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
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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