How we perceive and interpret our experiences is the key to creating a life we desire.
Inspiration is instrumental to self-awareness and personal growth. So I invite you to join me on my journey of discovery and insight.
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November 30, 2009
Feeling miserable during this fall allergy season? I am. So here is something to bring a bit of laughter to make us feel better...maybe?
Thought for the week of 11/23-11/29, 2009
One can have mixed feelings about reality shows on television but it's true that sometimes we discover people's exceptional talents through them. Such is the exquisite artistic expression by Kseniya Simonova using simply sand and her gifted hands. Her work is emotionally stirring as she visually tells poignant stories that transcend language.
Thought for the week of 11/16-11/22, 2009
"The Path"
If anybody asks you what the Path is about, It's about generosity. It's about morality. It's about concentration. It's about gaining insight through focused self-observation. It's about the cultivation of subjective states of compassion and love based on insight. And it's about translating that compassion and love into actions in the real world.
-Shinzen Young (Buddhist meditation teacher and author)
Thought for the week of 11/09-11/15, 2009
Alanis Morissette is one of my favorite singer/songwriters. I appreciate the raw honesty and vulnerability in her music. Many of her songs convey to me her quest for authentic self and personal growth. Here I share with you a song I find that expresses her approach well. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
"Incomplete"
One day, I'll find relief I'll be arrived and I'll be a friend to my friends Who know how to be friends One day, I'll be at peace I'll be enlightened and I'll be married With children and maybe adopt One day, I will be healed I will gather my wounds Forge the end of tragic comedy I have been running so sweaty my whole life Urgent for a finish line And I have been missing the rapture this whole time Of being forever incomplete One day, my mind will retreat And I'll know God And I'll be constantly one with her Night, dusk and day One day, I'll be secure Like the women I see On their thirtieth anniversaries I have been running so sweaty my whole life Urgent for a finish line And I have been missing the rapture this whole time Of being forever incomplete Ever unfolding, ever expanding Ever adventurous and torturous But never done One day, I will speak freely I'll be less afraid And measured outside of my poems and lyrics and art One day, I will be faith filled I'll be trusting and spacious Authentic and grounded and whole I have been running so sweaty my whole life Urgent for a finish line And I have been missing the rapture this whole time Of being forever incomplete
Thought for the week of 11/02-11/08, 2009
Wise words to reflect on as each day we make decisions based on how we think and what we believe....
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. - Demosthenes
A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Winston Churchill
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world. - Max Born
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs. - James Allen
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. - Bertrand Russell
Inspiration - November 2009
