"Awakenings" - a dedication to Nicole.

"A time comes in your life when you finally get it...

When in the midst of all your fears and insanity you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere, the voice inside your head cries out - ENOUGH! Enough fighting and crying, or struggling to hold on.

And, like a child quieting down after a blind tantrum, your sobs begin to subside, you shudder once or twice, you blink back your tears and through a mantle of wet lashes, you begin to look at the world through new eyes.

This is your awakening... "

"Awakenings" - a very special offering from Sonny Carroll

dedicated to a very special 'Good Dog' friend. To see the original

Good Dog email (dated 12.16.09), click here.

"Our Finest Impulses"

“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty.

Henry Miller

Infinte Expectation of the Dawn

“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”

Henry David Thoreau

"Drop the Guilt" - Daily Good Dog

"Drop guilt! -- because to be guilty is to live in hell. Not being guilty, you will have the freshness of dewdrops in the early morning sun, you will have the freshness of lotus petals in the lake, you will have the freshness of the stars in the night.

Once guilt disappears you will have a totally different kind of life, luminous and radiant. You will have a dance to your feet and your heart will be singing a thousand and one songs."

OSHO

Good Dog Quote of the Week

"A cure for depression
“… and therein lies the genius of my teacher, my mother’s mother, who fulfilled herself completely by always forgetting herself in the joy and the welfare of all those around her. That is the only real cure for depression. It is the prescription that could come from any authentic spiritual physician. If you dwell upon yourself and your own private satisfactions, the first disappointment will throw you into a depression.
If you can train yourself to think more and more of the needs of those around you, to work with people even if they are not always pleasant, you will be making yourself immune to depression, and you will be helping others to do the same.
Eknath Easwaran _ 'Your Life is Your Message'"

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'Any Idiot Can Feel Pain"

“The trick is not how much pain you feel but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses. “
Erica Jong"

Happy Head - 'Gratefulness'

"'We can only be said to be alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.'
Thornton Wilder"

"Feeling Gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
William Arthur Ward

Today's Good Dog Quote - Gratefulness

"'Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.'

Melodie Beattie

Helen Keller's Gratefulness ... Today's Good Dog Quote

"'I thank God for my handicaps for, through them,
I have found myself, my work, and my God. '
Helen Keller"

Appreciate, while you still can!

"Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach"

Daily Nugget from The Dog

“It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment or the courage to pay the price.
One has to abandon altogether the search for security and reach out to the risk of living with both arms open.
One has to embrace the world like a lover.
One has to accept pain as a condition of existence.
One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.
One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying."
Morris West

Weekend GOOD DOG - Dalai Lama

“If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.” _ Tenzin Gyatso, aka Dalai Lama

OUCH! - Another 'Bad Dog' Quote

“Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.”
Anthony de Mello

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Good Head Food from Mother Teresa

A couple quickie's from Mother Teresa ...

"One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody."

"God doesn't require us to succeed, He only reuires that we try."

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Think . Feel . Manifest

"Watch you thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; the become habits.
Watch your habits; the become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Frank Outlaw"

"Slow Down," 3 of 3

Daily Good Dog, "Slow Down" Series - 4.16.09
"'The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.'
Anne Frank"

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"Slow Down," 2 of 3

Daily Good Dog, "Slow Down" Series - 4.15.09

“A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.”
Nisargadatta Maharaj"

The NEW Dog House is Open

On Saturday 4.04.09, after 6 months of work, I pressed the PUBLISH button on the new Daily Good Dog website, blasting it into hyperspace.

In just a few days, it has been swamped with new visitors.

Check out the site and if you like it, tell your friends on the 'Tell a Friend' section.

The new format for the Daily Dogs will go into effect on 4.20.09, at which time I'll start commenting (on this blog) as I write new Dogs.

There is a link to right for the website or http://www.dailygooddog.com/

Louie

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The New Dog Website (4.06.09)

has been launched!

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