There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering. The pain we witness can be overwhelming. Then suddenly, the Spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer with extraordinary love.
Mother Teresa
Do Something Beautiful for God
Mother Teresa
Happiness is Now
Happiness is now — it can’t be found any other time. If we search for happiness outside this moment, it will always seems just beyond our reach.
True happiness is our natural state of being. Happiness is our birthright, and it is not gained through forceful effort, but is discovered and realized once we let go of all the things keeping it hidden. As the saying goes — the sun is always shining behind the clouds.
A Fool’s Guide to Actual Happiness
Mark Van Buren
Roots of Self-Connection
Connection: How to Find the Life You’re Looking for In the Life You Have
Kristine Klussman
Thoughts About Me
We’re conditioned to think about ourselves all the time. Thoughts about me, myself, and I dominate our mind from the moment we become conscious in the morning to the last flickers of mental activity before we fall asleep. What I want. How I feel. What I will do.
Antidote to Self-Obsession
It’s striking how the most effective and direct antidote to our self-obsession is the one that occurs to us most seldom: that is, instead of thinking about ourselves, to deliberately think about others. We don’t usually need to look far to find opportunities to practice love or compassion.
Taking a Broader View
Other beings are no different from us in wanting happiness, and most are less likely or able than us to experience it. Whatever the cause of our distress, taking a broader view usually puts our own position swiftly into perspective.
Enlightenment to Go
David Michie
Consider the lilies of the field. They toil not, neither do they spin. Yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Luke 12:27
Stopping & Paying Attention
When we hear words like these we may think: what a wonderful insight! I wish I could be wise like that.
But the truth is that, to see the glory of the field lilies, all that’s required is that we stop and pay attention to a lily — to just one lily. The wonder is that this can be done every day by every one of us.
Take a Deep Breath: The Haiku Way to Inner Peace
Sylvia Forges-Ryan and Edward Ryan
Who Knows Anyhow? 