“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” –Melody Beattie “Thank you is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, and understanding.” –Alice Walker “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parentContinue reading “Gratitude”
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Changing My Mind
“Detachment is not that you should own nothing. But that nothing should own you.” – Ali ibn abi Talib “Contemplate these words: Nothing matters, and you think it does.” – Neale Donald Walsch For nearly five years, my husband and I have been paying off our credit card debt. Life has been quite difficult. IContinue reading “Changing My Mind”
Musings
…that to find beauty in everyone you must see beauty in everyone, then announce that you see it for, in announcing it, you place it there in their reality. –Neale Donald Walsch “Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And thatContinue reading “Musings”
Cynical No More
“…that the sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise..” –The Bhagavad Gita “In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant forContinue reading “Cynical No More”
A Dish of Forgiveness All Around
“When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear …. When we release the fearful past andContinue reading “A Dish of Forgiveness All Around”
Sage Woman Chronicles 