Thought Provoking Thursday

I came across this quote about 2 weeks ago while Damian and I were in New York.  We were in a little shop filled with knick- knacks and things of this nature.  They had a whole bunch of Buddha statues and on one of the displays this quote was taped.  It immediately caught my eye and I snapped a pic of it right away.  And ever since, it keeps popping up in my mind and I have come across it by accident twice(once in a book and once while googling something else)

How powerful is this quote?!   It doesn't matter how many people you "beat" down or rise above if you haven't won any personal battles that you have within yourself.  

In all things there is beauty

~~~~Michelle

Thought Provoking Thursday

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~JUST LOVE YOURSELF~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



I was having a conversation with a friend via email earlier this week where I was being extremely open and honest about some of the feelings I have had about myself.  How nice it is to have that one person that while always tells you the truth, doesn't make you feel like crud when she has to hit you in the face with reality. She basically told me... STOP BEATING YOURSELF UP!!  WE ALL HAVE ISSUES!! WORK IT OUT!!

But then she acknowledged that everyone reacts to things differently and views things differently so she understand that it is easier said than done.  Everyone needs a friend like that.

I feel really  comfortable around you….  ---------->  She wrote this to me in response to something I had said. Such a simple sentence, but an EVEN MORE POWERFUL message.  Put quite the smile on my face.

We don’t take our success when we die… or our looks….. gotta kinda tell yourself that.. but everyone is different…..  we feel different… hear different and see different….   ------------>  her helping to bring me down from the top rung of the self bashing ladder.  And still sensitive enough to acknowledge that things are sometimes easier said than done.

I hope everyone out there is lucky enough to have a friend like mine who reminds them that they are loved and that they need to love themselves!!  And if you don't know someone like that --- let me be that person for you:

Always remember:

Now if only I can take all these wonderful words of wisdom and put them to use in my own life!! Haha!

  In all things there is beauty,

Michelle

Thought Provoking Thursday

This quote pretty much just sums up the way that I WANT to think and live.  Please read that correctly, I WANT to live that and think that way, but I, by no means, do at this time.  I understand that no one person is perfect, but that doesn't give us the excuse to consistently judge others.  I am extremely guilty of that and know that I will always have my judgmental thoughts at times, but I need to be more aware and conscious of my thinking.  I have gotten pretty good at controlling my words , sometimes too good, but my thoughts-- not so much.

We think we only do damage by the words we speak, but our thoughts are just as damaging.  They damage who we are as a person.  Each judgmental thought takes a piece of us away.  And who are we to judge others so often.  Sometimes the time that I have spent judging others has made my day bad, made my time seem to go by faster, and has put me in an awful mood.  We all make mistakes, we all have shortcomings, we all fail, and we all make "not so great" decisions at times.  I think sometimes I think because not everyone knows about all of my "mistakes" and "wrongdoings" then that makes me able to judge.

Or - as the above quote implies - we can't go around looking down on others because they live their lives in a different manner from us.

Whether we believe what they do is wrong or not, we need to make the choice to not be consumed by others actions and and to just make sure that we are living our lives the best that we can and teaching those we are responsible for(and only those) to do the same.

In all things there is beauty

         ~*~*~Michelle