Keep Your Word

Keep Your Word.  You may wonder how keeping one’s word can eliminate suffering.  How many times have you suffered because you did not keep your word?  How many times have you suffered because you used unkind words against yourself or others?  The Dalai Lama said...

Forgive Instantly

Forgive Instantly.  We all know how important forgiveness is.  It is included in the healing and prosperity principles.  This principle is a little more radical.  Do it instantly.  The longer we harbor unforgiveness, the more we will suffer.  Forgive quickly even if...

Avoid Judgments

Avoid Judgments.  We seem to get really hooked into judging ourselves and others.  This causes great suffering.  I have learned the less I judge others, the less I have to forgive and the more at Peace I am.  Ram Dass suggests this method for eliminating judgment from...

Give up the Need to be Right

Give up the Need to be Right .  We suffer so much just because we want to be right more than we will choose to promote peace.  Wars are about needing to be right.  Arguments with friends, within families and with couples is about the need to be right.  Not forgiving...

When we are being loved

When we are being loved, we feel the vibrations of that connection.  Words do not even need to be spoken.  We see it in the eyes of the one giving love.  I see it when my dog and cat look at me adoringly with those most trusting eyes.  My daughter has a plaque in her...