The city of God is an imagined place in which everybody lives the way they…
Tag: peace
Imagine the difference it would make if you could totally eliminate anxiety from your life.…
Music is incredibly powerful. It impacts us in ways that ordinary prose cannot. So much…
Every morning I wake up to the sound of a parakeet serenading the world from…
There are clues for living well everywhere you turn. Many of the same principles that…
I am a lover of wisdom literature. Nothing gets me going like a good quote.…
Today Americans celebrate the victorious legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr, who lived and died…
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
How many times have we reacted in the heat of the moment and lived to…
Man is affected not by events but by the view he takes of them.
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so, wants nothing.
Amor vincit omnia et nos cedamus amori. Love conquers all, therefore let us yield ourselves to love.
We quickly get offended when people criticize us or gossip about us behind our backs, and understandably so. But what if we took a moment to remember all the wrong things we’ve said and done in our lives (or thought) that nobody knows about. The truth is we are a lot worse than people think. Remember this when you feel tempted to get offended, even if people are not being truthful or giving you a fair shake. What should offend us is the garbage we allow our minds to be polluted with—the same bad energy we recycle back into the world. It’s more important to have a pure heart than a pure reputation. And, at the end of the day, it’s the only thing we have control over.
Light is one of the most important factors influencing sleep quality. Our body naturally regulates…
Stress makes you believe that everything has to happen now. Faith reassures you that everything will happen when the time is right.
Imagine you have $86,400 in your account and someone steals $10 from you. Will you be upset and throw all of the $86,390 away in hopes of getting back at the person that took your $10? Or move on and live? Move on and live, right. See, we all have 86,400 seconds every day, so don’t let someone’s negative 10 seconds ruin the rest of the 86,390. Don’t sweat the small stuff, life is bigger than that.
Hack your past with forgiveness. Hack your present with mindfulness. Hack your future with I am enough.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.
You are killing yourself for a job that would replace you in a week if you dropped dead. Take care of yourself.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
It seems like every month a new challenge makes its waves across the internet. Some…
Suppose you are in the desert, and you only have one glass of muddy water. You have to transform the muddy water into clear water to drink, you cannot just throw it away. So you let it settle for a while, and clear water will appear. In the same way, we have to convert anger into some kind of energy that is more constructive, because anger is you. Without anger you have nothing left. That is the work of meditation.
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
Forgiveness is powerful medicine, but like all medicine many people have a hard time with…
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention
Elsewhere on the site I have cited scientific evidence demonstrating the health benefits of meditation.…
The 21st century has witnessed a surge in mindfulness meditation in the US and Europe.…
