THE BASIS OF YOUR LIFE IS FREEDOM; THE PURPOSE OF YOUR LIFE IS JOY.

1. YOU ARE A PHYSICAL EXTENSION OF THAT WHICH IS NON-PHYSICAL.
2. YOU ARE HERE IN THIS BODY BECAUSE YOU CHOSE TO BE HERE
3. THE BASIS OF YOUR LIFE IS FREEDOM; THE PURPOSE OF YOUR LIFE IS JOY.
4. YOU ARE A CREATOR; YOU CREATE WITH YOUR EVERY THOUGHT.
5. ANYTHING THAT YOU CAN IMAGINE IS YOURS TO BE OR DO OR HAVE.
6. AS YOU ARE CHOOSING YOUR THOUGHTS, YOUR EMOTIONS ARE GUIDING YOU.
7. THE UNIVERSE ADORES YOU FOR IT KNOWS YOUR BROADEST INTENTIONS.
8. RELAX INTO YOUR NATURAL WELL-BEING. ALL IS WELL. (REALLY IT IS!)
9. YOU ARE A CREATOR OF THOUGHTWAYS ON YOUR UNIQUE PATH OF JOY.
10. ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN AND POSSESSIONS TO BE EXCHANGED ARE BY-PRODUCTS OF YOUR FOCUS ON JOY.
11. YOU MAY APPROPRIATELY DEPART YOUR BODY WITHOUT ILLNESS OR PAIN.
12. YOU CAN NOT DIE; YOU ARE EVERLASTING LIFE.

Aligning your self with what YOU believe. No matter what OTHERS believe or think.

Guiding others to happiness...

It is important that we actively engage in the challenge of guiding
those around us to happiness. Without this struggle, any ambition of
achieving happiness for all humanity is meaningless.

Via Jason Swindle - Daily Inspirations
taken from Daisaku Ikeda, Lectures on The Opening of the Eyes, p157

Sharing your knowledge and wisdom with others who may not be ready to accept it.

Remember, not everyone is ready to listen to you're truth because it is only their own truth that allows them to be well with the world. 

There are those that know and know not that they know. 
There are those that know not and know not that they know not.
There are those that know and know that they know. 

I think what I am saying is that those people who are who they think they should be are just as fine as those that know to just be but the former are not as ready to change. 

A religion you can't change but a good idea you can. 

Sometimes you say much more by saying nothing at all. 

Just because they are wrong it doesn't mean you're right. 

To seek to change yourself for the better is a worthwhile endeavour. To seek to change another only serves to meddle in the path that only they alone can walk. 


Enlightenment is a personal journey. Each path is different. 

Or, as I am fond of saying: what is life but a journey in search of the self. 

I feel from you such a strong desire to do good and that you are a good person but you and I are very different but I also seek to do good and I think I'm a good person. Are we both right or both wrong? Does it matter?

Lesson might be that convincing someone by simply and quietly living your life and showing this example is more effective than argument or debate. 


From the light of your candle, you light the way for others.


- A response from Peter Edwards, old friend on a heated debated between my self and a devout Catholic

Questioning your faith, your church, your priests....

Our beliefs are never set in stone. Just like life, the seasons and nature, nothing lasts forever. Everything in the universe is in constant flux. 

 Nothing in life would change, our society would never improve if we all went around accepting everything we are told. 

 No matter how strong your faith is, always keep questioning and changing. 

As you question and you learn your faith only grows stronger.

God or the power of the universe is in EVERYTHING

In a time of need...

People who come to your aid in a time of personal crisis are people of genuine compassion and courage.

More often than not, people will try to act as though nothing is wrong.

Others are either afraid or refuse to get involved, and quietly drift away.

"Daisaku Ikeda"

Let go

breath in
and breath out
and let go

that's it

close the book
step back
and walk away

out the door
and over the hill

to a new beginning

Where can we find satisfaction?

To look for total satisfaction in oneself is a futile endeavor. Neither satisfaction nor self really exist. Since everything changes from moment to moment, where can self and where can satisfaction be found? Yet these are two things that the whole world is looking for and it sounds quite reasonable, doesn’t it? But since these are impossible to find, everybody is unhappy. Not necessarily because of tragedies, poverty, sickness, or death: simply because of unfilled desire. Everybody is looking for something that isn’t available. It’s worse than looking for a needle in a haystack; at least the needle is there, even though it is hard to find. But satisfaction and self are both delusions, so how can they ever be found?

Change it.

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.