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SaggiMC
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posted January 28, 2012 12:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SaggiMC     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
PROVERBS AND SAYINGS

In daily life, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but
gratefulness that makes us happy.

NOW is the only time we have!

If you see your tasks in life as drudgery, then they are drudgery. On the other hand, if you see them as a gift of the Universe manifest through you, then your tasks in life create a heaven on earth.

Look again and see things anew, to make the ordinary in our life extraordinary.

“When….. then” seems to govern our lives.
We don’t have to wait until we are old to gather the riches; we can gather them every day of our lives. For us in Western society, this idea of living in the moment is very foreign. Most of us are caught in the trap of preparing to live instead of living NOW.

When I go to college….. then. When I graduate……then. When I get married…..then. When I have kids…..then. When the kids go off on their own….then. When I go on holiday… then. When I get a new job….then. When I get a divorce……then. When I make enough money…. Then. When I retire….then.

When you wake up in the morning… what is the first thing you say to yourself?
You should be saying what’s going to happen exciting today!

It was a wise person who said, “Life is a banquet and most poor ******** are starving to death!” As you open your eyes and really SEE, you will starve no more. You will learn that…..

Your joy, your happiness, your satisfaction, and your ability to dance with life depend solely on what you pay attention to.

In the world to come each of us will be called to account for all the good things God put on this earth which we refused to enjoy.

Taking things for granted is one of the greatest assaults on the quality of our lives.

If a question weighs heavily on your mind, I suggest you stop driving yourself crazy by expecting an answer that we ordinary mortals can’t provide. Instead, when the questions comes up, tell yourself the following, which will help to ease any upset you may be feeling:

“I can’t see the Grand Design, the Divine plan for this Universe. Therefore, I no longer will ask WHY. Instead, I will learn to be more trusting. Life includes suffering and it is up to me to find a way to be more peaceful and compassionate in the midst of the suffering.”

When we enter the Land of Tears we can all find that peace and compassion in the midst of suffering.

We learn, we grow, we feel, we care, we share, we love, we heal, we hear, we caress, we touch, we reach out, we embrace, we unite, we acknowledge, we act, we experience, we open our hearts, we lighten, we understand, we commit, we expand our vision, we become involved, we become wiser, we become freer, we become joyful like the laughing Buddha.


“Okay Universe. Take over, please….. whatever happens so be it. I trust the Grand Design. I trust it is all happening as it is supposed to happen.”

“What if this were all alright?” “What if everything was okay?”

For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy the Shangri-la nonetheless. It isn’t the absence of the problem; it is how one lives in its presence that matters.

Don’t’ sweat the small stuff……. And it’s all small stuff!

“When all your supports are taken away from you, you find what really supports you.”

If there is a hell on earth, living as a victim with feelings of anger and blame defines it. If there is a heaven on earth, living powerfully and lovingly as the creator of our own lives defines it.

Examples of inappropriate labelling:-

“I am a breast cancer survivor.”
“I am a victim of rape.”
“I am an incest survivor.”
“I’m an adult child of an alcoholic.”

LET GO OF THE BIG THINGS

Learn to let go of the victim mentality. Victims can’t enjoy life. They are too busy feeling sorry for themselves, feeling powerless, being martyrs, complaining, seeing the dark side of life, appreciating nothing, and blaming everyone.
Not a happy picture!

Peace is the vibrant space with stimulates the dance of kindness, merriment, and freedom.

“When it starts to rain, LET IT.”

“Don’t push the river – it flows by itself.”

“People plan…. God laughs!
Every morning as you contemplate your day, ask your Higher Self three questions:

1. Where would you have me go?
2. What would you have me do?
3. What would you have me say, and to whom?

Ask these questions with a sense of trust that your inner wisdom and power will come forth. Then consciously turn it over and go about your day. As you day progresses, listen to any inner messages that you are given. These are messages from the intuitive mind. Then start going where your energy wants to take you. Sometimes you just get an urge to call a friend, or a business contact, or whatever. That urge is your intuition speaking!

Things happen in our lives for very good reasons.
Imagine that you are angry because you did not get the job you were hoping for. In addition to being angry, you are worried about what this means to your future success. Your Lower Self is giving you messages of gloom and doom and telling you over and over again. “You’re not good enough to succeed.” Heavy baggage indeed!

You have two choices. One is to let this incident destroy your peace of mind and keep weighing you down and making yourself more and more miserable! The other alternative is to Turn It Over to the wisdom within, your Higher Self, with the instructions:

Take over now. I trust there is a good reason for my not getting the job and I trust this outcome was for my highest good. I trust you will tell me exactly what I need to know and exactly what I need to do about this situation.

When I say “turn it over,” I mean TURN IF OVER and when I say trust, I mean TRUST!. The spiritual part of who you are understands it all perfectly, so keep repeating this affirmation and trust it is all happening perfectly.

LET GO OF THE OUTCOME

• Setting your heart on something is entering into a state of rigidity.
• Unsetting your heart is entering a state of flow.

Set as many goals in life as you want. Picture exactly what you would like to happen. With loving effort, do the work necessary to bring the desired results to fruition and when you are satisfied that you have done as much as you can, LET GO OF THE OUTCOME.

• In this way, you release any expectation about how it all will turn out. You relax into the flow of life’s adventure knowing that in the grand scheme of things, life truly is happening perfectly.

• “When we have done our best, we should await the results in peace.”


DROP THE EXCESS PHYSICAL BAGGAGE

If you to hang onto things, because of a POVERTY CONSCIOUSNESS, then I suggest you keep repeating to yourself the following words as you begin letting go of the clutter in your life:
I have enough, I am letting go
I have enough, I am letting go
I have enough, I am letting go

Go through your wardrobes, drawers and cabinets in your home and office and begin the process of letting go. What will you find there?

Book you will never read again, clothes you will never wear again, audio tapes you will never listen to again, cosmetics you will never put on your face again. Pots you will never cook in again, files that you will never open again….. and much more.

It is difficult letting go, but as you get into the swing of it, you will feel lighter and fresher and better able to see what you really need. You may be asking,
“Why in the grand scheme of things is cleaning our closets so important? What’s the big deal. It creates a trickle-down of relief.

As you get rid of the excess, you begin to realise:

You don’t need to (or want!) as much as you though you did, which means……
You don’t need to buy as many things, which means….
You don’t need as much space, which means…..
You don’t need to have a bigger house, which means…..
You don’t need to earn as much, which means….
You don’t need to work so hard, which means…..
You have more time and energy, which means…..
You are able to lessen the struggle and dance with life!

DROP THE SHOULDS AND SHOULDN’TS
Shoulds and shouldn’ts are signs of our need to conform. It is better if we learn to follow our heart, to follow our instinct about the way life is best lived who we are as human beings. Some examples of should’s:-
I should exercise at least a half hour a day
I should send my children to the best schools
I should answer all my mail
I should pick up the phone every time it rings
I should be the perfect host (or hostess)
I should make lots of money

I lead a very simple life, yet some nights I cannot sleep because I am so excited about the next day. I find joy and laughter in everything I do.

CUT THE CORD
“Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pig.”

Co-dependency is an inability to establish healthy boundaries between others and ourselves. As a result their behaviour determines our self-esteem, happiness, and sense of peace and flow.

LET GO OF THE NEED TO BE PERFECT
Perfection is another crazy making addiction.

We were born to learn, to grow, to expand, to love, to create, to enjoy, and to see the beauty in all things…. Including ourselves. But we weren’t born to be perfect!

When the pangs of not good enough come creeping in from the voice of the Lower Self, simply drown it out with…..

I am good enough
I am good enough
I am good enough
I am good enough


THE LOWER SELF PUNISHES; THE HIGHER SELF REWARDS
FEEL THE FEAR TO DO IT ANYWAY!

LET GO OF THE ADDICTION TO WORK. - Delegate.

Workaholism is a fix. It is an escape. It allows us to turn the other way so that we don’t have to come face to face with our inner pain, or our intense sense of emptiness, or our lack of self-worth, or our need for an identity, or our driveness to more-better-best, or our inability to have meaningful relationships, or our fear of not having enough or being enough.

“There is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all”

“All his life a man struggles to reach the top of the ladder, and finally he does……..only to discover it’s against the wrong wall!”

An old woman, when asked why she was always cheerful, replied: “Well I wear this world just a loose garment.”


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I love the parable, “If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, BUT if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for life.”

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lalalinda
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posted January 29, 2012 02:10 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for lalalinda     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The heart doesn't miss
what the eyes don't see

from Andy Rooney
"Life is like a role of toilet paper
the closer you get to the end
the faster it goes"

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