Choices

We create our own feelings by the thoughts we choose to think. We have the ability to make different choices and create different experiences.
(Louise L. Hay, Meditations To Heal Your Life, p. 90)
10 December 2014

Clutter

... one of the most common escapes from dealing with clutter is obsessive analysis of the problem itself. While you must figure out what's going to make progress with things, when you make analysis an end in itself, substituting thought for action, it becomes self-defeating.
(Cindy Glovinsky, Making Peace With The Things In Your Life, p. 53)
2 February 2014

Modes of Thought

No great improvements are possible in the lot of mankind until a change takes place in their modes of thought. (One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 6 July)
17 January 2014

Philosophy Of Life

Philosophy Of Life 

Creating a carefully constructed and passionate philosophy of life is not something modern people do. Today many blindly follow their clergy, their ideologies, their political leaders, and the press. Many get their life guidance from television and rarely have original thoughts about their experiences. Others may have many opinions based on the latest studies but generally have not worked out a deep vision. They are informed, but they haven't thought deeply enough. (Thomas Moore, Dark Nights Of The Soul, p. 29-30)

19 January 2013

A Sudden Gem

Hope Diamond

It sometimes happens that the words of those who are unschooled, or those who are negative and confused, can bring us a sudden gem of thought that will help us. (One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 12 November) 17 November 2012

Checklist

People can, and do, squander hours of their lives in thought streams that produce nothing of value at all. (Ratey and Johnson, Shadow Syndromes, p. 334-5)

Never be completely idle, but be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or working some way for the common good. (Thomas 'A Kempis, The Imitation Of Christ, Book 1, Chapter 19, p. 48)

We must examine our outward and inward affairs and set them both in order, for both are necessary for our spiritual progress. (Thomas 'A Kempis, The Imitation Of Christ, Book 1, Chapter 19, p. 48)

... look closely at yourself and your very personal aspirations, and appreciate the absurdity of running your life on the basis of comparisons with others ... (Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Pulling Your Own Strings, p. 76)
16 March 2012