Tom's Blog

Even though we don’t sometimes feel like it, we should reach out and care for our family members;

As we give of ourselves to other family members, we grow in caring, tolerance and understanding;

The healthiest families make deliberate decisions to invest time and energy in their relationships;

Recalling good memories of family experiences, reliving familiar traditions, and retelling family stories keep the family connected and its spirit alive;

Families should always try to work out their problems with each other rather than walking away from the problem;

Family members should never hold grudges but should reach out to one another with love and forgiveness;

Learn to say, “Will you forgive me? I really hurt you, and I’m sorry.”

The most wonderful gift we can give each other is to accentuate the positive;

Tell your family members you love them with your words, your looks, your touch, your attitude, and with your thoughtfulness.

 

Donald and Nancy Tubesing

When you are ill or injured, don’t ever resign yourself to the condition, but by accepting it allows energy to be freed for other things in your life;

See the condition as a source for growth like a salamander that loses its tail and grows another one;

View your condition as a positive redirection in your life by not judging what happens to you;

Develop an understanding that death is not a failure but is a further step, because if staying alive is your goal, then one day you will surely fail;

Learn to love yourself and develop peace of mind – there is a difference in ego and self-esteem;

Believe that you are a worthwhile person and are here to give something good to the world;

Obtaining peace of mind, being accepting and forgiving, and learning to love is not only the best way to live, but also the best way to get over any illness or injury;

Don’t spend your life worrying about death because you should spend the time living and enjoying life to the fullest;

Remember you achieve immortality through love.

 

Bernard Siegel, M.D.

Harvard University did a test of older men, all 75 years or older , where they spent a week together in a mountain resort;

Everything at the resort had been changed to appear as the 70’s – newspapers, magazines, music played, etc.;

They could only talk about things that happened in the 70’s;

They went through a battery of tests as they arrived and when they left;

It was incredible how much younger they acted, how much better they felt, and how their health had improved;

Most everything that is wrong with us can be corrected by creating a new mode of awareness;

With a change in awareness, energy and information move in new patterns;

The reason old habits are so destructive is that new patterns aren’t allowed to spring into existence;

The magic is in how the body follows this change of awareness across the barrier of time;

Whatever you pay attention to will grow more important in your life.

 

Deepak Chopra

If your goal is to search for the truth and the Light, you should project thoughts of goodwill and love toward all persons;

Always try to see the good in people rather than the bad;

Broadcast your love and goodness toward them;

Your rays of Light and goodwill toward others will change them for the better;

You have no idea how much good you can do, by just allowing your higher mind and positive thoughts to dominate your life.

 

White Eagle

The security of having all of the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring you happiness;

Happiness and delight come about from the unnecessary things and the impractical;

We must make time and give emphasis to those simple pleasures of life;

Things like eating a good meal, playing a game, creating something, visiting friends, and watching children at play;

If we make our lives too secure by emphasizing the necessities and denying ourselves what we might consider to be frivolous, then we will become stale;

Not on bread alone do we live but on all those human and heart-hungry luxuries.

 

Ed Hays

Whatever job we have undertaken, large or small, we should feel the power of what we are doing;

In the eyes of the Creator, there is no such thing as a small or large task, there is just the task at hand;

If we focus on what we are doing, we and the task become one;

When we are giving our best toward a given task, we are enhancing the power that we bring to it;

If you are building a wall and doing your very best, you can feel the power of the wall;

Being one with the Creator allows our task, the Creator, and us all to become one.

 

Patrick Ka’ano’i

Hawaiian Elder

Set your alarm each day so that you will have time to do the following:

Upon waking and before opening your eyes, always express gratitude for being given a life, a body that works, and good health;

Then meditate for no less than 30 minutes;

Exercise your body for no less than 30 minutes;

Practice good nutrition in eating breakfast;

When you look in the mirror affirm aloud that you are a good person and that everything is working out for your highest good;

Do your work by giving it the best you have;

Show appreciation and tolerance for every person with whom you come in contact;

Eat good nourishing food during your snacks and daily meals;

Before going to bed, read something inspirational;

Try all of this for just one day, and see how much better it makes you feel.

 

Louise L. Hay

You Can Heal Your Life

Become conscious of being conscious;

Say or think “I AM” and add nothing to it;

Be aware of the stillness that follows the “I AM”;

Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness;

It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes;

It is the spacious womb of all creation, all form.

 

Eckhart Tolle

A Tibetan proverb says that a Guru is like a fire – you get too close, you get burned, but if you stay too far away, you don’t get enough heat;

The question is whether or not we need a teacher or preacher or Guru to lead us to a spiritual life;

The answer is with each individual – some do and some don’t;

The important thing is that your life is moving in a spiritual direction;

There are many sources in order to do this other than an organization or teacher;

Reading spiritual books by great teachers, meditation, prayer, practicing a spiritual life, and many others;

A story goes that Jesus and Satan were walking down the street;

Jesus reached down and picked up an object;

Satan wanted to know what it was;

And Jesus said, “It’s the Truth;”

Satan said, “Give it to me, and I’ll organize it for you.”

In order to know God, we have to exercise self-control;

We are like a rider of a horse that has a wild streak;

We must draw in the reins and keep the animal under subjection if we stand a chance of reaching our destination;

We must control our passions if we want to be a seeker of the truth;

Self control is essential if we want to be capable of knowing God.

 

Mahatma Gandhi