The Art Of Happiness

The art of living

does not consist in preserving and clinging to

a particular mood of happiness,

but in allowing happiness to change its form

without being disappointed by the change;

for happiness, like a child,

must be allowed to grow up.

Charles Langbridge Morgan

The Better it Gets!!!

Have you ever noticed that the way you approach the day or any event for that matter sets the tone for how you feel for the entire day/event?

If you can see this, than it makes real good sense to start your day or your approach, intentionally.

Take a few minutes or even one minute if you have not three to speak the positive aspects of this moment. What do you see, what can you say and how can you think about your moment right now that uplifts you.

Can you see how great it is to be up and moving, something great about the weather, your surroundings, where you live, the color of the sky, a person smiling in your presence, any and every thing you can think of in that minute that shows up as a positive aspect.

If your feeling great before you begin this will move you to even greater feelings.

"The better it gets the better it gets!"

It is surprising how when you are making these awareness's and shifts

that the better it gets the better it gets. It snowballs down stream.

"Whatever your state of being - whatever the way you feel -

you are attracting more of the essence of that."

Money and the Law of Attraction

Esther and Jerry Hicks

Opinions/Growth

If, in the last few years,

you haven't discarded a major opinion

or acquired a new one,

check your pulse.

You may be dead.

~Gelett Burgess~

Knowledge/Wisdom

"Knowledge is learning something every day.

Wisdom is letting go of something every day".

Zen Proverb

Food

When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone.

Whether we know it or not, none of us is.

We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables,

and every meal we have ever eaten.

Food is never just food.

It's also a way of getting at something else:

who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.

Molly Wizenberg,

A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, 2009

Control of your Existence

Regain Your Right to Be Self-Ruling

Have you ever gotten angry at a knot? Maybe you couldn't get your shoelace undone, or clear that fishing line. A knot in a thin gold or silver neck chain can be especially difficult. When you fight with a knot you feel frustration. Now, if you think about it logically, clearly the knot has no intelligence of its own with which to thwart your intentions or make you feel angry. Yet when you fight with it, you fall under its power. You feel yourself to be at the mercy of the knot.

Since the knot itself has no power to act upon you, where is the power coming from that puts you under the influence of the knot? From one place only: your perception. Your perception of the knot is the only power it has, and that power is not in it; it is in you! You cannot be free of the frustration or anger you feel in not being able to untangle the knot until you learn to separate the fact of the thing from the power of it. It is a fact that the rope has a knot, but it is not a fact that the knot has power. It is your perception that attributes power to it.

We frequently feel ourselves to be under the power of things. We feel we are the victims of an unfair social system, economic upheavals, painful relationships -- even a lawn chair that won't unfold right. We fight these conditions, feeling ourselves to be under their "dark" influence. The fact is, however, these events do not exist as negative events except for our perception of them. The only power they have is the power we give them. What is the proof? Someone else observing the same event may not see it as negative at all. If we separate the facts from what we perceive as a thing's power, we are on the way to freeing ourselves from all things that bother us. Your wish to understand your pain by shining the light of Truth on it will show you where to break the thought connection through which you give your life energy to events that would otherwise have no power over you. If you truly wish to be free, you can even shine that light back into what feels like your own hard or cold past, and the warm light of Truth will melt all those long past difficulties dwelling there until eventually nothing about your life will have the power to bother you again.

-- Guy Finley

Your Feelings!

Nobody But You Can Make You Feel Badly
The unseen contradiction in hating any given moment of life

is that what we actually hate in such a moment

is the way that we have consented to feel about it.

Guy Finley