 Horoscope with Lilith
Now we've sensibly postponed those new year's resolutions till Chinese New Year and started working towards world peace by making our own lives more peaceful, some practical, astrologically user-friendly tips from those who've made it their life's work might be in order...
Aries: Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. Hate destroys and tears down; love creates and builds up. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity... Martin Luther King, Jnr.
Taurus: Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion and forgiveness. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain becomes your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom... Rumi.
Gemini: Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures... From Gemini John F. Kennedy's address to the United Nations assembly.
Cancer: To achieve world peace, first we need inner disarmament - reducing our own anger and hatred while increasing mutual trust and human affection. Each of us must work not just for their own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all humanity... XIV Dalai Lama, a Cancerian.
Leo: It doesn't matter whether we've been given wealth or deformity or beauty or mental instability, a peaceful life or a battleground - our life's work is to use whatever we have been given to wake up... Pema Chodron.
Virgo: Simplicity, patience and compassion are the greatest teachers. Simplicity is the very source of your being. Patient with friends and enemies, you accept things as they are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings... Lao Tzu.
Libra: Get some fresh air. Try to smile. Say something kind to a stranger. Play a game with some children. Extend yourself to a friend. Sing ribald songs to your pets and plants. Whisper I love you! I love you! to the whole mad world... Hafiz.
Scorpio: Let your heart be untroubled by judgements - they're simply an old habit. A day spent judging others is a painful day. A day spent judging yourself is a painful day - without mercy for ourselves we cannot love others... Jack Kornfeld.
Sagittarius: Learn to respond, not react. Don't keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions. Listen with a receptive heart - at the bottom of things, most people just want to be understood and appreciated... Buddhist teaching.
Capricorn: Everything we need comes from other people. When we forget this, we are unhappy - when we remember this, how can we do anything but be kind to one another. If you don't care for others, who will care for you?... Geshe Sonam Rinchen.
Aquarius: Victory creates hatred, defeat creates suffering - the wise strive for neither victory nor defeat. Learning to let go is the key to peace - forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so we need no longer carry the burden of resentment... Sogyal Rinpoche.
Pisces: Once you realize all problems contain the seeds of opportunity, every so-called upsetting situation becomes an opportunity to create something new and beautiful, and every so-called tormentor becomes your teacher... Deepak Chopra.
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