Now ~ Sept. 10, 2011

Quotes

Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you have at this moment. ~ Eckhart Tolle

~ I hope that you will take a moment and try this exercise. A true test of whether you are living in the now or not.

Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man... Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now. ~ Paulo Coelho

~ I know this isn't always easy to do. But when you live in the present how can life not be a "party for you, a grand festival"?

There are not kinds of love, love is love; there are only degrees of love. Love is trusting, accepting and believing, without guarantee. Love is patient and waits, but it's an active waiting, not a passive one. For it is continually offering itself in a mutual revealing, a mutual sharing, Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears. Love lives in the moment; it's neither lost in yesterday nor does it crave for tomorrow. Love is Now! ~ Leo F. Buscaglia

Blog Posts

5 Simple Actions for Pure Peace ~ I like this from Action 2 of this post. One of the things I love about living in a small town and owning my own business. It makes "going slowly" easier. ~ "Going slowly and enjoying the journey is “life.”  Rushing the moment can take such fun out of the anticipation. Expectations can lead to disappointment, but accepting what I have been given now is contentment."

Create to Share ~ "When we do something because we love it, the act of doing it becomes enough. When we create with the intention of sharing, everything we receive in return becomes a gift."

Dreams ~ August 26, 2011

What keeps you from moving towards your dreams?  Fear . . . fear of what? Failure? What others may say? I do not believe there is ever a reason to not move towards your dream. I know that it is not always easy and there may be some things that stand in our way. As long as we always move forward one step in front of the other we will eventually get there.

Quotes

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream. ~ Paulo Coelho

~ Pursuing your dreams is a joyful process, we should do it as often as we can. Never mind the fear, naysayers and what ever else holds us back. How can pursuing your dreams ever be wrong.

The distance between your dreams and your reality is always traversable.  If you can dream it, you can make it so. ~ Daisaku Ikeda

~ Absolutely. We are never given a dream without also being given the ability to make them come true.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. ~ Henry David Thoreau

~ Because that means we are living our dream.  What could be better than that? 

Blog Posts

You Can't What ~ First a warning . . . some may find the language of this blog post offensive, for that I am sorry. I am not sorry for sharing it though. Because, language aside, it is a great post about telling the the cant's, etc. to move out of your way.  


Today is Your Day ~ “Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.” ~ Ralph W. Sockman
 

Courage ~ August 25, 2011

Courage today. I believe in moving forward and sometimes that takes courage. The courage to simply put one foot in front of the other, the courage to stand up for the things we believe, the courage to simply live our lives the way we know we should and there are some days when it is really "the quiet voice at the end of the day saying 'I'll try again tomorrow'.

Quotes

We all have the ability…we just don't all have the courage to follow our dreams and to follow the signs. ~ Paulo Coelho

~ When were younger we thought we could do anything. As we grew we learned things like doubt, fear, anxiety, and limitations.  I think we can all do anything we wish to as long as we have the "courage to follow our dreams". We all have the ability.  We may not always have all the skills or knowledge necessary, but that can always come later.


Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow." ~ Mary Radmacher

~One of my favorite quotes. Many times we think of courage as some heroic act; but sometimes it is smaller than that. The little things in life usually matter the most, so sometimes courage is as simple as just getting out of bed in the morning.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. ~ Steve Jobs

~ Steve Jobs former CEO of Apple . . . some big changes in his life at the moment. It takes courage to make those big changes, to be the person who you know you are, to follow your heart and your intuition. Are you following your heart?

Blog Posts

The Tragedy of Missing Out ~ "What you’re doing right now is all that matters. Let the rest go, and enjoy the fish you’ve already caught."

Tiny Wisdom: Not Taking No For An Answer ~ "Other people can’t tell us how far we can go. They can’t tell us how our talents could evolve. They can’t tell us if our risks will pay off. Other people’s “nos” aren’t what limit our future–it’s our own “nos” that do that.""

August 10, 2011

Quotes

I discovered that searching can be as interesting as finding. ~ Paulo Coelho

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. ~ Jean Bolen

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek, therefore, not to find out Who You Are, seek to determine Who You Want to Be. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

Blog Posts

Balanced Living: 6 Tips to Stay on Track ~ “Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential.” ~Winston Churchill

How Naked Are You? ~ So, how naked are you? Have you stripped back those emotions that kept you shying away from a happy life? How have you beaten the embarrassment of baring your feelings? Or what’s worrying you about getting things off (your chest)?"

Resisting What's Good For You? Here's Why ~ "First, every pattern in your life is doing something good."

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

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

May 13, 2011

Went on a date with my hubby tonight. We went to a local restaurant and saw Ted Vigil, his a John Denver Tribute Artist. He sure looks the part and he is a great singer.  We had a nice time. Just wanted to share this video Ted Vigil as John Denver "Leaving on a Jet Plane". If you get the chance to see him perform you should go.

Quotes

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. ~ unknown 


We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us. ~ Paulo Coelho


To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both. ~ Catherine of Siena


Quotes from other FB pags

Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world. ~ Siddhārtha Gautama Via ~ Namasteॐ Om

We search so much for the right choices, the right paths to walk, the right time, the right reasons, and the right person. But life isn't just about searching for things. It's also about letting the unexpected happen and finding joy in things and people we never searched for. ~ Anonymous Via ~ People Who Inspire Us

 Blog Posts

Tiny Wisdom: On Beautiful Deeds ~  “Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.” -Buddha