Your Pain Is Challenging You

“Your pain is challenging you. Rise up from your sadness, frustration, and low spirits, and allow the privilege of life’s challenges to be your guiding companion. We are all just humble students of the world. What lesson does this painful majesty of life have for you today? The teacher can only provide the lessons, but the student ultimately decides what to learn. Life is a procession of painful lessons, and how precious those lessons are; so precious that we rejoice in the bittersweet gift of life. If you learn to look at the worldly madness through spiritual eyes, you will begin to see divine balance and sanity. Your suffering is not senseless. Your suffering is here to help you unfold and to awaken into compassion, love, and strength. Your entire life has unfolded for your heart’s ascension to love. Are you willing to accept its challenge?” —Bryant McGill

I have some issues with this one on levels I’d debate, but it’s still worthy of being shared, as so much of Bryant’s thoughts are.

Decide Today To Make Your Future Brighter…

“Decide today to make your future brighter than your past. Become still and think about what you want to have more of in your life, or what you value most in your life right now. Commit yourself to making this a huge priority. Where your attention goes, your energy flows. Create positive stories in your life every single day. For the next seven days, do not listen to or talk about anything negative that happened to you, or someone else in the past. Allow yourself to bring light where there is darkness; speak peace where there is anger, and infuse love where there is indifference. Create something today that you will be proud of in the future. You have GREATNESS within you!” —Les Brown

Money Is Not The Problem In The World

“Money is not the problem in the world; hard hearts are the real problem — the hard hearts of both the rich and the poor. Unkind and selfish people, whether they be rich or poor, live in abject poverty. Yes, you have permission to make money — lots of it. Let your wealth aid in funding your passions, visions, and hopes for others. And like all energy, such as time, effort, money, and thought — spend it compassionately, purposefully, and in service of others. For those who say money is evil or that it hardens your heart; speak for yourself — that’s only your relationship with money. Money only magnifies and extends who you already are. Negative people who criticize and judge others just because they have money, spend their scant resources of time and effort foolishly and with a mean spirit. I became rich because I have a rich heart. I became wealthy because I spent my poverty well and kindly.” —Bryant McGill