To A Glorious 2010!

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.Edith Lovejoy Pierce

our life is up to us

Throw off the assumptions that chain your life. Be born again. Resolve to think afresh and anew. Don’t accept limitations that others place on you. You are a creative and unique being like no other in all time and space! Claim your uniqueness, stamp life with your signature, relish your personal impact!

each day is brand new

Each moment we breathe is like no other before it. Each day is new. Don’t let the failures of the past hold you back. Start by creating your future life, now, today.

Recommendation: Release Your Brilliance

Release Your Brilliance: The 4 Steps to Transforming Your Life and Revealing Your Genius to the World

2010 Here We Come!

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.G.K. Chesterton

new years have come and gone

Here comes another one.

How will it be ‘new’ for you?

build a new soul

Focus on that which truly matters. Your soul; your innermost nature.

What would that look like?

happy 2010!

This blog takes a break; time to be with family, see you back on Jan 1st, 2010!

Recommendation: Take it easy, enjoy the love around you, reflect and ruminate.

The Next Step?

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.Benjamin Disraeli

ask first

We often ask ourselves; what should I do next? That’s a great step forward, we must ask first. What then? Often we keep asking and nothing seems to happen? What’s going on?

then observe

Nothing seems to happen because we’re expecting a certain answer! And we only look for that particular answer and glaze over everything else.

We need to be free of any expectations, and once we’re free, just look!

Look for signs from the Universe. They come to us in an infinite variety of ways, through people, situations, inanimate objects, you name it. Observation is key.

now act

Once you observe something that appears to be a sign. Take the action that’s called for. If you do; more signs will appear, they always do. You’re now actively on your journey of self and Universe discovery!!

Recommendation: Tao Te Ching

Tao Te Ching

What’s Your Opinion?

Don’t seek reality, just put an end to opinions.Sheng-ts’an (Zen Monk)

what do you seek?

And how do you go about it?

stop separating

Notice how you think. You often examine one object, situation or person then compare it with something else. This constant comparison is a major cause of the constant chatter in our minds.

Recognize that, find peace.

Recommendation: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism by D.T. Suzuki

An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

Truthful To The Core

Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.Wilfred Peterson

with your own self first

This quote goes to the heart of truthfulness and consistency. If we watch ourselves, we’ll notice our various attitudes towards our own selves. Get to know yourself. And then notice when you’re being unkind to your self. You may do this when you don’t think you can achieve something; or when you think your body’s ugly. You judge thy own self constantly.

and then it follows

Which gives you license to judge others and be unkind to them in different ways. If you’re gentle with your self, consistency demands that you then be gentle with all others. That’s Truth in action.

Recommendation: Love Thyself: The Message from Water

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Simplify!

Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify, simplify! … Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose.Henry David Thoreau

focus on detail robs energy

Our life is mostly spent on trivia, a lot of detail and not much on the essence of being. Take our daily work life as an example. We’re mostly concerned with getting through the week and getting our job done. We don’t stop to observe and to ruminate. The less we draw energy from the well inside us; the more we give away energy to the distractions without.

fortify with simplicity instead

Thoreau asks us to focus on the core. Simplify first and then dwell on the purpose of things and of beings.

  • Make life simpler.
  • Live in the moment.
  • Have fewer things.
  • Have fewer things to do.

Rediscover life by searching for the meaning, the motive and the intelligence behind all that we see happening around us and within us.

Recommendation: Walden

Walden

Why Stay Positive?

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.Unknown Author

the invisible

There’s an invisible world, one which we often ignore. That part of the Universe and its laws have a direct impact on our daily living. When we raise our vibrations by thinking good, thinking love and thinking positive, we partake of and create positive vibrations. These vibrations impact us, our future and those around us. Good health, great relationships, a happy present moment and a great future is the result!

it affects you first

When we feel resentment, fear, sorrow and experience worry we are generating and/or picking up vibrations of a whole different frequency. These lower frequencies impact us directly and first.

And that is the reason to not let these lower vibrations stick around youself for too long!

Why live with a neighbor that causes nothing but unhappiness? You think you are justified complaining about who did wrong to you and why. You might be justified but don’t feel sorry for yourself.

Break free instead, turn the tide, adopt vibrations of the positive kind!

Recommendation: Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude

Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude: How to Find, Build and Keep a YES! Attitude for a Lifetime of SUCCESS