Monday, September 29, 2008

Success

This week's topic at the Unity Center was Partnering with God for Success. She talked about a variety of issues - including moving out of your comfort zone, setting your aim high, and inviting God to assist you. Here are a few of the quotes I found:

These were my favorites on moving out of your comfort zone.....

"Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort."
~ Peter McWilliams
And the amazing part of this is that the reward for the willingness to go through that discomfort is, a bigger comfort zone!

"Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!"
~ T. Harv Eker, author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
And these quotes were about setting your aim higher .....

"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."
~ C. S. Lewis


And my favorite quotes about inviting God into the mix...

"What higher goal could there be for anyone than to learn to call upon God and hear His Answer? And what more transcendent aim can there be than to recall the way, the truth and the life, and to remember God?"
~ A Course in Miracles


I've become enchanted by the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore, so I will finish with my favorite, a poem he addressed to God:

"You have given me Your love, filling the world with Your gifts.

They are showered upon me when I do not know them, for my heart is asleep and dark is the night.

Though lost in the cavern of my dreams, I have been thrilled with gladness.

And I know that in return for the treasure of Your great worlds, You will receive from me one little flower of love in the morning when my heart awakes."
~ Rabindranath Tagore

Peace be with you!