Your present problem is your great opportunity.
- Topic: Acceptance, Adversity, Opportunity
- Location: Death Valley National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Realizing the Divine as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.
Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.
It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.
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Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
Now is the accepted time.
We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.
For we that live please must please to live.
Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.
The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.
Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
If there is anything in the world a person should fight for, it is freedom to pursue his ideal, because in that is his great opportunity for self-expression, for the unfoldment of the greatest thing possible to him.
Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children.
The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work. So most people don’t recognize them.
