When We Change - Everything Changes

"Failure is an opportunity.
If you blame someone else,
there is no end to the blame.

Therefore the Master
fulfills her own obligations
and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others."

"Putting out of our minds the wrongs others had done, we resolutely looked for our own mistakes. Where had we been selfish, dishonest, self-seeking and frightened? Though a situation had not been entirely our fault, we tried to disregard the other person involved entirely. Where were we to blame? The inventory was ours, not the other man's. When we saw our faults we listed them. We placed them before us in black and white. We admitted our wrongs honestly and were willing to set these matters straight."

"Put this program into action, a thousand times:

• Identify the negative feelings in you.
• understand that they are in you, not of this world, not in external reality.
• do not see them as an essential part of "I" - these things come and go.
• understand that when you change, everything changes."

I am willing to see how and where I need to change...


Tao Te Ching
A New English Version
By Stephen Mitchell
Verse #79

Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 67

Awareness - The Perils and Opportunities of Reality
Anthony De Mello
Sleepwalking, pg. 89