Category: Love

The World Needs More Light

2/13/2018

“Hatred paralyzes life; Love releases it. Hatred confuses life; Love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; Love illuminates it." — Martin Luther King Jr.

I'm wondering if there is any one out there that actually does not believe in this quote. Anyone out there want to argue against this?? Fortunately and unfortunately there are plenty of examples all around us for both sides of this statement. This is one thing that I am working on guarding against the negative /dark side of this and working very hard on creating more of the positive outlooks - bright light type of things that the world needs more of.

There are always news stories about hate, anger, etc. There needs to be more of the examples of love and positivity. Even if the media doesn't pick up on it - it's still worth doing. You see, when we do good things - especially for others - people do notice and with them noticing they are also learning the lessons that you are sharing with your positive actions. You will find more opportunities coming your way, more connections with people you know and don't know.

Imagine all the great things that could happen if more people too this quote to heart and tried to improve themselves by adding more positivity??

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Light vs. Darkness - Love vs. Hate

1/25/2016

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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Having celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr. Day here is the USA last week, that celebration got me thinking about a few things. There were many quotes I found from him but this one connected to me right away.

When there is darkness, only light can drive it away, not more darkness. So this could be the darkness of a room, or the darkness and negativity that are present everyday of our lives. The same connection can be said about hate and love. Only love can drive away hate, not more hate, anger and negativity. It’s become clear to me that I also need to have less negativity, hate, anger, and all around general BS in my life too. It’s a conscious choice of mine to continue working on making that happen.

It’s also been said that with the choices we have in our lives, we can choose to work with light or positivity in life. We can also choose to be the source of it or even to be the mirror that reflects it. Remember that the mirror helps the light get to places that normally maybe wouldn’t see it. It’s the same in life with love and positivity. It’s a conscious choice that we have the opportunity to make every day in our lives. We don’t have to be the source of the light, but we certainly can reflect or pass on the light and positivity that we find.

In today’s world it certainly seems that we need more lights along with more mirrors. No matter where we are and what we do for a living, this is always one of those important tasks to take on to not only help ourselves, but also to help others that are around us too. There are so many messages that Dr. King shared with us that are still being shared today. More importantly, they are still relevant today and are still needed too.

What can you do to help with this message in your life? Maybe more importantly, what can you do to help those around you with this message? You can either be the light source or be the mirror that the light will reflect. A good choice either way.

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Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. and the lessons we need to use today... Quote Of The Week!

1/19/2015

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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

As we look at celebrating the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., I saw this quote and it connected to me this week. There seems to be a long list of negative, sad, dark, etc., stories out in the world media today (as many times there are) – that to me, this made sense to get out there and talk a little bit about.

Darkness can only be fixed or dealt with by adding light, not more darkness. I connect with that along with the fact that hate cannot make much difference in getting rid of hate, only love can really have a much larger affect. To me, that is what our world needs more than ever – more light being shed onto these negative, sad, hateful events along with adding less hate and more love. Dr. King was right on with his message and it’s great that we honor him because it helps us focus on his message and how it’s still needed, even more so in today’s world.

There are many forces today, both here in the United States and obviously world-wide, that focuses on darkness and hate. The best way to combat that focus is shedding light and focusing more on love. This is not just for the huge stories, such as terrorism groups, kidnappings, robberies, etc., but this can also work in smaller things in our daily lives too.

The little things that everyday people can do to add more light and love to the world can have a larger compound affect not only for ourselves, or families, our co-workers, but then all the people that they come into contact with as well. How we treat each other, the more we help each other, the more positive things we do in our lives – can have a great affect on things all over.

What a great mindset to have as we go into the second half of the first month of the new year. What are some of the things you can focus on adding more light to along with more love? Just find a couple of spots in your life and watch the differences start to show. I know there are a couple of areas that this would work for me and I’m going to focus on improving those for sure.

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Quote of the Week - January 20, 2014

1/22/2014

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“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

With the celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. day yesterday, I got to thinking about what he has meant to the world and why we still take the time to celebrate the man and what he stood for. I took some time to reflect on Monday about this and I found many great quotes I could attribute to him. This one stood out to me right away.

One of the first things that came to mind was that he said 'hate is too great a burden to bear'. I have found that to be so true. Even when I catch myself getting all worked up over something and I mutter to myself "God, I hate this", the feelings that rush over me at the time are not positive at all. In fact those feelings I'm beginning to recognize now are very negative, they hurt, they are painful and I've started to figure out a way to laugh at them when I think that way. What I'm really trying to do is to not think or respond that way at all. Slowly but surely, I'm getting better with this. Hating other people is another real big waste of time. Remember, if we have hate for others - that hate resonates in ourselves, our thinking, our actions, our words, our facial expressions, etc. It truly ends up hurting ourselves way more than it will hurt the other person.

One thing I think would be great for all of us to work on - focus on love. The love we have for the important people in our lives. The love that we should be after in how we spend our time in life - meaning, chasing after the passions that we want to spend our time working on. There is also the way we should love ourselves too, since we have to be with ourselves 24-7, it's a full time job to be with ourselves that much. So like Dr. King said - decide to stick with love. Life can be so difficult sometimes, why decide to add hate to the mix all the time to make things worse? How do you view Dr. King's message?

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The World Needs More Light

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