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(updated: December 29, 2004)

Rainbow Bridge
  

Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.

When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, 
that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge.
There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends 
so they can run and play together.
There is plenty of food, water and sunshine,
and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor;
those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, 
just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by.
The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; 
they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops 
and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent; 
His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, 
flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet,
 you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. 
The happy kisses rain upon your face; 
your hands again caress the beloved head,
 and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, 
so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together.

... Author Unknown

IN DEDICATION TO MY GIRLS

TARA:  July 21, 1992 - May 12, 2004
DEE DEE:  September 11, 1992 - April 17, 2002

"Never forgotten and always loved"

Spiritual Pauses

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
- Charles Parkhurst

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
- Tao Te Ching

I vow to let go of all worries and anxiety in order to be light and free.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

He that is discontented in one place
will seldom be happy in another.
- Aesop

If there were in the world today any large
number of people who desired their own happiness 
more than they desired the unhappiness of others,
we could have a paradise in a few years.
- Bertrand Russell

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning 
of every great human advance.  Each of these must be right
for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
- Coretta Scott King

Only the light within us is real.  We are not afraid of the 
dark within ourselves, so much as we are afraid of the light.
The dark is familiar. It's what we know ... The light, the 
thought that we might indeed be good enough, is such a threat 
to the ego that it takes out its very big guns to defend against it.
- Marianne Williamson

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;
it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
- Seneca

Do not seek perfection in a changing world.
Instead, perfect your love.
- Sengstan

Fear and love can never be experienced at the 
same time.  It is always our choice as to which
of these emotions we want.
- Gerald Jampolsky

There is a soul force in the universe, which, if we permit it,
will flow through us and produce miraculous results.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and 
takes as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
- Horace

Our eyes believe themselves, our ears believe other people,
our intuition believes the truth of the spirit.
- A German proverb

The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.
- Lao-tzu

Happiness is a present attitude - not a future condition.
-Hugh Prather

I am convinced that the universe is under the control of a 
loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness
man has cosmic companionship.  Behind the harsh appearance
of the world there is a benign power.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

I always think that we live, spiritually, by what others have
given us in the significant hours of our life.
These significant hours do not announce themselves
as coming, but arrive unexpected.
- Albert Schweitzer

You seek too much information and not enough transformation.
- Shirdi Sai Baba

When something seems to change in the world . . .
it is really you that is changing.
- Deepak Chopra

Silence is not the absence of sound.  Silence allows many
sounds to reach awareness that otherwise would go unheard - the
sounds of birds, water, wind, trees, frogs, insects, and chipmunks,
as well as conscience, daydreams, intuitions, inhibitions, and wishes.
- Thomas Moore

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and
unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden 
where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot
see the beauty of the sunset.
- Krishnamurti

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change
your mind about the world.
- A Course in Miracles

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands 
in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he
stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King. Jr.

The Self exists both inside and outside the physical body, just 
as an image exists inside and outside the mirror.
- Ashtavakra Gita

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
- Buddha

There is nothing too great of accomplishment for the man who
knows the power of his mind, and who follows his intuitive leads.
By the word he starts in action unseen forces and can
rebuild his body or remold his affairs.
- Florence Scovel Shinn

Happiness is a quality of mind.  It is something we
possess within ... If we do not have it within,
nothing outside can give it to us.
- Paramananda

To every one of us there must come a time when the whole 
universe will be found to have been a dream, when we find
the soul is infinitely better than its surroundings.  It is only
a question of time, and time is nothing in the infinite.
- Shirdi Sai Baba

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations.
Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
- George Washington

There is but one way to establish harmony in the home,
and that is to establish it first in the individual.
It is the law of Spirit that we must be that 
which we would draw to us.
- Charles Fillmore

We never live so intensely as when we love strongly.
We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are
in the full glow of others.
- Walter Rauschenbusch

Empty yourself of everything.
Let your mind be at peace.
While ten thousand things rise and fall,
the Self contemplates their return.
Each of them grows and flourishes and
then returns to the source.
Returning to the source is stillness,
which is the way of nature.
- Tao Te Ching

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or
greedy - unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill

The way is not inconsequential, whether we move forward or backward  along it.
The place and the way are inside a person.  The place is the  blissful state of 
the ambitious soul, the way is the constant change of the ambitious soul.
- Saren Kierkegaard

It is the health of the soul that is the true purpose of the human experience.
- Gary Zukav

Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that inner string.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with 
no thought of recompense.
- Emanuel Swedenborg

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are.
Otherwise you will miss most of your life.
- Buddha

Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung

And how, you ask, are we to walk the spiritual path?
We answer:  Say little, and love much; give all; judge
no man; aspire to all that is pure and good.
- White Eagle

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and
our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic
transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell

Our primary relationship is really with ourselves....
Our relationships with other people constantly reflect
exactly where we are in the process.
- Shakti Gawain

The diversity of the family should be a cause of love
and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes
blend together in the making of a perfect chord.
- Baha'i Scriptures

All prayers are answered when the individual doesn't 
tell God just how to answer them.
- Edgar Cayce

When you choose the energy of your soul - when you
choose to create with the intentions of love,
forgiveness, humbleness, and clarity - you gain power.
- Gary Zukav

No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly.
When we know this, we become free.
- Buddha

Before you speak, ask yourself: is it kind, is it
necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?
- Shirdi Sai Baba

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole
world blind.
- Mahatma Gandhi

The most powerful thing you can do to change the
world is to change your own beliefs about the nature
of life, people, and reality to something more 
positive ... and begin to act accordingly.
- Shakti Gawain

By having reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual
relation with the world.  By practicing reverence
for life we become good, deep, and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer

This is a time of great transformation on our planet.
We all have a part to play, just by being willing to
be our true, magnificent selves.
- Shakti Gawain

For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers
from the same garden, or they are branches of the
same majestic tree.  Therefore, they are equally true,
though being received and interpreted through
human instruments equally imperfect.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Spiritual practice uplifts a society because it counters the thought
forms of selfishness and greed.  It purifies the air, cleansing the
environment of mental and emotional toxins, the pollutants
that actually threaten us most.
- Marianne Williamson

We each need to let our intuition guide us, and then be
willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.
- Shakti Gawain

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is
because he hears a different drummer.  Let him step to the music
he hears, however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
- Chief Seattle

Personal transformation can and does have global effects.
As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us.
The revolution that will save the world is ultimately
a personal one.
- Marianne Williamson

Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will
follow you as your shadow, unshakable.
- Buddha

It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has
the individuality enough and the courage enough to
stand by his own convictions.
- Robert G. Ingersoll

Love everyone unconditionally - including yourself.
- Ken Keyes Jr.

If you don't see the bottom, don't wade.
- Scottish proverb

None of you is a true believer until you wish for
your brother what you wish for yourself.
- Hadith

Those whose minds are filled with kindness
will never enter a world dark with woes.
- Tiruvalluvar

Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.
- The Talmud

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's
gift to His creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
- Elie Wiesel

The first duty of love is to listen.
- Paul Tillich

In asking for miracles, we are seeking a practical
goal: a return to inner peace.  We're not asking
for something outside us to change, but for
something inside us to change.
- Marianne Williamson

We must have the courage to be happy.
- Henry F. Amiel

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience
with yourself.  Do not lose courage in considering
your own imperfections but instantly set about
remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
- St. Francis De Sales

You often overlook the choicest things in life because they
are so easy to obtain - the sunrise and the sunset,
the starry host on a clear night, the taste of fresh clean
air, the sight and smell of flowers and trees, and
the fresh rain on your face.
- Emmet Fox

We must strive for a quiet mind.
- St. Basil

Remembering and recognizing our Oneness with the
Source allows us to experience our truest reality,
that of Spiritual Beings having a human experience.
- Gerald Jampolsky and Diane Cirincione

Know that there is within self all healing that may
be accomplished for the body.
- Edgar Cayce

There is nothing that is an accident.  You are a special
combination for a purpose - and don't let them tell you otherwise,
even if they tell you that purpose is an illusion.
(Live an illusion if you have to.)
You are that combination so that you can do
what is essential for you to do.
- Leo Buscaglia

If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind
of track that has been there the whole while, waiting for you,
and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living.
- Joseph Campbell

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey.
We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
- Stephen Covey

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world;
indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

Desiderata
by Max Ehrmann

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.  As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.  Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are a vexation to the spirit.  If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.  Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.  Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.  Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery.  But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.   Especially, do not feign affection.  Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.  Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrender the things of youth.  Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.  But do not distress yourself with imaginings.  Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.  Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. 

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.  And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.  With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.  Be careful.  Strive to be happy.

- Max Ehrmann

St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226)

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved, as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.

The True Peace
by Black Elk

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.  This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this.  The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations.  But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace, which, as I have often said, is within the souls of men.

Buddha (563 B.C.-483 B.C.)

Do not believe what you have heard.
Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations.
Do not believe in anything that has been spoken of many times.
Do not believe because the written statements come from some old sage.
Do not believe in conjecture.
Do not believe in authority or teachers or elders.
But after careful observation and analysis, when it agrees with reason
and it will benefit one and all, then accept it and live by it.

The Six Mistakes of Man
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 B.C.-43 B.C.)

1.  The illusion that personal gain is made up of crushing others.
2.  The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected.
3.  Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it.
4.  Refusing to set aside trivial preferences.
5.  Neglecting development and refinement of the mind, and
not acquiring the habit of reading and study.
6.  Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?  You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine as children do.
We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we're liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

Neale Donald Walsch
Conversations with God (Book 2)

Be a light unto the world, and hurt it not. Seek to build, not destroy.
Be your shining example. Seek only Godliness. Speak only in truthfulness.
Act only in love. Live the Law of Love now and forevermore.
Give everything, require nothing. Avoid the mundane.
Do not accept the unacceptable. Teach all who seek to learn of God.
Make every moment of your life an outpouring of love.
Use every moment to think the highest thought,
say the highest word, do the highest deed.
In this, glorify your Holy Self, and thus, too, glorify God.
Bring peace to the Earth by bringing peace to all those
whose lives you touch.
Be peace. Feel and express in every moment
your Divine Connection with the All, and with every person,
place, and thing.
Embrace every circumstance, own every fault,
share every joy, contemplate every mystery, walk in every man's shoes,
forgive every offense (including your own), heal every heart,
protect every person's rights, preserve every person's dignity,
presume every person's holiness, present every person's greatest gifts,
produce every person's blessing, and pronounce every person's future
secure in the assured love of God.
Be a living, breathing example of the Highest Truth that resides within you.
Speak humbly of yourself, lest someone mistake your Highest Truth for a boast.
Speak softly, lest someone think you are merely calling for attention.
Speak gently, that all might know of Love.
Speak openly, lest anyone think you have something to hide.
Speak candidly, so you cannot be mistaken.
Speak often, so that your work may truly go forth.
Speak respectfully, that no one be dishonored.
Speak of God with every utterance. Make of your life a gift.
Remember always, you are the gift! Be a gift to everyone who enters your life,
and to everyone whose life you enter.
Be careful not to enter another's life if you cannot be a gift.
(You can always be a gift, because you always are the gift -
yet sometimes you don't let yourself know that.)

I tell you this:
Every person who has ever come to you has come to receive a gift from you.
In so doing, he gives a gift to you -
the gift of your experiencing and fulfilling Who You Are.
When you see this simple truth, when you understand it,
you see the greatest truth of all:
God has sent you nothing but angels.

Epictetus (55-135)

You are a distinct portion of the essence of God in yourself.
Why, then, are you ignorant of your noble birth?
Why do you not consider whence you came?
Why do you not remember when you are eating,
who you are who eat; and whom you feed:
Do you not know that it is the divine you feed;
the divine you exercise?
You carry a God about with you.

Men are disturbed not by things that happen,
but by their opinions of the things that happen.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
(1881-1955)

Someday, after we have mastered
the winds, the waves, the tide
and gravity, we shall harness for God
the energies of love.
Then, for the second time in the history
of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Fihi Ma Fihi #15
(translated by Kabir and Camille Helminski)

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
(1207-1273)

If you speak well of another, the good will return to you. The good and praise you speak of another you speak in reality of yourself.  A parallel would be when someone plants a garden and herb bed around his house. Every time he looks out he sees flowers and herbs.  If you accustom yourself to speak well of others, you are always in a "paradise."  When you do a good deed for someone else you become a friend to him, and whenever he thinks of you he will think of you as a friend - and thinking of a friend is as restful as a flower garden.  When you speak ill of someone else, you become detestable in his sight so that whenever he thinks of you he will imagine a snake or a scorpion, or thorns and thistles.  Now, if you can look at the flowers in a garden day and night, why would you wander in a briar patch or a snake pit?  Love everybody so that you may always stay among the flowers of the garden.  If you hate everybody and imagine enemies everywhere, it would be like wandering day and night in a briar patch or snake pit.

The saints love everybody and see everything as good, not for anyone else's sake but for their own, lest a hateful, detestable image come into their view.  Since there is no choice in this world but to think of people, the saints have striven to think of everybody as a friend so that hatred may not mar their way.

So, everything you do with regard to people and every mention you make of them, good or evil, will all return to you.

The original website

Back in 1999 I created angelenergy.com to be a reflection of my thoughts at the time.  At that point in my life, I had been writing a journal for a year and had compiled many of my thoughts and my words on the website. 

Although I no longer have the website, the journals or the information I had so painstakingly incorporated into my website, I have kept a few of the comments that were posted to my guestbook.  I am including them because they are very inspirational.

    "Your site touched my soul today especially after I called on the Angels last week.  Upon entering your site the song that played "My heart will go on" meant something to me.  It meant it was a sign from the Angels that I prayed for.. to show me a sign.  I thank you from the bottom of my heart.  I am going through a very depressing time right now and what you explained about feeling their presence ... well, I can feel it especially today."

    "Recently, I've felt that my light of hope had been extinguished.   I'd felt that my life had been de-railed and that, due to the recent stresses in my life, I had lost my grip on life as I had known it.  The past year and a half has brought life challenges that I never anticipated; and they have tested my strength and spiritual reserve.  On many occasions, I have desperately asked God why so many things seem to be piling up and why I feel the need to take control of every potentially harmful situation and protect the ones I love...but my questions had gone unanswered...until today.
   Early this morning, as I awoke restless and alert, I felt compelled to do some research on my computer for a classmate who had been suffering from an auto-immune illness of unknown origin.  Having recently seen a television show reporting on a certain mold that can grow out of control in a home and cause progressively debilitating symptoms to those living within the home.  I could not remember the name so I used a search engine and typed in the command of "mold + illness + home".  Listed as one of the first results was this loving angel website.  This seemed odd to me that it would appear since it didn't have anything to do with a mold that can grow in your home and cause illness.  I felt compelled to open the website and was truly amazed at what message was before my eyes.  The messages on this website about compassion, trust, hope, acceptance and understanding seemed to speak right to me, at a time when I most needed it.
    Because I have lost so many beloved family members in my life to cancer, I have honestly believed that I have guardian angels looking out for me, guiding my life in a positive direction and protecting me from harm.  Receiving this message this morning was proof to me that they are watching out for me and that they truly do exist; at least in my heart and mind.  I'm so grateful to them for giving me the answers that I needed to hear this morning.  I am passing on this site to others as I'm sure there are messages in there for all of us."

    "I can't explain how I ended up at your site, just did, like I was led here.  I must tell you my story and why I felt compelled to write you.
    My husband died 4-3-99 unexpectedly.  For a year I felt a guilt that I could have saved him if I had only been working in the yard with him.  Three months after he died he came to me during the night, the energy level was powerful, the sheets moved across my chest in a rippling motion and he was there, not in his physical form, but he was there.  I felt so much joy and we talked and talked.  The only words I could remember was he was very concerned for me.  He was worried about my health because I wasn't eating right and taking care of myself.  He said the boys still needed me. He was right! I had lost 20lbs, from 118 to 98, and I just didn't care anymore.)  He left me, I don't know where we were, but it was not our bedroom at this point, but he soon returned.  Upon his return he was in his physical form about two arm's length in front of me.  He told me that when he was called he had to go and he was being called again and must leave.  I asked him what he was doing and he told me he was working "internationally".   I tried to keep him there and asked him "What about all of our loved ones, had he seen them?"  He smiled and said "Oh yes, I've seen them all and they are all doing well", then he started naming them, many names I had never heard of. He then said, "Deanna we are all with you everyday".  With that he left me.
    I was returned to our bed, the sheets were making a rippling motion and noise across my chest.  I forced my eyes open as soon as I did, the sheets stopped.
His last message to me coincides to one of the writings in your messages.  I just wanted to share this with you, what I experienced was so real.  As far as the guilt lasting a year, that is another story and John was allowed to share with me another message to help me stop this useless wasteful human feeling.
    Thank you for your messages, they truly have helped and as I have learned and have so much more to learn, have inspired me to continue my journey with awakening me to avenues I need to pursue.  I also wanted to share with you a feeling I began to have about 9 months after my husband's death.  As I was trying to make sense of this loss in our lives it entered my head that life was mainly about two things:  Love all you can love and learn all you can learn.  Your messages also reinforced this thought."    

The Jar with the Dry Rim
(translated by Robert Bly)

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

The mind is an ocean ... I and so many worlds
are rolling there, mysterious, dimly seen!
And our bodies? Our body is a cup, floating
on the ocean; soon it will fill, and sink ...
Not even one bubble will show where it went down.

The spirit is so near that you can't see it!
But reach for it ... don't be a jar
full of water, whose rim is always dry.
Don't be the rider who gallops all night
and never sees the horse that is beneath him.

Those you are With
(translated by Coleman Bark)

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

What is a real connection between people?
When the same knowledge
opens a door between them. When the same inner sight exists
in you as in another, you are drawn to be companions.
When a man feels in himself the innermost nature of a woman,
he is drawn to her sexually. When a woman
feels the masculine self of a man within her,
she wants him physically in her.

When you feel the qualities of Gabriel in you, you fly up quickly
like a fledgling not thinking of the ground.
When you feel asinine qualities in you, no matter how you try
to do otherwise, you will head toward the stable.

The mouse is not despicable for its form,
which is a helpless victim to birds of prey,
the mouse who loves dark places and cheese
and pistachio nuts and syrup. When the white falcon, though,
has the inner nature of a mouse, it is a disgrace to all animals.
Angelic figures and criminals
shackled head-down in a pit are similar looking,
same arms, same head. Moses is a bright spirit.
Pharaoh disgusting with his sorcery.

Always search for your innermost nature
in those you are with.
As role oil imbibes from roses.
Even on the grave of a holy man, a holy man lays his face
and hands and takes in light.

Loy Ching Yuen

To know Tao
meditate
and still the mind.
Knowledge comes with perseverance.

The Way is neither full nor empty;
a modest and quite nature understands this.
The empty vessel, the uncarved block;
nothing is more mysterious.

When enlightenment arrives
don't talk too much about it;
just live it in your own way.
With humility and depth, rewards come naturally.

The fragrance of blossoms soon passes;
the ripeness of fruit is gone in a twinkling.
Our time in this world is so short,
better to avoid regret:
Miss no opportunity to savor the ineffable.

Like a golden beacon signaling on a moonless night,
Tao guides our passage through this transitory realm.
In moments of darkness and pain
remember all is cyclical.
Sit quietly behind your wooden door:
Spring will come again.

Psalm 23

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures;
he leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul; he leadeth me in the paths
of righteousness for his name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the
shadow of death, I will fear no evil;
for thou art with me;
the rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the
presence of mine enemies; thou anointest my head
with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life;
and I will dwell in the house
of the Lord forever.

Paramahansa Yogananda
(1893-1952)

Man has falsely identified himself with the pseudo-soul
or ego. When he transfers his sense of identity to
his true being, the immortal Soul, he discovers that all
pain is unreal. He no longer can even
imagine the state of suffering.

Patanjali
(estimated:  1BC - 3BC)

When you are inspired by some great
purpose, some extraordinary project,
all your thoughts break their bonds;
Your mind transcends limitations,
your consciousness expands in every direction,
and you find yourself in a new, great
and wonderful world.
Dormant forces, faculties and talents
become alive, and you discover yourself
to be a greater person by far
than you ever dreamed
yourself to be.

True Responsibility

Embracing The Present
by Leonard Jacobson

True responsibility exists within your recognition
that every choice and every decision you make
and every action you take leads inevitably
to the consequences which follow.
Whatever you are experiencing in your life right
now is directly attributable to some earlier choice
or decision you have made in the past.
Learn how to connect the dots and you will be free.
This means connect the choice or the decision
made by you in the past with the consequences
which you are currently experiencing.
Take responsibility for your choices and decisions
and see that you are creating everything
that is happening in your life now,
whether it is positive or negative.
Once you truly understand and accept this,
you will have entered into true responsibility.
You will have put an end to blame, guilt, control,
expectation and resentment in your life.

The Four Agreements

Embracing The Present
by Don Miguel Ruiz

BE IMPECCABLE WITH YOUR WORD
Speak with integrity.  Say only what you mean. 
Avoid using the word to speak against yourself
or to gossip about others.  Use the power of
your word in the direction of truth and love.

DON'T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY
Nothing others do is because of you.  What others
say and do is a projection of their own reality,
their own dreams.  When you are immune 
to the opinions and actions of others, you
won't be the victim of needless suffering.

DON'T MAKE ASSUMPTIONS
Find the courage to ask questions and to express
what you really want.  Communicate with others
as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings,
sadness, and drama.  With just this one agreement,
you can completely transform your life.

ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST
Your best is going to change from moment to moment;
 it will be different when you are healthy as opposed 
to sick.  Under any circumstance, simply do your best,
 and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.

   

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