Wednesday, 4 July 2012

Act

Act and be as though how you are
 dictates that everyone else 
will be the same way. 
– Kant

Monday, 2 July 2012

Knock

When a moment knocks on the door of your life, 
it is often no louder 
than the beating of your heart, 
and it is very easy to miss. 
 – Boris Pasternak

Friday, 29 June 2012

Happy

By accepting yourself 
and fully being what you are, 
your simple presence 
can make others happy.  
 – Jane Roberts

Wednesday, 27 June 2012

Spirit

If you refuse to be hurried and pressed...
nothing can keep you 
from that clearness of spirit
which is life and peace.
– Amy Carmichael

Monday, 25 June 2012

Resist

When you resist a circumstance in your life, 
it takes energy and that produces stress...
The amount of stress in your life 
is determined by how much energy 
you expend resisting your life.   
– Gary Zukav

Friday, 22 June 2012

Hope

What you hope, you will eventually believe, 
what you believe, you will eventually know, 
what you know, you will eventually create, 
what you create, you will eventually experience, 
what you experience, you will eventually express, 
what you express you will eventually become.   
This is the formula for all of life.   
– Neale Donald Walsch

Wednesday, 20 June 2012

Thinking

Our thinking either makes us feel good 
or it makes us feel bad.   
It’s not the events 
nearly as much as the thoughts. 
– Louise Hay

Monday, 18 June 2012

Drama

I release all drama from my life 
and now get energy from peace.  
 – Louise Hay

Friday, 15 June 2012

June 15, 2012


From the Editor's Computer


     You can get through anything life hands you if you stay put in the day you are in and don’t jump ahead.  – Regina Brett

    We all know we should live in the moment, however that is easier said than done.  Our world seems to be spinning faster and faster.  Christmas items are on display in the stores earlier and earlier.  We miss the holiday because we are so busy anticipating and preparing for the next one. 

   Or, we spend so much time putting off doing tasks and dealing with what needs dealt with that we dread having to deal with it in the future.  And we all know that a tiny, simple task put off till a later time grows into a massive undertaking.

   Living in the moment is actually easier than we want to admit.  Sometimes living in the moment means being present and listening to the person talking to you - not wallowing in the past or worrying about the future.

   Living in the moment is possible when you just deal with whatever has come to your awareness that needs done.  Often we can deal with something in the time we make excuses not to deal with it.

   I’m really good at following the saying, “why do today what you can put off to tomorrow?” (or the next day, or next month, or next year!).  When it is a 10 or 15 minute task, putting it off really doesn’t make sense in the long run.  Better to do it when you are thinking about it.

Beth

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Wednesday, 13 June 2012

Wish

Learn to wish that everything 
should come to pass exactly as it does.   
– Epictetus

Monday, 11 June 2012

Live

Live to give, and have the nerve to serve, 
and you will never lack any good thing 
all the days of your life. 
  – Gregory Dickow

Friday, 8 June 2012

Compare

Comparing your “insides” 
to someone else’s “outsides” 
is always a mistake.  
 – Gregory Dickow

Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Decision

The impossible decision is solved 
when we see that the problem is 
only a tough decision waiting to be made.  
 - Dr. Robert Schuller

Monday, 4 June 2012

Upset

Why not upset the apple cart? 
If you don’t, the apples will rot anyway.   
– Frank A. Clark

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