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While driving one day, a womans attention focused on the license plate of the car ahead. The license read: B WHO UR. How can I? she thought. I dont know who I am!

Some of us may have felt confused when people encouraged us to be ourselves. How could we know ourselves, or be who we are, when, for years, many of us submerged ourselves in the needs of others?

We do have a self. Were discovering more about ourselves daily. Were learning were deserving of love. Were learning to accept ourselves, as we are for the present moment - to accept our feelings, thoughts, flaws, wants, needs, and desires. If our thoughts or feelings are confused, we accept that too.

To be who we are means we accept our past - our history - exactly as is. To be ourselves means we are entitled to our opinions and beliefs - for the present moment and subject to change. We accept our limitations and our strengths. To be who we are means we accept our physical selves, as well as our mental, emotional, and spiritual selves, for now. Being who we are in recovery means we take that acceptance one step further. We can appreciate our history and ourselves.

Being whom we are, loving and accepting ourselves, is not a limiting attitude. Accepting and loving ourselves is how we enable growth and change.

Today, I will be who I am. If Im not yet certain who I am, I will affirm that I have a right to that exciting discovery.

Melody Beattie ©


Aristotle said: "Those who say there is only one road to Rome don't know Rome very well." New Thought teaches us not only to tolerate but to honor all paths to God. All religions have love at their core. We are meant to learn to love one another, love God and love ourselves. No religion is bigger than God.

Mary Manin Morrissey


Intimacy without surrender is not intimacy, for what we surrender is the armor that keeps us separate. Often we feel we are ready for intimacy when in fact we are not. The ego can be very clever in hiding from our own eyes, much less someone else's, the many and varied games we play in our efforts to dodge love. to the ego, true love of another is death, for the ego is our belief in separation. When the ego has been our partner for so long, it's somewhat difficult to give it up. We feel foolish when we are out from under its cover. What we ultimately learn, of course, is that we are foolish when we are not. Intimacy is a very high-level activity. The immature can grow strong, the immature can love, but only the mature can surrender.

Marianne Williamson


Without self-examination, or self-observation, we do not see the way out.
Yet, many times, we are afraid to look closely, because we fear that there
is no solution. Yet, there is always a solution, there is always an
alternative. If at first the solution or alternative that appears before you
seems undoable, then you have choices. You can keep looking for another
alternative, you can examine the one that you see and decide which part is
workable and which part is not, or of course, you can choose to do nothing
about it at the moment. That is what is called free will.

Marie T. Russell


Doing the next thing that comes before you is the easy way to success. Don't make a problem out of life and don't be ensnared in doubt and procrastination. just go in there and do it. Observe all the minute particulars, and then realize the essence of it. Then let go immediately so as not to get stuck anywhere. Learn as you go.

Ajahn Sumano Bhikkhu and Emily Popp


"So many people work so hard, to achieve, attain, accumulate and cherish their fortunes. How many of us blissfully fill our days and nights being the Divine expression we are? This is the meaning of life. It is to be. As a result, all of your creations are a natural outflow from the Divine within your being. This is the joy of life."

Barbara Rose


To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future, be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

Alan Cohen


"People see only what they are prepared to see."

Ralph Waldo Emerson


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"I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscle can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man, and until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the market place. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day."



Og Mandino





Come forward and speak from the heart, recognizing that love can prosper in the midst of a problem.



Mary Manin Morrissey




The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.

Robert Valett


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"Someone once wrote: "Happiness is always a by-product. You don't make yourself happy by chasing happiness. You make yourself happy by being a good person." The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors', good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they're busy doing good."

Rabbi Harold Kushner


"A woman asked me one time, "What are the blocks to my happiness?" I said, "The belief that you have blocks.""

Wayne Dyer


"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life."

Rachel Carson