Life is made
up of days, and if you focus on making each day beautiful – appreciating,
enjoying and loving what is – in the end, you will have created a beautiful
life. It’s that easy.
Here are 11
things you should remind yourself daily, things that will most probably bring
more sunshine into your life and more peace into your heart:
1. This
moment is your life.
Today, here
and now, is where your life is. This moment is your life. And if you make a
choice to immerse yourself fully into this moment – appreciating, enjoying and
loving what is you will experience joy that you have never experienced before,
and you will feel more alive than you have ever felt.
“Be happy
for this moment. This moment is your life.” ~ Omar Khayyam
2. There
is a time for everything.
There is a
time for being alone and a time for being surrounded by the people you love; a
time for joy and a time for sorrow; a time for being vigorous, and a time for
being exhausted; a time for being safe, and a time for being in danger… “A time to be born and a time to die, a time
to plant and a time to uproot, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to
mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a
time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a
time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak.” ~ Ecclesiastes 3:2-7.
There is a
time for everything, and the more we learn to accept and embrace this truth,
the more peace we will feel in our hearts and the easier it will become for us
to deal with life’s many changes and challenges.
3. Each
day is a new beginning, each morning is a new life.
The
beautiful thing about life is that each morning it gives you a new chance, a
new opportunity to start all over. To let go of your yesterdays and make a
fresh new start in life. That’s how generous life is…
“Finish
every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and
absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a
new day.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
4.
Nothing in life is yours to keep.
Everything
in life is fleeting and impermanent. Everything changes, nothing ever stays the
same, and even though we like to hold on to things, to own and possess as many
things as possible, the truth of the matter is that nothing is ours to keep.
When the time comes for us to leave this physical world, we take nothing with
us. We leave everything behind us, including our own bodies.
“You only
lose what you cling to.” ~ Buddha
5. You
are never given more than you can handle.
Adversity
builds character, strength and maturity. Every experience, every interaction,
no matter how bad it might seem, has the ability to shape you, to mold you, and
to help you become the person you were born to be. And if life gives you “a
lot” to deal with, it is only because it knows how powerful you truly are, and
it wants you to discover the courage, the wisdom and the strength that lie deep
within you.
6. You
were born with wings. Learn to use them and fly!
There is so
much strength, so much beauty, so much wisdom and so much power within you.
Always has been and always will be. And if you dare to believe in yourself as
much as you would want others to believe in you, and if you dare to dream and
live your life as if there were no limits to what you could do, be and have,
then in time, you will discover that, “You were born with potential. You were
born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were
born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling,
so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.” ~ Rumi
7. What
other people think of you is none of your business.
Lao Tzu said
it best in the Tao Te Ching:”Care about people’s approval and you will be their
prisoner.” Worrying about what other people think of you and adjusting your
life based on their opinions is a recipe for stress, unhappiness, confusion and
misery. Always remember that your life is yours to live, and you should live it
your way without being too concerned with what “they” think.
8. Never
neglect your path for another.
You have
your own path to walk upon, your unique purpose to fulfill, and no matter how
tempting it might be to put your life on hold just because those around you are
asking for it, you should never do it. The relationship you have with your own
soul, with your life purpose and with your path in life is the most important
relationship in your life. This is a sacred relationship, and you should treat
it as such.
“You are
the source of all purity and impurity. No one purifies another. Never neglect
your work for another’s, however great his need. Your work is to discover your
work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.” ~Dhammapada
9. It is
better to be alone than in bad company.
Surround
yourself with wise, kind and loving people; people who live in truth and
integrity. And “If for company you cannot find a wise and prudent friend who
leads a good life, then, like a king who leaves behind a conquered kingdom, or
like a lone elephant in the elephant forest, you should go your way alone.” ~
Dhammapada
10. You
are a human being, not a human doing.
You are a
human being, not a human doing and you need to make sure that you don’t allow
your ego to trick you into thinking that who you are is not enough and that in
order for you to “become somebody,” in order for you to prove your worth, you
have TO DO more and more each day. There’s nothing wrong in doing things,
nothing wrong with working and creating all kinds of wonderful things, but when
you begin to equate your self worth with how much you do, with how hard you
work and how good you are at doing the things you do, then things might get out
of balance.
“I am a
human being, not a human doing. Don’t equate your self-worth with how well you
do things in life. You aren’t what you do. If you are what you do, then when
you don’t…you aren’t.” – Dr. Wayne Dyer
11. Who
you are is enough.
Who you are
is already enough, not because of how your life looks externally, but because
of who you are internally. So don’t you even dare, not even for a second, to
think otherwise.
“You alone are
enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
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