Crown

"You don't have to have the crown to be the king."
- Anthony Williams, Project Runway

Destination

I never really connected with the saying "what would you do if you knew you could not fail?". I guess that is because I don't much like the word fail (defined as- to prove deficient or lacking).

I think I have found the equivalent of that saying, in terms that I can get behind.

"What would you do if you knew that the universe would continue to provide for you?" (I get excited when I think of my answer)

The universe is abundant, not lacking. It always provides for us, and always has. Although sometimes it may not turn out the way that we had in mind. If you expect that things will always work according to your highest good and the highest good of others, then I am pretty sure that means that you will always end up exactly where you should be-- satisfied, at peace, and happy.

So if no matter what you do you will end up exactly where you should be, then why not always do the things that make you happy?

I ask you, "What would you do if you knew that the universe would continue to provide for you?"

Underneath

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
- James Openheim

Character

If someone tells you who they are, believe them.
-Maya Angelou

Policy

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
-Abraham Lincoln

Release

Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time. Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what's real.
- Sara Paddison

I have been ruminating about the concept of forgiveness. All levels of forgiveness, from forgiving things that are deemed unacceptable to things that are merely a minor infraction. I find that if I am really going to practice forgiveness with one person, then why not all people?

Wikipedia describes Forgiveness as the mental, emotional and spiritual process of ceasing to feel resentment towards a person that has wronged you. It’s ceasing to demand punishment or restitution.

Whether or not you choose to associate with that person in the future is up to you. Forgiveness is a choice.

Sounds simple. Sounds peaceful. Sounds like something that a happy person does.

Love

Love is thicker than water.

Reason

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
- Johann Pestalozzi

Heighten

Being in a heightened state of gratitude is a sure fire way to shift your energy to be in tune with the universe.

Can you spend the next five minutes thinking of 25 reasons to be grateful? Sure you can.

Sometimes

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

- Marilyn Monroe

Everything

Nothing happens, nothing happens, nothing happens, and then everything happens.

- Fay Weldon

I am the type of person who always seems to be busy. In fact, I tend to operate best when I have more than a reasonable amount on my plate. Most of the time, when I find myself with not a lot going on, I am able to take full advantage by tackling a creative project that has been gnawing at me. But occasionally, the downtime can turn into confusion, uncertainty, or worse, boredom. When I find myself flirting with the dreaded boredom, I have to remind myself of this little Fay Weldon quote, it is so true.

Form

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change. Happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
- Charles L. Morgan

Blessing

What I’m looking for is a blessing that’s not in disguise.
- Kitty O’Neill Collins

Full

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
-Frederick Keonig

Safe

A ship in harbor is safe-but that is not what ships are built for.
- John Shedd

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
-Madeleine L'Engle