Ego

The ego is a wrong-minded attempt to perceive yourself as you wish to be, rather than as you are.  

(A Course In Miracles, Chapter 43, IV, 2, 3, p. 42) 

3 August 2012

Inheritance

Everyone is free to refuse to accept his inheritance, but he is not free to establish what his inheritance is. (A Course In Miracles, Chapter 3, VI, 10, 2) 13 June 2012

Worry

Remember that you are deprived of nothing except by your own decisions, and then decide otherwise. (A Course In Miracles, Chapter 4, IV, 3, 3, p. 63)

Don't do your good deeds publicly, to be admired ... (Matthew 6:1 (TLB) Daily Guideposts - 2011, 28 March)

I will continue feeling bad until my attitude improves! (Iyanla Vanzant, Until Today!, 6 January)

... the things I see in others could be the very things they see in me. (Iyanla Vanzant, Until Today!, 23 March)

You can always tell when someone is saying something that you are resistant to hearing because it hits you in the pit of your stomach. (Iyanla Vanzant, Until Today!, 24 March)

Worriers think about what happened yesterday.  They are sure it's a clue to the awful things that are going to happen tomorrow. (after One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 22 March)
3 May 2012

Humility

A good teacher must believe in the ideas he teaches, but he must meet another condition; he must believe in the students to whom he offers the ideas. (A Course In Miracles, Chapter 4, I, 1, 4)

People who think themselves wise are seldom humble enough to allow others to guide them.  It is better to be stupid and slow and to be humble about it, than to possess vast knowledge and to be smug about it. (Thomas 'A Kempis, The Imitation Of Christ, Book 3, Chapter 7, p. 94)

Goal-directed behavior, one of the bases of any kind of success in life and love, depends upon being able to organize one's thoughts and hopes, and act upon them in a direct and timely fashion. (Ratey and Johnson, Shadow Syndromes, p. 62)

There is one thing that keeps many people from gaining ground and from fervently striving to improve: the dread of difficultly, or more accurately the effort of the struggle. (Thomas 'A Kempis, The Imitation Of Christ, Book 1, Chapter 25, p. 60)
26 March 2012

Missteps

You correct your previous missteps by stepping forward. (A Course In Miracles, 2,II,6,2)

... we could do a great deal to offset ... [personal] damage by turning our examination and criticism on ourselves, and taking energetic steps to correct what we think and do. (One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 4 February)

... one of the surest paths to doing the right thing is knowing what it is about you that will make you do the wrong one. (Ratey and Johnson, Shadow Syndromes, p. 206)

Work hard at eliminating your own complaints about things you can do nothing to change ... (Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Pulling Your Own Strings, p. 71)

It is not acceptable to plead bad brain chemicals as an excuse for bad behavior. (Ratey and Johnson, Shadow Syndromes, p. 19)

Mr. Dickie
23 February 2012