Spiritual Path

The spiritual journey, the path of recovery and personal growth, is a detoxification process in which we bring up and out the negative beliefs we have carried with us from the past and that now poison the present. Marianne Williamson

Gratitude

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we 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 our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie

Patience and Equanimity

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. Carl Gustav Jung

Opening

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. Deepak Chopra

Harmony

If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the Universe, and so winning peace at heart whatever obstacles we meet. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Release

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. Alan Cohen

Problems

Do not rely on meditation to avoid problems. Without problems the seeking spirit could go mad. Therefore the sage says: reach liberation in the middle of turbulences. Kyong Ho

Work and Play

Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously. George Byron

Enemy

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves. St. Francis of Assisi

Stress

Stress comes from within; it is your reaction to circumstances, not the circumstances themselves. Brian Tracy

Relationship

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

Every Moment

Once gone, a day will never return.
Therefore, one must strive to do good in every moment.

We reach the goal of the great life by good works.

 Jain Scriptures

Faithful Friend

A faithful friend is the medicine of life. The Bible

Love Yourself

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Les Brown

Radiant

People should not worry so much about what they should do; rather about what they should be. If we and our ways are good, then what we do will be radiant. Meister Eckhart

Aloneness

Celebrate aloneness, celebrate your pure space, and great song will arise in your heart. Osho

Pursuit

If you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains; if you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains. Cicero

Adventure

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. Andre Gide

Cheerfulness

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Joseph Addison

Prayer

Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together. Mother Teresa

Thoughts

If you want congenial companionship, if you want to be loved, you must first think thoughts of love and good-will. Emmet Fox

Attitude

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. Viktor E. Frankl

Don't Wait

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful. Mark Victor Hansen

Be Patient

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground.  There’s no greater investment. Stephen Covey

Heart's Light

Let your heart's light guide you to my house. Let your heart's light show you that we are one. Rumi

Never Bend

Never bend your head. .  . Look at the world straight in the face. Helen Keller

Flight

Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow. Chinese Proverb

Day Dreaming

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. Edgar Allan Poe

Courage

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. Mary Anne Radmacher 

Things that Destroy Us

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice. Mahatma Gandhi