One of the greatest necessities is to discover creative solitude. – Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg provides the secret to all that we truly crave. To connect with our inner creativity, to connect with that place where joy and peace flow from, solitude and stillness time is essential.
When we’re still; the juices start to flow, it’s something you shouldn’t deny yourself, it’s the very wellspring that leads to your ultimate wellbeing!
Recommendation: The Artist’s Way
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust
Most of us have this constant urge to do something else, to be something else and be somewhere else. Which is all good because there’s a reason this urge exists. What is that reason for you?
There’s another way we can channel this urge, this desire for adventure, and that is by having new eyes.
New eyes to see things differently, new eyes to hear/judge and interact with others in a fresh way. New eyes that will turn our current assumptions, goals, opinions and judgments 180 degrees, or may be only 90 degrees!
One way to see differently is by staying more present and in the Now. Our thoughts and past opinions don’t then cloud our ongoing experience.
Recommendation: The Power of Now
It will never rain roses: When we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. – George Eliot
We reap what we sow. We must be clear about our intentions, our desires and our goals. We ought to know our life goals, even our Life Purpose.
How is it possible to get what we truly want when we don’t know what we want?
How would do you come to know what you deeply desire?
Recommendation: True Purpose
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office. – Henry David Thoreau
The modern day equivalent to the Post Office is email, the internet and the cell phone! When we don’t have a satisfying inner life, we run towards outwardly distractions to occupy our minds. We fill our precious time with chores and activities so that we don’t have to confront the emptiness of our own lives.
What’s the inner life? It’s our thoughts and psyche. It’s our self-perception and sense of self-worth. It’s also our chance of touching base with the very reality that created all. An essence of God resides within us, ever waiting for the time when our minds can be a little still. The inner life is our relationship with this essence.
Contact is made slowly and gently. It’s the portal to a peace and contentment that cannot be found without.
Check it out.
Recommendation: Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tse
The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it. – John Ruskin
What do thee work for? What are thy becoming?
The United States celebrate Labor Day on September 6th, 2009! Celebrate the hard work that you do daily, and appreciate what you’ve accomplished already!
Recommendation: Dare To Be Happy
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Goethe said this and what he refers to is living a life of quality. A life of quality is one in which we appreciate Beauty in thought and form. It’s a life where we acknowledge and accept Truth in any form that we behold it. And it’s a life where Goodness in action and being is considered the only way to live.
Attention to Truth, Beauty & Goodness can help sculpt a life well lived, a life that’s fulfilling at the deepest level, one that is full of Love and its expression.
Recommendation: The Art of Being
The problem with winning the rat race is you’re still a rat. – Lily Tomlin
We are all like rats aren’t we? We go milling about, with our nose to the ground (and grind), just like rats, looking for that elusive thing or person that will truly satisfy our deepest desires.
We satisfy some desires, are never deeply satiated, and move on to the next thing! We repeat this process while enjoying some bliss, enduring pain and experiencing loads of worry and anxiety.
What would happen if the rats stopped, looked around, even looked above? What’s the way out? Lot’s of questions to ponder and ruminate on!
Recommendation: Awakening of Intelligence by Jiddu Krishnamurti