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Our basic concept that never loses its power to work miracles is the concept called acceptance. We do not achieve acceptance in a moment. We often have to work through a mirage of feelings - sometimes anger, outrage, shame, self-pity, or sadness. But if acceptance is our goal, we will achieve it.

What is more freeing than to laugh at our weaknesses and to be grateful for our strengths? To know the entire package called "us" - with all our feelings, thoughts, tendencies, and history - is worthy of acceptance and brings healing feelings.

To accept our circumstances is another miraculous cure. For anything to change or anyone to change, we must first accept others, the circumstance, and ourselves exactly as they are. Then, we need to take it one step further. We need to become grateful for our circumstances or ourselves. We add a touch of faith by saying, "I know this is exactly the way it's supposed to be for the moment."

No matter how complicated we get, the basics never lose their power to restore us to sanity.

Today, help me practice the concept of acceptance in my life. Help me
accept others, my circumstances, and myself. Take me one step further, and
help me feel grateful.

Melody Beattie ©


The foundation of our love is not perfect and it never will be. In places, it is patched, fudged, jerry-rigged. We wonder sometimes how it all holds together. Yet it does. It does because we want it to, because each day we are willing to do what the relationship asks of us, even if we sometimes do it kicking and screaming. It does because we keep finding love, even as we move awkwardly and sadly through the pain. It does because we know and trust that our partner will be there for us, no matter what. That is not something we know right away. That is not something we can promise in advance. It is something that happens in its own time.

Paul Ferrini


Now you are ready. Ready to make the shift from conditional love to unconditional love. You are now ready to be with yourself rather than by yourself. You have been through a "meantime" process in which you have become self-aware and self-reflective in order to make the necessary changes or shifts that will result in spiritual transformation. You are no longer in search of physical, emotional or sexual satisfaction only. You want the true, full experience of love. If this is what you are going for, this is what you will get.

Iyanla Vanzant


"Once, when we were discussing a world peace project with my teacher, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, somebody asked him, 'Where is all the money going to come from?' And he replied without hesitation, 'From wherever it is at the moment.'"

Deepak Chopra


Intimacy is not sex, although sex can be intimate. Intimacy means mutually honest, warm, caring, safe relationships where both people are valued for who they are.

Melody Beattie



We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make our world.

The Buddha


If you want a kinder world, then behave with kindness; if you want a peaceful world, make peace within.

Dan Millman


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Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.

Carlos Casteneda


The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

Ram Dass


In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher

Dalai Lama


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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see.

Course In Miracles

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See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Eckhart Tolle


Every thought you have makes up some segment of the world you see. It is with your thoughts, then, that we must work, if your perception of the world is to be changed.

Course In Miracles


The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

Pema Chodron