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great post Cathy!

Your thoughts show

Thoughts can feel like they are private and hidden deep inside of you. Yet they have an influence that extends far beyond you.

What if others could know what you were thinking? Would it change the content of your thoughts?

In many ways, other people can and do know what you are thinking. Because your thoughts are faithfully expressed by the life you lead.

If you're constantly thinking negative, limiting thoughts, people will be able to tell just by looking at you and your life's conditions. In the same way, when you fill your mind with positive, empowering thoughts, that will be wonderfully obvious.

You might be able to hide the specific details of your thoughts. Yet you cannot hide the true nature of those thoughts.

Your thoughts, whatever they may be, are expressed in every aspect of your life. Continually guide those thoughts to positive places, and your whole world will follow.

The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
Atisha

THE PICTURE OF PEACE

There once was a King who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The King looked at all the pictures, but there were only two he really liked and he had to choose between them.

One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect mirror for peaceful towering mountains were all around it. Overhead was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. All who saw this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace.

The other picture had mountains too. But these were rugged and bare. Above was an angry sky from which rain fell, in which lightening played. Down the side of the mountain tumbled a foaming waterfall. This did not look peaceful at all.

But when the King looked, he saw behind the waterfall a tiny bush growing in a crack in the rock. In the bush a mother bird had built her nest. There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, sat the mother bird on her nest... perfect peace.

Which picture do you think won the prize? The King chose the second picture.

Do you know why? "Because," explained the King, "peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work.

Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart. That is the real meaning of peace.

Happy Birthday to the original SISTERCHICK!

Morning everyone and







Fran

Thank you all for the birthday wishes

Disillusionment

If you often find yourself feeling disillusioned, that's a strong indication that you're hungry for a greater level of challenge in your life.

Disillusionment can be your way of telling yourself that there's a valuable contribution you know you must make to life.

Go ahead and feel that disillusion fully, then ask yourself this question. What specifically would make the disillusion end?

Somewhere within you is a vision that is being stifled. Dig it out, and find a positive way to make it come to life.

Instead of being drained by disillusion, become energized by the vision that you long to express. Transform the reason that you're feeling down into a positive purpose that drives you forward.

Discover the meaningful challenge that you're aching to take on. Experience true fulfillment as you steadily work through that challenge.

Feel the disillusion, learn what it is telling you, and then you can leave it behind. For from that disillusion you can step forward to a new and higher level of accomplishment.

Attempt more

If you wish to achieve more, then attempt more. Push yourself beyond what you already know you're able to do.

Get out of the rut of going through the same motions and ending up with the same results. Put some additional time, energy, thought and creativity into your actions.

Take on challenges that make you a little bit uncomfortable. Stretch your abilities and watch them grow.

Decide to reach higher and you'll find many new ways to move higher. Raise your expectations and you'll improve your performance.

Keep on learning, keep on growing, and keep on venturing beyond what you already know. Give yourself the gift of increasingly ambitious goals.

Enjoy and appreciate how far you've already come. Then jump back in and make it even better.

New joys to be lived

There's more to life than everything you already know. As each day unfolds, feel what it is to be alive more profoundly than you have ever felt it before.

There are wonderful ways you are capable of feeling, that you've never experienced before. Make use of the powerful creativity that is yours, and discover new corners of life's richness that you've never seen before.

Get out of the comfortable rut. There is so much more to life than comfort and predictability.

Somewhere within the possibilities of this moment, you will find beautiful and fulfilling new experiences. Life's abundance is waiting to be expressed in ways you have not yet known or even imagined.

The world changes constantly, and change can often be frightening. Yet it also continually brings forth new and positive possibilities.

Make good use of what you already know, and let it successfully guide you into valuable new realms. There are always new joys to be lived.

happy tuesday Fran et al ...

Happy birthday.......awwwwww




and good morning to the sisterchicks...

Happy birthday.......awwwwww




and good morning to the sisterchicks...

Happy birthday.......awwwwww




and good morning to the sisterchicks...

morning ladies
hope you all have a spectacular day

thanks Deb for bday wishes

No more resistance

Allowing the best of life involves nothing more than becoming aware of your resistance to it.

Shine the light of awareness on your resistance, and that resistance dissolves into nothing.

Allow life's richness to be, and it flows freely into your experience. See your pain and frustration for the resistance that they are, and suddenly they are no more.

If you focus on the concerns of your ego, the resistance builds up. Realize that you are not your ego, and suddenly the resistance has no basis.

Resisting the limitless abundance of life is your own choice. As soon as you understand you've made that choice, you can quickly let it go.

Imagine what will happen when you simply stop judging, criticizing, and resenting yourself and others. You open yourself to a whole new world of beautiful possibilities.

Feel the resistance that you've created within your own life, and know that you can choose to peacefully let it go. Let it go, and come fully to life.

(( fran ))

always appreciate your wisdom quips .. nicely done babe

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Just trying to provide some positive reinforcement in these trying times.

Some rules for life
If you never want to be disappointed by life's situations never expect anything.

Simply hope for the best and plan for the worst, that way you will always be well prepared for anything as well.

Tell me, I'll forget.
Show me, I may remember.
But involve me and I'll understand.

Age is not proportionate to maturity.

Sometimes people are only wrong or thought crazy until they are proven right.

Be openminded.

Growing up and growing old are two different things. You are only as old as you feel, but you may seem as old as you act.

Complacency kills hopes and dreams, growing up or does not.

Nothing is everything.

Not everyone who needs to be saved deserves to be saved. Sometimes the people that help others are in need of or searching for help themselves.

Read for fun.

Time does not heal all, it just helps you to forget or realize truths that you could not see or didn't want to see in the first place.

Test people in their friendship.

Trust in your true friends.

Sometimes people don't mean what they say and other don't say what they mean.

Enjoy your victories but embrace and learn from your failures.

If you truly enjoy your job you will never work another day in your life.

There is a difference between dating and having a relationship, but they can both feel great or hurt very much.

Road rage is contageous.
Be courteous: let people pass if you go slow and don't cut people off if you go fast.

Realize that not everyone you think you are not good enough for, is always good enough for you.

Live each day likes it's your last, but remember that if there is a tomorrow you will have to face the consequences.

Realize that there are more than 5 senses and learn to trust the other ones.

Accept compliments when they are honest.

Love and accept love.

Time moves on. Situations happen in time.