Resolved: A New Beginning...

Every day is a good day to make a resolution
for beginning a new way of living,
but the New Year's Day holiday provides a good focus
for reviewing our lives
and resolving to live each day with conscious attention.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous proverb

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.
- Robert Kiyosaki

Whatever you want in life, start today. Not tomorrow - today.
Let it be a small beginning - a tiny beginning.
Your happiness depends on starting today - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Break Old Patterns of Action

Re-Examine All You Think You Know

The Good Old Ways

How to Keep Your New Years Resolutions
    

The Secret of Change

The secret of change is to focus all your energy,
not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
- Dan Millman

Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience,
independent will and creative imagination.
These give us the ultimate human freedom...
The power to choose, to respond, to change.
- Stephen Covey

Celebrate endings - for they precede new beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Exercise: Make a list of the 10 best things that happened for you this year.
Celebrate and have gratitude.
(If you have trouble making a list, begin with the basics:
you are still alive; probably you had enough to eat, clothes to wear, a roof over your head; ...)

Further reading: Progress: Escaping Old Ideas

The Good Old Ways

Be an Instrument of Change

Progress of the Human Mind
    

Meet Yourself in Stillness

Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.
- Hermann Hesse

Learn to become still.
And to take your attention away from what you don't want,
and all the emotional charge around it,
and place your attention on what you wish to experience.
- Michael Beckwith

Breathe; let go; relax; forgive.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

In the midst of movement and chaos,
keep stillness inside of you.
- Deepak Chopra

The essence of your true being dwells in stillness; meet yourself there.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: A Mind that is Still

Let Go and Accept This Moment

Keep Stillness

Breath by Breath

Solitude vs. Feeling Lonely

Know the Difference
    

Don't Believe Me

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

Don't believe me.
I don't want you to believe me
but I want you to listen and make choices - your choices.
If what I say, doesn't work for you, leave it.
But if it works for you and that's what you want, then make it yours.
- don Miguel Ruiz

The ultimate authority must always rest
with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good,
until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think
in your mind that the counsel is wise.
- Joan Rivers

Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius

Since you are the one who has to live with your choices,
be sure they are your own.
- Alan Cohen

Further reading: To Thine Own Self Be True

Encourage Me

Don't Take It Personally

True to Your Best
    

Circle of Compassion

Until he extends the circle of
his compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer

A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha

There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: We Belong to Each Other

Practice Compassion

The Universal Sacrament of Compassion