July 28, 2011 & July 29, 2011

Quotes

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. ~ Eric Hoffer

For at the center of all spiritual traditions is the beacon of a truly radical proposal: Open your heart to everybody. Everybody. ~ Marc Barasch

  

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. ~ Dalai Lama

When you are compassionate with yourself, you trust in your soul, which you let guide your life. Your soul knows the geography of your destiny better than you do. ~ John O'Donohue

Blog Posts

4 Simple Mantras to Help You Stay Positive and Happy ~ “The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.” ~ Swedish Proverb

July 26, 2011 & July 27, 2011

Quotes

"Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything. So when you think a sustained thought it is immediately sent out into the Universe. That thought magnetically attaches itself to the like frequency, and then within seconds sends the reading of that frequency back to you through your feelings. Put another way, your feelings are communication back to you from the Universe, telling you what frequency you are currently on. Your feelings are your frequency feedback mechanism!" ~ Jack Canfield

Don't live every day as if it were your last. Live every day as if it were your first. ~ Via Paulo Coelho

The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. ~ Charles Swindoll

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us. ~ Earl Nightingale

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. ~ Earl Nightingale

Blog Posts

In a World in Crisis - Keep Giving Your Best ~ "Perhaps this is what integrity is? Giving our best. Being genuine and true to ourselves. Being patient when a voice in our head says it’s time to quit."

Insecure? Reclaim the Joy of Being You ~  “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”  ~ Vincent Van Gogh

How to Set Healthy Boundaries: 3 Crucial First Steps ~ “You change for two reasons: Either you learn enough that you want to, or you’ve been hurt enough that you have to.” ~ Unknown

Ju;y 25, 2011

I was getting ready for work this morning; putting in earrings when I noticed that one of my diamond earrings was missing. I have my ears pierced multiple times and always wear a pair of diamond studs. I just about cried.


I was pretty upset. Not really because of the earrings themselves; but because they were a gift from my husband at a milestone I thought was important. My husband gave them to me when I graduate from college. I never take those earrings out.  

Before leaving for work this morning I let go of the sadness I felt for loosing my earring. I decided that I would find it. Later in the day I was reading ~ The Power by Rhonda Byrne (she also wrote The Secret). There is a part talking about the loss of a dog and when they let go of the negative feelings about their loss; they imagined that their dog was with them, put out his food etc.  Soon after they found a notice of a found dog, their dog.

When I read that, I knew for sure I would find my earring. So after work I came home and before the vacuuming and laundry got done I searched for my earring.  Well I found it!!!!! I was so excited; again not because of the earring itself, but because of the memories it holds.



Quotes

It must be those brief moments
when nothing has happened - nor is going to.
Tiny moments, like islands in the ocean
beyond the grey continent of our ordinary days.

There, sometimes, you meet your own heart
like someone you've never known.

~ Hans Børli

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow. ~ Jerry Spinelli

My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully and yell for help if you need it. ~ Judy Blume

Blog Posts

Tiny Wisdom: Why We're Not Honest With Friends ~ “An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.” ~ Proverb

75 Steps for a Fear-Less Life ~ You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

July 24, 2011

Quotes

So the question is not: Why start off on such a path? You have already started off. You did so with the first beat of your heart. The question is: Do I wish to walk this path consciously, or unconsciously? With awareness or lack of awareness? As the cause of my experience, or at the effect of it? ~ Neale Donald Walsch

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark.... Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach.  Check your road and the nature of your battle.  The world you desired can be won.  It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. ~ Ayn Rand  

Peace in every step. The shining red sun is my heart. Each flower smiles with me. How green, how fresh all that grows. How cool the wind blows. Peace is every step. It turns the endless path to joy. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

If you knew who walks beside you on this path that you have chosen, fear would be impossible. ~ A Course in Miracles

July 23, 2011

A Note

A Farewell to Can't

This goodbye does not make me sad. I will not miss you. I have discovered what it feels like to do the unthinkable. The hard. The long. The challenging. You have no business here anymore. From no on, the difficult will seem doable. I will see the impossible as simply no yet conquered. Farewell, can't. You will  haunt me never again. Hello, Can. Welcome to my world.

Quote credit - not sure who to credit exactly. This was in an ad for Outwardbound.org.
Photo credit goes to bertvthul at stock.xchng.

Quotes
 
Love is an element which though physically unseen is as real as air or water. It is an acting, living, moving force . . . it moves in waves and currents like those of the ocean. ~ Prentice Mulford

I'm afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have a much more interesting life. ~ Paulo Coelho

Blog Posts

Finding Your Voice ~  "We are writers, musicians, designers, programmers, parents, builders of anything. But we are not truly expressing ourselves, and speaking the truth, until we’ve found our voice: the tone, style, tenor, pitch, personality we use to express ourselves."

Unconditional Love, Unconditional Friendship ~ “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” ~ Dalai Lama