Monday, Jan. 30, 2023
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Lovely Thoughts
What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Thinking lovely thoughts during recovery encourages lovely acts. It is true that what starts as lovely will produce an air of loveliness around those of us who work for spiritual things. Truth has a relationship with lovely deeds. John Keats wrote that “beauty is truth and truth beauty,” and also gave us the familiar words, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
Our thoughts determine the way we behave and shape the personal image that we pass on to those around us. There is an “outer show of an inner glow” that results from kindness and beauty of mind. Unhealthy thoughts or false fronts are destructive. We are what we think we can be and want to be. If we recognize the best and most healthy in the world around us, we will be worthy of the honest image others have of us.
Let me think only the best thoughts so that I might be the best I can be.
Hazelden Foundation
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