Stories,
Inspirations and
Thoughts On ...
Action/Risk
It is always your next move.
Napoleon Hill
Let us never confuse stability with stagnation.
Mary Jean LeTendre
One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.
Morris L. West
One thing we can do is make the choice to view the world in a healthy way. We can choose to see the world as safe with only moments of danger rather than seeing the world as dangerous with only moments of safety.
Deepak Chopra
There’s no such thing as security in this life, sweetheart, and the sooner you accept that fact, the better off you’ll be. The person who strives for security will never be free. The person who believes she’s found security will never reach paradise. What she mistakes for security is purgatory. You know what purgatory is? It’s the waiting room, it’s the lobby.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Tom Robbins
The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.
Henry Miller
You should know now that a man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting. A man of knowledge chooses a path with heart and follows it.
Don Juan in Carlos Castaneda’s “A Separate
Reality”
Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.
Shirley Hufstedler
Far better it is to dare mighty things…even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Teddy Roosevelt to the Rough Riders.
The person of extraordinary initiative swallows up all difficulties, believing in his heart that he is right. With unflinching steadiness march on your path realizing that behind you is infinite Create Power.
Paramahansa Yogananda
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Norman Vincent Peale
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt the adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
George Bernard Shaw
About the Past…”The way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.”
Rafikki to Simba in Disney’s Lion King
Action without vision just passes the time.
Whatever you can do or dream you can, Begin It. Boldness has genius,
power, and magic in it. Begin It Now.
Goethe
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run
over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
Aging
If you are going over the hill anyway, bring a kite! Thing young, act young. Become an ageless athlete in everyday life.
Dan Millman
Ambition/Success
Ambition by itself never gets anywhere until it forms a partnership with hard work.
James Garfield
Success is sweet, but it usually has the scent of sweat about it.
Try to be ‘a success’ in terms of having prestige symbols and wearing certain badges leads to neuroticism, and frustration and unhappiness. Striving to be ‘successful’ brings, not only material success, but satisfaction, fulfillment and happiness.
Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics
You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.
Henry Ford
Success is a journey, not a destination
Ben Sweetland
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Emerson
When you feel yourself going nowhere, or even slipping backward, you may actually be backing up to get a running start.
Dan Millman
No one keeps up his enthusiasm automatically. Enthusiasm must be nourished with new actions, new aspirations, new efforts and new vision. It is one’s own fault if his enthusiasm is gone, he has failed to feed it.
Papyrus
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bach, Illusions
Don’t be afraid to take a big step.
You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake
Trust yourself. Create the kind of life you will be happy with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
FC McClellan
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best you can become.
Harold Taylor.
Fall seven times
Stand up eight.
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
The Oracle
Attitude
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Donald A. Laird
Perspective – use it or lose it. If you turned to this page, you’re forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that. Remember where you came from, where you are going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place. You’re going to die a horrible death, remember. It’s all good training, and you’ll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind.
Illusions, Richard Bach
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all
Emily Dickenson
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What a caterpillar calls the end of the world, a master calls a butterly.
Illusions, Richard Bach.
Optimism, how people explain to themselves their successes and failures. People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for failure, ascribing it to some lasting characteristic they are helpless to change. These differing explanations have profound implications for how people respond to life. Optimism, like hope, means having a strong expectation that, in general, thing will turn out all right in life, despite setbacks and frustrations. From the standpoint of emotional intelligence, optimism is an attitude that buffers people against falling into apathy, hopelessness, or depression in the face of tough going.
Daniel Goleman, Emotional intelligence
Lighten up! Whatever happens as a result of your decision, you’ll handle it!
Susan Jeffers
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale Carnegie
Awareness
When emotionally upset, people cannot remember, attend, learn or make decisions clearly. Stress makes people stupid.
Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence
Life is a great school, and nature is the ultimate teacher, but without awareness, or free attention, we miss life’s teachings. Awareness transforms life experience into wisdom and confusion into clarity. Awareness is the beginning of all growth. Learning is more than knowing something new, it involves doing something new. The process of learning naturally involves errors. Masters make as many mistakes as anyone; but they learn from them. To correct and learn from an error, you need to become aware of it. Awareness of a problem is the beginning of a solution.
Dan Millman, Body Mind Mastery
At the highest levels of spiritual practice, meditation goes far beyond the act of being aware, and enters the realm of awareness itself. You become the witness who sits in serene balance, neither leaning forward into the future, nor backward into the past. You sit, stable and detached, merely watching the body, mind, emotions and soul – watching with the eyes of God.
Dan Millman, Body Mind Mastery
Witness is a learned skill consisting of recognition and release of old patterns. If you notice anger, you acknowledge it and accept it. It may seem strange, but you can feel good physically no matter what negative thoughts or emotions arise. Negative thoughts don’t have to mean negative tension – if you remember to breathe, shake loose, and relax. This is the essence of witnessing.
Dan Millman, Body Mind Mastery
Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you do. You are all learners, doers, teachers.
Illusions, Richard Bach
A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed. It feels an impulsion…this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond the horizons.
Richard Bach, Illusions
Change
Then the time came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, it became a butterfly.
Author Unknown
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Ghandi
Without change, something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Frank Hebert
The pace of change never slows, even when we’ve convinced ourselves it will.
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. And if we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
Gail Sheehy
(What we are here to do not just to grow, but to be transformed)…I’m not talking about growth. Little tadpoles don’t just grow into big tadpoles and call themselves frogs, the way little children grow into big children and call themselves adults. Tadpoles are transformed into something entirely other.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
W. Edwards Denning
To change and to change for the better are two different things.
German Proverb
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t
change it, change your attitude. Never complain.
Maya Angelou
Sometimes we are forced in directions we should have chosen for
ourselves.
Maid in Manhattan-The Film
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory.
I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting
past.
Stephen Covey
Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise,
open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in
life. Certainly it is worth the risk.
Leo Buscaglia
Criticism/Self Doubt
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
Neil Peart
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Norman Vincent Peale
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.
Barbara Sher
If you had a friend who talked to you like you sometimes talk to yourself, would you continue to hang around with that person?
Rob Bremer
The most self-destructive thought that any person can have is thinking
that he or she is not in total control of his or her life. That's
when, ‘Why me?’ becomes a theme song.
Roger Dawson
...look at that word blame. It's just a coincidence that the last
two letters spell the word me. But that coincidence is worth thinking
about. Other people or unfortunate circumstances may have caused
you to feel pain, but only you control whether you allow that pain
to go on. If you want those feelings to go away, you have to say:
‘It's up to me.
Arthur Freeman
If you want more peace of mind, stop labelling everything that happens as "good" or "bad".
Andrew Matthews
The happiest people don't worry too much about whether life is fair or not. They just get on with it.
Andrew Matthews
If you think the world is against you, it is. Blaming other people doesn't work. When you fight life, life always wins.
Andrew Matthews
Dreams
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Anais Nin
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
Tupac Shakur
Dreams are touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau
If you have faith which is truly divine, and if there is something you desire that is not in the universe, it shall be created for you.
Sri Yukteswar
Your vision becomes clear only when you can look into your heart. Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakens.
Carl Jung
Great dreamers dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.
Alfred Lord Whitehead
Excellence/Potential
We are the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end, all possibilities existing as potential; awaiting the opportunity to coalesce as our thoughts, emotions, and choices.
Gregg Braden, Awakening to Zero Point
It’s a funny thing, life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham
You give your best not because you need to impress people. You give your best because that’s the only way to enjoy your work.
Andrew Matthews, Follow Your Heart
The original sin is to limit the IS. Don’t.
Richard Bach, Illusions
The most important thing is not to win, but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph, but the attempt. The essential thing is not to have conquered, but to have fought well.
Bernard Coubertan, the Olympic Creed.
Courage is not the absence of fear - courage is acting in spite
of fear.
People who do nothing with their lives are just as scared as people
who take major risks. It's just that the first group gets scared
over tiny things. Why not get scared over something significant?
Andrew Matthews
To achieve the remakable, we must dare to think the unthinkable
Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Happiness
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
Spiritual growth is not made in reaction against, for all striving against imposed restrictions is imaginary. Spiritual growth is accomplished by inclination toward. We grow like the sunflower, following the light.
Joy Houghton
Most people would rather be certain they are miserable than risk being happy.
Robert Anthony
Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.
Scottish Proverb
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they are not on your road does not mean they have gotten
lost.
Jackson Brown
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness
without action.
B. Disraeli
The constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Burton Hills.
Show my one happy, ungrateful person.
Zig Ziglar
In order to live freely and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It’s not always an easy sacrifice.
Richard Bach, Illusions.
The Way to Happiness
Keep your heart free from hate.
Keep your mind free from worry.
Live Simply.
Expect little.
Give much.
Fill you life with love.
Scatter sunshine.
Forget Self, think of others.
Do as you would be done by.
Imagination/Mind
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
William James
There are three kinds of violence: one, through our deeds; two, through our words; and three, through our thoughts. …The root of all violence is in the world of thoughts, and that is why training the mind is so important.
Eknath Easwaran
Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon
If you can imagine it,
You can achieve it
If you can dream it,
You can become it.
Imagination, of all men’s faculties it is the most God-like.
Glenn Clark
The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principal source of human improvement. Destroy this faculty, and the condition of man will become as stationary as that of brutes.
Dugold Stewart
Golf is 20 percent technique, and 80 percent mental.
Ben Hogan
Sometimes, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
It is through our quality of thought, feeling and emotion, our belief systems, that physical change within our bodies may be accomplished.
Gregg Braden, Awakening to Zero Point
Babaji says that you make a garden of your mind a paradise by growing flowers and fruits of right and pure thoughts. You create your heaven or hell by allowing wrong or impure thoughts to grow. Don’t imagine that any of your thoughts can be kept ineffectual. Thoughts crystallize into habits and solidify into circumstances. Good thoughts bear good fruit, and bad thoughts bear bad fruit. You simply choose your thoughts, and indirectly yet surely, you shape your circumstances. Lovingly tend the garden of your mind.
Babaji’s Kriya yoga
The thing always happens that you believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Any conscious thought repeated over a period of time becomes a program.
Andrew Matthews
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Einstein
Utilizing your conscious mind to direct the subconscious mind to enter into communication and harmony with the universal mind is the secret of personal power.
Delfin Knowledge System
If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
Susanne K. Langer
You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions.
Richard Bach
If we are honest with ourselves, we can list almost everything that's ever happened to us-and see how we helped create it.
Andrew Matthews
Life
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life; it goes on.
Robert Frost
Here’s a test to find whether your mission here on Earth is finished: If you’re alive, it isn’t.
Richard Bach – Illusions
Don’t go through live, GROW through life.
Eric Butterworth
Nature’s way is simple and easy, but men prefer what is intricate and artificial.
Lau Tzu
Your mission in life is not to be without problems – your mission is to get excited.
Andrew Matthews – Follow Your Heart
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
Richard Bach – Illusions
The truth you speak has no past and no future. It is, and that’s all it needs to be.
Richard Bach – Illusions
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
Your only obligation is any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but he mark of a fake Messiah.
Richard Bach – Illusions
We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us -- how we can take it, what we do with it -- and that is what really counts in the end.
Joseph Fort Newton
When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you.
Tin Cup (the movie)
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once and a while and watch your answers change.
Richard Bach – Illusions
You are on a quest for authentic power. You cannot give up this quest. Your only choice is whether you wish to have the quest consciously or unconsciously.
Gary Zukav
Everything that lives, lives not alone, not for itself.
William Blake
Your life will only work when you take full responsibility for your choices. Your choice of vocation is at the top of the list.
Andrew Matthews
Many people don’t know what they want, and they are upset that because they are not getting it. If you don’t know exactly what you want, figure out what is closest to it, and go from there.
Andrew Matthews, Follow Your Heart
Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not the fish they’re after.
Henry David Thorea
It is impossible to create any action that does not have value. You may not see it, but that is irrelevant. Live in the trust that when it is appropriate, pieces will fall into place and you will see clearly.
Gary Zukav
...focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Greg Anderson
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast -- you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
Eddie Cantor
Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead.
Scottish Proverb
It’s a funny thing, life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham
In the beginning was the thing. And, one thing led to another
Abridged version of the Book of Genesis
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins
It is neither fair, nor productive to wonder why, when something
that had to happen to somebody, just happened to happen to you.
Kars10co
Love
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
The greatest thing that one can learn is just to love, and be loved in return.
Moulin Rouge
Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk everything, you risk even more.
Erika Jong
To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
When you have compassion and surrender to your own heart, you are surrendering to the hidden power in your heart, God. You are surrendering to love, because God is Love, the cohesive force of the universe that connects us all. Surrender is not just a religious concept; it's a power tool for listening to the voice of your spirit and following its directions. When you surrender your head to your heart, you allow your heart to give you a wider, higher intelligence perspective. Remember the phrase, ‘The real teacher is within you.’ Very simply, that teacher is to be found in the common sense of your own heart.
Sara Paddison
Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything... even when you can not foresee the outcome.
Deepak Chopra
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer;
No disease that enough love will not heal;
No door that enough love will not open;
No gulf that enough love will not bridge;
No wall that enough love will not throw down;
No sin that enough love will not redeem…
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble;
How hopeless the outlook;
How muddled the tangle;
How great the mistake.
A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all…
If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.
Emmet Fox
Mastery
Masters of one art have mastered all because they have mastered themselves. With dominion over both mind and muscle, they demonstrate power, serenity and spirit. They not only have talent for sport, they have an expanded capacity for life. The experts shine in the competitive arena; masters shine everywhere.
Dan Millman
Real success is success with the self; it’s not having things but having mastery, having victory over oneself.
A Magus cannot be ignorant, for he needs only to ask and knowledge is given him. While he is leans on religion, he is not weighed down thereby. He is never in want, for the plenitude of nature supplies his every need. He welcomes pleasure, accepts wealth, deserves honor, but is never the slave of any of them. He knows how to be poor; how to abstain; how to suffer, and he endures oblivion willingly because he is the lord of his own happiness and expects and fears nothing. The true disciple can love without being beloved; he can create imperishable treasure and exalt himself above the level of the delights that worldly honors bestow. He possesses that which he seeks. He regrets nothing that must end, but remembers with satisfaction that he has met only good in it all.
Dr. Charles Wentworth Littlefield
Perseverance
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
Preparation
If I had 6 hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
If you don’t know where you are going, it doesn’t matter which way you go.
Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland
We human beings are only part of something much larger. When we walk along we may crush a beetle or simply cause a change in the air so that a fly ends up where it might never have gone otherwise. And if we think of the same example but with ourselves in the role of the insect, and the larger universe the role we’ve just played, it’s perfectly clear that we’re affected every day by forces over which we have no more control than the poor beetle has over our gigantic foot as it descends upon it.
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Before you think about anything, ask yourself what difference the answer would make, and if the answers is none, think about something else.
William James, the First Rule of Philosohy (paraphrased)
Prosperity
In order to keep something in your life you have to be comfortable with it. To make money, and keep it, you must be comfortable with money.
Andrew Matthews, Follow Your Heart
Detachment is a major reason why rich people get richer. They don't care so much-they're not desperate. There's a big difference between a poor person's attitude (wishing you had it) and a wealthy person's approach (believing you'll get it).
Many people think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. If money is your ONLY hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a person can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless.
Henry Ford
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen
If you're prosperous in soul, you'll be prosperous in whole.
Mark Victor Hansen
What is (the role of money) in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that keeps us in our prison, or could it also be a tool for breaking out, for awakening to a life filled with intensity of purpose?
Jacob Needleman
What we're after in Prospering is nothing less than a major shift in consciousness—in the attitudes, beliefs, and ideas you have about yourself and your relationship to money.
Relaxation
Most of us have carried subtle tensions for so many years that we’ve forgotten what real relaxation is. Rather than a temporary state achieved by dissipating knotted energy, it is a continual enjoyment of muscular tension and high energy at the same time.
Dan Millman, Body Mind Mastery
The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
Sydney J. Harris
Never tell yourself ‘I can’t relax and enjoy myself until…’ Relax and enjoy while you are in the middle of things.
Andrew Matthews – Follow Your Heart
A good rest is half the work.
Yugoslav Proverb
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
Ernest Hemingway
Self Image
The secret is this: To really ‘live’, that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can live with. You must find yourself acceptable to ‘you’. You must have a wholesome self esteem. You must have a self that you can trust and believe in. You must have a self that you are not ashamed to be, and one that you can feel free to express creatively, rather than hide or cover up. You must have a self that corresponds to reality so that you can function effectively in the real world. You must know yourself – both your strengths and your weaknesses and be honest with yourself concerning both. Your self-image must be a reasonable approximation of ‘you’, being neither more than you are, nor less than you are.
Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-cybernetics
The self image is changed, for better or worse, not by intellect alone, nor by intellectual knowledge alone, but by experiencing. Wittingly or unwittingly you developed your self image by your creative experiencing in the past. You can change it by the same method.
Maxwell Maltz
Those who believe they can and those who believe they can’t are both right.
Henry Ford.
In order to achieve all that is demanded of us we must regard ourselves as greater than we are.
Johann Van Goethe
Treat children as though they are already they people they are capable of becoming.
Haim Ginott.
You are who you are not because of who you have been, but who you are becoming. And, you are becoming more of who you are every day.
As we think, so shall we be.
Wayne Dyer
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Norman Vincent Peale
Argue for your limitations and sure enough they’re yours.
Richard Bach, Illusions
Strength
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
Heroes and cowards feel the same fear, heroes just act differently.
Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly.
Confucius
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
Richard Bach
Sure I am that this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strengths; that it’s pangs and toils are not beyond my endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
Winston Churchill
Struggle/Resistance
Walk like a pigeon, sit like a tortoise
Your ability to relax reflects your willingness to trust.
Body mind masters use less effort to create greater results
Dan Millman, Body Mind Mastery
In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in the ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
Aldous Huxley
The universe is always nudging us with gentle signals. When we miss the signals, it nudges us with a sledgehammer.
Growth is most painful when we resist it.
Andrew Matthews
In judo, he who thinks is immediately thrown. Victory is assured to those who are physically and mentally nonresistant.
Robert Linssen
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror
It grasps nothing, it rejects nothing
It receives, but does not keep
Chuang Tzu
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Bruce Lee
The universe is always nudging us with gentle signals. When we ignore the signals, it nudges us with a sledgehammer. Growth is most painful when we resist it.
Andrew Matthews
Success
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics, and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Time
Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.
Sir Isaac Pitman
Why worry about saving minutes when you might be wasting years?
Stephen Covey
Be mindful of how you approach time. Watching the clock is not the same as watching the sun rise.
Sophia Bedford-Pierce
Chronos is clocks, deadlines, watches, calendars, agendas, planners, schedules, beepers. Chronos is time at her worst. Chronos keeps track. ...Chronos is the world's time. Kairos is transcendence, infinity, reverence, joy, passion, love, the Sacred. Kairos is intimacy with the Real. Kairos is time at her best. ...Kairos is Spirit's time. We exist in chronos. We long for kairos. That's our duality. Chronos requires speed so that it won't be wasted. Kairos requires space so that it might be savored. We do in chronos. In kairos we're allowed to be ... It takes only a moment to cross over from chronos into kairos, but it does take a moment. All that kairos asks is our willingness to stop running long enough to hear the music of the spheres.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace
Unity
Our deepest need is for the joy that comes with …knowing we are of genuine use to others.
Eknath Easwaran
… there is no such thing as just existing. Everything is in service to everything else. Existence is giving and receiving. A stone gives and receives no less than a saint.
Jacob Needleman
Everything that lives, lives not alone, not for itself.
William Blake
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Muir
If you knew who walked beside you on this path that you have chosen, you will never experience doubt.
Wayne Dyer
Community is not something that is created when people come together and live together, rather it is something that is preexistent and we can awaken to it. There is never a time when we are not in community, and our practice is to awaken to that experience of communion."
David Spangler
Values/Faith
What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling.
Maid in Manhattan-The Film
It’s not what you are underneath; it’s what you do that defines you.
Batman Begins-The Film
Let me pass this way but once and do what good I can. I shall not pass this way again. Maybe someone else is walking a road that's like mine.
My Place
Sally Morgan
You wander from room to room
Hunting for the diamond necklace
That is already around your neck!
Jalal-Uddin Rumi
I wish you always
Air to breath
Fire to warm you
Water to sustain you
And earth to support you
Author Unknown
When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator.
Mahatma Ghandi
Never worry. Do with sincerity all that you do, and leave the result to Divine Will.
The Mother
A woman living in a grand house may pride herself on all her lovely things; but the moment she hears the crackle of fire she decides very quickly which are the few she values most.
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
If you have a faith which is truly divine, and if there is something you desire that is not in the Universe, it shall be created for you.
Sri Yukteswar, Autobiography of a Yogi
Adversity is like a strong wind. I don’t mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, he who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
Yoga
Real yoga is maintaining one’s equanimity in the midst of the dualities: heat and cold, pain and pleasure, praise and blame, profit and loss. The dualities are two sides of the same coin, and the secret of equanimity is to accept both.
There is no problem without a solution. If we get upset by the problem, we may not see the solution. But, if we comfortably turn over the coin, the solution is there.
Sri Swami Satchidananda
To adjust, adapt, accommodate, to bear insult and injury is the highest spiritual practice. Real Yoga is exhibiting these qualities in your life. All other practices, such as asanas and pranayama, help to bring us to this level.
Sri Swami Satchidananda
Pain is our friend. Tapasya (sanksrit) means to burn. We burn gold to improve it’s character, upgrading it’s quality. How do we get burned, by bearing insult and injury. Go through the pain and suffering. If you know this secret you will never deny pain and you will even thank the person who brought it to you. Real Yoga is to be peaceful, easeful, and useful. Through this understanding and acceptance we can maintain our equanimity, and be golden lights for all.
Sri Swami Satchidananda
Exercise is only as beneficial as the posture in which you perform it.
Matthias Alexander
It’s never too late to start an exercise program. But it’s always too soon to quit.
The chakra may be defined as the interface point between the physical aspects of the human body and the subtle, non-physical framework from which the physical is derived.
Gregg Braden, Awaken to Zero Point.
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