Arise and shine for your light has come

Gemma Stone: Mindfulness is a powerful practice, Day after day..

Grace Bell: Appreciation is gaining in value, getting lifted up, lifted higher in worth. 

Can I do that for others, and for myself? Be Intimate With Those Who Think Badly Of You

The Golden Rule

Rev. John Salmon wrote of ‘Holy Ann’

You must learn some one thing well.

"A teacher told his pupils, 'A man who really knows the answers has no need for confirmation from others. Give up the false pleasure of having others agree with your pet beliefs.'"- VH

You have but to be a faithful witness, a faithful Awareness, and in fact, you are this already, without effort, because Awareness is God's activity, God's own knowledge of Itself, Reality's Awareness of being what It is. William Samuel

There is nothing around you to make you dissatisfied. It is all your own state of mind, wholly subject to your will. ECH

Whatever You Are Fascinated by -- You Become! – Rev. Ike

You must learn some one thing well. "I abide in Truth." ECH

Where your attention goes, power flows. - Rev. Ike

There is a Place Where You Are Not Alone.

Hugh Prather ( 1938 – 2010 ) was a writer, minister, and counselor, most famous for his first book, Notes to Myself (ISBN 0-553-27382-5), which was first published in 1970 by Real People Press, and later reprinted by Bantam Books. It has sold over 5 million copies, and has been translated into ten languages.
Together with his second wife, Gayle Prather, whom he married in 1965, he wrote other books, including The Little Book of Letting Go; How to Live in the World and Still Be Happy; I Will Never Leave You: How Couples Can Achieve The Power Of Lasting Love; Spiritual Notes to Myself: Essential Wisdom for the 21st Century; Shining Through: Switch on Your Life and Ground Yourself in Happiness; Spiritual Parenting: A Guide to Understanding and Nurturing the Heart of Your Child; Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions; A Book of Games: A Course in Spiritual Play; Love and Courage; Notes to Each Other; A Book for Couples; The Quiet Answer; and There is a Place Where You Are Not Alone.

His work underscored the importance of gentleness, forgiveness, and loyalty; declined to endorse dramatic claims about the power of the individual mind to effect unilateral transformations of external material circumstances; and stressed the need for the mind to let go of destructive cognitions in a manner not unlike that encouraged by the Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) of Aaron T. Beck and the rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT)commended by Albert Ellis.

Forgive, let go and let God.

As you begin to realize the ‘I AM’ or you ‘Be still, and know I AM God’ it helps to see things from other perspectives in order to forgive, let go and let God.

A script is a pattern of thinking and behaving in the world which restricts some of your options. The ideal, therefore, is to become script free, or be able to apply the strengths in your script consciously. You made decisions based on limited information. Your dad drank not because of you or that but because his situation, his beliefs, his frame of reference which were drawn from his child experiences.

Being script-free is being autonomous(behaving, thinking or feeling in direct response to here and now reality rather than reacting to things based on a script belief). Autonomy is manifested by the release or recovery of three capacities: awareness, spontaneity and intimacy.

Being Autonomous: http://pvrguymale.blogspot.ca/2011/02/being-autonomous.html

The irrational Beliefs (iB’s) of REBT: http://pvrguymale.blogspot.ca/2011/07/irrational-beliefs-ibs-of-rebt.html

Rational Emotive Behavior

Dr. Albert Ellis (1913 – 2007) was an American psychologist who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), inspired by many of the teachings of Asian, Greek, Roman and modern philosophers. REBT is one form of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and was first expounded by Ellis in the mid-1950s; development continued until his death in 2007.
Ellis explained REBT: