Meeting Life's Challenges

So apt in these trying days, and oh so tough to follow. So tough.

Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

-- J. Donald Walters

A reminder

We hear this every day and yet need constant reminders. Here is one :)

One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
-- Dale Carnegie

Now

Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think that you've lost time. There is no short-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.

-- Asha Tyson

Reminders

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?- Mary Oliver

Tell me

Tell me

Tell me

Tell me!

Timelessness

The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead. There has never been a time when you and I and the kings gathered here have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

-- Bhagavad Gita 2:12-13


So peaceful, simply to read this.

Time-line

Very few of us know how much we can put into life if we use it properly, wisely, and economically. Let us economize our time -- lifetimes ebb away before we wake up, and that is why we do not realize the value of the immortal time God has given us.

-- Paramahansa Yogananda

Life, one day.

One day you will ask me which is more important? my life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
-- Khalil Gibran


Something I read last week, and have read and re-read, simply because these words are just so beautiful, strung together the way they are.