Power

Old Cape Henry Lighthouse, Norfolk, VA

Photo by: Mr. Dickie

In general, we keep our power when we protect the power of others.
(Thomas Moore, Care Of The Soul, p., 126)

One of the marks of mental health is the degree to which people realize that they have control over their own lives and exercise that power to choose.
(Dr. Henry Cloud, The Secret Things Of God, p. 204)

... I have choices and may make whatever decisions I desire in my best interests, provided those decisions do no harm another person.
(Hope For Today, 18 May)

No man can hinder you from living according to the reason of your nature; nothing will happen to you contrary to the reason of universal nature.
(Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Chapter VI, 58)

17 June 2015

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