Monthly Archives: August 2014

Quotes - 2014

Where To Next?

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Follow your bliss. – Joseph Campbell

bliss

The words are very precise, Joseph doesn’t say follow your desires or follow your happiness…

Bliss is defined as follows by the Dictionary:

  • complete happiness: perfect happiness
  • spiritual joy: a state of spiritual joy

The definition begs the question, what is ‘perfect happiness’ and/or ‘spiritual joy’?

We must answer that for self. And to answer that question we must know self.

So know self first, understand what makes us happy for the long run, understand our bliss and follow it…

affirmations

Today I AM following my bliss. I notice what makes me happy. I understand the tasks that fulfill me. I recognize the people who lift me and complete me. I find happiness assisting others. I AM guided by Spirit which gently leads me to a state of spiritual joy. I see God in everyone else and my whole day is blissful!

Recommendation: The Center Within by Fred Harris

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Quotes - 2014

Why We Are Like Seeds…

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.  – Oliver Wendell Holmes

seeds

We are like seeds. A seed comes with all that it needs to grow into a mighty oak. It dances with Nature to extract water/sunshine and provides life-giving fruit and shade. Let’s discover the seed that we are, deep inside. Once we make contact we’ll have the means to be rejuvenated and motivated like never before! We will grow like a strong oak and know self. We will then give to those around us, in ways no one else can.

affirmations

I AM a child of God. I AM a son of the Universe. Seeds of greatness, loveliness, creativity and goodness lie inside me. Today I water these seeds with the right thoughts and actions. I AM thrilled with my life. All is well!

Recommendation: Love: What Life Is All About by Leo F. Buscaglia

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Quotes - 2014

What Did We Not Do?

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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for things we did not do that is inconsolable. – Sydney J. Harris

regret?

Other regrets come from ways we couldn’t be. And I think these regrets are worse. However if we find our Life Purpose and know how to be blissfully happy then any regret can be minimized. Regrets that we harbor cost us deeply. They stifle our growth and keep us from moving forward. This is also true of people (self included) or situations that we haven’t been able to forgive. Take this quote with a grain of salt! Understand that we must try and be all that we’re capable of and at the same time we don’t want regret to sully your life experience today! We have an eternity ahead of us to get it all done!

affirmations

Today I AM happy that eternity smiles at me. I have all the time I need to get it all done. I’ll have opportunities beyond my earthly life if some business is left unfinished. All wrongs and all regrets will be erased by time and by God. I rest easy and everything gets handled easily. Life has a great way of working out when I have the right attitude. My life is beautiful!

Recommendation: Art of Being by Erich Fromm

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Quotes - 2014

How To Deal With Irritating Folks!

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If some one irritates you, causes feelings of resentment, you should sympathetically seek to discern his viewpoint, his reasons for such objectionable conduct. If once you understand your neighbor, you will become tolerant, and this tolerance will grow into friendship and ripen into love.  – The Urantia Papers

peace among all

Understanding and love among all is the only way the planet will eventually find peace. How will such a thing happen? Not by God doing it for us or by some other magical means. It must be achieved little by little and one person at a time. It will only happen when you and I change. When such a change becomes apparent to our family and neighbors, they will wonder what it was that changed us! Then the virus of love and understanding can spread to them and eventually to all we touch, which is the entire planet! This is the prescription for love, peace and happiness that we all seek!

affirmations

Today I AM love. My interactions with everyone else are based on this love. I truly listen to all. I understand them and their situations. I AM slowing creating heaven out there by being peaceful and loving in here. I AM not judgmental, I understand that everyone’s walking their own path. I notice God’s handiwork in everyone’s life. I AM blessed!

Recommendation: The Urantia Papers

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Quotes - 2012

What’s Our ‘Default Future’?

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If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going.  – Professor Irwin Corey

our ‘default future’

What general direction are we headed with regard to our physical, mental and spiritual lives? What will our default future be if don’t change anything today? Sometimes we feel that the future will take care of itself. Actually it does do that, all we have to do is fine-tune our present. We must be happy and healthy now as far as possible, then the future takes care of itself. Better to change direction as needed, NOW!

affirmations

I AM taking care of my intentions and objectives today so that the future I create is beautiful! I never worry but do my best today. I live a conscious life that’s guided by the divine pilot. I have faith and cruise through life smiling.

Recommendation: ving the Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes

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Stillness

Why We’re Art…

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The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning. – Nikki Giovanni

art & artists

God is the master poet who writes profusely and with abandon. It is up to us to make meaning out of everything we see and experience. God’s there behind the scenes watching and participating in many more ways than one. As we experience life and build our meaning and values, God finds that extremely powerful and valuable. He needs us as much as we need him. It takes two to tango and without us and our experience of living, relating and finding deep meaning, his whole creation would be very empty. We are important to God, we’re his art as well as artists in the making…

affirmations

I AM God’s child. I AM also the art he creates every day. Which is why I AM beautiful and lovely. I have great value. I bring this beauty and value to all who I meet daily. I AM gentle and create peace and loveliness wherever I go. Life occurs daily just like a gorgeous painting unfolds. Life is beautiful!

Recommendation: God Is Closer Than You Think by John Ortberg

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Quotes - 2014, Stillness

Why Here, Now?

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Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And Tomorrow is only a Vision;
But Today well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

– Kalidasa

here and now

This is it, today and now is all we have! We live our entire life, our existence, our dreams and sorrows; all during today.

We often spend time regretting the past or reliving it. We also spend time worrying about the future. While it’s good to learn from past mistakes and great to plan ahead, lets not miss out on the priceless opportunities that ‘Now’ has to offer. The ever present and eternal Now is where reality intersects with consciousness, which is the real YOU.

Be Here Now, Now Be Here. – Ram Dass

affirmations

I AM Now present, here. I inhabit Now and relish time as I experience it. Life itself flows through me and my experiences as I travel through time and space. I AM in a boat. The boat is constant within itself yet it flows down the river of time. The Lord of the Universe cradles me in his palm. The Mother looks after my every need. All is well in this eternal garden of Truth, Beauty and Goodness…

Recommendation: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

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