Just ask yourself,

"Which choice will help me become the person that I want to be? 
Which choice is being true to my values and principles and which is not?" 

The answer to these questions will always point you in the right direction.

All of our days are filled with choices that we have to make, and the sum of those choices does add up to become who and what we are. 
Every day presents you will a multitude of choices, many which will test your conviction to your principles and your conviction to the lifestyle you want.

Some of those choices will have minor consequences, and some will have major consequences, but each one, no matter how small or how large, carries with it some consequence for your life. 

Every choice you make is either moving your closer to being the person you want to be or further away from whom you want to be.

If you keep this fact of life fresh in your mind, it will make the hard choices easier for you. 

In fact, when you keep this in mind, the hard choices become as automatic as the simple choices.

 "Did you know that there's no two people have ever been found to have the same fingerprints?

I also learned that those little ridges and whorls on the tip of each finger are formed from pressure on a baby's developing hands in the womb.

Our only purpose here, my only purpose, your only purpose, is to learn the map stamped on your fingerprint and follow it faithfully into the depth of your own life. Surprisingly, this turns out to be a most difficult task!

We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide example for others.

We are here to be eccentric,
different,
perhaps strange,
perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being.

As the gods intended, we are here to become more and more ourselves."

Namaste

ps/smoh

I am a Persistently Positive weed! I Grow! Grow! Grow! despite being chopped, poisoned or pulled! 
My Roots are Deep and Alive! 
I Thrive where others fail! 
I never give up! 
I am a Persistently Positive weed! 
I Rule the Garden of My Life

You become what you believe – not what you wish or want, but what you truly believe.

Nothing can touch you if you are humble. Neither praise or discouragement, because you know who you are.

So it is.

The GOLDEN RULES...

Who is Helping You, Don’t Forget them.
Who is Loving you, Don’t Hate them .
Who is Believing you, Don’t Cheat them.

Namaste
love light and peace

ps/smoh

Writing is not just a spiritual practice, it is also a psycho-therapeutic practice-
forcing to confront my demons,
the voice of not good enough,
issues around abandonment,
our childhood, and
collective download of 'who cares what you have to say?',

Our capacity to sit and focus for days on end while all our personal triggers arise etc.

So many triggers and niggling voices of self-doubt can arise in one paragraph as we are forced to confront the very real distinction between the healthy self-concept and the shamed version.

Yet there is so much growth at the heart of the process if we can let go of our obsession with the ‘perfect’ outcome and see the process as a healing journey.

And if we can stay with it, we will watch as the thing that we are creating morphs over time, ultimately becoming a reflection of the healthier being that wrote it.

A paragraph that is written from ashamed self-concept is radically different from one that is expressed from a place of self-love.

Like anything, we bring a conscious intention to, writing is a profound opportunity to heal and transform, outcome be damned.

Namaste

love light and peace


ps/smoh

Hmmmmm

May you live every day of your life......the purpose of life is a life of purpose. There is no wealth but life.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can, that was me years ago.
But now a few years down the track..... the song has changed, the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. 

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Everything has been figured out, except how to live, life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. 

Your life is what your thoughts make it. 

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. Only a few things are really important. 

The fear of life is the favorite disease of this century. The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say,

 "I used everything you gave me".

ps/smoh

Be you!

There is an infinite supply of people who want to tell you how you should live YOUR life.

Most have good intentions and are trying to give you good advice, but the vast majority of this advice has a major flaw that is usually overlooked - it is YOUR life, and your life doesn't fit into some cookie cutter mould.

You must learn to listen to the voice of your spirit and let it guide your way. Like the saying goes on to say that if you listen to the voice within, 

"Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things."

You were put on this earth to be YOU, not some carbon copy of what your family, your church/mosque, your friends, or some self-help guru says you should be.

Develop the self-confidence to listen to the voice within and live your life your way.

Change can always cause a revolt, even if that change is in our own way of thinking. Happiness is a choice so choose Happiness. 

Be happy!!!
Be do we do to do be done

May the joy be with you

ps/smoh

YOU ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS

You are not responsible for your thoughts or feelings.

You cannot control their appearance or their disappearance.

They arise out of nowhere, fall back into the vastness.

They come to visit, not to stay; they are guests, nothing more.

You are responsible, however, for your response.

Do you judge your thoughts and feelings? 

Do you push them away? 

Try to numb them? 

Destroy them?

Do you cling to them, try to prolong their life?

Do you seek relief from them in destructive ways?

Do you hurt others to avoid the discomfort?

Or do you remember your spacious nature?

Know yourself as the wide open field in which thoughts and feelings can come and go

Breathe into them
Let them live, but not control you

Be their master, not their slave

You are not responsible for your thoughts and feelings.

But you are response-able; able to respond

from a place of slowness, and presence, and trust,

so your thoughts and feelings do not overpower you,

and you never blame, shame, punish or deny them.

But you think them, and feel them;

a loving parent to their child-like energies.

Your freedom lies in your ability to respond.

To let your thoughts and feelings freely arise,

and freely dissolve, in your great Heart.

So think your thoughts, and feel your feelings,

and never feel guilty again,

but recognise your true responsibility:

to be present, to be vast.

love light and peace
ps/smoh

One offensive word is enough to leave a permanent scar that may become a seed for revenge.

It is so easy to allow your emotions to get involved during a conversation and to permit yourself to vent your anger or frustrations through your words. While this feels really good at the time, later it can come back to cause you many problems. It is just not worth the risk or the stress of wondering if what you said will be used against you in some way. When you resist the urge to spout off and express your opinion, you are guaranteed not to have to deal with any adverse consequences of your speech at a later time.
“Your friend has a friend, and your friend’s friend has a friend; be discreet.”
Even if you are speaking to someone who you consider close, it is wise to watch what you say because it may be repeated or used against you somewhere down the road, when your relationship may not be as close.

“A person should be careful never to tell tales of oneself to one own disadvantage; people may be amused, and laugh at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought up against oneself upon some subsequent occasion."
Relationships change, just like everything else in this world. Someone you may be on friendly terms with today may change her feelings towards you in the future and use things you have disclosed to her against you. 
It is the safest policy not to disclose personal information which can be used against you and to carefully watch what you say. 
Don’t allow yourself to get carried away during any conversation.

Namaste
Love light and peace

ps/smoh