JUST FOR TODAY,
DO NOT WORRY...
While the
'gokai' - the Five Reiki Principles - do indeed constitute
a set of Moral Admonitions, many people, it seems, tend to overlook
the fact that at least two of the Five Principles also - on a
far more immediate, practical/material level - present as guidelines
which are intended to be applied as basic 'preventative medicine'....
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Do
not worry
OK,
so I haven't actually gotten round to writing the main body of
this particular article yet...
But hey - don't worry about it.
For
now, here are some other people's thoughts on worry:
"Overcoming
fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or
even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to nothing."
- Robert Anthony
"There
are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry...
Yesterday and Tomorrow." - Robert Jones Burdette
"If
you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I
would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And
if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it." - George
Burns
"Worry
never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."
- Leo F. Buscaglia
"As
a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what
they can." - Julius Caesar
"There
is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about
things which are beyond the power of our will." - Epictetus
"The
reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people
worry than work." - Robert Frost
"If
you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change
a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet
with a different reality system." - William James
"There
is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any
faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever"
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
"Worry
a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple
of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train
yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything." - Mary
Hemingway
"We
experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites
are called panic." - Cullen Hightower
"Worry
compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street.
Thinking opens new avenues." - Cullen Hightower
"Stop
worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!"
- Barbara Hoffman
"Men
do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation."
- Charles Evans Hughes
"The
man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned
generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn." - Oliver
Wendell Holmes
"Worry
is interest paid on trouble before it falls due." - William
R. Inge
"A
day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work." - John
Lubbock
"It
only seems as if you're doing something when you worry."
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
"Worry
is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue."
- Bertrand Russell
"If
you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying?
If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?"
- Shantideva
"There
is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person
sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem."
- Harold Stephens
"Worry
gives a small thing a big shadow". - Swedish Proverb
"We
are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying
animal. We worry away our lives." - Lewis Thomas
"Worry
is like a rocking chair - it gives you something to do but it
doesn't get you anywhere." - Glenn Turner
"Worry
is just about the worst form of mental activity there is."
- Neale Donald Walsch
"Worry
is pointless. It is wasted mental energy. It also creates bio-chemical
reactions which harm the body, producing everything from indigestion
to coronary arrest, and a multitude of things in between."
- Neale Donald Walsch
"Health
will improve almost at once when worrying ends." - Neale
Donald Walsch
"Worry
is a misuse of imagination." - Dan Zadra
"Worry
is today's mice nibbling on tomorrow's cheese" - Author
Unknown
"Worry
is a think stream of fear which, if encouraged, becomes a wide
channel into which all other thoughts flow" - Author Unknown
"Today
is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday."S - Author
Unknown
"Worry
is the darkroom in which negatives are developed" - Author
Unknown
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The
secret method of inviting blessings,
the spiritual medicine of many illnesses:
Just
for today:
Don't
worry ...