Make the effort to be extra generous in your time or money whenever the situation comes before you. If you have ever been in need, you know how much that help meant to you. Of greater significance, you come to feel and understand the enchantment in giving.
Stop your pity party. To leave that bummer bash, don’t mull over your troubles. That only causes you to feel like you’re overwhelmed with sorrow.
Instead, take a brief respite. Then think of someone who is so bad off they would give almost anything to be you right now.
After you have done that, reflect on the joys in your life and what you can do for others today and/or this weekend. Then you can leave your pity party and join a pleasure party.
While traveling down the path of life, enjoy the journey more than the destination. You’ve heard variations of this I’m sure, but here’s a perspective you may not have considered:
The path is each step you take, and each step represents a day. With each step you take, stop and relish what is occurring, or what has occurred that day. This is your unique journey, your life, and it is different from all others. To embrace your journey is to receive a hug from your soul.
Your destination is the same as others, it is the objective in your life. Your arrival there will be the commencement of a wonderful place, an eternal place. Yet don’t lose sight of the wonders of your journey, which is here and now. This is where you should be, where you need to be.
You are royalty. You are the monarch of your own kingdom, whose subjects include your thoughts and feelings. It’s not an easy task to be a good ruler and keep peace in your realm. But you have the ability to do it.
Never lose your passion. Without it, your pursuits and actions in the Arts, the Sciences, and particularly in your spiritual beliefs and practices, could become ineffectual.
There is so much beauty for you to behold in nature, yet your soul holds even more beauty.
Recognize the good qualities in those you interact with, acknowledging them to the greatest extent you can. By doing so, you help to make them self-aware of the goodness they have. This is such a good deed on your part, as it guides them in their spiritual journey.
Reading a Holy Book will have the same effect on your life as rain has on plant life.
When you have a really good friend, the same soul dwells in both of you.
You may have doubted the existence of God at some point, and you still might. When you question His presence, you probably think your soul does as well. But your soul knows that God does exist, and that it is always connected to Him.
During good times you may feel fine existing in a shell that only includes you and the people and things which are meaningful to you. Yet just before your time has come to leave for a better world, you may break out of that shell. A new light will then envelop you as you connect with your soul. Then you will realize there is an Omnipotent One that has always looked over you and loved you. You may not have seen Him, but He always saw you.
He has been your greatest supporter, always cheering you on. And when you leave this world and your soul returns to its Creator, you will reach out and He will be there for you – as He always has.