My favourite quotes which keep me in-spired, i.e., in-Spirit

 

"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be."

—           Patanjali 

 

 

 

May your body be blessed.

—          May you realize that your body is a faithful and beautiful

—          friend of your soul.

—          And may you be peaceful and joyful and recognize that your sense are sacred thresholds.

—          May you realize that holiness is mindful, gazing, feeling,

—          hearing, and touching.

—          May your senses gather you and bring you home.

—          May your senses always enable you to celebrate the universe

—          and the mystery and possibilities in your presence here.

—          May the Eros of the Earth bless you.

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—            by John O'Donahue from Anam Cara: 

—            a book of Celtic wisdom 

 

 

 

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
~                Mother Theresa

 

 

 

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

 

 

 

There is a vitality, a life~ force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open...whether you choose to take an art class, keep a journal, record your dreams, dance your life story or live each day from your own creative source. Above all else, keep the channel open! 
~ Martha Graham

 

 

 

Let this beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
~ Rumi

 

 

All things are connected like the blood that unites us, 
We did not weave the web of life. We are merely a strand in it. 
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. 
~ Chief Seattle

 

 

 

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything. 


~ Thich Nhat Hanh

 

 

There is nothing more powerful than a woman with an open heart...

~ as yet unknown

 

She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing "yes" in the sky.
~ Monique Duval~

You have to begin to tell the story of your life as you now want it to be and discontinue the tales of how it has been or of how it is.


~ Esther & Jerry Hicks

 

 

Sacred activism is the fusion of the mystic’s passion for God with the activist’s passion for justice, creating a third fire, which is the burning sacred heart that longs to help, preserve and nurture every living thing.

~ Andrew Harvey

 

 

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
~ Wayne Dyer

 

 

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore. Dream. Discover." ~ Mark Twain

 

 

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."  - Margaret B. Runbeck

 

 

“Tension is who you think you should be.  Relaxation is who you are.”  - Chinese Proverb

 

 

“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down”

Lily Tomlin

 

 

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." - Carl Bard

 

 

Your imagination is your preview to life's coming attractions." ~ Albert Einstein

 

 

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

 

 

 

"Hope has two beautiful daughters - their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are."  ~ St. Augustine

 

 

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.   Dr.Seuss

 

 

 

What if becoming who and what we truly are happens not through striving and trying but by recognizing and receiving the people and places and practices that offer us the warmth of encouragement we need to unfold?

Take me to the places on the earth that teach you how to dance, the places where you can risk letting the world break your heart, and I will take you to the places where the earth beneath my feet

and the stars overhead make my heart whole again and again.


Oriah Mountain Dreamer 

 

 

 

 

Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.

~ Native American saying

 

 

 

The Invitation

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

 

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

 

     

    

 

This being human is a guest house. 
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all! 
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, 
who violently sweep your house 
empty of its furniture, 
still, treat each guest honorably.

He may be cleaning you out 
For some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes, 
because each has been sent 
as a guide from the

beyond

The Guest House    by Rumi

 

 

We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For

 

You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour.

 

Now you must go back and tell the people that this is The Hour.

 

And there are things to be considered:

 

Where are you living?

 

What are you doing?

 

What are your relationships?

 

Are you in right relation?

 

Where is your water?

 

Know your garden.

 

It is time to speak your Truth.

  

Create your community. Be good to each other. And do not look outside yourself for the leader.

This could be a good time!

 

There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly.

 

Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water. See who is in there with you and celebrate.

 

At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally. Least of all, ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.

 

The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves!

 

Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary.

 

All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

 

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

 

—The Elders Oraibi Arizona Hopi Nation

 

 

   

 

Peace and happiness are available in every moment. Peace is every step. We shall walk hand in hand. There are no political solutions to spiritual problems. Remember: If the Creator put it there, it is in the right place. The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.