PROGRESS BEGINS ONE STEP AT A TIME

There is no sudden leap to greatness.
Your success lies in doing day by day.
Your upward reach will come from working well and carefully.
Good work done little by little becomes great work.
The house of success is built brick by brick.
Adopt the pace of nature. The secret is patience.
A bottle fills drop by drop.


©2006 by Max Steingart
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THE DAILY GURU

Question:
Why do I continue to get angry, and why do I always feel so justified in my anger even though it always makes me feel terrible at a later time?

Answer:
To be angry is to suffer. It doesn't help anyone to get angry. Anger hurts whoever is angry. It burns. Anger ruins relationships, causes heartache and regret, and devastates health. And yet, in spite of all of these facts, when we are angry, it feels right. Somehow, in some unseen way, anger proves to whoever is experiencing its heated feelings that he or she is right even though, in the eyes of reality, nothing could be further from the truth.

Anger feels like it is in your best interest because, at the time of its intrusion into your life, it temporarily fills you with a powerful false sense of self. However, this anger can only exist without your conscious consent or awareness of its being there. So it is good that you are wondering how you can be tricked into feeling bad about anything. The Truth wants you to know that it is never in your best interest to suffer, no matter how inwardly convincing it may feel to you that you will be betraying yourself if you don't.

Anger hypnotizes you with a flood of itself. Step back and learn instead to listen to the quiet stream of higher insight that runs softly through your true nature. Let it show you that your anger and suffering proves nothing.


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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"My recovery changed when I forever gave up the hope of having a different past."

I have spent a lot of time thinking about my past. Alternately feeling sorry for myself or being outraged at the wrongs - real or
imagined - that were done to me, a constant theme in my thinking is how much different, better, happier I would be if only I hadn't had these parents, or stepparents, or those siblings, or on and on.

But it will never be different. My past will be my past always, and, good or bad, it is uniquely mine. When I got to the program I was taught that in recovery we stop fighting everybody and everything, in other words we surrender. One definition of surrender is to lay down our arms and join the winning side. By surrendering my old feelings about my past, I am free to see the treasure that it really is.

By working my program, I am able to make peace with my past, to look at my part and see the lessons and gifts it has to offer. In time, I come to see how valuable my experiences are, and how I can use them to help another. "One's deepest wounds, integrated, become our greatest power." As I heal my past, I begin to see how it can help heal another as well. Today I no longer regret my past, and that is a true miracle.

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DAILY GURU

THE HIGHWAY TO SUCCESS IS A TOLL ROAD

You must give up something to get whatever you want in life.
The greater the value, the greater the sacrifice that will be required.
Everything has a price.
Nothing worthwhile will come easily to you.
Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish the results that last.
You pay a price if you want to make things better, and you pay a price for just leaving things as they are.
You'll find no success at bargain basement prices.


©2006 by Max Steingart
Reproduce freely but maintain © notice

DAILY GURU

THE HIGHWAY TO SUCCESS IS A TOLL ROAD

You must give up something to get whatever you want in life.
The greater the value, the greater the sacrifice that will be required.
Everything has a price.
Nothing worthwhile will come easily to you.
Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish the results that last.
You pay a price if you want to make things better, and you pay a price for just leaving things as they are.
You'll find no success at bargain basement prices.


©2006 by Max Steingart
Reproduce freely but maintain © notice

DAILY GURU

THE HIGHWAY TO SUCCESS IS A TOLL ROAD

You must give up something to get whatever you want in life.
The greater the value, the greater the sacrifice that will be required.
Everything has a price.
Nothing worthwhile will come easily to you.
Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish the results that last.
You pay a price if you want to make things better, and you pay a price for just leaving things as they are.
You'll find no success at bargain basement prices.


©2006 by Max Steingart
Reproduce freely but maintain © notice

DAILY GURU

THE HIGHWAY TO SUCCESS IS A TOLL ROAD

You must give up something to get whatever you want in life.
The greater the value, the greater the sacrifice that will be required.
Everything has a price.
Nothing worthwhile will come easily to you.
Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish the results that last.
You pay a price if you want to make things better, and you pay a price for just leaving things as they are.
You'll find no success at bargain basement prices.


©2006 by Max Steingart
Reproduce freely but maintain © notice

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS ALL THE TIME

Opportunity is around you all the time, but you have to be ready for it.
When your chance comes, you must be prepared to take advantage of it.
The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, for time and chance happen to everyone.
Take a second look at what appears to be someone's 'good luck.'
You'll find not luck but preparation, planning and success-producing thinking.
When you're prepared for opportunity, your chance for success is sure to come.
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
The tide of opportunity comes to everyone.
Even to you.


©2006 by Max Steingart
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