Stay In Tune With My Star player (Namely Me), The Person I have to Deal With Everyday.

“We either make ourselves miserable or make ourselves strong, either way; the amount of work is the same” Carlos Castaneda

“I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace.”
Dalai Lama quotes

“There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them / so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.”
Peace Pilgrim (American Teacher and Spiritual leader and Peace Prophet, 1908-1981)

“True forgiveness is not an action after the fact, it is an attitude with which you enter each moment.”
David Ridge

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness … the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.”
Dalai Lama

Sincere forgiveness isn’t colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don’t worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.”
Sara Paddison

“I don’t know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, ‘well, if I’d known better I’d have done better,’ that’s all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, ‘I’m sorry,’ and then you say to yourself, ‘I’m sorry.’ If we all hold on to the mistake, we can’t see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can’t see what we’re capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one’s own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that’s rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don’t have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.”
Maya Angelou (American Poet, b.1928)

“Why do we resist our energy? Why do we resist the life force that flows through us? The first noble truth says that if you are alive, if you have a heart, if you can love, if you can be compassionate, if you can realise the life energy that makes everything change and move and grow and die, then you won’t have any resentment or resistance. The first noble truth says simply that it’s part of being human to feel discomfort. We don’t even have to call it suffering anymore, we don’t even have to call it discomfort. It’s simply coming to know the fierceness of fire, the wildness of wind, the turbulance of water, the upheaval of earth as well as the warmth of fire, the coolness and smoothness of water, the gentleness of the breezes, and the goodness, solidness and dependability of the earth. Nothing in it’s essence is one way or the other. The four elements take on different qualities; they’re like magicians. Sometimes they manifest in one form and sometimes in another. if we feel that that’s a problem, we resist it. The first noble truth recognizes that we also change like the weather, we ebb and flow like the tides, we wax and wane like the moon. We do that, and there is no reason to resist it.”

Pema Chodron

“So when we say, “I take refuge in the buddha”, that means i take refuge in the courage and the potential of fearlessness of removing all the armor that covers this awakeness of mine. I am awake; I will spend my life taking this armor off.Nobody else can take it off because nobody else knows where all the little locks are, nobody else knows where it’s sewed up tight, where it’s going to take alot of work to get that particular iron thread untied. I may have a zipper that goes right down the front and has padlocks all the way down. Everytime I meet the dragon, i take off as many padlocks as I can; eventually i’ll be able to take the zipper down. I might say to you, “Simple.When you meet the dragon you just take off one of your padlocks and then your zipper’ll come down”. And you say “What is she talking about?” because you have sewn a seam under your left arm with iron thread. Everytime you meet the dragon, you have to get out these special snippers that you have hidden away in a box with all your precious things and snip a few more of those threads off, as many as you dare, until you start vomiting with fear and say, “This is enough for now.”.........So you have to do it alone.The basic instruction is simple: Start taking off that armor. That’s all anyone can tell you.”

Pema Chodron – “The wisdom of no escape”

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.”
Morgan Freeman