Disappointing someone is probably one of the hardest thing to do in life. It feels so for me.
Yet we're not supposed to live a life for others, or live their dreams or expectations if we come from that everyone has a purpose here.
But life is not so simple and straight forward is it? We gotta give and take along the way because part of loving is sharing our boundaries & space and allowing the gray areas to work out with people, family, friends & all beings in fact. For we do live in a world that is interdependent.
I think when it is really though and difficult at fork roads, Oprah's words are good reminder.
Remember: What I give away is my power and that isn't always the right way, it is probably the last last resort one should try...
Yes, love thyself and all will flow to others.
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Yet we're not supposed to live a life for others, or live their dreams or expectations if we come from that everyone has a purpose here.
But life is not so simple and straight forward is it? We gotta give and take along the way because part of loving is sharing our boundaries & space and allowing the gray areas to work out with people, family, friends & all beings in fact. For we do live in a world that is interdependent.
I think when it is really though and difficult at fork roads, Oprah's words are good reminder.
"What would you have me do? What would you have me be?" And try to live the answer.
Remember: What I give away is my power and that isn't always the right way, it is probably the last last resort one should try...
Yes, love thyself and all will flow to others.
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I read another good one by Oprah, Defining Destiny — she's amazing at manifestation.
Excerpt:
Using my voice as a force for good: It's what I was meant to do.
And I got here by listening to the still, small voice that I felt so strongly one evening on my grandmother's back porch when I was a girl.
The decision to listen to this voice—against the advice of many of the stations that carried my show—is the reason I still have a show. If I had ignored it, I would have disappeared into the void of defunct broadcasting. There's a long, long list of talk shows that have come and gone since I started.
What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.
What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams, and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself.
Before making any major moves, I first ask: "What would you have me do? Who would you have me be?"
And then I try to live the answer.
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Since the day the late Gene Siskel asked me, "What do you know for sure?" and I got all flustered and started stuttering and couldn't come up with an answer, I've never stopped asking myself that question. And every month I must find yet another answer. Some months I feel I hardly know a thing, and I'm always pressed to make the deadline for this column. This time around, I looked back and came up with my all-time top 20:
1. What you put out comes back all the time, no matter what. (This is my creed.)
2. You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.
3. Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.
4. When people show you who they are, believe them the first time. (A lesson from Maya Angelou.)
5. Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.
6. What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe.
7. If the only prayer you ever say is thank you, that will be enough. (From the German theologian and humanist Meister Eckhart.)
8. The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.
9. Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction.
10. If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.
11. Trust your instincts. Intuition doesn't lie.
12. Love yourself and then learn to extend that love to others in every encounter.
13. Let passion drive your profession.
14. Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.
15. Love doesn't hurt. It feels really good.
16. Every day brings a chance to start over.
17. Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so.
18. Doubt means don't. Don't move. Don't answer. Don't rush forward.
19. When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.
20. "Trouble don't last always." (A line from a Negro spiritual, which calls to mind another favorite: This, too, shall pass.)
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