...for being involved with Jehovah's Witnesses?
2 years?
5 years?
10 years?
15?
20?
30?
When will the suffering end?
The suffering ends when you forgive yourself for being misled, when you can think for yourself, when you can love yourself, when you look for the good in all things, when you finally can laugh at all the pain.
The suffering ends, when you can forgive others who are misled, when you help others think for themselves, when you can love people aside from their beliefs, when you look for good in others.
When you focus on the pain, the pain remains with you. Instead of holding out your hand to be healed, heal others and you will find happiness.
Open up your heart and your arms to do something good for someone else. Every time you think of someone else's needs, your heart heals.
Everyday, remind yourself how wonderful being alive is. Take a walk, when you walk...be present, listen to the wind through the trees, hear the dogs bark and the birds sing, smell the new grass, take in the colors of nature, feel the sunshine. This is life.
Build up and you will be built up, tear down and you will continue to suffer.
Show love everyday, even if it means watering a plant, or caring for your yard, or eating something healthy, or petting your dog or cat...every act of love heals your heart.
These are simple things, that I am just now learning. Yes, I suffered more than 10 years. But, I choose now...not to suffer any more.
I will take charge of my life now, and by simple acts of living, breathing, forgiving, loving, sharing, caring, helping...I will be built up.
This is the wisdom I have found.
"nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart"
It is time to evolve.
Surround yourselves with others who are evolving.
Here are some good words to live by:
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Where there is love there is life.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mohandas Gandhi