horoscope for the day
A couple of excellent aspects will provide a rare opportunity for you to overhaul key aspects of your current lifestyle today. Even if it’s not actually possible to do something right now you’ll still find that you’re able to take that definitive step with some positive plans; go for it!
one has to accept a simple fact: Love – of God and of others – shows us the way. our defects, our dangerous depths, our suppressed hatreds, our moments of weakness and desperatin – all are unimportant. if what we want to do is heal ourselves first, so that then we can go in search of our dreams, we will never reach paradise. if, on the other hand, we accept all that is wrong about us – and despite it, believe that we are deserving of a happy life – then we will have thrown open an immense window that will allow love to enter. little by little, our defects will disappear, because one who is happy can look at the world only with love – the force that regenerates everything that exists in the universe.
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we are not alone. the world is changing, and we are a part of the transformatin. the angels guide us and protect us. despite all the injustice in the world, and despite the things that happen to us that we feel we don’t deserve, and despite the fact that we sometimes feel incapable of changing what is wrong with people and with the world, love is even stronger and it will help us to grow. only then will we be able to understand the stars and miracles.
- from The Valkyries by Paulo Coelho
we should be never write off anything as impossible or as a failure. God gave us the capacity to think our way through any problem. the hopeful thinker projects hope and faith into the darkest situation and lights it up. as long as the though of defeat is kept out of a person’s mind, victory is certain to come sooner or later.
-norman vincent peale
the ten commandments to live by according to og mandino:
1. thou must labor each day as if thy life hung in the balance
2. thou must learn that with patience ye can control thy destiny
3. thou must chart thy course with care or ye will drift forever
4. thou must prepare for darkness while travelling in the sunlight
5. thou must smile in the face of adversity until it surrenders
6. thou must realize that plans are only dreams without action
7. though must sweep cobwebs from thy mind before they imprison thee
8. thou must lighten thy load if ye would reach thy destination
9. thou must never forget that it is always later than ye think
10. thou must never strive to be anything but thyself
“To be truly happy, a man must live absolutely in the present. No thought of what’s gone before and no thought of what lies ahead. But, a life of meaning, a man is condemned to wallow in the past and obsess about the future.” — Mr. Linderman, Heroes, Chapter 18: “Parasite”
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
-marriane williamson
there are things that i just can’t help but ponder upon. it’s life. i always think about life. i remember one time when i watched the tv series HEROES. one of the actors asked the other actor if he wants a life of meaning or a life of happiness. i stopped to think which one i would choose because like what was answered, i also want both. then it was countered that he can’t have both. life of meaning means that you will dwell in the past and wallow about what happened in your life searching for the meaning that one can be satisfied with. on the other hand, the life of happiness means that you will live with the present, not minding what the past had brought you and what the future can offer you.
i don’t really know. i just know that i am living my life now. it’s not the path wherein everyone will choose to be but i know that if given the chance to make obligations disappear, i know that they want this life.
i am happy inspite and despite of everything else that’s happening in my world and the world itself. i am feeling the serenity now and i wish this will never end. i am contented, for a change.
i know that life still has many things in store for me. if only life will be kind enough to let me remain in this state of blissfulness and contentment, i think i’m ready to die.
i can’t exactly point out what lead me into this state. maybe it’s because i get to discern about choosing between to be miserable and to be thankful for what i have now and who i am. i know that i have been struggling to make myself realize (not that i needed convincing) that i am fine. maybe what really made me realize that i have to be kind to myself because i am with me 24/7.
i don’t know why i keep on talking about life. i like thinking about it and i like to examine it.
at the start of the year, i have resolved to appreciate what i have, who i am, to be contented and be happy. after all, it’s a matter of choice. i am choosing to live my life now in my own terms.
i love life.
i have to write this… i have to post this… when i get anxious, i should read this….
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
As it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
If I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
And supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
belief is hard, doubt is easy… it doesn’t take brains to doubt. but to cast your doubts aside and believe requires stamina and resolution. and when you do believe, really believe, then impossibilities are overcome
when someone hurts us, we want to hurt them back. when someone wrongs us, we want to be right… without forgiveness, old scores are never settled… old wounds never heal… and the one that we can hope for is that one day we’ll be lucky to forget.
from Grey’s Anatomy
