The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development.

I used to say, "If you will take care of me, I will take care of you."

Now I say, "I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me."

- Jim Rohn

(via Pam Lampe on Facebook)

Happiness is not a matter of intensity, but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

- Thomas Merton

(via Pam Lampe on Facebook)

Eat like you love yourself, move like you love yourself, speak like you love yourself, act like you love yourself.

- Tara Stiles

(via Peaceful Mind Peaceful Life on Facebook)

A family is a group of people having the same blood.  A mother feeds her child with her own blood and milk for the first months of its life.  From then on, a person's blood is created anew daily when the family eats together.  Eating the same food together every day helps make the family a group of the same blood.  In earlier times, the kitchen and the dining area were sacred places in the home.  The mother kept the family together with the food she cooked.  No other earthly ceremony surpassed it in importance.

- William Dufty, Sugar Blues

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

- Cicero

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

- Helen Keller

Positive Affirmation

I take a mental holiday every day by treating myself to silence, stillness and solitude.

- Jess Ainscough

www.thewellnesswarrior.com.au

Hurt feelings or discomfort of any kind cannot be caused by another person. No one outside me can hurt me. That's not a possibility. It's only when I believe a stressful thought that I get hurt. And I'm the one who's hurting me by believing what I think. This is very good news, because it means that I don't have to get someone to stop hurting me. It's within my power.

- Byron Katie

Gratitude

All we have is all we need. All we need is the awareness of how blessed we really are.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Restoring Balance and Harmony

All of nature seeks to restore balance to the system.  If your external world is in perfect order but inside you're a mess, or vice versa - perhaps your internal world is as peaceful as a windless lake yet the contents of your life are in disarray, then give some TLC to whatever area is out of harmony - all of life seeks to re-harmonize itself - your conscious attention can go a long way to restoring this balance. Pay attention and lovingly attend to whatever it is you find.

- Prajna Ana

(posted on Facebook; also see: www.lampoftheheart.org)

Beans on Toast

No need to wade through recipe books

hymning the culture of the

Mediterranean basin

or seek out a delicatessen

 

where a little man you know

stuffs unborn walnuts for you. No chives,

basil, marjoram, planning menus,

returning invitations,

 

sitting around making appreciative

noises -- just 8 minutes to make

& 6 to eat & it's over.

Fuel's in. Life goes on.

 

- Harry Johnson

 

(published in the October 1998 issue of The Sun (www.thesunmagazine.org)

 



No one can give what he has not received. To give a thing requires first you have it in your own possession. Here the laws of Heaven and the world agree. But here they also separate. The world believes that to possess a thing, it must be kept. Salvation teaches otherwise. To give is how to recognize you have received. It is the proof that what you have is yours.

- A Course in Miracles, Lesson 159

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

- Jerry Gillies

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dharma Wisdom:

The relation you have to yourself is the first and most important step to freedom. It is when you are centered in yourself that you really can give to others without expectations.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The Spring will come.

- Robert H. Schuller

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.

- Calvin Coolidge

We need to listen to, understand, adorn, and adore our body just as much as we adore the words that come out of our mouths.

- Dr. Bakur-Weiner

Buddhist Wisdom:

The important thing is the quality of your heart, not the contents of your diet.

Asian Wisdom:

1. He who eats, exists. He who eats can think, speak, act, love, hate, quarrel, marry, procreate, kill.

2. He who does not eat can do nothing and must, of necessity, disappear.