START WITH JOY

Start With Joy

It’s great to have joyful memories. Yet as good as those memories may be, you don’t have to lock away your joy in the past.

Sometimes the memories are not so joyful. Yet that doesn’t prevent you from choosing joy on this day, on any day.

Joy does not require any specific condition. In fact, joy is what creates fondly remembered circumstances.

If you seek a joyful situation, start with joy. Keep giving and feeling joy, and the situation will unfold accordingly.

Stop trying to manufacture joy by arranging external conditions. Just let your joy flow out from the inside.

Start with joy, and live with joy. Add joy to each day, no matter what.

— Ralph Marston

HEALING THE HEALER

Healing the Healer

No one can be a full-time healer.
It is too much to ask from any human being.

Every healer needs to take time off
to re-center and re-charge.

A healer’s first commitment must be
to do no harm to others.

If she is not vigilant about taking care of herself,
she will get sick or depleted.

Then she will have no energy to give
to anyone else.

Healers that don’t take time to nurture themselves
inevitably burn out.

From Everyday Wisdom by Paul Ferrini
www.paulferrini.com