My Trove > Inspiration

Some of the subjects covered here...

2006-05-15T23:41:00.008+01:00

Testing blockquotes what do you think

Living in the moment
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise man grows it under his feet. (James Oppenheim)

Stillness
To the mind that is still, The whole universe surrenders. Chuang Tzu

The nature of God
In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things. Pablo Casals

Letting go
Life just is. You have to flow with it. Give yourself to the moment. Let it happen. Governor Gerry Brown

Loving ourselves
Respect heroes above men, gods above demi-gods, but above all, respect yourself. (Pythagoras)

Knowing our own truth
Say not I have found the truth, but rather I have found a truth. Kahlil Gibran

Cherishing others
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli

Courage
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin

Creating ourselves
Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard
Shore

Inspiring quotes
Hope is the ability to listen to the music of the future. Faith is the courage to dance to it in the present. Craig Botha

Thought-provoking quotes
Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; anything but - live for it. Charles Caleb Colton

The grace of laughter
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. Victor Borge

The power of vivid intentions
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. Louisa May Alcott

Having passion
I don't care what you do for a living. If you love it, you are a success. George Burns

The power of simplicity
Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. C.W.Ceram

Finding treasure
My house burned down. Now I can better see the rising moon (Basho, a 12th century Japanese wanderer)

The power of questions
All human progress is preceded by new questions. (Anthony Robbins)

Tips on doing
Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things. Stephen Covey

Giving
Be what you are looking for and what you are looking for will find you. What you seek from another, give to another. That which you wish to experience from another, cause another to experience. N. D. Walsch

Exploring
We must not cease from our exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive at the place where we began and to know the place for the first time. (T.S.Elliot)

Creating

2006-02-16T03:04:00.000Z

CREATING...

Moments of grace

My moments of awakening can come at any time, and through any person. These are my moments of grace, when clarity and wisdom, love and understanding, guidance and insight are brought to me and through me. My life has been created to bring me just such moments. That is why I do whatever it takes - meditate, exercise, pray, read, write, listen to music, whatever I find works - to ignite my awareness daily. N. D. Walsch

I remember I am simply using illusions to create a localised contextual field within which I can experience, and not merely conceptualise, any one of the myriad aspects of Who I Am. I use this contextual field like an artist using a paint brush, producing wonderful pictures and creating powerful and extraordinary moments - moments of grace - in which I may know myself experientially. N. D. Walsch

Stillness within finds stillness without as the framework through which all activity occurs. Breathe deep and full. Relax always. Grace unfolds from within to dance about in joyous recognition. Rob Campbell

Affirming beliefs

Crating powerful habits

It is infinitely better to practice a few minutes every day than to do it for an hour once a week.

I use personal leverages and create powerful habits.

Remember that you become what you practice most. Repeated practice is the most basic principle of most spiritual and meditative paths. Where is your attention? How do you spend your time? Are you cultivating habits that are helpful to your goals? Richard Carlson

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them far apart. Confucius
Sow an act...reap a habit; Sow a habit...reap a character; Sow a character...reap a destiny. George Dana Boardman

The essence of a belief is the establishment of a habit. Charles S. Pearce
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. Frank Outlaw

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. John Dryden
Deep continuous investment over time brings real, sustaining change. Cramming or quick fix solutions do nothing. Stephen Covey

Creating meaning

There is no meaning to anything save the meaning you can give it. Life is meaningless. I give you the opportunity to decide what anything and everything means. Choose why it is happening. Decide why. Do not search for life's meaning of any event. Give it its meaning. Then announce, declare, express and experience who I Choose to Be in relationship to it. Nothing in my world is real. The meaning of everything is the meaning i give it. I am who i say i am, and my experience is what I say it is. N. D. Walsch

"Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning." Joseph Campbell

THROUGH...

The power of vibrant intentions

Being

The power of imagination

Doing what I love to do

Loving yourself as you are

2006-02-16T02:12:00.000Z

Come home to yourself
Love yourself as you are
You are enough
Nourish your centre

Come home to yourself

I pull up a chair & get acquainted with the me that exists right now. I am enough! I am beautiful as I am. This is a wonderful & courageous step. I can relax & enjoy myself. I become more tolerant of myself & others. I am able to delight in uniqueness. John Kehoe

I come home to life as well. Things are what they are. I let go & allow life to just happen, instead of trying to orchestrate it. I appreciate everything just for what it is. I've tried to make believe life is something it is not - some utopia where every dream is fulfilled. Life is happy & sad. Life is joy & grief. Life is health & sickness. Life is excitement & boredom. Life is having friends & being lonely. Life is achieving your goals & failing at your goals. Life is being confused & being sure. Life is what it is & if I look at it beyond my illusion of what I think it should be, I find within its diversity, tremendous beauty & goodness. Friendship, a brilliant blue sky, making love, sunsets, acts of kindness, the beach, trees, a good movie, delicious food, a hot bath, beautiful music. Maybe there's no caviar but there's always a hot bowl of soup & it will nourish me. I let go of any bitterness, disappointment, anxiety or frustration & let the sun warm my bones. Wake up! Life is spilling out abundantly. Come home & enjoy it. John Kehoe

Love Yourself As You Are

Behold thyself in glory. Love thyself as I love you. In this way you honour Me. It is your duty to love yourself deeply, totally, unconditionally. To see yourself as something of great worth. To do less is to deny the task for which you were born. What of your faults & inadequacies? Resolve to love them as part of who you are. You are beautiful because of them. They are part of your uniqueness, like markings on a wild animal. They give you flavour. Make you real. Allow yourself & others to make mistakes, miss opportunities, & make foolish decisions. Recognise & accept your vulnerability & fragility. Your quirks & idiosyncrasies - all part of who you are. You are beautiful & special because of your humanness - in fact, this is where your true beauty lies. As the day accepts the sun & the night accepts the moon, so you accept yourself. And so you become complete & whole. John Kehoe

I resolve to renounce all guilt and remorse for all mistakes, past and future. I do my best. No more is asked. Sometimes I will make bad decisions. Sometimes consequences will result which will hurt others. I am human. But I will not pay too much heed to these things. I will offer a silent prayer and move on. There is no point in regret or self-recrimination. For no matter how dire the consequences I imagine, the sun will still shine. Rivers will still run. The tree will produce fruit. The ocean tides will ebb. When I allow myself to be human and let go of my harsh judgements, I flower and bloom. My eyes are opened to my worth. Talents and gifts I never knew I had, begin to reveal themselves. Every part of me bathes in the warm glow of love and acceptance. Strengths, abilities, weaknesses and inadequacies. All things become new. No regret or shame. A life nourished from within. As the day accepts the sun and the night accepts the moon, so I accept myself. And so I become complete and whole. John Kehoe

I am the prism by which all is perceived. I need not change, make myself better or more beautiful - I have merely to behold myself as beautiful & it will be so. Wondrous, it is so. John Kehoe

You Are Enough

I grow to experience greater happiness, not to improve or because I feel incomplete. Dr Wayne W. Dyer

Happiness is having a sense of self - not a feeling of being perfect but of being good enough and knowing that you are in the process of growth, of being, of achieving levels of joy. Leo Buscaglia

I may not be totally perfect but parts of me are excellent. Ashleigh Brilliant
Give Yourself A Break

Freedom from must and shoulds is freedom from musturbation. Replace musts and shoulds with I may or I choose. Albert Ellis

The strength from within

When your centre is strong, everything else is secondary. Elie Wiesel

A pleasant and happy life does not come from external things. Man draws from within himself, as from a spring, pleasure and joy. (Plutarch)

Eliminate dependency. I may want but I do not need. I am the sunshine of my life and having you in it makes it even brighter. Dr Wayne W. Dyer
He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. Longfellow

Joy is not in things, it is in us. (Richard Wagner)

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. Coco Chanel

When you do not require a person to show up as you imagine you need them to be, then you can drop expectation. Then you love them exactly as they are. Yet this can only happen when you love your Self exactly as you are. N. D. Walsch

Accept yourself as you are right now. I may not be perfect, but I okay just the way I am. Richard Carlson

Nourish your centre

Learn to pat yourself on the back for your past and present victories, not matter how small. Search for things to acknowledge. Write down every strong point you can come up with in your life, past and present. John Kehoe

Redefine a "meaningful accomplishment." If being peaceful and loving are amongst your primary goals, then why not redefine your most meaningful accomplishments as being those that support and measure qualities such as kindness and happiness. Richard Carlson

I catch myself doing things right. I am my own best friend. I give myself a hug. Dr Irene C. Kassorla

Nourish your body

I nourish my body through exercise, rest, good posture & healthy food

Vibrant health is based on natural principles. It grows over time out of regular exercise, proper nutrition, adequate rest, a healthy mind-set, avoiding substances that are harmful to the body. Stephen Covey