MIXED FEB 2009

[Rhonda]

If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

- Mother Teresa


Value the process

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear ... as it is, infinite."

-- William Blake

When we stop and pay attention to ourselves, we begin to see clearly the habits and patterns that have kept us asleep and confused and misled for so long. With awareness, we can choose to shift from the selfish and narrow outlook of our personality to the all-embracing generosity of our soul, simply by changing our perspective.

Change your mind and you’ll change your world.

"You watch your mind to see who you are not. I watch my mind to gain a sense of its content, which has always been my pain. As I watch it, I get a sense of its impermanence. Thoughts come and go as part of a process. I see how content dissolves into process and begin to see the patterns in the process. Realizing it isn’t MY suffering, MY pain, it becomes THE pain. I’ve gone from the tiny, the small, and the individual to the universal. I feel OUR pain. When we do, we go from fear to compassion. Fear is MY pain, compassion is THE pain."

-- Stephen Levine

When everything is clean-clear in your own mind,
nobody can create obstacles for you.

-Lama Thubten Yeshe



Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

-Lou Brock

[Rhonda]

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry to evil, it is pure human love.

-N.P. Willis

"Kindness in words creates confidence, Kindness in thinking creates profoundness, Kindness in giving creates love."

- Lao Tse

Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.

-The Hausa Of Nigeria


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The first step to forgiveness

"To get to forgiveness, we first have to work through the painful experiences that require it."

-- Christiane Northrup

To forgive, we do not have to say that whatever happened was okay. In fact, before we can forgive, we need to allow ourselves to really feel the pain of the experience. If we don’t fully acknowledge our hurts, we will continue to carry them subconsciously and they will drain our energy.

To forgive, we need to decide that we won’t allow the memories of the event to poison us any longer. We’re ready to heal this wound from the past and open to a fresh new beginning.

The blessing is that when we’re really ready to experience our pain and we open to it, it usually fades away. By honouring our pain, we release it.

"We must let ourselves feel all the painful destruction we want to forgive rather than swallow it in denial. If we do not face it, we cannot choose to forgive it."

-- Kenneth McNoll



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