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Quotes - 2009

Passion, Obsession and Joy!

To achieve your goal, your life may sound like a perfume counter – full of Passion and Obsession, leading to Joy. – John-Roger McWilliams

What is your goal in life? Passion and obsession about any goal will do at least 2 things:

  1. Either it’s a goal worth pursuing in which case you’ll be closer to your Life Purpose. Which only leads to more passion and joy!
  2. You will learn a lesson or two during your journey in the pursuit of a goal that eventually turns out to be not that fulfilling, in which case you’ll still be closer to your Life Purpose!

Being passionate about any goal ain’t such a bad thing!

Go be a fragrant being!

Recommendation: Do It!: Let’s Get Off Our Buts

Quotes - 2009

Positive ‘thunking’?

I was going to buy a copy of ‘The Power of Positive Thinking’, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do? – Ronnie Shakes

🙂

Well why is all this positive thinking stuff, good health, happiness, joy, God, life purpose, love etc., necessary or even valid?

Well sometimes you need to turn a commonly accepted concept on its head. Why accept what others tell us? Why accept what any book or article tells us? How can we know for sure? How can we be sure about anything?

Recommendation: Here Be Dragons: An Introduction to Critical Thinking

Quotes - 2009

Nothing more precious…

Nothing is worth more than this day. – Goethe

How often do we forget, that we don’t have all eternity (at least here and now!). We start thinking each day is just like another, mundane and boring. Don’t we all do that? Why do we forget that each day is truly unique, every moment that we breathe is like none other before? This is actually a testament to God’s creativity that everyone and everything is brand new, moment by moment and daily!

So let’s breathe in this perspective and enjoy each moment as best we can. Enjoy this day as one that’ll be gone forever soon enough. Realize that maybe this is the last year of our life, how should we live it?

Go kick some tires, smell some roses, peck some cheeks and yell ‘hooray’ once in a while, Life is Good (Part 2)!

Recommendation: Love: What Is Life All About

Quotes - 2009

All events are blessings…

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Do you ever get the feeling that everything’s got to have a purpose, that you have got to have a purpose, otherwise all that we do is for naught?

Well that’s exactly how it is. There’s a purpose and a season for everything and everyone.

Questions:

  • What is your purpose in life?
  • What have events in your life prepared you to do, today?
  • Or what are they preparing you to do eventually?

Answers to these questions and real direction can be had if you but “learn to get in touch with silence within yourself”.

Are you going to try it?

Recommendation: On Life After Death by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Articles, Quotes - 2009

A peace beyond understanding

The quieter you become, the more you can hear. – Ram Dass

True silence can do wonders. True silence is that of the mind not that of the audible kind. As we become more still, we can observer better, we listen more intently, we perceive a lot more and our sense of intuition flowers! Inspiration and creativity is heightened when we let our mind settle down naturally.

How do you do that?

Watch yourself. Watch as thoughts arise, notice their origin, and where they lead you. Observe how you act or react to any incident. Get to know yourself intimately, in this fashion. Your effortless watching of self leads to a quiet alertness that connects you to the essence of all that is.

A peace beyond understanding, a joy inexpressible, emerges!

Recommendation: The Power of Now

Quotes - 2009

Blessed in so many ways

Turn your attention to the many ways in which you are blessed in your life; think of these things with sincerity, and you will discover an endless stream of blessings that come to you. – Teacher Olfana

Every time we think, it’s a thought we’re choosing. And each of those times it’s up to us if we want to choose a positive thought or one that doesn’t serve us. If you believe that thoughts that you think today manifest themselves in our lives tomorrow, then all the more reason you want to pick just the right thoughts. You are your own master, don’t relinquish that right.

One great way to have the right kind of thoughts is to keep your focus on what’s working really well in your life. Be thankful.

Some of the most powerful ideas that work are that simple.

Recommendation: Living the Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes

Quotes - 2009

We do not know enough to be pessimistic!

If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic. – Hazel Henderson

Isn’t that the trick? We simply don’t know enough about the future!

It’s in our best interests to be stay positive and jump in without too many preconceived notions.

Thus we can truly handle whatever God throws at us! Let’s play until the very end.

Recommendation: Thoughts Become Things