- Being happy on purpose is about making a conscious decision in each moment to move towards happiness. It is about creating YOUR experience to support your dreams.
Today’s Brilliance from Dr. Alex Lickerman
The key to happiness isn't material wealth, health, or even fulfilling relationships. The key to happiness is wisdom. Wisdom is so powerful that it can even put a halt to suffering without changing the circumstances that cause it. Most of us deem a problem solved when it no longer confronts us, but from a Buddhist perspective a problem is solved when it no longer makes us suffer, our escaping or overcoming oppressive circumstances representing only one particular means to that end. Certainly it may be the means we most prefer, and in many cases what we need to do to be…
- I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
What The Dying Teach Me
One of my favorite adults to spend time with as a child was my grandfather. I followed him downhill to the barn, across the pasture, into the garden, inside the chicken house. He talked and I listened. One of the life lessons I learned from him is that even if you live to be 110, it's brief. This is becoming truer to me as I have recently reached my 60's and remember him. What kind of footprints do I want to leave here on this Earth? Those who are critically ill or terminally ill teach us so much about life…
- As we share our prayers and inspirations, we realize our unity in diversity, diversity in unity, and celebrate the Spirit that unites us.
5 Concepts for Overcoming Challenges
When adversity strikes and overtakes many or all areas of our lives, it can be difficult to see the multiple hidden blessings that are obtained by moving through our challenges, one day at a time. Adversity provides us with the chance to remove things from our lives that are non-essential and have been weighing us down. Just as important, adversity makes the overcomer a better person, as the spoils of war are available to those who refuse to quit and succumb to their current tragic circumstances. We learn how to become resilient, how to step out in faith, and how…
- We only have a short time in history to make a difference in the world. Make your time count!
Why You Aren’t Keeping Yourself Healthy
Have you ever wondered what keeps you from doing what you know to do to keep healthy and happy? Why don't we exercise regularly when we say we will? Why don't we eat an abundance of vegetables and fruits, even though the evidence shows it helps us tremendously? Why don't we meditate, when we know it would reduce stress, strengthen our immune systems, increase our intelligence and efficiency, and even slow down aging? In fact, only 5% of those who study meditation actually continue to practice it regularly! One day I asked a doctor friend who works with heart patients,…
Thank you isn’t just for when someone opens your door or offers you a compliment. Say thank you to anyone who hurts you. Say thank you to someone who brings you a challenge. Say thank you to yourself for your ‘mistakes’ (opportunities to learn).
From Raise Your Verbal Vibration, the third min-e-book™ in the Raise Your Vibration series.
Today’s Brilliance from Senica Evans
My wall is adorned with several quotes, many of which are my own. "Embrace today! Release yesterday!" is my favorite. It's a simple way to remind me to enjoy this life as it is. The heart which harbors ill feelings is a heart that is hardened. It's a heart that can't experience the greatness and love that surrounds it. That's no life to live. Forgiveness seems to be one of the hardest behaviors for us to practice. We refuse to forgive those who have hurt us in fear of being weak or unintelligent. True unconditional forgiveness doesn't mean you're less…
- Climbing high in life results from bold dreams or brilliant ideas translated into courageous action, with an emphasis on action.
Today’s Brilliance from Shannon White
Find what makes your heart sing and move mountains to do it and then continue to do it. Each one of us has a life calling... that passion for which we know deep down we've been uniquely made. Some of us cheat the world by not finding out what that is and not fulfilling our dreams. My mother always told me, "If you don't use the gifts you've been given, you'll lose them." Do everything you can to uncover what it is you were meant to do and then plow ahead with the courage to do it... And since it…
- Have the courage to follow your heart. You will find your dream in that place where your mind meets your heart and your soul.
Today’s Brilliance from Joanna Cummings
When you're ready to do something challenging in your life, don't go it alone. Even if you're able to accomplish whatever it is solo, do this: take names. Take the names of great teachers to help you get there, and friends to bring along for the ride. Then, when you get to where you're going - which you're much more likely to do when you take names - you'll have lots of friends to celebrate with you! I call my work Kick Butts, Take Names. The focus is on tobacco - that's the buttkicking part - but the more important…
- Live, Love, Laugh!
Today’s Brilliance from Dr. Elizabeth M. Wisniewski
B.J. Palmer said, "genius is not property of few, it is buried in all." Have you ever had a "stroke of genius?" They are those moments when everything is right in the universe, your heart is full of love and for that instant in time you feel content. Living a life that is full of purpose helps create more of these perfect moments so that your life is a continuous stream of joy, love, and contentment. We are all created through innate intelligence and this inherent wisdom persists with us throughout our lives. It guides us when we are lost…
- You are here for one purpose: to uncover and heal all the ways that you are blocking the love that is always here.
Today’s Brilliance from Michael Cupo
What has truly inspired me the last five years of my existence has been to find a way to bring more Love into our world, both my Love and that of others. The more that I Love, it seems the more I am Loved. The whole of existence is to be the Love that we are. We seem to have lost our way as a species, but this is mostly due to ignorance, not because we are bad people. I know I was lost for forty-nine years and then one day I was not. This change has led to a…
- The Light lives in all of us. It’s how you reflect that Light that defines your character. Let your Light shine!
Today’s Brilliance from Judi and Shari Zucker
At a very young age, we understood the importance of living a healthful lifestyle. Cliché;s like "You are what you eat" and "Your health is your greatest wealth!" resonated with us. We were young and healthy and wanted to preserve that feeling as long as possible. We viewed a nutritious diet coupled with proper exercise and healthy lifestyle habits as "preventive medicine," and we wanted to share what we learned with others. In this life, we are given only one body, which is why it's so important to take care of it! If you are good to your body, it…
- Honoring yourself first leaves room for love, respect and tenderness towards others.
