Jul 21, 2007 21:58
"You have the power to hurt yourself or to benefit yourself. If you do not choose to be happy no one can make you happy. Do not blame God for that! And if you choose to be happy, no one can make you unhappy. It is we who make of life what it is."
Paramahansa Yogananda, 1893-1952
"How would you feel if you had no fear?
Feel like that.
How would you behave toward other people
if you realized their powerlessness to hurt you?
Behave like that.
How would your react to so-called misfortune
if you saw its inability to bother you?
React like that.
How would you think toward yourself
if you knew you were really all right?
Think like that."
Vernon Howard
"We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us
so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid,
or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder.
We always have the choice."
Dalai Lama
'Night all....
ponderings