I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.
The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly.
Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.
All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.
You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather.
Inner # peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your # emotions
The most radical act anyone can commit is to be happy.
Erasers remind us there is no faultless human.
With the backdrop of The Salvation Army's century and a half of service to the world's poor, these songs and reflections are born of meaningful engagement with a living Gospel
No one can keep you down but yourself