Chicken Soup for the Recovering Soul Daily Inspirations (Chicken Soup for the Soul) (27 page)
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Authors: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen,Peter Vegso,Gary Seidler,Theresa Peluso,Tian Dayton,Rokelle Lerner,Robert Ackerman
Sala Dayo
If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor–poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.
Herbert N. Casson
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here is no need to prove the truth. Trying to do so shows only your own stubbornness. Truth will always reveal itself at the right moment and the right place. You need be concerned only with living true to your own self. Judge whether your thoughts, words or actions are beneficial to the scene in which you find yourself. Focusing on your own part is more useful than passing judgment on others.
Brahma Kumaris
World Spiritual University
By constantly remaining obedient to your sense of integrity, certain success obeys your every move.
Brahma Kumaris
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et your roots down deep and drink from refreshing streams as you dine on the sustenance provided by the One who gives you life. Nourish yourself with words, values and relationships that will uphold you during the storms of life. Make right choices to move forward, leaving behind the floods and droughts of the past. Enjoy the refreshing rain of forgiveness as it washes away the dirt from each day. Sway with gentle breezes, bend with fierce winds, and reach to the highest heights as you bask in the warmth of the sun.
Ava Pennington
Life is simplified when there is one center, one reason, one motivation, one direction and purpose.
Jean Fleming
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o “live in the moment” means to breathe the fragrance of Heaven, to stop and listen to the cry of need, to step out in faith and love bringing God’s provision, to not miss it all because I’m too busy running to the next moment.
Karen Hall
We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other. To meet, to love, to share. It is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parentheses in eternity.
Deepak Chopra, M.D.
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oved ones of a suicide often blame themselves, but I don’t. I know the choices my husband made in his life were his choices, not mine. Because of my faith in a loving, merciful God and because I have experienced many difficult trials in my life, I have learned how to survive and choose to survive well. I am fully alive and I believe my late husband is also. He was a man who loved his family and who is no longer burdened by a disease that had him in its awful grip. I take one day at a time, enjoy the rain and the sun, endure the ice and the freezing winds— and feel peace.
Ann Best
The only useless endeavor is to resist the command knit into our very souls, move. Move on.
Unknown
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e play a variety of roles in life, but we should not depend on roles to define ourselves. A role always involves someone else’s needs, expectations and agendas, which may have little to do with our own. The power of a role lies in its “possessive other”: parents’ child; children’s parent; boss’s assistant; spouse’s mate. His. Hers. Theirs.We must sometimes put the word “my” into that place of possessive power. “I am my . . . what?” What role do I play for me? Having no answer for that makes us as dependent as the sound of that old, proverbial tree falling in the forest—if there’s no one around to hear us, our very existence becomes questionable.
Maribeth Pittman
To know what you prefer instead of what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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any years ago, while in detox, helpless and hopeless, I came to know the real meaning of true love–one drunk looking after another drunk. It was there that I learned that if I took certain simple steps, my life would improve in ways that I could not then imagine. These promises have become my reality.
Sobriety subtly makes itself manifest in my spirit. It is as though I have been given the chance to relive part of my life again. Only in retrospect does each year become gentler than the year before and the change is as inconspicuous as the beating of my heart.
Peter Wright
Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he’ll never move.
Paulo Coelho
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hile riding to a weekend recovery convention, my children heard theword “crackpot” on the radio and began incessantly joking, “You crackpot!” I focused onfeeling the presence ofmyHigher Power and being grateful for the kids. The breakup of a relationship bore heavily on me and one of my intentions that weekend was to process my emotional pain after the loss of my dream romance. In a serendipitous moment, the finalworkshop speaker told a Zen story of blooming that resulted from water dripping from an imperfect “cracked pot.” The “God-incidence” of hearing those uncommon words again tickled my soul. I headed home with a mending heart,mindful of the joy recovery brings tomy life.