‘If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.’ ~Lao Tzu
Archive for the ‘quotes’ Category
A quote to ponder
December 3rd, 2009
A Great Quote to Ponder
November 14th, 2009
“By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
~ Lao Tzu.
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Lost and found.
November 7th, 2009
“It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
~Andre Gide
I saw this quote for the first time the other day and began to think about it a lot. This actually reminded me of my kids, who all seem to have rather strong constitutions and a strong core. They are all still teens but have been like this since I can remember.
Anyhow, this is such a true quote. Why conform to society and be or act like something you are not? Why chuckle at a joke that’s not really funny? Why do something that you know to be wrong just because someone else it doing it? Wouldn’t a person rather stand for something of their own, rather than something someone wants them to stand for?
It seems logical to me, that if you can manage to stay true to who you are, when you are in a large crowd, you won’t get lost in it. ~S. Burke
We attempt to teach our children this when they are small, so that they do not get involved with the wrong people. Or, those that can ‘un-do’ all that you have instilled in them. It weighs on our minds and we fear the unknown for them. I’ve come to realize that as adults sometimes we forget to apply this advice to ourselves. We have people in our lives that we know to be detrimental. Their attitudes towards life and the world sometimes differ so greatly that our heart rate increases, our stomach hurts or our nerves tense up just in listening to them.
At this point in my life, when I am attempting to grow spiritually these people in my own life are just weighing me down. I’ve decided that I’m just going to come out and tell them we can not have conversations about ‘this’ or ‘that’ and I’m not going to let negativity infiltrate my self. I’m going to apply the teachings to my self that I have worked so hard to give to my children. And if that doesn’t seem to work? I must make the difficult decision to let go…continue on my own personal journey…and wish them well on theirs.
Expressing Gratitude
October 23rd, 2009
Express gratitude every day. Start by keeping a gratitude journal. One of those mini notebooks will do just fine! Every day just jot down some things that come to your mind which you are grateful for. Start with 3 things. Throughout the day and before bedtime, look at your list and think about those things. Focus on your breathing as you think of these. Deep breaths. Breath IN the gratitude. EXHALE something negative.
“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today.
Have you used one to say “thank you?”
-William A. Ward
Today, I am grateful for:
* My techy neighbor who was able to recover my data from my dead laptop.
* My good health.
* The beautifully colored Autumn leaves.
“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” -Albert Schweitzer
Food for thought
October 14th, 2009
“Don’t let someone become a priority in your life when you are just an option in theirs”
~unknown
Quote to ponder
September 28th, 2009
What other people think of you is none of your business.
~ Regina Brett
Change is in the air!
September 16th, 2009
“This is a story in your head. None of it is real!
All you have to do is CHANGE YOUR MIND. … It’s a choice.”
~ Jillian Michaels
Never…in a million years….would I have imagined that a quote from Jillian Michaels would resonate so deeply with me. It was if a light bulb had gone off in my mind. 
Sometimes things come from unexpected places and when you’re not expecting them. This quote was one of those times.
Jillian is one of the Biggest Loser weight trainers. This quote was screamed at a contestant who weighed 476 lbs and was giving up on day one of training.
This quote resonated with me because it can be applied in all aspects of life! Whatever your issue is in life, whatever problem you are facing, whatever is standing in your mental way, it applies! The past is the past! It’s done…over with. Today is a new day!
Close the book, tuck it away and start writing a new one. Realize that you can’t go back and re-write the past. What’s done is done. What is yet to come is simply what you dream it to be. What you strive for, what you make of it. If you dwell on the past, you’re doomed to repeat it. If you’re constantly thinking, worrying, dwelling….you cannot progress and change to find your true self. Think positive and really visualize WHERE it is that you are headed. Where it is that you WANT to be.
Reflective Quotes
September 9th, 2009
photo credit: FindingSheila 2009
Most true happiness comes from one’s inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.
~William L Shirer
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
~Lao Tzu
Thought provoking quote
July 18th, 2009
“When you put your hand in a flowing stream,
you touch the last that has gone before
and the first of what still is to come.’
~Leonardo da Vinci
Imagine all the people. Living life in peace.
July 14th, 2009
“ I am nobody’s disciple. I don’t belong to any belief system. I love people from all over the world and I never compare them. They are all unique, a Zarathustra is a Zarathustra, a Mahavira is a Mahavira, a Buddha is a Buddha, a Jesus is a Jesus, a Moses is a Moses… they are so unique that you should not make one of them a criterion that everybody else has to fit with. ”
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Indian Spiritual Leader)
Wow, isn’t it funny that you seem to find things at just the most needed times?
I’ve encountered, along my path seeking my own spirituality, a number of perplexing things. I think the problem is that when you are born you are immediately raised in a religious category. Either you’re in one of the ‘big 3′ as I like to call them…the Abrahamic based religions…of some off shoot of them. Well, at least most people in the West are in one of these in some form. Herein lies the problem. At birth, really, we are conditioned to follow certain paths, read certain material, pray in certain ways. It’s reinforced at the very least every Sunday for many religions.
I think it was around age 12 during a long session of confirmation class that I began to have some questions. Stories and passages that either just didn’t make sense or maybe contradicted another passage. Then there’s the stories that were left out all together. The response to my childhood questions were mostly on the line of ‘because it is so’. And when you’re young and you’ve been fed certain things, well, that’s all you really understand. It was a few years later that I decided when I had children, I would not raise them in the full faith of one religion, but rather let them experience what ever they wanted to. Whatever interested them. And so I have.
They’ve been to many masses, to Lutheran services, they’ve learned a little about Judaism, one has studied a bit of Kabbalah, they have friends who are Buddhist, Wicca, New Age and Jehovah’s Witness and all sorts of different faiths. (As do I). I want them to drink in all that there is to learn. To understand whatever they can of these faiths and not to judge. Because, in the end (I feel) it’s not really how (by which faith) you get there…it’s just ‘that’ you get there. And simply that to confine one’s self to one faith may be denying that self the knowledge that is needed to continue on a path of nurturing and growing the soul. And I feel that the soul growth is far more beyond comprehension than we (in the West) have been traditionally taught.
*Can you imagine if the whole world was like this? Everyone completely tolerant of others faith? Every one more concerned with their own individual path rather than the collective mass? Now that’s a powerful thought.
