"The Little Soul and the Sun"
by Neale Donald Walsch
Illustrated by Frank Riccio

www.iloveulove.com/spirituality/cwg/cwglittlesoul.htm

The words I aspire to live by everyday!

The highest courage is to dare to be yourself in the face of adversity.
Choosing right over wrong, ethics over convenience, and truth over
popularity...  These are the choices that measure your life.  Travel the
path of integrity without looking back."

Author to be located soon.

DESIDERATA
Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare your self to 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 vain affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of avidity and disenchantment , it is perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture your strength of the spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Behind 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 shame & drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Be careful, & strive to be happy.

Do you need Me?
I am there.
You cannot see Me, yet I am the light you see by.
You cannot hear Me, yet I speak through your voice.
You cannot feel Me, yet I am the power at work in your hands.
I am at work, though you do not understand My ways.
I am at work, though you do not recognize My works.
I am not strange visions. I am not mysteries.
Only in absolute stillness, beyond self, can you know Me as I am, and then but as a feeling and a faith.
Yet I am there. Yet I hear. Yet I answer.
When you need Me, I am there.
Even if you deny Me, I am there.
Even when you feel most alone, I am there.
Even in your fears, I am there.
Even in your pain, I am there.
I am there when you pray and when you do not pray.
I am in you, and you are in Me.
Only in your mind can you feel separate from Me, for only in your mind are the mists of "yours" and "mine."
Yet only with your mind can you know Me and experience Me.
Empty your heart of empty fears.
When you get yourself out of the way, I am there.
You can of yourself do nothing, but I can do all.
And I am in all.
Though you may not see the good, good is there, for I am there.
I am there because I have to be, because I am.
Only in Me does the world have meaning; only out of Me does the world take form; only because of Me does the world go forward.
I am the law on which the movement of the stars and the growth of living cells are founded.
I am the love that is the law's fulfilling. I am assurance. I am peace. I am oneness. I am the law that you can live by. I am the love that you can cling to. I am your assurance. I am your peace. I am one with you. I am.
Though you fail to find Me, I do not fail you.
Though your faith in Me is unsure, My faith in you never wavers, because I know you, because I love you.
Beloved, I am there.



(Found at: http://www.unityonline.org/prayer/index.html) As are serveral of my photos in my photo gallery.

• "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

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Eleanor Roosevelt

• "Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always."

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Albert Schweitzer

• "The more you know the less you need to say."

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Jim Rohn

• "Fate loves the fearless."

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James Russell Lowell

 Today's Horoscope

If you do any writing or artwork today, it will seem to come from a source outside of yourself, dear Virgo. Is this the divine muse you've heard others talk about? Possibly, or perhaps it is just your own natural talent shining through at last. Today is also auspicious for relationships, so be sure to take time for friends and loved ones, whether old or new.