I'll start with 12/25/2005 and note the originally posted dates as I go.

12/25/2005

"The wonder of any land is not in the land but in the mind seeing it. If you have wonder in your mind, you will see wonder in your life. Leave not the wonder of your childhood behind. When the wonder of your childhood has become the wonder in your adult life the world has gained one more wonder."

Ron Rathbun


There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

George Burton Adams

More from 12/25/2005, Holiday bonus:



We all have forgiveness work to do. If you're wondering if this is true, ask yourself, "Am I breathing?" If the answer is yes, the answer is yes. Ask Spirit, "Who would you have me forgive today?" Sometimes our hardest forgiveness work is with ourselves.

Mary Manin Morrissey


So, keep on keeping on living the life which your inner voice directs, kindly, lovingly: giving help wherever you can, giving love and sustenance to this great work of illuminating all life.... Your life is like a pebble dropped into a pool of water, creating ripples endlessly. You do not know the end of a word, a thought, an action."

White Eagle


The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention. Whatever you pay attention to will grow more important in your life. There is no limit to the kinds of changes that awareness can produce.

Deepak Chopra


Remove the rock from your shoe rather than learning to limp comfortably.

Stephen C. Paul / Gary Max Collins


"Beyond your ideas of right and wrong, there is a field. I will meet you there."

Rumi

great idea, I have nothing to add but am really wanting to read more...Usually the only things I read a Stephen King and Marion Zimmer Bradley, and some other sci fantasy and horror authors :)
so I am bumping this
BUMP
hugz
Morgaine

from the archives, 12/24/2005:



You're free now, free to take the journey of a lifetime. Free to experience life, in it's newness, its freshness, its magic-in a way you never have before.

The only limitations on you are the ones you've placed on yourself. Your prison has been of your own making. Don't blame or chastise yourself. Life has created certain challenges for you. But the purpose hasn't been to imprison you. The purpose has been to set you free, to provide you with lessons, experiences, circumstances that would trigger growth and healing. Life has been provoking, promoting, urging you to grow, stretch, learn, heal. Life has been trying to break you out of your prison.

Set yourself free. Let yourself go on journey of love. Take notes. Be present. Experience. Learn. Love and laugh, and cry when you need to. Rest when you're tired. Take a flashlight to help you see in the dark. But most of all, take yourself and go.

Melody Beattie


This is the day you've been waiting for. This is the day you've been working toward. This day is the culmination of all you've ever done, said, thought, dreamed of, hoped for and planned. It is here, it is real, and it is yours now.

No, it is not perfect, yet it is all you could ever need. No, it is not exactly like you might have imagined, yet in many ways it is even better.

Today is the day you are living your dreams. Today is the day you are fulfilling your highest possibilities.
It's not a rehearsal. It really counts. This is your life and this is your day to live it with all the fullness, all the richness you can possibly give. This is really it, so make it truly great.

Ralph Marston


"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

Harold Whitman


And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than
the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

ahh what the world needs now is love,sweet love....

Hugz
Morgaine

from 12/21/2005



If we accept that life is always trying to teach us exactly what we need to learn, we can view everything that happens to us as a gift. Even experiences that are uncomfortable or painful contain within them an important key to our healing, wholeness, and prosperity. We may have difficulty understanding what the mirror of life is trying to show us, but if we sincerely ask for the learning and the gift in every experience, it will be revealed to us one way or another.

Shakti Gawain


There are two ways you can change your life: (1) Change your conditions; and (2) Change your mind. Sometimes you can change your conditions. Always you can change your mind. Ultimately, mastering your mind yields far more success and reward than rearranging conditions. The key to taking what you have and making what you want is to reframe. Find a way to look at every experience so it empowers you.

Alan Cohen








Expectations are premeditated resentments.


M. Scott Peck

12/22/2005



Do not worry about how the good that has been planned for you will come. It will come. Do not worry, obsess, and think you have to control it, go out hunting for it, or tangle your mind trying to figure out how and when it will find you. It will find you.

Surrender to your Higher Power each day. Trust your Higher Power. Then, stay peaceful. Trust and listen to yourself. That is how the good you want will come to you. Your healing. Your joy. Your relationships. Your solutions. That job. That desired change. That opportunity. It will come to you - naturally, with ease, and in a host of ways.

That answer will come. The direction will come. The money. The idea. The energy. The creativity. The path will open itself to you. Trust that, for it has already been planned.

It is futile, a waste and drain of energy, to worry about how it will come. It is already there. You have it already. It is in place. You just cannot see it!

You will be brought to it, or it will be brought to you.

Today, I will relax and trust that the good I need, will find me. Either through my leadings, or the leadings of others, all I want and need will come to me when the time is right.

Melody Beattie





The world is full of "shoulds" dictated by external sources. Religion, society, family, and peers have all kinds of ideas about who you should be and what you should do. But no one outside you can know your personal path as well as you. Some of their "shoulds" match your "woulds" and some of them don't. Many people fall back on the seeming security of paths prescribed by external voices. Yet a small number of independent souls, probably such as you, find aliveness more attractive than convention.

Convention means "convenient". It is convenient to take the well-trod route, for no one questions or challenges you. Yet those who take orders from outside sources do so at the dear cost of their passion and individual expression -- a terrible tradeoff, to be sure. The highest morality is personal integrity. You are in integrity when your external acts match your inner knowing. When you forsake your truth to please others, you fall out of integrity. Robert Louis Stevenson boldly declared, "To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying 'Amen' to what the world tells that you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive." And nothing is more important than keeping your soul alive.

Alan Cohen






A person desperately searching for love is like a fish desperately searching for water.



Deepak Chopra

Awesome low dose Larry!

12/30/2005


Stop trying so hard to control the things over which you have no power and start controlling those things over which you do have power...mostly yourself. Recognize that it is how you perceive events that is threatening, usually not the events themselves. One person's threat is another's challenge. You can control your perceptions. Remember it is the meaning you attribute to circumstances outside yourself to which your body responds. You have the power to change that meaning.

Lloyd J. Thomas


"If you start to think the problem is out there, stop yourself. That thought is the problem."

Stephen Covey


To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.

Albert Schweitzer


Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Eileen Caddy


"The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other peoples expectations."

Julie Cameron


"For all those years youve protected the seed. Its time to become the beautiful flower."

Stephen C. Paul


http://youtube.com/watch?v=e4iGPugRcEg

01/01/2006





Looking for external solutions to our psychological problems doesn't work. In other words, if we don't change our thinking, we will bring that thinking right along with us to the next job or the next marriage or the new house in the country. Our experience of life is the creation of our own thinking > perception > emotion > behavior. This doesn't mean that people should never change jobs or careers, move to a better location, or even find a new significant other. It simply means that nothing changes on the outside if nothing changes on the inside, where your experience is created -- your mind.



Joseph Bailey



In order to embrace the new, we must release the old. An important part of preparing for the New Year is to review the past year--to release it--and to learn from it. Consider listing all the things in your life of which you'd like to let go--anything you no longer want. Give thanks for what they've brought you in terms of learning and usefulness and then burn the list. It's a symbolic gesture to help you release the old and be open to the new.



David Batchelor





Individually and collectively our power to mold the outer circumstances of our lives is profound. Our personal responses to one another and our reactions to events that touch us combine with the actions of others to create a changed environment that affects us. No action, no thought goes unnoticed, unfelt, in this interdependent system of humanity. We share this universe. We are the force behind all that the universe offers.



Karen Casey & Martha Vanceburg






Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, We do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.


Chief Seattle





The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.


Marianne Williamson

01/02/2006


Resign yourself to be happy, for that is what you deserve. Resign yourself to serve, for that is why you are here. Resign yourself to forgive, for there is nothing to judge in Truth. Resign yourself to love, for that is what you are, that is all there is, that is "All that Is".

John and Rev. Ananda McIntosh


Cherish your vision; Cherish your ideals; Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. If you remain true to them, your world will at last be built.

James Allen


"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

Rumi


It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

e. e. cummings

01/04/2006


No one on the planet will ever have exactly the mix of the people in their lives that you do. No one else has the assignment to touch those particular people with love. You have been given a divine purpose that no one else can fulfill. We can do a hundred other things but if we don't do this one thing, at the end, it will be as if we have done nothing at all.

Mary Manin Morrissey



Have compassion for yourself and others. Everyone is doing the best they can based on their life experiences. Everyone is learning and growing, and so are you.

Doc Childre and Sara Paddison


"True self simply refers to the aspect of our being that is completely aware of its expanded nature no matter what we may be experiencing in our lives."

Martia Nelson

Everything happens for a reason... we simply need to look for the message
and we will find it is very clear. If at first you don't seem to see the
messages, keep looking (and listening). After all, as with anything else,
the more you do it, the better you get. So...STOP, CLOSE YOUR EYES, and
LISTEN.


Marie T. Russell





You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and truth. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You're not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.


Rumi





"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."


Paul Boese





Do away with your personal history, you don't need it. Live today without a past.


Dr. Wayne Dyer

01/03/2006


We are powerless over other people's expectations of us. We cannot control what others want, what they expect, or what they want us to do and be.

We can control how we respond to other people's expectations.

During the course of any day, people may make demands on our time, talents, energy, money, and emotions. We do not have to say yes to every request. We do not have to feel guilty if we say no. And we do not have to allow the barrage of demands to control the course of our life.

We do not have to spend our life reacting to others and the course they would prefer we took with our life. We can set boundaries, firm limits on how far we shall go with others. We can trust and listen to ourselves. We can set goals and direction for our life. We can place value on ourselves. We can own our power with people. Buy some time. Think about what you want. Consider how responding to another's needs will affect the course of your life.

We live or own life by not letting other people, their expectations, and their demands control the course of our life. We can let them have their demands and expectations; we can allow them to have their feelings.
We can own our power to choose the path that is right of us.

Today, help me own my power by detaching, and peacefully choosing the course of action that is right for me. Help me know I can detach from the expectations and wants of others. Help me stop pleasing other people and start pleasing myself.

Melody Beattie



"... the only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You're only here now; you're only alive in this moment."

Jon Kabat-Zinn


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"Embrace fully your capacity to create, to think in unlimited ways, and to pursue everything that you have been wanting. Be flexible, open and willing to let the new come to you. "This can be the most joyous, prosperous, and creative time of your life."

Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer


Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."

Thomas Carlyle


"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive."


The Dalai Lama

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...wanted to let you know that I am. thank you :) Diane