Your circumstances do not determine what your life will be; they reveal what kinds of images you have chosen up until now.
To change yourself, look at what you fear and what you hate. Start There.
We are all at once teachers and learners in every encounter of our lives.
What's over is over. You did what you knew how to do. It wasn't right or wrong or good or bad. It just was. But all you've got is today. You can't have it back.
You're always alone, but you're only lonely if you don't like the person you're alone with.
Your love is located within you. It is yours to nurture and savor. It is yours to give in any way you choose. This is true for others as well.
If someone you love fails to return the love the way you would like it returned, that is the other person's choice. It doesn't at all detract from your love.
Whatever is going on inside of you is up to you. You own it all. It's yours.
Get your nose out of everybody else's garden. Get your own in order, and stop focusing on everybody else's. Grow what you want to grow in your garden.
All that you need in order to have total happiness, fulfilllment, and love in your life you already have right now, whoever you are, wherever you are.
Everything I ever worried about turned out exactly as it was going to despite my worry moments to the contrary.
You mustn't attempt to will anything. You need only be willing.
There is a rhythm to the universe. When we are able to get quiet enough, we experience how we are a part of that perfect rhythm.
Advance confidently in the direction of your dreams to live the life that you have imagined. That's when you have success.
Each of us has a well of infinite depth within us, which contains more potential for creativity than we can ever imagine.
No one can depress you. No one can make you anxious. No one can hurt your feelings. No one can make you anything other than what you allow inside.
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself, or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.
When you argue for your limitations, all you get are your limitations.
Live...Be you...Enjoy...Love.
-- Dr. Wayne Dyer
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* We eventually realize that just as the pains of alcoholism had to come before sobriety, emotional turmoil comes before serenity. *
When I started reading this, I thought it seemed familiar. I have read other excerpts of Dr. Dyer's writings, and have his book "Real Magic: Creating Miracles in Everyday Life".
Every bit of this advice is something I believe I have heard from others posting on this board; perhaps not exactly in the same words, but still saying the same things.
If only I could read and re-read this, until it became the way I live my life.
