"There is a spark of good in everybody, no matter how deeply it may be buried. "It is the real you." When I say 'you' what am I really thinking of? Am I thinking of the clay garment, the body?
No, that's not the real you.
Am I thinking of the self-centered nature?
No, that's not the real you.
The real you is that divine spark. Some call this the God-centered nature, others the divine nature and the Kingdom of God within.
Hindus know it as nirvana; the Buddhists refer to it as the awakened soul; the Quakers see it as the Inner Light. In other places it is known as the Christ in you, the Christ Consciousness, the hope of glory, or the indwelling spirit. Even some psychologists have a name for it, the superconscious.
But it is all the same thing "dressed" in different words.
The important thing to remember is that it dwells within you."
"THE GREATEST SALESMAN IN THE WORLD"
by Og Mandino (an excerpt)
"If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will remember
past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be master of my emotions"
"THE TOUGH MINDED OPTIMIST"
by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (an excerpt)
How to Handle Yourself and Situations When You Get Upset
1. Analyze the situation carefully and determine if you acted unwisely.
Admit your mistakes openly and honestly, telling the whole truth
and admitting your ineptness.
2. Utilize the scientific-objective approach to mean or unkind things
said about you, asking yourself: Is it true or false? Who said it?
Is his opinion any value? Is he a prejudiced or honest critic?
3. Apply cool scientific scrutiny to any epithets used against you,
taking them apart in a detailed examination to see if they apply.
If they do, correct yourself. If they don't, forget it.
4. Keep on esteeming people even when they act badly toward you.
5. Ask any other dispassionate question. Did this person have the
right to take the action he did? If so, accept it in good faith.
6. Seek the counsel and guidance of thoughtful friends and practice
all the cool reason and common sense of which you are capable.
Hard as it may be, you must think; you must use reason, not
emotion. Any turmoil will ultimately settle down if you do that.
And you will get answers that answer.
7. Ask yourself, "Am I enjoying my misery?" Cast off all self-pity.
8. Try loving everyone involved and pray for them, hard as that may be.
Loving doesn't mean sentimentality but rather a rational esteem
for them as a person.
9. Put the problem in God's hands; let go and let God take it over.
He will bring it out better than you think.
"OUT ON A LIMB" by Shirley MacLean
"Soon I realized my muscles were relaxing from the warmth of the space between my body and the covers.
It was the space that was warm, not the covers. I suddenly understood that most of what we didn't understand in our lives was what we couldn't see.
The invisible truth was the truth that required the most struggle to find.
Seeing wasn't believing - - not at all.
Looking was what it was more about."
"HEALING THE FAMILY WITHIN" by Robert Subby, M.A.
"A CRIME AND A RHYME"
"Show me a child who is made to feel wrong, and I'll show you a child whose shame will be strong.
Show me a child who is covered in shame, and I'll show you a child
who's a pawn in the game.
Show me a child who never broke free, and I'll show you a spirit
that's destined to be ...the next generation unwilling to see.
From childhood victim to adult volunteer, the spirit of shame is
shrouded in fear.
Confront it they would, if they were not so afraid, but lacking in trust,
they have nothing to trade.
So onward they travel pretending to be the kind of adult the world
wants to see.
Co-dependent in spirit, and adult children all, they promise to
change - - with their backs to the wall.
Their struggle without mirrors their struggle within, these children
of trauma who wear adult skin.
Half spirits divided and lost in the game, they dress in delusion
to shield them from blame.
Still, hope lies in conflict, and one day they'll see the truth of
their folly and courage to be."
"Self-Talk" Self-talk is a normal and necessary part of maintaining
a healthy relationship with yourself. That old rule that
says 'People who talk to themselves are crazy' is just so
much tripe. The truth is that people who do not talk
to themselves are either dead or in a state of suspended
animation"
"A RETURN TO LOVE" by Marianne Williamson
"Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
"When a relationship doesn't work out, for whatever reason, our disappointment is natural. Every intense encounter represents a deep and complicated karmic connection.
An ending relationship is much like a death, and in many cases the sadness is even greater. When someone has died, there has often been completion and understanding that doesn't occur when both people are alive but have separated without higher awareness.
Perhaps the one we love is simply on the other side of town now, sleeping with someone else, yet they are really universes away since the resolution we so crave has not occurred.
There's no need to pretend this isn't a knife to the heart.
It is and there is nothing to do but cry the tears that gush forth like blood from a wound.
'Now is the time for faith.' Let us be softened by our tears.
When emotional knives hit the heart, walls crumble that didn't belong there to begin with. We can learn then.
We can learn what is illusion and what is real. We can learn that idols can never ever be trusted, and we can learn about a love that never, ever leaves."
"EVERYDAY WISDOM" by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"Some Quotations"
"You are not a human being having a spiritual experience.
You are a spiritual being
having a human experience."
"We can only give away to others
what we have inside ourselves"
"Nothing is formed. Nothing dies.
Everything is simply in transition."
"Don't let emotions immobilize you. View them as choices."
"The reality of life speaks to us in silence."
"IN THE CONTEXT OF ETERNITY...
TIME DOES NOT MATTER."
don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly
