Inspiring Words
“Just imagine what would be possible if every person who interacts with you this year could see and feel your greatness. What if they could see the light in your eyes, hear the gratitude in your voice, and experience your total and complete enthusiasm for life? Do you think that would make a difference for them? What if this was your only purpose, your task to complete this year? What if all you needed to do was to live your life in such a way that you inspired others to become enthusiastic about their own lives and share their gifts with those around them?” Debbie Ford in The Best Year of Your Life
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“Revolution doesn’t have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.” Joseph Campbell in Pathways to Bliss
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“Your Self is already inherently liberated. It is the ideas that have been imposed on that Self which must be set free.” Gangaji
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“Leading a life of bliss involves canceling other engagements.” Dorothy MacLean lecture, 11/03/07
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“We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy’s fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, begging for pennies from every passerby, unaware that his fortune was right under him the whole time. Your treasure – your perfection – is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.” Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love
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“Whatever you’re thinking about is literally like planning a future event. When you’re worrying, you are planning. When you are appreciating, you are planning. What are you planning?” Abraham-Hicks, 4/19/97
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“How you do anything is how you do everything.” Source unknown
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“Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.” Jim Rohn as quoted in Speak Peace by Marshall Rosenberg
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“This is the requirement for relationship as celebration: that I get wholeheartedly, whole body, whole mind, whole me committed to relationship as a path.” Kathlyn Hendricks as quoted in Translucent Revolution by Arjuna Ardagh
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Love After Love - by Derek Walcott
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the others’ welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
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“Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.” Jean Kerr as quoted in Shovel It by Eva Shaw
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“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” Socrates
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“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.” Joel Barker as quoted in Speak Peace by Marshall Rosenberg
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“In order to validate other people, we must discover, with certainty, their true source, and become aware of, appreciate, communicate with, and treat them as spiritual beings.” Michael Tamura in You Are the Answer
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“The word believe is made up of two words, be alive. The old English meaning of the word is to ‘live in the state of being,’ which means making it real in your life. To believe means to make alive your conceived truths, feel the reality of them in your heart. It is much more than a conscious or theoretical assent; it means that you must feel the truth of what you affirm in your heart.
For you to truly express faith in something, your ‘head knowledge’ must become ‘heart knowledge.’
Then you not only believe, you demonstrate your belief.” Joseph Murphy in Think Yourself to Health, Wealth & Happiness
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“No need to practice what you preach, just practice, and let your example be the only preaching you do.” Arjuna Ardagh in Translucent Revolution
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“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say . . .” Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist
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“The undeniable fact is that underneath all of our public personas, we already are that which we desire to be. Our only job is to see past our own limitations so that we can return to that which we already are.” Debbie Ford in The Best Year of Your Life
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