"Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future."
- Louis B. Smedes
“I am not pretty.
I am not beautiful.
I am as radiant as the sun.”
...that the truth lies within you—as does all the power you will ever need to change the direction of your life and the course of human history.
Wow. Can you imagine that? All the power you will ever need to change your life...and the course of human history.
And you may tap that power whenever you wish. Today, if you choose. Indeed, you tapped it just now in the sending to yourself of this message...
Love, Your Friend
Neale and
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
...that hope has always been your greatest strength, and it continues to be today.
When others are about to give up and give in, you've been the one to stand firm and strong. Good for you--and good for everyone else around you!
Why am I telling you this? Because someone near you needs a bit of hope today. You won't be able to miss who this is. So thanks, ahead of time, for helping that soul...
Love Your Friend,
Neale &
Every time you praise something, every time you appreciate something, every time you feel good about something, you are telling the Universe, "More of this, please. More of this, please." You need never again make another verbal statement of this intent, and if you were allowing your cork to float — all good things would flow to you.
--- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Silver Spring, MD on Saturday, April 19th, 1997 # 430
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
J. B. Priestly
Ultimate freedom has nothing to do with your life circumstances - it is the freedom of allowing the self to dissolve into the waves of the ocean. It is the freedom that is born through one's absolute trust in life.
- Richard Rudd
When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply.
...that you can remain in your present idea about yourself, or you can choose again. I like the idea of choosing again.
Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.
You will not have to think for more than a second to know exactly why you just read this...
Love, Your Friend
Neale
