Don't Wait

Don't wait for things to happen; make them happen yourself.
Don't wait for a friend to invite you to spend an afternoon together; invite her first.
Don't wait for your husband to buy you a gift; buy him that sweater you know he'd love.
Don't wait for your community to ask you to help; volunteer.
Don't wait for someone to tell you you'd be a good writer; start a journal. ...

What we feel, think, and do this moment influences both our present and our future in ways we never know.
Begin.
Start right where you are.
Consider your possibilities and find inspiration within yourself to add more meaning and zest to your life.
Perhaps your loving actions will be passed on to a child, grandchild, or young friend.
(Alexandra Stoddard, The Art of the Possible, p. 240-41)
24 February 2016

You Have Forgotten This

When you are troubled about anything, you have forgotten this, that all things happen according to the universal nature, and that a man's wrongful act is nothing to you; and further you have forgotten this, that everything which happens always happens so, and will happen so, and now happens so everywhere; forgotten this too, how close is the kinship between man and the whole human race, for it is a community, not of a little blood or seed, but of intelligence. And you have forgotten this too, that every man's intelligence is a god, and is an efflux of the deity; and that nothing is a man's own, but that his child and his body and his very soul come from the deity, that everything is opinion, and lastly, that every man lives the present time only, and loses only this.
(Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Chapter XII, 26)
5 June 2015

Detachment

Photo by: Mr. Dickie

Detaching doesn't mean we cut people out. It means we stay present and loving without thinking we have to fix or manage the people around us. It means we stop trying to save people from the consequences of their behavior. Best of all, when we detach, we stop taking ourselves so seriously and start having more fun.
(Perry Tilleraas, The Color Of Light, 11 November)
17 May 2015

Troubles

I know that constant dwelling on my troubles lessens my ability to see them clearly and make wise decisions. I will not complicate the present by reviewing the past; nor will I dread what may happen tomorrow. One way to make detachment easier is to eliminate the past and future from my thoughts.

He who frees himself of hampering regrets for the past and worry about what lies ahead finds himself able to deal with the present.

(One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 16 November)
14 May 2015

The Art of Life

The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself.
(Whispers Of Blessing, Day 48)

For the present is the only thing a man can lose, if it is true that it is the only thing he has, and that a man cannot lose a thing which he has not.
(Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Chapter II, 14)
28 February 2015

The Past

View from a window at the DC Convention Center

You can never fully enjoy the present if you're bitter about the past. Instead of living in the past, make peace with it ... and move on.
(100 Days Of Prayer For Women, p. 34)

Dick Henthorn
4 September 2014

Thinking Of The Whole

Do not disturb yourself by thinking of the whole of your life. Let not your thoughts at once embrace all the various troubles which you may expect to befall you. But on every occasion ask yourself, "What is there in this which is intolerable and past bearing?" For you will be ashamed to confess. In the next place, remember that neither the future nor the past pains you, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if you only circumscribe it, and scold yourself if you are unable to bear even this.
(Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Chapter VII, 36)
28 May 2014

Relationships

To be free of the past and completely experience the present, we need to heal all our relationships, including those with our parents. Relationships that still fester when we think of them keep us tied to the past; they keep us from living in the present.
(Perry Tilleraas, The Color Of Light, 19 December)
19 April 2014

Be Aware

Be aware of how present or absent your are ... Monitor what makes you shut down and what makes you open up. When you are aware of yourself, you have more choices and options available. (Cloud & Townsend, Boundaries Face To Face, p. 35) 26 March 2013

Emotional Problems

Busy people seldom have time for inhibiting emotional problems. ... the essential message here is that being alive in the present is the most powerful antidote to emotional turmoil or depression ever invented, and the ability to live in the present is essentially an attitudinal skill, which has to be cultivated during the course of your everyday life. (Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, The Sky's The Limit, p. 55) 22 March 2013

One Day At A Time

When it comes to your ability to sustain your own life, your natural, spontaneous reaction is to negotiate the situation one day; one minute or one second at a time. Past and future vanish. The present is the only basis of your survival. (Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, The Sky's The Limit, p. 50) 22 February 2013

Present Moment

... getting into the present begins with giving up the past and the future in favor of the now, for as many of your life experiences as you possibly can. (Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, The Sky's The Limit, p. 49) 4 February 2013

Being Present

How can you expect to get what you want if you are not physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually present to receive them. (Iyanla Vanzant, Until Today! 23 December) 14 January 2013

Set Aside

You must often do what you do not want to do, and what you want to do you must sometimes set aside. (Thomas 'A Kempis, The Imitation Of Christ, Book 3, Chapter 49, p. 143) 8 August 2012

Yesterday

How we ... [feel] about whatever happened in a multitude of yesterday's doesn't have to consume our attention today. (Karen Casey, Keepers Of The Wisdom, 9 June) 13 July 2012

The Way Through Life

Photo: Mr. Dickie 

Christmas Tree In The Great Hall Of The Library of Congress

I will not complicate the present by reviewing the past; nor will I dread what may happen.  (One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 16 November)

The only possible way to improve the conditions of one's life is to improve one's emotional condition.  (One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 29 November)

To search out the reasons for my own [behaviors] is a voyage of discovery. (One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 3 December)

Start somewhere to unhook your mind from confusions, but don't do anything about your problems until you can see them more clearly.  (One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 21 December)

There is no easy way through life. (The Promise Of A New Day, 19 December)
6 January 2012

Hard Drive Conversion to USB

No person in the world ever attempted to wrong another without being injured in return - some way, somehow, sometime. (William George Jordan in The Promise Of A New Day by Casey and Vanceburg, 4 January)

When we do not learn from the past or hear God and obey Him in the present, we destroy our future. (Warren W. Wiersbe, Chapter-by-Chapter Bible Commentary, p. 513)

Many people feel caught up in the routines of daily living that seem to deprive their life of significance. (Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth, p. 257)

... bad decisions always result in bad consequences. (Billy Graham, Hope For Each Day, 25 June)

******

Yesterday I installed the hard drive from my old Dell laptop in an external drive case that I bought at a computer store. The USB cable allowed me to connect the drive to my new laptop and thus read the drive again. I'm having fun looking at all the genealogy PDFs I found on this drive. I don't remember how many of these reports I made available in the past. If you have access to my Box.net account watch to see what I make available.

Mr. Dickie

23 August 2011

Present Moment

When you make the present moment, instead of the past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do - and with it the quality of your life - increases dramatically. (Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth, p. 297) 3 August 2011

Good Old Days

[On the voyage of life] ... one must have fixed points from which to take a bearing. (Selwyn Hughes, Every Day Light, Day 83)

The past can be a heavy burden we carry around in our minds. (after Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth, p. 139)

Yesterdays have no value except as experience, to be used in making today and the future more fruitful. (One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 13 April)

The good old days are often a combination of a bad memory and a good imagination. (Warren W. Wiersbe, Chapter-By-Chapter Bible Commentary, p. 293)

We are not only possessors of the present, we are also the trustees of the future. (after William Barclay, The Letters to Timothy, Titus and Philemon, p. 161)

******

Nothing to write home about today.

Mr. Dickie
26/Apr/2011 8:22

Present Moment

What I do now, in this present moment, is what makes up my life. (Twenty-Four Hours A Day, 25 October)
5/Nov/2010 7:46