When you feel overwhelmed, you’re trying too hard. That kind of energy does not help the other person and it does not help you. You should not be too eager to help right away. There are two things: to be and to do. Don’t think too much about to do—to be is first. To be peace. To be joy. To be happiness. And then to do joy, to do happiness—on the basis of being. So first you have to focus on the practice of being. Being fresh. Being peaceful. Being attentive. Being generous. Being compassionate. This is the basic practice. It’s like if the other person is sitting at the foot of a tree. The tree does not do anything, but the tree is fresh and alive. When you are like that tree, sending out waves of freshness, you help to calm down the suffering in the other person.
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Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don’t know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.
—Paramahansa Yogananda
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Self-sufficiency includes NOURISHMENT of one’s self as well; with LOVE & CARE
—~ ♥ Coach YaSheeka
”Do your best to stay centered in love, because love is so powerful. Really connecting, and listening to the wisdom of your heart is what we need right now to heal ourselves and to heal the planet. It really starts with us, the individual.” - L.T.
The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are. They dazzle us with facts and quotations and foreign words and so on, whereas the truth is that they know almost nothing of use in life as it is really lived.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick (via kathgillen)
The most destructive habit: Worry.
The most satisfying work: Helping Others.
The greatest problem to overcome: Fear.
The most crippling failure disease: Excuses.
The most dangerous pariah: A gossiper.
The greatest Loss: Loss of Self-Respect.
—Precise Wisdom (via precisewisdom)
Smudging: the burning of herbs for the purpose of purification, cleansing, and the removal of unwanted negative energies or entities. Adopted by many New Age beliefs and practices, it has roots in Native American tradition where it is used to purify places and people. This is done by burning bundles of white sage, cedar, lemongrass, or other herbs and fanning the smoke with a hand or feather throughout the area or towards the person that is being cleansed. It is also frequently used in rituals, meditation, and for shamanic purposes.
(Source: mystikos)
We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.
—Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
(Source: quote-book)
I change my life when I change my thinking. I am Light. I am Spirit. I am a wonderful, capable being. And it is time for me to acknowledge that I create my own reality with my thoughts. If I want to change my reality, then it is time for me to change my mind.
—Louise L. Hay
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