Happiness Never Decreases By Being Shared

My niece and nephew, who REALLY know how to make a person feel looooooved... 

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- Lord Buddha

Have you shared your happiness today? Have you let the joy in your heart reach out and put a smile on someone's face? It's so easy with a gesture or a word to change the energy in a room, to change the direction of someone's day. Energy and enthusiasm are even more contagious then lethargy and apathy. Every time we use our own positive energy to influence the life of just one person, for just one moment, we bring a little bit of light and healing into the world. Imagine if we all did this all the time! Our planet would shine like a star.

Even  when we don't feel too bright and shiny we can do this by "practicing the opposite." In yoga it's sometimes referred to as "bhavana" or cultivation of a certain state of mind. In the Western vernacular sometimes we call it "fake it 'till you make it." If you feel sad or out of sorts, don't deny your feelings, but put a little energy (or a lot!) into practicing the opposite and you will feel a shift inside. Share this will another person and your happiness will increase and increase and...

Let go and Live

Image above is by the amazing artist Rick Berry. View his work online at www.braid.com.

These words are so beautiful and so true; embrace them. 

Let go. 

Live.

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life.
 

What is it you would let go of today? 

--Mary Manin Morrissey

In Gratitude for Little Ones: the Campaign to Save the Lives of Children Under 5

Knit One Save One

If you knit or crochet consider making a hat for a little one in need. What a wonderful way to show gratitude, and love. Imagine the good energy and prayer you can put into a little hat as you make it, and how it will journey far and wide to a little person in desperate need of your love and comfort.

Visit Save The Children for more ways to help.

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

When you get up each morning, open your eyes, place your hands on your heart and say,
"Thank you," with all of your being.

Before you go to bed at night, close your eyes, place your hands on your heart and say,
"Thank you," with all of your being.

Just this
will fill you, and all this world
with bliss.