood is very hard and durable.

How Do We Forgive?

Success is the best revenge ~ use the hurt as a catalyst to have a life beyond your wildest dreams. - Debbie Ford

She let go.

Without a thought or a word, she let go.
She let go of the fear.
She let go of the judgments.
She let go of the confluence of opinions swarming around her head.
She let go of the committee of indecision within her.
She let go of all the 'right' reasons.
Wholly and completely, without hesitation or worry, she just let go.

She didn't ask anyone for advice.
She didn't read a book on how to let go.
She didn't search the scriptures.
She just let go.

She let go of all of the memories that held her back.
She let go of all of the anxiety that kept her from moving forward.
She let go of the planning and all of the calculations about how to do it just right.
She didn't promise to let go.
She didn't journal about it.
She didn't write the projected date in her Day-Timer.
She made no public announcement and put no ad in the paper.
She didn't check the weather report or read her daily horoscope.
She just let go.

She didn't analyze whether she should let go.
She didn't call her friends to discuss the matter.
She didn't do a five-step Spiritual Mind Treatment.
She didn't call the prayer line.
She didn't utter one word.
She just let go.

No one was around when it happened.
There was no applause or congratulations.
No one thanked her or praised her.
No one noticed a thing.
Like a leaf falling from a tree, she just let go.
There was no effort.
There was no struggle.
It wasn't good and it wasn't bad.
It was what it was, and it is just that.
In the space of letting go, she let it all be.
A small smile came over her face.
A light breeze blew through her.
And the sun and the moon shone on her.

Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind

-thank you to Carolyn for this one

The Happiness Quotient By Rabbi Yonason Goldson

This is from the article entitled The Happiness Quotient. Something to keep in mind as we are challenged to question our limitations and focus on the essential. -Nancy (thanks Nancy!)

DEBUNKING THE MYTH OF SATISFACTION The sages of the Talmud address the question of happiness with pithy insightfulness: Who is wealthy? The one who is happy with his portion. In contrast to the researchers who concluded that wealth produces happiness, the sages observe that happiness is the source of true wealth. One need not look far to discover that many wealthy people endure miserable lives, where many who barely scrape by enjoy lives of joy and fulfillment.
Furthermore, the sages consider a person wealthy because he is happy with his portion — not because he is satisfied. Satisfaction results from the attainment of a goal and is usually fleeting; often, we experience sharp pangs of melancholy after the initial rush that accompanies success. Conversely, happiness results from striving toward a goal that is both attainable and worthwhile. It is this struggle that makes us truly happy, and a life spent striving for goals of intrinsic value is a life of immeasurable happiness.
Indulging every whim and impulse may prove pleasurable, but such pleasure-seeking will merely distract one from the lack of purpose that would otherwise make life intolerable. One who anesthetizes himself with chemical substances and sensory stimulation may deaden his receptors to the paralyzing pain of futility, but he knows nothing of real happiness.

Innovative Pizza Box Turns into Plates and Storage Unit

http://www.happynews.com/news/652009/innovative%20pizza%20box%20turns%20plates%20storage%20unit.htm

Standard of Success

There is no desire that anyone holds for any other reason than that they believe they will feel better in the achievement of it. Whether it is a material object, a condition, or a circumstance - at the heart of every desire is the desire to feel good. And so, the standard of success in lie is not the things or the money - the standard of success is absolutely the amount of joy you feel.
-Abraham-Hicks

Joe Vitale's New Book to help you

Here's the link to sign up for his new book which he's sharing with you and I at no cost, to help us all create the abundance and the money we need, to turn this planet around!
http://www.attractmoneynow.com/

Evolutionary Leaders to Follow

http://www.stephendinan.com/blog/2009/05/shift-list-evolutionary-leaders-on.html

Please Yourself

Often you are pulled this way and that in an attempt to please another, only to discover that no matter how hard you try, you cannot consistently move in any pleasing direction; and so, you not only do not please them, but you also do not please yourself. And because you are being pulled in so many different directions, your path to where you want to be usually gets lost in the process. - Abraham-Hicks

Self Acceptance

"No amount of self-improvement can make up for a lack of self-acceptance."- Robert Holden

Guy Finley - Fearless Living

When we feel fear, it is our mind instantly projecting an event's meaning onto our past or future to produce fear. This fear produces the feeling, and then offers and projects the image of the way out of the situation. This is not a friend talking! What the mind is feeling is not the event, but what we brought with us into this moment, that now needs to be seen as a limitation. Fear is negative imagination. The power over it belongs to ME, not the event! This darkness that is talking to us is not able to show us the light. It searches only for new powers, skills, protections, and ways around the event.
THE FEEL IS REAL, THE WHY IS A LIE.
Stop, Drop, & Endure.
Stop: The moment you feel fear, come to a complete stop.
Drop: Do not identify, drop associated thoughts and feelings.
Endure: This moment, and the external event, is part of the whole that is you.

Stand By Me

A great compilation of musicians and singers bringing such life to this song.
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2539741

Join Us! World Peace Meditation

Thank you to William Lee Rand, and his World Peace Cards. Receive them for free and participate in many meditations creating a wave of prayer around the world. http://www.reiki.org/WPCM.html

Terence Mckenna - Schizophrenic or Shamanic?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEglHjd_gUQ

10 minute video - it made me feel that what many label crazy and/or dangerous could be a joyous state of being in touch with the stirring forces of being human.

Thanks to Mathew for this one.

Courteous, Considerate and Generous

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

Thomas J. Watson 1874-1956, Founder of IBM

Healing With the Masters

So wonderful, free guidance / spiritual-emotional training, just listened to Sonia Choquette, The Four Chambers Of The Heart, the trainings are only available for 48 hours at this link,

http://www.healingwiththemasters.com/audio.htm