Who could sensibly argue that....

....we are not like mirrors. After all, we reflect back whatever comes our way. When we feel particularly defensive, we become even more inclined to shroud our sensitive souls in this way. We just give back whatever we seem to be getting. If we hear negativity, we echo it. Thus we increase the extent of negativity's range.

  

So what are we supposed to do? Absorb it? That's even worse. We need to try to transform it.

Love is more than a noun.  It is a verb.  It is more than a feeling - 

it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.      (William Arthur Ward)

At an early age....

....we are sent to school. There, facts and figures are drummed into our heads. No wonder we all feel that we know so much. Yet, though we may be mines of trivial information, there are still many things we do not understand. It's just that, because none of us wishes to appear ignorant, we try to deny this. We act as if we have all the answers, even when it is patently clear that it can't be so.

No wonder we sometimes make the wrong choices.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.   (Henri Frederic Amiel)

It takes far less energy....

....to say something than it does to do something. And, the more you talk, the more you can persuade yourself that your words are almost as powerful as your actions. You can psych yourself into a state of triumph whilst doing absolutely nothing.

Talk, is cheap. Actions cost energy and commitment, but they bring real results.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Don't give yourself....

....a hard time. Don't assume that you have something to apologise for. Even if you do have a skeleton in your closet, you are not alone. There are more than seven billion people on this earth. That's seven billion closets. Not one of them is empty. (But I fancy we all know people who would swear black is white that they have no skeletons.)  Don't race for the moral high ground. The very act of reaching for that puts you on lower ground! Do, though, be proud, clear and conscious.

We all have a right to ask for what we want, and a right to expect our wish will be granted.




None of us has got it together, but together we've got it.   (J John)

Rather than judge.....

Growth is....

Virtually all of us believe....

....that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.  It isn't.  It can't be, because it entirely depends on which side of the fence you happen to be sitting on! We all have a terrible tendency to believe what we want to believe. We don't so much kid ourselves as con ourselves. We stare into the mirror until, by some process of wishful thinking, we have distorted the reflection.

We embellish our identities - and when the cold light of reason threatens to burst the bubble, we rapidly look the other way.

Before you assume, learn. Before you judge, understand. Before you hurt, feel. Before you say, think.