Here is a blog that I found to be helpful in putting things into a new perspective:

Love life and yourself

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

– Lao Tzu

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.

We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

“It matters not Who you love, Where you love, Why you love, When you love, Or how you love, It matters only that you love.”

– John Lennon

“Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?”

– Frank Scully

Source: Higher Awareness

Live life in fullness & expect abundance. Don’t allow fear to hold you back from elevating. Approach everything with love & greatness- love God; love self; love others; love life.

Greatness is in the air for 2012!

Happy New Year & Be Blessed!

Gossiper

A vital and good food for the soul is laughter. Just laugh. It goes hand in hand with a smile- you’ll find that life is still worth while if you just smile. Just laugh. It may seem cooky, but I mean it when I say- instead of crying about a situation, laugh about it. That’s what I do! Call me crazy or cooky if you will! Life really just isn’t THAT serious to me anymore. It goes on; it changes; it evolves. Things will happen. Situations will occur one way or the other. That’s LIFE! *Personal Tip: Turn your life over to God and I guarantee you’ll be laughing a lot more, hands down. Life just isn’t that serious to me when I have a higher power, such as Christ, guiding me through  for my prosperity.

Laughter can:

• Reduce the appearance of aging

• Relieve stress & anxiety

• Boost  your immune system

• Serve as a workout

If you think you laugh enough as is, you aren’t. Increase your laughter intake, and make a point daily to laugh as much as possible…I think my new favorite genre of movies will be “Comedy” from now on!

Get your laugh on & be blessed!

Gossiper

We don’t have to love ourselves perfectly to find awesome love, but we have to be on the path to self-love. This also means that whomever we choose to be in a relationship with should be on that path, too.

There will never be a perfect moment where we love ourselves perfectly and then we can be in a relationship. It’s a constant process of discovery with no end. But for a relationship to thrive and for intimacy to emerge, each person must be dedicated to growth; otherwise, you will hit a wall.

A huge revelation for me recently has been that nobody, including myself, is perfect. It sounds obvious when I write it, but for many years I would meet people and project this expectation of perfection on to them. And I would get mad, angry and hurt when they wouldn’t meet that expectation.

So, I’ve recently decided that from the beginning of any relationships I start, that I want to acknowledge my own imperfection as well as the imperfection of the other person and consciously choose to enter into a relationship not seeking perfection, but rather loving each other’s imperfections. And instead of looking to the other person to meet all our needs perfectly, to take our eyes off of ourselves and put them on The Uni-verse.

I believe that the only perfect Love is the Love of God. We are constantly nurtured by it: with oxygen, with sun, with community and with free will. We are fully supported in this life by God. It is the thoughts of lack, of fear and of neediness that make us feel as if we are not.

When we remember this, we can remember our true essence and start to be at peace. When we realize that the only perfect love is the Love of God, we can no longer have the insane expectations that other people are perfect and expect perfect love from them.

We then step into the reality of imperfection that is the human condition. This is a humble place and it is from this humble place that we acknowledge that we need to grow, to work on ourselves and to walk the Path of self-love. To be in relationship with someone who isn’t on this path makes Love very difficult.

So, are you willing to step out into self-love? Are you willing to set a high standard to let people into your life who have the same commitment?

Be Blessed

Gossiper

Blog’s topic originated from “The Daily Love”

Get a stamp made, dip it in your favorite color ink, and mash it on your forehead: SELF-APPROVED! Live by it, die by it, because that’s what you ought to be- Self-Approved. No one on this Earth can value you more than you; no one can validate you; no one else determines your self-worth except your SELF. There is a reason why some of the most important qualities to have starts with “self” -self-respect, self-esteem, self-worth, self-love- Those things don’t exist to the world around us if they don’t exist in the world withIN us. Self-approve yourself now because you won’t find quality in outside relationships until you find quality in your relationship with yourself.

Be Blessed

Gossiper

Support others with your presence

“The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but TO MOVE THROUGH IT to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.”

– James Hollis

How do we support others who are suffering?

When we understand how soul works through us, we begin to see how pain generates the impulse to change. We see that our aim in supporting someone is NOT to get rid of their pain and suffering. Instead, we want to assist them to understand what the pain is trying to teach them — to find meaning in their distress.

Often, all we need do is be fully present to them. It also helps to be present to our own experience and genuine in our feelings. Living our own truth helps create the space for the other person to live theirs.

“The first duty of love is to listen.”

– Paul Tillich

“With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.”

– Catherine de Hueck Doherty

Be Blessed

Gossiper aka Chon

What drives you?

“Your life has to do with the agenda that has been set for you by you, by that part of you that we’ve come to call, in our language, your soul.”

– Neale Donald Walsch

Our purpose in life has a spiritual foundation. Our MAJOR LIFE ISSUES are usually of 3 types:

- physical and POWER-ORIENTED, like making our stand and being more courageous.

- emotional and LOVE-ORIENTED, like expressing and receiving love, compassion and nurturing others.

- mental and INTELLECT-ORIENTED, like developing our minds and creating new things and processes.

“Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask, but when we are challenged to be what we can be.”

– Morris Adler

In debt?

“Debt is a form of poverty – and one of the cruelest. It gives you the illusion of having more money than you do.”

– Jerrold Mundis

How much do you owe to a mortgage, credit cards and loans, other people? If you depend on debt to get what you want, you dig yourself into a deep financial hole.

If you are continually in financial distress, it may be time to adopt a very simple operating principle: spend less than you earn.

“If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.”

– Bill Earle

The above is from HigherAwareness.com

Be Blessed

Gossiper

Galatians 2:16 ESV

Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

James 2:14 ESV

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?