A Note from the Universe
Through the night comes the light that brings the day.
Through your mind goes the thought that forms the clay.
And every single chance I get, in every single way I know, I'm pressing out all that I have to you in exactly the amounts you've imagined.
Quick, think bigger!
Food for Thought
Mac Anderson
I am your constant companion.
I am your greatest asset or heaviest burden.
I will push you up to success or down to disappointment.
I am at your command.
Half the things you do might just as well be turned over to me,
for I can do them quickly, correctly, and profitably.
I am easily managed; just be firm with me.
Those who are great, I have made great.
Those who are failures, I have made failures.
I am not a machine, though I work with the precision of a machine and the intelligence of a person.
You can run me for profit, or you can run me for ruin.
Show me how you want it done. Educate me. Train me. Lead me. Reward me.
And I will then...do it automatically.
I am your servant.
Who am I?
I am a habit.
Viewpoint
David Leonhardt
Rose colored glasses, good or bad?
Well, some say they are good because you see everything as you would like it to be and you are happy about what you see. Others say that it is important to see things as they really are, in order to properly react to them and fix things that are broken.
I vote for rose colored glasses. They just tint things. They don't change what you see, just how you see them. You still see famine and earthquakes and disease. But instead of feeling despair, you see hope. Instead of wailing over the misery of it all, you look for solutions.
So don't be shy to put on those rose colored glasses any time you wish.
Now You Can Enjoy Yourself Every Day
Vernon Howard
People are often puzzled by the idea of making life more enjoyable by changing their viewpoints. Let's examine it:
Suppose you are not feeling well one day, yet you accompany some friends on a leisurely drive through the beautiful countryside. Someone calls your attention to a lovely lake, but because of your illness, you cannot give it your attention or interest. Someone else remarks about a magnificent mountain in the distance, but you hardly hear him. You pass one lovely scene after another, yet they have no meaning to you. Because your illness has taken all your energy, you have none to spare in enjoying yourself. It is the same to your mind as if these natural beauties didn't exist at all. In your present ill state, they have neither existence nor attraction.
But the next day you recover. You feel fine. There is no inward attention to anything; you are outward bound once more. So again you go on a drive; you visit the very same places. But now, everything is completely different. You enjoy the lovely lake and magnificent mountain. You respond to them. You enjoy yourself.
How come? It was the very same scenery both times. But on the second trip you were different. You saw everything in an entirely new way. You had the inner freedom to see and appreciate your outer world. Like magic, your changed mental viewpoint changed the world for you.
It is difficult for people to grasp that the very same principle holds true elsewhere in life. Yet it is absolutely so. When we are inwardly ill at ease we do not really see things as they are; we see them as we are. And there is a world of difference—an actual world of difference—in the two viewpoints.
As we elevate our mental view points we also elevate our world. How is this accomplished? Enjoyment results from discard, not from acquisition. Discard of what? Of the very things we really want to lose—our acquired negative attitudes.
Enjoyment of life is not the presence of something outside ourselves; it is the absence of something within ourselves. Gloom is a state of inner blockage of your True Self; enjoyment is its release. Just as a balloon rises to greater heights by discarding weights, so do we ascend as we toss out negativities.
I am on the road of inner peace and love.
Shane Archer
I am now able to see through the dark clouds that had hidden the truth from me. I am able to see that there is a way. I've come to realize that I am a good person after all. I am part of God. I am love, I am good. I am human.
I've become more aware of my surroundings and I've begun to see the inter-relatedness of everything...the ripple effect. How everything in life is one and the same.
Although I don't know all the answers, I'm still working on my belief system, but the important point is that I'm working on it. I'm placing one foot in front of the other on the road to personal inner peace and love. It's not that everyday is a good day, but even so-called "bad" days are better than before.
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