You can't eat happiness

You can't eat happiness.

You can't buy it.


You can't wear it.

You can't drive it, or drink it, or sell it, or steal it.

You can't lock it away.


You can't negotiate for it.

You can't win it, you can't marry it, you can't inherit it, you can't cheat it.

You can't smoke it, or inject it, or rent it or borrow it.


You can't campaign for it or beg for it, or talk other people into giving you theirs.

You can live happiness.

You can create it.

You can be it.

You can give it to others.

You can enjoy it.

You can share it.

You can claim it.

You can have as much as you wish.

You can enjoy it as much as you want, at any time, under any circumstance.

You can work with it, play with it, worship, travel, eat, and sleep with it.


Happiness is yours to live and yours to give, if only you will.


It comes from the inside, and the best way to experience it is to get it flowing out.


Forget about trying and striving to get happy.

Just decide to be happy, and happiness is yours.

Ralph Marston

Evening Calm - Debra Clemente 8 x10"

Desiderata

Written by Max Ehrman in 1926.

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,

and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others,

even to the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.



Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter,

for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.



Keep interested in your own career, however humble;

it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs,

for the world is full of trickery.

But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;

many persons strive for high ideals,

and everywhere life is full of heroism.



Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.

Neither be cynical about love;

for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment

it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,

gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.

But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.



Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars;

you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you,

no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.



Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be.

And whatever your labors and aspirations,

in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams,

it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.



(c) Max Ehrman 1926

Happiness pandemic hits worldwide

This was originally reported as a disease but as I know this is the way we are all meant I a have edited the text to reflect this potentially contagious condition to be one of  TOTAL EASE.  -  Deb Clemente

A worldwide epidemic is spreading worldwide with an enormous speed. The WWO (World-Wellness-Organization) foresees billions of people being infected in the coming decade.

Here are the most prominent symptoms of this extreme condition:

1- The tendency to let yourself be guided by intuition instead of acting under pressure of fear, forced ideas and past conditioned behavior.

2- A total loss of interest in judging others, judging yourself and preoccupation with things that create conflict.

3- A complete loss of the capacity to worry – This is one of the most serious symptoms.

4- A continual pleasure in appreciating humans and things the way they are, which strengthens one’s tendency not wanting to change others.

5- The desire to change yourself so that innate thoughts, feelings, emotions, body matters are managed in a way they facilitate health, creativity and love.

6- Repetitive attacks of smiling : a smile that says “thank you” and stimulates being one with all around.

OOPS - YOU CAUGHT ME SMILING....

7- A growing openness towards childishness, simplicity, laughter and happiness.

8- More frequent moments of communication with one’s soul in non-duality, that creates the pleasant feeling of fulfillment and joy.

9- Finding pleasure in acting as a healer who spreads joy and light instead of criticism and indifference.

10- The ability to effortlessly live alone, related, with family or in a community on a basis of equality, without the need to play a role as executioner or wanting to be sacrificed.

11- A feeling of responsibility and joy to offer the world one’s dreams of an abundant, harmonic and peaceful future.

12- Total acceptance of one’s own presence on earth and the will to choose each moment for what’s gracious, good, truthful and alive.

Do you want to continue living in fear, dependency, conflict, disease and conformism, then avoid at all cost people who display these symptoms, since TOTAL EASE is very contagious. If you already have these symptoms, know your condition is probably very hopeless. Medical treatment can temporarily repress the symptoms, although the progress of the disease is inevitable. There just isn’t an anti-happiness-vaccine.

Because this TOTAL EASE causes the loss of fear of death, a central pillar upon which the belief of materialistic modern-day society rests, a risk of societal turmoil with a complete loss of interest in warfare and to always be right, gatherings of happy people who sing, dance and celebrate life, emergence of people who celebrate their (physical and spiritual) healing, crises of extreme joy and collective emotional vent are at hand.

~ Unknown Author

give thought another thought

"Whatsoever things you desire when ye pray, believe that you receive them and ye shall have them." - Jesus

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. - Saint Augustine

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. - Buddha

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. -Charles Darwin

Think what you want. - Debra Clemente

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. - Willie Nelson

"Indeed, for both the rich and the poor, life is dominated by an ever growing current of problems, most of which seem to have no real and lasting solution. Clearly we have not touched the deeper causes of our troubles. It is the main point of this book that the ultimate source of all these problems is in thought itself, the very thing of which our civilization is most proud, and therefore the one thing that is "hidden" because of our failure seriously to engage with its actual working in our own individual lives and in the life of society." -D. Bohm & Mark Edwards, Changing Consciousness

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying. - Ernest Holmes

Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes. - W. Clement Stone

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. - Mohandas Gandhi

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. - Mark Twain

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. - Confucius

Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale

Your life is what your thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. - James Allen

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free. - Charles R. Swindoll

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. - Robert H. Schuller

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. - Rene Descartes

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him. - James Allen

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. -James Allen

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift. - Aeschylus

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. - Blaise Pascal

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. - Herbert Spencer

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. - Benjamin Disraeli

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. - Hannah Arendt

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. - Corrie Ten Boom

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities. -Orison Swett Marden
The universe is one of God's thoughts. - Friedrich Schiller
Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts? - Raymond Holliwell

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. - Paracelsus

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him. - Philip James Bailey

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts. - Peace Pilgrim

There are thoughts we must not think. - Friedrich Durrenmatt

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts. - Jean Rostand

The 4 step creation process

conceive  To form a notion or idea of; imagine.
perceive  To recognize, discern, envision, or understand.
believe    To accept as true, genuine, or real.
receive    To have something bestowed, or delivered to one.

free choice

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.” - Dr. Seuss

What the doctor ordered.

Today was good.

Today was fun.

Tomorrow is another one.

Dr. Seuss

Open a book, open your eyes, open your mind, open your heart.

Open your eyes to the panorama of life. The world has so much more to offer than anyone can see from their own perspective. God created each of us with the gift of choice and reason so we can each be individual expressions of our Creator's glory. As individuals we each have a separate body that experiences and perceives life uniquely. What a joy, but we weren't intended to experience or be able to understand or appreciate the fullness of life alone. Life viewed from any individuals limited perspective is limited.

Open a book, open your eyes, open your mind, open your heart. - Debra Clemente

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries. - A C Grayling

The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I [haven't] read. - Abraham Lincoln

The ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. - The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1964


It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little.” - Denis Parsons Burkitt

A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance. - Lyndon Baines Johns

A man is known by the books he reads. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. - Frederick Douglass

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. - Dr. Seuss

What is reading but silent conversation? - Walter Savage Landor

The Greatest Gift of ALL - DIVINE LOVE

NOW, IT HAD BETTER BE UNDERSTOOD HERE WHAT THIS DIVINE LOVE WAS AND IS, FOR IT IS THE SAME TODAY THAT IT WAS WHEN MAN WAS CREATED IN THE IMAGE OF GOD. THIS LOVE DIFFERS FROM THE NATURAL LOVE OF MAN WITH WHICH HE WAS ENDOWED WHEN CREATED, WHICH BELONGS TO ALL MEN, AND WHICH THEY ALL POSSESS IN A MORE OR LESS PERFECT CONDITION, IN THIS: THAT THE DIVINE LOVE IS THAT LOVE WHICH BELONGS TO OR IS A PART OF GOD, POSSESSING HIS NATURE AND COMPOSED OF HIS SUBSTANCE, AND WHICH, WHEN POSSESSED BY MAN TO A SUFFICIENT DEGREE, MAKES HIM DIVINE AND OF THE NATURE OF GOD. AND GOD INTENDED THAT THIS GREAT LOVE SHOULD BE RECEIVED AND POSSESSED BY ALL MEN WHO SHOULD DESIRE TO RECEIVE IT, AND WHO WOULD MAKE THE EFFORT TO OBTAIN IT.

JESUS

Date: May 15, 1917

Author: Jesus of Nazareth
Medium: James E. Padgett
Publication: Angelic Revelations of Divine Truth, Vol I, p. 171
http://www.fcdt.org/Publications/ARDTI/1_9_1_171.htm

THINK WELL - LIVE SWELL

 myself I tell.

I can have it my way,

I'll be okay.

Message received,

as I believed.

Time will tell,

 in peace I'll dwell.

I'll live swell,

when I - think well.

Debra Clemente

WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?

scenario
The Latin word scaenarium, "place for erecting stages," gives us this word and suggests its main meanings: a screenplay, or a postulated sequence of possible events. "Worst-case scenario" outnumbers "Best-case scenario" nearly four to one in modern usage: does this mean we often expect the worst?
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Jesus said 
"IT IS DONE UNTO YOU EVEN AS YOU BELIEVED."