Never complain about anything

Make lists of positive aspects. Make lists of things you love — and never complain about anything. And as you use those things that shine bright and make you feel good as your excuse to give your attention and be who-you-are, you will tune to who-you-are, and the whole world will begin to transform before your eyes. It is not your job to transform the world for others — but it is your job to transform it for you. A state of appreciation is pure Connection to Source where there is no perception of lack.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the book "Money and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Health, Wealth & Happiness"

Always in the Bardo

I will always live as if I am in the bardo, since I may not recognize the moment of passage. I will never treat the familiar as if it is what it seems to be, unless I get a really good point spread. I will in every way endeavor to use my paranoic tendencies without submitting to compulsion and obsession. I know that ultimately it is all my trip and there is no other, but that still doesn't mean that I'm going to take guff from some petty bureaucrat that is misusing his or her power. I will grant beingness to others and will tolerate unwanted realities even if they are stupid or dumb. I know that if I can only be convinced that something is absolutely totally inevitable, and unchangeable, I will learn to like it... or at least tolerate it. Oh yes, and I will try to do something to help alleviate the suffering of the Absolute, even if it makes me want to vomit. I submit this to myself in my presence on this the only day in this the only room. I've only got one question, "What would I like to do now?"


From: "The Original Handbook for the Recently Deceased" by Claude Needham, Ph. D.

Source of freedom and empowerment

Taking full responsibility for your personal experience and journey is a source of great freedom and empowerment.
~ Chameli Ardagh Awakening Women Institute

habit of concern for others' well-being

Dalai Lama
Making a habit of concern for others' well-being, and spending a few minutes on waking in the morning reflecting on the value of conducting our lives in an ethically disciplined manner, is a good way to start the day no matter what our beliefs or lack of them. The same is true of taking some time at the end of each day to review how successful in this we have been.

Cause of Unhappiness

‎"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but your thoughts about it." ~Eckhart Tolle

practice - beauty and the now

Can't remember now where I saw this quote, I liked it though:

"You practice not to reach a goal, but to create beauty. You practice
not for the future, but for a more ecstatic now".

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche - basic goodness

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

‎"We possess what is known as basic goodness. Then we develop an overlay of unnecessary tricks and occupations. We develop little tricks to shield ourselves from being embarrassed or from feeling too painful or naked. Those are habitual tendencies, but they are not fundamental. They are simply temporary habitual tendencies. It's as though you had a building with nice, white, smooth plaster walls. If you can't stand the plain white walls, you might decide to put colorful wallpaper on top of them to cheer yourself up. The habitual tendencies we're talking about here are like the wallpaper that you put on but can be taken off. The paper doesn't go all the way through the wall; it's not that deeply ingrained. It's a veneer of some kind, called habitual tendencies- which have to be renounced, definitely. Seeing the basic goodness in oneself and seeing the sadness of the setting-sun possibilities, one is willing to make some kind of sacrifice. We can take off the wallpaper, take off the veneer." -CTR