To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. ~David Viscott

A tree that wants to touch the sky must extend roots into earth. More it wants to rise upward, more it has to go downwards. So, to rise in life, we must be down to the earth. ~sms

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along. ~Paramahansa Yogananda

Every morning, just create a beautiful atmosphere by your pleasant smile. ~Santabanta

According to the science of candle magic, specific candles may be used on specific days of the week, since these colors are also associated with the different Planets. Thus:

Sunday – Gold or yellow candles
Monday – Silver, Grey or White
Tuesday – Red
Wednesday – Purple
Thursday – Blue
Friday – Green
Saturday – Black or Purple

What do different candle colors mean?

Here are the meanings of different candle colors in general:

White candles – Destruction of negative energy, peace, truth and purity

Purple candles – Spiritual awareness, wisdom, tranquility

Lavender Candles – Intuition, Paranormal, Peace, Healing Continue reading →

We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude to-ward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate—thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising. ~Maya Angelou

If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you. If that person doesn’t walk away, you will surely endure many years of suffering with him or her. Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal. Then you can choose what you really want. You will find that you don’t need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices. — Don Miguel Ruiz

Compassion is more than sympathy and more than empathy. With sympathy and empathy, most of the time there is a sense of placing the object of your sympathy over there and having some understanding of their situation or where they come from. Compassion is deeper and more strongly felt than that. With compassion you do not experience the person as an object over there, separate from you, but rather you have the wish or the feeling that you have become the other. That is the sort of feeling we are aiming for. Compassion has a sense of coming out from where you are, and going over to the position of the other – even jumping across to their position.

In short, compassion makes us a part of others. It brings us out from our own space and moves us into the place of the other. Compassion is not a matter of staying in our own space, looking down at their suffering and calling ourselves compassionate. ~ 17th Karmapa