The Secret to Self-Acceptance
“The person God loves with the tenderness of a Father, the person he wants to touch and to transform with his love, is not the person we’d have liked to be or ought to be. It’s the person we are.”
Joy
“I Love the Word Impossible”: Ann Kiemel on Our “Giant of a God”
“God willed me and planned my being. He sees my uniqueness, dedicated to Him, as promising. And yours!”
Part II: The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the Four Qualities of the Heart that Lead to Joyful Living
“Every day, think as you wake up, ‘I am fortunate to be alive. I have a precious human life. I am not going to waste it.’”
Worry Not: Søren Kierkegaard on What We Can Learn from the Birds of the Air and Lilies of the Field
“And even if what you want to accomplish in the world were the most amazing feat: you shall acknowledge the lily and the bird as your teachers…”
Saint Augustine on the Happy Life and Finding Joy
“The happy life is this – to rejoice to you, in you, and for you. That is it and there is no other.”
Mother Teresa’s Essential Wisdom
“Resist anything that leads to moodiness. Our prayer each day should be, ‘Let the joy of the Lord be my strength.’”
Part I: The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the Four Qualities of the Mind that Lead to Joyful Living
“The ultimate source of happiness is within us. Not money, not power, not status…outward attainment will not bring real inner joyfulness. We must look inside.”