Once you get to your forties or fifties in this society, very few people haven't had at least one body blow - financial, bankruptcy, divorce, relationship disaster, addiction, trouble with a child, trouble with a parent. Most people take some blow.

These are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking.

From a pure metaphysical perspective, there is no world outside ourselves. So, at the deepest level, the state of the planet is more a reflection of the consciousness of mankind than the consciousness of mankind is a reflection of world events.

Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.

The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.

Only what I am not giving can be lacking in any situation.