\”Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.\” ~David G. Allen~ Patience is more than just being willing to wait. It is choosing to remain conscious and peaceful while waiting. Often, the spiritual approach to life is the exact opposite of what we […]
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\”The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.\” ~James Allen~ Your thoughts create your reality. Where do you choose to allow
\”Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.\” ~Eckhart Tolle~ It’s important to create spaces within your experience to be fully present, peaceful and quiet. In a world filled with distractions and demands, it’s easy to lose the Now. Many people constantly rush from
\”Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others.\” ~David R. Hawkins~ The time has come to honor your innate power and allow yourself to be transformed by love. When you choose to recognize all that
\”Every positive change – every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness – involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.\” ~Dan Millman~ Resisting the dark
“As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don’t have to change them. Things just change.” ~Ram Dass~ We do not need to
“This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor… Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful
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“Your outer journey may contain a million steps; the inner journey has only one: the step you are taking right now.” ~Eckhart Tolle~ Participation is key. Be willing to explore, experience and feel. Don’t close yourself off out of fear, for you never know what beauty may be waiting to unfold in your life. Consciously
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies… those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” ~John Milton~ Each of us chooses how we participate with life. Our day to day experiences run the gamut – from tragedy to bliss, darkness to light, pain to pleasure. Rather
“Our self-images define our own boundaries, limiting us to the narrow ideas of who we believe ourselves to be.” ~Ezra Bayda~ If you’ve ever spent time with someone who criticized your every move, always found fault with your choices or nit-picked the decisions you’ve made, you’d likely consider that person to be toxic, and would
