Tag Archives: Now

Quotes - 2009

Who’s running the show?

The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show. – Leonard Cohen

There’s a greater intelligence, there’s a source from which all things, concepts, values, life and meaning proceed. At certain times of our lives or even during the course of a day, we can feel it, we can sense the underpinning of it all.

The trick is to recognize that power, realize that it runs through us and everyone else. Consciously accept it and allow it a free run in our life. Application of faith might be necessary initially.

Things start to happen when we do that. Try it.

Recommendation: The Way of Perfection

Quotes - 2009

Where art thou headed?

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

What general direction are you headed with regard to your physical, mental and spiritual health?

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!

Recommendation: The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power

Quotes - 2009

Discovering new lands…

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andre Gide

It’s that comfort zone again, that keeps drawing us down and forces us to cruise along blissfully neglecting our own growth. Growth is very important. Why? Because without the sense of achievement that comes from meaningful growth we feel empty, unfulfilled and tend to be depressed about life.

We must have meaningful goals to achieve, and constantly so. That doesn’t mean we have to be driven like rats. We can stay mindful, calm and know that we pursue worthwhile goals without neglecting what’s important in the Now. Growth must also be balanced. Physical, mental (emotional) and spiritual.

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

Quotes - 2009

Create the future you would like…

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. – Alan Kay

How much of your future do you think you can affect?

The answer to that question will define your power over your own life.

Granted there are certain inevitabilities like the nature of Nature that rule out certainties of any material sort. Beyond that though, your basic assumptions about life, health, happiness, relationships and your world-view will define your life as you will live it in the future. Your current beliefs and desires have put you where you are today.

How much power do you have upon yourself? Your mind? Catch yourself making subtle assumptions through-out the day. For example do you try to save money even though it might not be worth your time? Then it will follow that money may not flow freely into your life. Do you believe that because you’re not athletic, you’re not fit and therefore not healthy? If so, that belief will become reality in your daily life. Subtle beliefs are very hard to catch, but they’re often caught by people near you. Listen to them. Watch your thoughts, especially as they arise. Observe your actions and reactions.

Recommendation: Living the Science of Mind – Ernest Holmes

Quotes - 2009

Face the fear in the moment!

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.“ You must do the thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Wow that sure is the way to grow! And when you stop to look the fear in the face you won’t be able to proceed if you start analyzing the fear and start imagining worse outcomes!

The only way forward would be to face the fear and just move on, like when you’re about to dive into the pool, you just do it, without thinking.

So the ability to look clearly without worrying thoughts muddying your outlook is the key here. Clear thinking comes from disciplining the mind, which in turn can come from pure observation and/or meditation!

Recommendation: The Power of Now

Quotes - 2009

Born to succeed!

Men are born to succeed, not to fail. – Henry David Thoreau

You are already a success, just look around you, inside you, and at the life you’ve already created. Let your successful life guide your future and illuminate your present.

Your present is where you understand and accept the value of all that you’ve already become, it’s a culmination of sorts. It’s a future you had probably desired a long time ago. Recognize it, accept it and now celebrate it!

Celebrate the success that you already are!

Recommendation: This Time I Dance!: Creating the Work You Love

Quotes - 2009

Do some, Be some…

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

Our other regrets come from ways we couldn’t be. Like when we couldn’t be loving and patient, especially with our kids or our parents.

Regret is a lot of wasted energy. Instead of wallowing in what you couldn’t do or be, Do what you need to do and Be what you need to be, starting right now.

Then, we won’t have any ‘inconsolable’ regrets!

Recommendation: One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life