Your physical senses give you many perks, smelling the flowers, sipping the cocoa, reading the funnies, and feeling the velvet, to name just a few. But perhaps their greatest gift lies in presenting you with the opportunity to assess the world around you at any given point in your life, to compare what you think you've been thinking, to what you've really been thinking.
WOW!
The Universe
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Choose Feelings

If your days seem filled with unwanted negative feelings, there is only one cure. When they come, choose them. Don't ask why, don't wonder how, don't fight them and never put yourself down for having them. But most of all never blame someone else for how you feel. If you do, it means you are still fast asleep and your choice is to be a victim. When the feelings come, even big disturbing emotional feelings say, "I choose this feeling" and know it comes because of something you have thought or done in the past, perhaps a certain belief that you have learned or an attachment that is threatened. Choice does not mean you want the feelings, but it does mean you are taking responsibility for them. And that is the beginning of self mastery. It is the first step to the healing and resolving of your emotions. But only the first step. Try this today and then ask yourself what the next step might be. If you are really interested to know, you will come to know!
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It isn't addition of possessions, but subtraction of desires which promotes happiness.
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

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The whole of the holy life is good friends.

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Music...gives wings to the mind, a soul to the universe, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, a life to everything.

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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness.

This is the judgment. Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?

- Martin Luther King Jr

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere;

for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

-- St. Augustine

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Bits of thoughts from

www.gratefulness.org
WORD FOR THE DAY
Sunday, Mar. 2

Thought for Today
www.thoughtfortoday.org.uk

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