“A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.” 

 - James Allen

 “Sweet is the rest and deep the bliss of him who… looking out upon the world with boundless compassion and love, can breath, in his inmost heart, the blessing:  Peace unto all living things.”  - James Allen

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

“The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness.” 

- Esther Hicks

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. - W. Clement Stone

“It is not the things you have done, it is the person you have become...” 

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own. 

- Emanuel Swedenborg

There is ingrained in our souls an insatiable desire to behold the truth.

- Saint Augustine

Don't let your subconscious mind become dormant . . .

 " Throw away hate and adopt love

Throw away jealousy and adopt understanding

Throw away crookedness and adopt wisdom

Throw away selfishness and adopt selflessness "

"By correcting your mistakes, solving your problems and facing your troubles, you purify your soul.  Without mistakes, problems and pain you would never be able to understand the difference between good and bad."

I have learned to never worry about that which you have no control over 

I have understood never judge something you know nothing about 

I have studied these things with a belief that I know nothing 

and I feel peace as to whatever comes and I have no fear 

I live a free life as a result as I am not making my mind a prisoner to fear 

Does a car have a choice where it goes when its done its life here ?  No ... it gets recycled , reborn as a toaster or a fridge magnet 

Thankfully, we have a bit more scope in that department

One thing i don't do is wonder what I'm doing when i die because on my death bed i will be wondering what I did with my life 

Live today 

Naniu

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection. 

- Voltaire (1694-1778)

Have the courage to let go of relationships that are not working, let go of emotions that are toxic.

 Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.  - Kevin Kruse

"There are no failures - just experiences and your reaction to them."

Life's Twists & Turns

"The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination."

- Don Williams Jr.

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”  

- Thich Nhat Hanh

The only real cure for depression...

"... and therein lies the genius of my teacher, my mother's mother, who fulfilled herself completely by always forgetting herself in the joy of the welfare of all those around her. This is the only real cure for depression.

  It is the prescription that would come from any authentic spiritual physician. If you dwell upon yourself and your own private satisfactions, the first disappointment will throw you into a depression.

  If you can train to think more and more of the needs of all those around you, to work with people around you even if they are not always pleasant, you will be making yourself immune to depression, and you will be helping others to do the same."

From

THE PROPHET, Kahlil Gibran

How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions?  Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others.  

- Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.   - Mahatma Gandhi

The moment you change your perception, is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body. - Dr. Bruce H. Lipton

"Solitude matters, and for some people, it is the air that they breathe." - Susan Cain

He who sings frightens away his ills. 

- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Circumstances don't matter, only state of being matters.

- Tami Close

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. - Meister Elkhart

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.

When you walk through a forest that has not been tamed and interfered with by man, you will see not only abundant life all around you, but you also encounter fallen trees and decaying trunks, rotting leaves and decomposing matter at every step.  Wherever you look, you will find death as well as life.

Upon closer scrutiny, however, you will discover that the decomposing tree trunk and rotting leaves not only give birth to new life, but are full of life themselves.  Microorganisms are at work. Molecules are rearranging themselves.  So death isn't to be found anywhere.  There is only the metamorphosis of life forms.

Excerpt from Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.  - Mahatma Gandhi

Are journalists in general intellectual "prostitutes"?

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play. - Joseph Goebbels

Our bodies are where we stay; Our souls are what we are.

The mind exists in a state of “not enough” and so is always greedy for more. When you are identified with the mind you get bored and restless very easily.

- Eckhart Tolle