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You have the power to control your own destiny. You may not feel at all comfortable with that, or want to own up to the responsibility it implies, yet it is true nonetheless. You may complain that there are so many powerful and overwhelming outside forces acting upon you that nothing you do will matter. Yet everything you do matters to the highest degree in creating your own destiny. For your destiny is not about what comes to you. It is about who you choose to become. Your destiny is not really about what happens to you. It is built and fulfilled by the things that you cause to happen, by what you do with the precious life you have. It happens in every moment, with every choice, with every thought and every action. Always, you are creating your own unique destiny.

Ralph Marston


"The choice between love and fear is made every moment in our hearts and minds. That is where the peace process begins. Without peace within, peace in the world is an empty wish. Like love, peace is extended. It cannot be brought from the world to the heart. It must be brought from each heart to another, and thus to all mankind."

Paul Ferrini


Don't tell me how wonderful things will be... some day. Show me you can risk being completely at peace, truly OK with the way things are right now in this moment, and again in the next and the next and the next...

Oriah Mountain Dreamer


061709


Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who that person is. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don’t really know what love is. Forgiving others is the only way to forgive ourselves, and forgiveness is our greatest need. Running away from someone else's darkness is a way of running away from our own, in the false belief that in running we can escape.

Marianne Williamson


Let us dedicate ourselves to peace within ourselves, that wherever we go, we bring peace and we learn to find peace in all things.

John Morton


All you have shall some day be given; Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors

Kahlil Gibran


062009


Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed. It can be ignored. To the extent that we abandon love we will feel it has abandoned us. Denying love is our only problem, and embracing it is the only answer. Through the power of love, we can let go of past history and begin again. Love heals, forgives, and makes whole.

Ernest Holmes


Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."

Antoine de Saint Exupery