Saving the World Through Compassion

Yesterday I read a couple of articles by people who know and who know why.

Their forecasts, based on past actions and policies, is reasonable.

We are doomed.

However, a new personal and individual policy is afoot.

In fact, many more than in the past are beginning to embrace it.

Increased numbers are causing a groundswell of awareness.

The situation in this country has reached a certain level of intolerance, and people are waking up and acting.

This kind of thing also has a past.

It has caused a change in the course of events.

Through compassionate and aware leaders, whole nations have changed course.

We are all leaders and we all have the power to change our course.

So what if it hasn’t been done before on this scale?

 (although this is always the way it has been done)

It is being done now.

The guidance of all the wisdom teachings is coming home.

We want all of us to live well, not by profit, but by compassion.

What a marvelous shift in awareness.

What a marvelous direction for all of us.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Filling Up With Happiness

I realize that I have things I have to do every day.

Since I can control my attitude toward them, I have decided to feel wonderful and happy.

The things that come in do not have to make me happy, but I can choose to fill myself up with happiness and then decide how I will do them.

I don’t surge from sad to happy to mad to calming down when I do this.

I start with happy, come back to happy and work from happy.

Things get done in a very different way.

It is not a relief to get something done.

It just  gets done.

It is less of a production to carry something out.

I am better able to get what I need together and carry it out.  (Better.)

I am choosing happy more and more.

This is a better approach.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

No Complications

It doesn’t really matter does it, except that one is able to move forward?

If you have an idea, and it seems good that it came to you, does it really matter what shows up along the way?

Sometimes, I suppose, it could be support.

Sometimes, there are obstacles.

But still, you are pulled onward, and given ways to overcome, or go around, or simply ignore, the obstacles.

And sometimes, you have an unexpected conversation, and that gives you support.

And so you move forward.

There are ways of solving the problems along the way and removing persistent obstacles.

I am learning about all of these.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Discovering Peace for Today

Focusing on what is important gives me peace.

Discovering it from within, begins the day with peace.

I find I am connected to whatever I need for that day.

I can do what I need, either in anticipated ways, or ways which are unexpected.

By offering what I love, others respond.

By doing what is required by others, I only get so far.

Focusing on what is within allows it to be released.

The Within releases itself when it is seen.

It naturally draws others to it.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Being So Full

I am in love with who I am.

I have never been so full of happiness.

I have lots of problems which are not yet solved.

But I can feel new power in me.

I have never been around someone who loves herself as much as I love me.

No one in my family ever exhibited this feeling.

It is totally new to me.

It is expansive and generous.

It does not fear.

I have come so far, I feel that there are solutions for the rest.

I do not fear problems.

I now know how to listen and to be filled with love as the ideas pour in.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com 

Outrage or Something Else?

Reaction.

Violence.

Fear.

Disbelief.

Disappointment.

Let us uplift.

Let us spread invention, solution.

Let us become so full of love, trust, delight and helpfulness that these overpower any other tendencies.

We have the means to do this.

We have unlimited resources with which to apply these practices.

Let us turn all our resources to forgiveness, peace, kindness, generosity, unselfishness.

Individually, we even have unlimited resources.

We will find ourselves drawn more and more to those who practice peace from within.

That will finally be the deterrent to violence.

Our governments are playing a different game.

But we can totally embrace a different viewpoint until those who lead with violence have no constituents in their kingdoms.

Everyone is living somewhere else.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Little Ripples

Once again, I am given the opportunity to add to the peace and calm or add to the concern.

By my lights, I am not even permitted to add to the concern.

I must add to the peace and calm.

You see, every thought we throw into the ring makes a little ripple.

The more throwing power we have, the greater the ripple.

The media is creating great ripples because of its throwing power.

But I have a little bitty counter.

I know that if I start a ripple from another direction, it will lessen the momentum of the giant ripple.

And so the little bitty ripple that I am starting is this.

I have a little pebble of peace.

My little pebble of peace is my thought that everyone is precious.

I see it in the eyes of little children, their preciousness.

I see it in the eyes of adults when I tell them how much I appreciate what they are doing.

I see it everywhere that i can express gratitude and recognition and support.

And so you see, we all have the opportunity, through our little pebbles of peace, to create many little ripples.

I am so grateful for the many people who add so much to my life.

You, and all of us, are very precious.


© 2013 Kathryn Hardage
www.InspiredPractices.com