Keep a strong heart, a clear mind, and kindness on your tongue. Though others may exhibit symptoms of deep despair or wish to perpetrate harm, let your goodness remain strong and foremost in your demeanor, your actions, and your words, for there is no time like now for goodness to reign.
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
When in doubt or distress get calm, sit quietly, and ask for guidance. Often guidance will come clearly and with sharp insight and yet at other times it comes slowly and one must plod along until what is right is revealed. What is truly right comes from the heart not the head, and so it is the heart that must be relied upon in times of doubt and distress. Turn to your own heart and let it guide you with its intelligence, its insight, and its compassion, and without a doubt it will, for that is what a heart does—it knows and it speaks the truth!
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
Empower yourself. If your life is not going as you would like, you have the power to fix it. You are the only one who knows what truly needs to be done. If you want change, you have the power within you to make it happen. Take full responsibility for yourself and your life, but do so with loving kindness for yourself. And remember: You’re in charge!
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
Though there is darkness there is also light. Though there is sadness there is joy. Though there is despair there is hope. Though there is loneliness there is companionship. Though there is hatred there is love. Wherever there is one thing there is its opposite; can’t have one without the other. The other side of the same coin is always waiting to be discovered. And you have the power to flip the coin and realize that what at first appeared to be dull and lifeless is really golden and meaningful, that all stages of life, like day and night, like the sun and the moon, have their purpose.
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
Life pushes for change, but even as you focus on changing yourself, on your own goals and intentions, look outside of yourself and give a little in small kindnesses, in gestures of appreciation for what you have, forgetting for a moment what you lack. It is often only in getting out of the self that you discover that you are not so bad off after all, and that your own discomforts may be small in comparison with those of others. In this manner learn compassion and awaken your heart to its true desires to give rather than receive. A giving heart is a good heart indeed! And the funny thing is, in giving you receive!
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne