Compatibility

What counts in making a happy relationship is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. Daniel Goleman

Life

Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. Carl Sandburg

Failure

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. Buddha

Giving

You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.

Self-Confidence and Determination

You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation. Dalai Lama

Learning

Enter the ruins of your heart, and learn the meaning of humility. Close both eyes and see the mysteries of your inner eye. Rumi

Reflect

After the victim mindset has run its course, reflect on the gifts and growth from difficult experience.

Friends

Genuine friends come only on the basis of warm-heartedness. Dalai Lama

Happiness

Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated. Karen Maezen Miller

Action

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Invisible World

Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible one! Rumi

Sky

You are the sky. Everything else - it's just the weather. Pema Chodren

Healing

Perhaps God's love is coming to us in the concern of a friend or partner. Maybe it comes in the warm sunshine or in the smile of a child. As we yield to it we take a spiritual leap into a world we don't control and we didn't create, but a world we can be healed in.

Fear

Most of the fear that spoils our lives comes from attacking difficulties before we get to them.

Moments

There are no holy places, no holy people – only holy moments, moments of wisdom.

Love

We love because it's the only true adventure.  Nikki Giovanni

The Great Secret

What is a good man but a bad man's teacher?  What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you don't understand this, you will get lost, however intelligent you are. It is the great secret. Lao-Tzu 

Fruition

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition. Florida Scott-Maxwell

Leading

If we have been asking God to spare of us pain, perhaps we should try a different question: Will God lead us through our pain to a greater understanding of life?

Into Action

Today, I will be aware that thinking about doing is not the same as doing. Today, I will act.

Be Still

You can rest in the faith that God will take care of you.  Try to rest in God's presence until his life–power flows through you. Be still and in that stillness the still, small voice will come. It speaks in quietness to the human mind that is attuned to its influence.

Waiting

The last and hardest lesson is that of waiting.

Silence

Now be silent. Let the One who creates words speak. He made the door, He made the lock, He also made the key. Rumi

New Path

Amidst loss, it's natural to feel sorrow or anger, but hold a small space for curiosity: What new path now calls?

Shortcomings

Noticing a single shortcoming in ourselves is far more useful than seeing a thousand in someone else. When it is our own: we can correct it. Dalai Lama

Paths

If there was already a path it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.

Seeing

If only I could throw away the urge to trace my patterns in your heart, I could really see you.

Now

Time is not a line, but a series of now-points. Taisen Deshimaru