"Whatever you think the world is withholding
from you, you are withholding from the world." Appreciate when you feel
underappreciated. You can give appreciation if you really have zero cash and
zero credit. Appreciation for all
creation. The air, the globe mallow and its delicate orange blossoms, the hard
ground beneath your feet, the sun, the stars, the ripe fig, the rustling wind,
the leopard print pillow, and the rude barista, the jarring television sounds,
the confused Facebook page, the peeling paint, all of it. Express appreciation
for all of it--the good, the bad, the ugly and remember that this is happening for you by you through you. Expressing
appreciation is one of the most natural and empowering forms of expression--in
whatever ways it shows up. appreciation for authors Robert Scheinfeld, Michael Roach, and
Charles Eisenstein
"One of Loretta's
self-discoveries shook her like an earthquake. She realized that she really did
not want to go around helping people after all. She did so compulsively,
because she thought it a sign of 'goodness.' But she finally saw that
compulsive 'goodness' was only self-flattering egotism. She told me, 'You know,
I actually resented my so-called generosity.'" Vernon
Linwood Howard
A Course in Miracles says, “When
you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him, you will see
yourself … for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.” In time we can
see how it went wrong, which means how you betrayed your truth – how you
betrayed yourSelf (with the big
“S”) by listening to yourself (with the
lowercase “S”).
"After a long journey it is
good to be back home again. Right?
You know that's where you should be.
Your mission is accomplished and now it's time to be home.
We're going to talk
tonight about being in the right place internally. Being in our rightful,
natural and spiritual home. And the first thing you must record in your mind is
that there is only one home. That home is yours to find. Yours to live in. And
you don't need a single outside influence or human being to find it. You don't
need anyone."
Vernon Linwood Howard
Thanksgiving
Day, gratitude day, is coming soon in America, and just in time, in time, and
why wait for apparent time to be grateful? Notice now: air, breath, table,
flower, desk, chair, window, tree...
I love writing to the you in my mind, since I love mind,
the creator of all. So, without choice, I love what its “I” imagines all of
life to be and can only be. Byron Katie
We must be like young eagles who dare to leave the nest
because they have sighted the vast world beyond. Vernon Linwood Howard
Anger has no hold on you. Sadness
never conquers you. Hatred will not rest in your bosom ever if your remember this: “My soul doth magnify the
Lord.” ECH
I can give up but what was never real.
I sacrifice illusions; nothing more. And as illusions
go I find the gifts illusions tried to hide, awaiting me in shining welcome,
and in readiness to give God's ancient messages to me. His memory abides in
every gift that I receive of Him. And every dream serves only to conceal the
Self which is God's only Son, the likeness of Himself, the Holy One Who still
abides in Him forever, as He still abides in me.
Father, to You all sacrifice remains forever
inconceivable. And so I cannot sacrifice except in dreams. As You created me, I
can give up nothing You gave me. What You did not give has no reality. What
loss can I anticipate except the loss of fear, and the return of love into my
mind? ACIM
"Take as a fact that fear is
a gigantic hoax, then use all these truths to expose the hoax." Vernon
Linwood Howard
Father, let
me remember You are here, and I am not alone. Surrounding me is everlasting
Love. I have no cause for anything except the perfect peace and joy I share
with You. What need have I for anger or for fear? Surrounding me is perfect
safety. Can I be afraid, when Your eternal promise goes with me? Surrounding me
is perfect sinlessness. What can I fear, when You created me in holiness as
perfect as Your Own? Amen
