Fundamentally, what everyone needs is
mental strength and confidence, to manage
the mind, just as we manage
the outside world.
Amma (Sudhamani)
Not always as easy as it sounds!
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Anne Bradstreet
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Why should we care about raising our consciousness?
When we set an intention to change and grow, we begin a journey in which we move from coping, to learning and finally, to the enjoyment of living.
Here are some of the shifts we move through:
From dependence on the clock, to charting...
Trouble creates a capacity to handle it,
meet it as a friend,
for you'll see a lot of it and had
better be on speaking terms with it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
We don't always see the opportunity for personal growth when life's troubles appear and seem to produce anything but stress and negativity.
Today...
“Time is life. It is irreversible and irreplaceable.
To waste your time is to waste your life,
but to master your time is to master
your life and make the most of it.”
Alan Lakein
Refuse to feel USED by life!
Make full use of it instead.
To do this, we initially need to...
Facing it, always facing it,
that's the way to get through.
Face it.
(Joseph Conrad)
Never be bullied into silence.
Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one's definition of your life,
but define yourself.
(Harvey Fierstein)
So...
"True love is when you have to watch him leave,
with the knowledge that you might never see him again.
But you know he'll be in your mind and heart forever."
The power of love is amazing . . . it can make you feel like the queen of the world who can move mountains. While I had a long...