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April 2013

April 27, 2013

If you obey

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. KATHERINE HEPBURN

April 26, 2013

Oh, you got to have friends

Oh, you got to have friends the feeling's oh so strong. You got to have...

April 26, 2013

Suppose

Suppose… the body is a God in its own right, a teacher, a mentor, a...

April 25, 2013

I realize

I realize that as much energy as I want is available—only my mind limits me....

April 24, 2013

Infinite patience

Infinite patience produces immediate results. A COURSE IN MIRACLES

April 23, 2013

Armed with experience

Armed with experience with stormy weather, I stride purposefully out into the day. Mixed sun...

April 22, 2013

You have only one person

You have only one person to forgive in your journey and that is yourself. You...

April 21, 2013

The agonies

The agonies, the mad midnight moments, must, in the course of nature, die away. Just...

April 20, 2013

This widow

This widow business is getting boring. There’s no longer the life-threatening, overwhelming surge of dramatic...

April 19, 2013

Risk! Risk

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do...

April 18, 2013

I like living

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but...

April 17, 2013

I am the light

I am the light of the world. Forgiveness is my function as the light of...

April 16, 2013

Hope springs

Hope springs up, spreading like leaping flames. It seems to come from nowhere, from the...

April 15, 2013

With courage

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and...

April 14, 2013

Courage

Courage, brave heart. Courage. You are more than the love you shared. You are more...

April 13, 2013

For each man

For each man sees his own life defaced and disfigured… Each man sees over his...

April 12, 2013

If you feel guilty

If you feel guilty, you will insist on being punished in some way; it feels...

April 11, 2013

Be patient

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart, and learn to love the...

April 10, 2013

I’m an old man

I’m an old man who has known a great many problems, most of which never...

April 09, 2013

Love holds

Love holds no grievances. My grievances hide the light of the world in me. I...

April 08, 2013

Live so

Live so that you don’t look back and regret that you’ve wasted your life…. Live...

April 07, 2013

If you can’t

If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way. Don’t wait...

April 06, 2013

Things don’t fall

Things don’t fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last,...

April 05, 2013

Just to be

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. RABBI ABRAHAM HESCHEL

April 04, 2013

Please forgive me

Please forgive me. I’m sorry. Thank you. I love you. HO’OPONOPONO HAWAIIAN FORGIVENESS PRAYER

April 03, 2013

It’s not the bite

It’s not the bite of the snake that kills you. It’s the venom coursing through...

April 02, 2013

Life is difficult

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is...

April 01, 2013

A fool is happy

A fool is happy when his cravings are satisfied. A warrior is happy without reason....

March 2013

March 30, 2013

Ask and it will

Ask and it will be given to you, knock and the door will be opened...

March 29, 2013

And did you get

And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And...