Acceptance

"Once we get comfortable with the idea that our lives will be a string of problems, crises and temporary resolutions, we'll be happy. Happiness without acceptance is impossible." - Peter Zappel

The Ones

"We are the ones we've been waiting for." ~ Hopi Elder

Creative Impulse

"The primordial fire that sparked millions of galaxies is the same fire that sparks the human creative impulse."  - Cindy Spring

Life is an Echo

Highest Self

"When you feel the rapture of bliss, you are deeply connected to your highest self." - Aine Belton

Our Days

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard

Create Something

 

Complexity of Life

"The very complexity of life ensures that no one person can explain what is going on to everyone else, or assume that their point of view is the right one. We can look at this complexity as a new Tower of Babel, where we can't hear each other because of so much diversity. Or we can look at it as an invitation to come together and truly listen to one another - listen with the expectation we will hear something new and different, that we need to hear from others in order to grow and survive. ... It would be more fruitful to explore this strange and puzzling world if we were together. It would also be far less frightening and lonely. We would be brought together by our differences rather than separated by them. When we are willing to be disturbed by newness, rather than clinging to our certainty, when we are willing to truly listen to someone who sees the world differently, then wonderful things happen. We learn that we don't have to agree with each other in order to explore together. There is no need to be joined together at the head, as long as we are joined together at the heart." - Margaret Wheatley, from the article "Disturb Me, Please!"

You're Better

Be You

Greater Good

"Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think that you've lost time. There is no short-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time." - Asha Tyson

Purpose

"What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation." - Joseph M. Dodge

Medley of Life

"We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us -- how we can take it, what we do with it -- and that is what really counts in the end."- Joseph Fort Newton

Quality of Life

"With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to sustain it. The payoff is delicious in terms of improved quality of life." - Doc Childre

Emerge

‎''Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.” - Eckhart Tolle

White Satin

"You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation." - Billie Holiday

Heart and Intuition

"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already
know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." ~ Steve
Jobs

Start Immediately

"To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions." -William James
 

Come Alive

Undone

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." ~ Picasso

Perceive

"Do you want to act differently? That’s not possible until you perceive differently." - Byron Katie

Forgiving

"If we don’t forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled with guilt. And the soul cannot grow under a blanket of guilt, because guilt is isolating, while growth is a gradual process of reconnection to ourselves, to other people, and to a larger whole." - Joan Borysenko

(painting by Georgia O'Keeffe - Sunrise 1916)

Don't Regret

Light the Way

Creative Emotions

"We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs." - Bertrand Russell

Look for Truth

"In any situation you find yourself in, look for truth, search for it deep in your heart. Let that truth of your heart flow, and you will see obstacles melt like ice." - Myra Salas

Treats

"One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats." ~ Iris Murdoch

Write

"Write what should not be forgotten." - Isabel Allende

People

Inner Value

"We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we
forget the inner value. The rapture that is associated with being alive is
what it is all about." ~ Joseph Campbell

Create

"You may not be a Picasso or Mozart but you don't have to be. Just create to create. Create to remind yourself you're still alive. Make stuff to inspire others to make something, too. Create to learn a bit more about yourself." ~ Frederick Terral

Follow Dreams

What We Love

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."  ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Find Your Voice

“Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.” — Dan Harmon

This is Who I Am

Beautiful Ceremony

"Imagine living your life as if creating the most beautiful ceremony, so compelling and joyful that it would be unthinkable to miss a single moment of it." -  Journey of Young Women (@ Facebook)  

Who Rules

"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to
criticize." - Voltaire

Real Treasure

"You are searching the world for treasure, but the real treasure is yourself." - Rumi

Your Walk

"Make sure your walk is heading to a great place." - Susan Cosmos

Purpose of Life

"The purpose of life is to unveil magnificence." – Alan Cohen                 

Go Within

"Go within every day & find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out." - Katherine Dunham                 

Strengths & Differences

“I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.” - Ani DiFranco

Relight Your Fire

"You achieve little by giving in to despondency, you must relight your fire & burn away the negativity." - TheGodLight (@ Twitter)

Accepting All

"If you are ready to accept all which you find in yourself, you will be able to move through everything with deep sensitivity, awareness, love and understanding." - Gerd Ziegler

Graceful Chaos

"Celebrate distractions and let them guide you inward. Like the dance of stars in the universe, peace is all about graceful chaos." ~ Zenshine
 

Be Authentic

"The more authentic you are, the higher the energy and success of all your projects." - Intuitive Girl

Theme Song

"Successful" People

Communication

"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives." ~ Anthony Robbins

Calm Your Soul

Destiny

Longing for Your Work

"Each person has been made for some specific work, and the longing for that work has been put into every heart." ~ Rumi 

Abundantly

New Beginnings

Plan the Day

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy.  If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem.  But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."  - E. B. White

Know Yourself

“The way you get to know yourself is by the expression on other people’s faces." - Gil Scott Heron

A Voice

"There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen." - Rumi

Everything

"Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Awake to Flowers

"The heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touched by the thorns.”
― Thomas Moore

Mercy and Truth

"Mercy is the twin sister of truth." - George Seaver

Creative Potential

“It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.” ~ Mary Daly

Best Future

The Ordinary

Daily Life

"Your daily life is your temple and your religion." - Kahlil Gibran

Enchantment

"We can't survive without enchantment. The loss of it is killing us." ~Thomas Moore

God

Hopes

"In your quiet time, when it's just between you and God/Goddess, dare to ask for your deepest hopes and your greatest dreams." -  Joel Osteen (paraphrased)

Deception

"All warfare is based on deception." - Sun Tzu

Love & Reverence

Hope

"Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today."  - Thich Nhat Hanh

Relax

"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer." ~ William S. Burroughs

Meditation

"The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you." - David Lynch

Fear

"Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions." ~ Hafiz

Stars

"We are all in the gutter, but some of use are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde

Hurt

"Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future." ― Yehuda Berg

Harmony

Maxim for Life

Trust

"When you meditate, you start trusting existence...Out of meditation trust
arises, and trust makes existence divine."  ~ Osho

Become

"What you think, you create. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you become." — Adele Basheer

Inner Voice

"Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.” ~ Henry Winkler

A Candle

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” ― St. Francis of Assisi

Your Heart

“If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?” - Khalil Gibran

Usefulness

Ask a flower in the field: ‘Do you feel useful? After all, you do nothing but produce the same flowers over and over?’

And the flower will answer: ‘I am beautiful, and beauty is my reason for living.’

Ask the river: ‘Do you feel useful, given that all you do is to keep flowing in the same direction?’

And the river will answer: ‘I’m not trying to be useful, I’m trying to be a river.’

Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God. Not a leaf from a tree falls, not a hair from your head, not even an insect dies because it was of no use. Everything has a reason to exist.

Even you, the person asking the question. ‘I’m useless’ is the answer you give yourself.

Soon that answer will poison you and you will die while still alive, even though you still walk, eat, sleep and try to have a little fun whenever possible.

Don’t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference.

(except of "Manuscript found in Accra"to be published world wide late 2012 and during 2013)

 

 - Paul Coelho

 

Experience Peace

Our Minds

"Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them." - Thomas Merton Institute for Contemplative Living
(@ Facebook)

Health

Awaken

Strong

Music

Your Work

Success

Success

 

 

Always Remember!

Always Remember!

 

 

Your Soul

"Re-examine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul." ~ Walt Whitman

Walk Forward

"My darling friends, we have all done major things which we look back on and cringe. Meditate and learn the lesson and then be kind to yourself. Remember, and this is something I have had to tell myself over and over, your did the best you could at the time with all you knew.

Walk forward with forgiveness for yourself and others. To get through this life and stay optimistic. It takes great faith and inner work. I am with you to hold your hand and heart as have all of you been there for me." - Elizabeth de Vries

Beautiful

 "We should only think of beautiful things when we look at other people." ~ Rolling Thunder, Cherokee 

Conscious Breathing

“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh

Water Your Dreams

“Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.”  ― Lao Tzu

There Are Men Too Gentle to Live Among Wolves

THERE ARE MEN TOO GENTLE TO LIVE AMONG WOLVES

A Poem by James Kavanaugh

 

There are men too gentle to live among wolves

 Who prey upon them with IBM eyes

 And sell their hearts and guts for martinis at noon.

 There are men too gentle for a savage world

 Who dream instead of snow and children and Halloween

 And wonder if the leaves will change their color soon.

 

There are men too gentle to live among wolves

 Who anoint them for burial with greedy claws

 And murder then for a merchant's profit and gain.

 There are men too gentle for a corporate world

 Who dream instead of candied apples and ferris wheels

 And pause to hear the distant whistle of a train.

 

There are men too gentle to live among wolves.

 Who devour them with eager appetite and search

For other men to prey upon and suck their childhood dry.

 There are men too gentle for an accountant's world

 Who dream instead of Easter eggs and fragrant grass

 And search for beauty in the mystery of the sky.

 

There are men too gentle to live among wolves
Who toss them like a lost and wounded dove.
Such gentle men are lonely in a merchant's world.
Unless they have a gentle one to love.There are men too gentle to be among wolves

Who toss them like a lost and wounded dove

Such men are lonely in a merchant’s world

Unless they have a gentle one to love.

 

Your Joy

"Make a commitment to follow your joy today. Joy is feedback from your internal guidance system that tells you you are on course." - Jack Canfield

Living Magnet

"You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts." - Brian Tracy

Emotional Currents

"By choosing your thoughts, and by selecting which emotional currents you will release and which you will reinforce, you determine the quality of your light. You determine the effects that you will have upon others, and the nature of the experience of your life." ~ Gary Zukav

Perfection

"You cannot achieve perfection. You can only discover it." ~ Alan Cohen

Wiser Today

“No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.” -  Alexander Pope

A Loner

 

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”  -  Jodi Picoult 

Risk Everything

"Risk everything to care deeply, to tend the hurting, to nurture the earth, and to give thanks." - Rev. Naomi King

Not Held Back

"We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present." - Marianne Williamson

Something Greater

"Goddess will never leave you empty. She will replace everything you lost. If she asks you to put something down, it's because she wants you to pick up something greater." - Dina Ann Staggs

Mindfulness

"Mindfulness is a core skill for the emotionally sensitive." - Karyn Hall, PhD

Midwife of the Soul

"The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a
midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.”  ~ Plato

The Path

"Our first impression of life, when we start thinking about it is that it is a long stretch of obstacles. In very pragmatic terms it is so. Then we also gradually realize that something in us is instigating, initiating and responding and that we are changing; that we are following some sort of a path. Then we soon realize that the obstacles ARE the path." - Pradeep Pk Maheshwari

Myth

“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.” ― Rumi

Buddhist Thought for the Day

Buddhist Thought for the Day: "You're as dead now as you will ever be." - Marcus Dodd

The Past

“We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.”  ~ Marianne Williamson

An Inspiration

"Be an inspiration.Sincerely practice alleviating inner suffering in yourself and others.We too become bodhisattvas or awakened beings." - Thich Nhat Hahn

Soul Mission

“Your soul mission is your reason for being, your life purpose. It’s your calling in life—who you feel called to be, what you feel called to do. Mission is an energy that flows through you—a drive, voice, or passion that you cannot ignore. Your mission is not an activity, but rather your fundamental reason for doing that activity. It’s what you know in your heart you must live if you are to experience inner peace and harmony”  – Alan Seale

Service & Love

"In life, it is never the big battle, the big moment, the big speech, the
big election. That does not change things. What changes things is every
day, getting up and rendering small acts of service and love beyond that
what's expected of you or required of you."  ~ Cory Booker

Busyness

"As the Buddhists say, after all, busyness is the absolute worst kind of laziness. When you are too busy, you can’t be alone with yourself, so you can never grow." - J. C. Peters

Lift Up Your Head

Ministry

Seeking

"As long as you have a soul, it should be seeking."  ~ Khwaja Baqi Billah 

Paying Attention

"The way we pay attention to the world can make a huge difference in the way we experience it." ~ Gabrielle Leblanc

The Prayer

"The words are not the prayer... the feeling is the prayer." - Gayle McCain

Mind

"Your mind is your religion." ~ Lama Yeshe

Path

"A path is made by walking on it."  ~ Zhuangzi

Shake Things Up

"I'm here to shake things up." - Kathy LeMay

Close to Nature

“Keep close to Nature's heart. Break clear away once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” ― John Muir

Move

"Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move." - Osho

Nothing Exists Alone

"All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of cause and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else." ~ The Buddha

Universe

"The universe is ingenious in the ways it can help you. Let it." ~ Alan Cohen

Happy Marriage

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”   ― Friedrich Nietzsche

 

Emotion

"That emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you." -  Rainer Maria Rilke

Death

‎''Death is a door, it is not a stopping. Awareness moves but your body remains at the door -- just as you have come here and left your shoes at the door. The body is left outside the temple, and your awareness enters the temple. It is the most subtle phenomenon, life is nothing before it. Basically life is just a preparation for dying, and only those are wise who learn in their life how to die. If you don't know how to die you have missed the whole meaning of life: it is a preparation, it is a training, it is a discipline. Life is not the end, it is just a discipline to learn the art of dying. But you are afraid, you are scared, at the very word death you start trembling. That means you have not yet known life, because life never dies. Life cannot die.'' - Osho

 

Deeper Love

"The deeper you love yourself, the universe will affirm your worth." ~ Alan Cohen

Expectations

"The reality you experience is a mirror image of your expectations." ~ Deepak Chopra
 

Being a Star

"To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and
don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest." - Zenshine

Success

"Success means fulfilling your own dreams, singing your own song, dancing your own dance, creating from your heart and enjoying the journey, trusting that whatever happens, it will be okay. Creating your own adventure!" - Elana Lindquist

Perspective

"Taking time to do nothing, often brings everything into perspective." - Doe Zantamata

Minority

"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." -  Sam Adams

True Profession

"The true profession of man is to find his way to himself." - Hermann Hesse

Real Inner Peace

Some sort of meditative activity really is essential to achieving any kind of real inner peace. Your mind needs a break once in a while. Sleep is wonderful, but it really isn't enough. You want to get to know your mind while you're in a conscious state. Miracles happen when you are awakened to the powerful, mystical energy of the mind. The mind is your 'Excalibur'. Free it, and the Kingdom (or Queendom, if you prefer) is yours. - Dorothy Mendoza Row

Grow in Awareness of Each Other

"As we grow in awareness of one another, whether two people beginning a romance or two disparate and far-removed strangers taking an interest in the other's culture, a wonderful thing begins to happen. We begin to care for the other as if the other is part of us. This is the magic of life that our ancient teachers have bid us to see; the invisible filaments of interconnectedness that bind us together in love and appreciation." Scott A. Hunt

Death

"Death is not my enemy. She is the midwife who will deliver me (sooner or later) out of this life into the Mystery that awaits. She is trustworthy. She has a wealth of experience. She will know when the time is right. Strolling arm in arm with Death sharpens my appreciation for this moment in the sun. An unexpected Grace. " - Alan Hinton

Healing Your Sick Self

“Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.” - Khalil Gibran

Rock

"You must become the rock the river cannot wash away." ~  Peace, Love, and Wisdom

Living Magnet

"You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts." - Brian Tracy 

Art

"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary." - Pablo Picasso

New Religion

"The new religion says those that do not believe in themselves are atheists." - Vivekananda

Tension & Relaxation

"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are." - Chinese Proverb

Manifest into Reality

"You attract what is currently in your thoughts. Focus on thoughts you want to attract into your life and manifest them into reality." - Zen Worlds

Stress or Peace

"Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace." ~ Joan Borysenko

Wonderful Life

"Live the wonderful life that is in you." - Oscar Wilde

Deep Place

"You will find the deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Shelter

"It is in the shelter of each other that the people live." - Irish Proverb

Counsel

“When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.” - Khalil Gibran

Bitter Trials

"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise."  ~ Oscar Wilde

What We Speak

"What we speak becomes the house we live in." ~ Hafiz

Not Bad News

"Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we’d rather collapse and back away. They’re like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we’re stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are."  ― Pema Chödrön

Four Rooms

"Everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional and a Spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into every room, every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person." - Indian Proverb

Falling in Love

"People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner’s faults honestly and say, ‘I can work around that. I can make something out of it.’? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it’s always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you." - Elizabeth Gilbert

People and Places

"Not everyone or every place is peaceful. Find those people and places that allow your peace to fill your being." ~ Laura VadBunker

A Sense of Humor

“A sense of humor is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.” - Hugh Sidey

Kahlil Gibran

"Your daily life is your temple and your religion." - Kahlil Gibran

Time Outs

"Giving ourselves permission to take time outs from the enormous responsibilities of daily living regulates and balances our emotions and spirit. Being renewed allows us more time to focus on the important 'little things' that make our lives so happy and joyful." ~ Laura VadBunker

Deepest Wish

"Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen."  ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Empathy

"Everywhere I look I see myself. There I go: that bald man, this angry child, that fearful cat, that cool stone, that bubbling brook, that worm struggling for its life, that bird desperate to feed her hungry babies, that one trapped in his rage, this one anxious but fearful of finding out why. Hardly strangers! Empathy is the life of the soul, I think, because the soul that allows us to see the one in the other is the soul that finds joy." - Claudia Michele

Strengths & Defects

"By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength; no strength that could not become a defect." ~ Goethe

Painter of Thoughts

"Be aware in the moment and awaken the dreamer within. Be a painter of thoughts and yours will be a garden of earthly delights. Let your life be a personal revolution guided by spirit and you will see miracles happen every day. Befriend and nourish your inner child and you will experience joy hitherto unknown. If we begin our day with love we will manifest happiness and create a better world for one and all." - Micheal Teal  (The Ancient One )

Soul Mission

"Your soul mission is your reason for being, your life purpose. It's your calling in life--who you feel called to be, what you feel called to do. Mission is an energy that flows through you--a drive, voice, or passion that you cannot ignore... It's what you know in your heart you must live if you are to experience inner peace and harmony."  - Alan Seale

Divine Mother

“Love is the divine mother's arms; when those arms are spread, every soul falls into them.” ― Hazrat Inayat Khan

Destination

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller