Publisher's Synopsis
This little book was written for people who have been trying and trying to make things better for themselves in any number of areas of their lives, but keep faltering. It is depressing and crushing to live for years feeling like you are always taking one step forward and two steps back. This is in terms of health, relationships, work, finances, and more. The main belief behind this book is that WHERE you are right now in life is not necessarily WHO you are or want to be, and in order to get away from WHERE you are right now is a matter of finding ways (of all types and sizes) to begin to move away from it, and to continue moving away. It doesn't matter what your problem or background is: the point is that it really can be very difficult to move forward, and most people don't get that. Another thing this book does is to act as a gentle pushback to the avalanche of well-intended but at times demeaning and shallow messages that are out there about the Universe, abundance, and "manifesting" what you want by just thinking about it. The people who are most benefitting from these messages are the relative few who are making money convincing other people of it, and the even smaller few who have been able to turn their lives around. This does not mean that ALL of what they promote has no value at all, but it does mean that what their messages project often has elements of being naive, misleading, very materialistic and none of it verifiable.So this little book is a collection of different sayings that appealed to me over the years as I went through my own troubles. On some days, some of the them seemed too sugary, and other days, other ones seemed too harsh. I would awake in the mornings and select those sayings that appealed to me for that moment on that day and read them again. They helped me to cope with the rest of the day and obstacles that arose. Sometimes they only momentarily distracted me from my problems but sometimes they distracted me enough so that they created some mental space that helped me to see a possible way out. Sometimes I was in no mood for any of them, and would begrudgingly take out and glance through them, and always found one that kept me going for that particular day. A friend suggested I pass them on to other people, via a book, so here they are. I hope they help in some small way.
