Michael Elmore-Meegan Quotes

Perhaps the secret of being happy is about letting go of fear , embracing energy that enriches us . Ignoring those who drain us and diminish , channeling ourselves towards goodness and positive acts

“The ICROSS philosophy has always been that change occurs by empowering women. You can only empower women by educating them. This was a part of our policy twenty years before it became development sector.

The more we own the less we have.

To be full of things is to be empty of what matters. To be empty of things is to be full of freedom.

When you are defeated it is your own attitude that is wrong.

Because of the distrust that has grown from our experience, we are very careful whom we welcome. We are selective in our companions, we look suspiciously those who sit beside us in a bar and start talking to us: “is he crazy? What’s he up to?” we wonder. The city becomes a desert. With groups of friends who are nobody else’s friends. As Emily Dickinson, the reclusive poet, once wrote: “The soul selects its own society, then shuts the door.”

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

If you really want to know who your friends are, see you stands by you in a storm

Remind yourself of your vision, keep your hopes close yo your heart, be passionate about them and always, always always be true to them

Your energy is powered by your thoughts, negative thoughts drain you, loving thoughts fill you with love

Only one thing is expect of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself and love with all your being and all your light without stopping.

If someone humiliates and hurts us, it is difficult to give them a second chance and turn the other cheek. They might just take another swing at us, we are not ready for that kind of abuse. Who needs it?

When we feel overwhelmed by all the suffering in the world, or just drained by the stress of the day, do this. Close your eyes, breathe deeply, and know that the very breath you are taking is the same miracle of life that pervades all creation. He who gives you this breath, despite your anxieties , fears and pain, knows you. He knows you better than you will ever understand yourself. Breathe in, breathe out. You are experiencing the miracle. The most amazing miracle of all. The gift of life. All things will find harmony in this knowing, in this, is the whisper of not only all creation, but of the Creator.

If you only utter a single prayer in this life let it be Thanks, with all your heart

Today we can change the future for someone, we have only to act.