Connecting to the Great Mystery though nature

• "How do you know," a Bedouin asked, "that there is a God?" "In the same way," his friend replied. "that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert-- by his footprints in the world around me." Henry Parry Liddon
• The closer we are to Nature, the closer we are to God. Johann Goethe
• I believe that a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, and the Pismire ant is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren. Walt Whitman
• Twilight has always seemed like God's indrawn breath, a pause in the progression of time. Emilie Richards
• The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience. Henryk Skolimowski
• I, the fiery life of divine essence, am aflame beyond the beauty of the meadows, I gleam in the waters, and I burn in the sun, moon, and stars....I awaken everything to life. Ildergard of Bingen
• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. Anne Frank
• To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, An eternity in an hour. William Blake
• What else is nature but God? Seneca the Younger
• Every natural object is a conductor of divinity. John Muir
• So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Mikhail Gorbachev
• Nature is full of genius, full of divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. Henry David Thoreau
• The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe. Albert Schweitzer
• Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. Albert Einstein
• We are learning finally that the forests and mountains and desert canyons are holier than our churches. Edward Abbey
• "How do you know," a Bedouin asked, "that there is a God?" "In the same way," his friend replied. "that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by his footprints in the world around me." Henry Parry Liddon
• In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height; In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth. Sir Rabindranath Tagore
• We are surrounded by a rich and fertile mystery. Henry David Thoreau
• Untroubling and untroubled where I lie, the grass below, above, the vaulted sky. Clare John
• If you watched a rock your entire life it would never look different. But if you were God and could observe the rock over fifteen billion years as though only a second had passed, the rock would be frantic with activity. It would be shrinking and growing and trading matter with its environment. Its molecules would travel the universe and become a partner to amazing things that we could never imagine. Scott Adams, God's Debris
• At the deepest level of ecological awareness you are talking about spiritual awareness. Spiritual awareness is an understanding of being imbedded in a larger whole, a cosmic whole, of belonging to the universe. Fritjof Capra
• The forest is not merely an expression or representation of sacredness, nor a place to invoke the sacred; the forest is sacredness itself. Nature is not merely created by God, nature is God. Whoever moves within the forest can partake directly of sacredness, experience sacredness with his entire body, breath sacredness and contain it within himself, drink the sacred water as a living communion, bury his feet in sacredness, open his eyes and witness the burning beauty of sacredness. Richard Nelson
• I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. Frank Lloyd Wright
• Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The arch of sky and mightiness of storms, Have moved the spirit within me, Till I am carried away, Trembling with joy. Uvavnuk, Inuit shaman
• Even in a single leaf of a tree, or a tender blade of grass, the awe- inspiring Deity manifests Itself. Shinto. Urabe-no- Kanekuni
• Conceive of God in terms of universal Nature--a nature God in whom we really live and move and have our being, with who our relation is as intimate and constant as that of the babe in its mother’s womb, or the apple upon the bough. This is the God that science and reason reveal to us--the God we touch with our hands, see with our eyes, hear with our ears, and from whom there is no escape, who is, indeed, from everlasting to everlasting. John Burroughs

The effects of time in nature

• To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter ... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring—these are some of the rewards of the simple life. John Burroughs
• In the woods, we return to reason and faith. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. John Muir
• Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. Frank Lloyd Wright
• There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. Lord Byron
• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you... while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. John Muir
• Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth will find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. Rachel Carson
• Standing alone on a mountain top, it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make-- leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents of piled stone-- we all dwell in a house of one room..." John Muir

Celebrating nature

• Nature shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating, there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin
• The most precious things of life are near at hand, without money and without price. Each of you has the whole wealth of the universe at your very door. John Burroughs
• What is life? it is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. Crowfoot Blackfoot (Native American)
• To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. Helen Keller
• Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trail'd its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. William Wordsworth
• While with an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. William Wordsworth
• In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Aristotle
• Green is the prime colour of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. Pedro Calderon De La Barca
• All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. Marie Curie
• The birds and animals, trees and grasses, rocks, water and wind are our allies. They waken our senses, rouse our passions, renew our spirits and fill us with vision, courage, and joy... David Gaines
• The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day. Kenneth Patton
• God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. William Cowper

Deep thoughts

• If you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth. These are the eyes of the Earth. And this is the voice of the earth. Joseph Campbell
• Nature is a unity in diversity...a harmony, blending together all created things...one great whole animated by the breath of life. Alexander von Humboldt
• Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. John Muir

Returning to my path

I stick to my path with the tenacity of a warrior

• I rededicate and re devote myself again and again after the inevitable lapses and periods of dullness and inactivity. Before any real growth and stability appears I will lose faith, get discouraged, doubt, feel sorry for myself, and wonder if anything will happen. Does this mean I have lost my path? No, not at all - this IS the path. I learn to swim, not just with the current, but against the tide as well. This is not a journey for the timid or frail. I have an infinite amount of compassion for myself. I pick myself up again and again. Everything is as it should be. John Kehoe
• Our sacred song can only be brought to life when the awakened heart weds the warrior's spirit. The spirit of the warrior is one of resolve and determination. It drives through all obstacles. It is a commitment to follow our vision whatever the vision may be and wherever it may lead. To be genuine in each moment of our life. To be honest with ourselves. To respect the path we have chosen and follow it through to completion. This is how our sacred song is birthed and our destinies are fulfilled. John Kehoe

Tips for building commitment

• Be committed. Make personal promises and stick by them. Don't let exceptions occur. Add to your Personal Integrity Account. This is your reserve of character and confidence to power future commitments.
• Be committed. Never let an exception occur. Sense huge benefits for changing. Leverage pain for not changing. Playfully interrupt old limiting patterns. Repeat new behaviours for at least 3 weeks. Reward yourself. Remember, life is an ebb and a flow. Keep getting back on.
• We all love to win, but how many of us love to train. Mark Spitz

I live life on my own terms

• Be an original; not a copy
• Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. Gore Vidal
• Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second- rate version of somebody else. Judy Garland
• There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley
• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde
• Dare to question old ways, rules and taken for granted beliefs. Dr Irene C. Kassorla
• Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools
• Sacred cows make the best hamburgers. Mark Twain
• Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. Mark Twain
• We think as we do, mainly because other people think so. Samuel Butler

I take responsibility

• Stop blaming others. Take accountability for your own happiness and for your reactions to other people. When you stop blaming others, you will regain your sense of personal power. Richard Carlson
• I never blame anyone or anything for my situation, including myself. Having accepted this circumstance, I am able to have a creative response to the situation as it is now. Deepak Chopra

Criticism won't stop me

• The first and great commandment is, "Don't let them scare you".
• It is impossible to go through life without incurring a good deal of disapproval. It is the way of humanity, the dues you pay for your aliveness. Dr Wayne Dyer
• Criticism has few terrors for a man with great purpose. Benjamin Disraeli
• To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubbard
• They will say you are on the wrong road if it is your own. Antonio Porchia
• If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. Donald H. Rumsfeld
• I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Crosby
• Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog. Hutchins
• Don't waste time responding to your critics. Life's Little Instruction Book
• Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. Voltaire
• It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives on valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein
• One fifth of the people are against everything all of the time. Robert F. Kennedy
• A non-doer is very often a critic. It is easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk and changes. Dr Wayne W. Dyer

Mistakes won't stop me

• To be successful, double your failure rate. Thomas Watson Founder of IBM
• Mistakes are my portals of discovery
• If you are not making many errors, you might ask yourself "How many opportunities am I missing by not being more aggressive?" Roger von Oech
• How far high failure overleaps the bounds of low success. Lewis Morris
• Mistakes are the dues you pay for leading a full life. Sophia Loren
• If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. John Kenneth Galbraith
• If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. Tallulah Bankhead

I am authentic and assertive

• Respect Yourself
• Respect heroes above men, gods above demi- gods, but above all, respect yourself. (Pythagoras)
• Many things are lost for want of asking. (George Herbert)
• If I had no-one else to think about, what would I do? Will it hurt others in their own walks? No? Then do it! This is my life. My choices.
• Never let someone force you to make a hasty decision. Think about it in your own time.
• When it comes to reciprocal commitments of any kind, I have a right to demand a serious response. I can be assertive.
• I am completely and authentically, all that I choose to be, in this moment. I am aware of what I am choosing to be, I am honest about it, and I accept responsibility for it. N. D. Walsch
• I feel free to ask. I am open about my feelings.
• Stick to facts, rather than opinions. Facts are neutral and do not imply criticism. Try to use I rather than you. i.e. I feel angry when you are late. Not "You make me angry when..."
• Be assertive. Go for what you want. The meek will inherit nothing.
• Be a Lion. Ask!! No is the worst they can say. Ask and you will receive.
• Disapproval is the price you pay for a full, healthy life.
• Remove guesswork from all your relationships - ask direct questions about feelings. Dr Irene C. Kassorla

Obstacles won't stop me

• The obstacle is the path. Zen Proverb
• You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him.
• When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. Mary Kay Ash
• We will either find a way or make one. Hannibal
• Obstacles are those fearsome things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
• What if Columbus had been told, "Chris baby, don't go now. Wait until we've solved our No.1 priorities - war and famine; poverty and crime; pollution and disease; illiteracy and racial hatred - and Queen Isabella's own brand of internal security." W.I.E.Gates
• “If the road you travel has no obstacles - it leads nowhere”

Fun and Laugter

• Laughter is the sunshine of my soul
• I search out fun and share it with others
• I splash in puddles
• I do what I love. I discover joy

The Power of Laughter

• Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. Karl Barth
• Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. Victor Borge
• He who laughs, lasts. (Mary Pettibone Poole)
• He dares to be a fool, and that is just the first step in the direction of wisdom. James Gibbons Huneker
• Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma. Benjamin De Cassere
• The Laughing Buddha represents the inner intelligence that lives within all of us. He represents the part of us that is in tune with the Grand Design. He doesn't try to control the chaos. Instead he listens and moves comfortably within the chaos as the world unfolds around him. He stays open to a constant flow of "joyous survival" versus "turbulent survival". He makes us realise that we can't get rid of the chaos, but we can get very creative with the turmoil. Susan Jeffers
• Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.

Advice

• As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it. (Lao Tzu)
• Be spontaneous - do it on the spur of the moment, just because you enjoy it. Do it for the joy of doing it, not to win, excel or even do your best. Dr Wayne W. Dyer
• If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.
• It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anyone at whom we never laugh. (Agnes Repplier)
• Just below the surface of consciousness, there lurks...a subterranean giggle. Nurture it, give it its space, and it will be fruitful and multiply and cheer your days and warm your nights. Cynthia Heimel
• Let us start a new religion with one commandment, "Enjoy thyself." (Israel Zangwill)

Thoughtful

• Every normal function of life holds some delight. Will Durant
• The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing should be taken seriously. (Samuel Butler)
• The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed. Sebastien Chamfort
• We don't stop having fun when we're old; we're old when we stop having fun.
• If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

Fun sayings

• Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall always be amused.
• Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier. Blore's Razor
• God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire
• Good behaviour is the last refuge of mediocrity. (Henry S.Haskins)
• All the fun's in how you say a thing. Robert Frost
• Its not easy to stay sane in a world that offers such a wonderful choice of madness. Ashleigh Brilliant
• I've explored and rejected every other possibility. Life after all must be for having fun. Ashleigh Brilliant
• One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself. Sarn Jeannette Duncan
• One should always aim at being interesting rather than exact. (Voltaire)
• The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...' - Isaac Asimov.

Practicing The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle)

• The beginning of freedom is the realisation that you are not the "thinker." The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realise that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also begin to realise that all the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.
• When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. The realm of Being, which has been obscured by the mind, then opens up. Suddenly a great stillness aries within you, an unfathomable sense of peace. And within that peace, there is great joy. And within that joy, there is love. And at the innermost core, there is the sacred and immeasurable, That which cannot be named.

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First principles

• I am not my mind (thoughts or emotions) or my body. I am the observing presence. I am the silent witness. I am the Being beneath.
• I am not my successes or failures. I enjoy creating new circumstances but I do not get my sense of worth from them. I do not identify with them. They are not who I am.

Being the Watcher

• I am present as the watcher of my mind - my thoughts, emotions and reactions - without judging or analysing. I feel the still, observing presence.
• I go beneath and "watch the thinker" without judgement. One day I will catch myself smiling at the voice in my head, as I would the antics of a small child.
• I sink into the gaps between thoughts to experience stillness and peace.
• I take routine activities and give them my full attention - being totally present. This is called Mindfulness.
• What is going on within me at this moment? I watch my emotions, feeling their energy, without analysing or judging them.
• I am not my mind so being right or wrong makes no difference. I let go of aggressiveness and defensiveness.
• I take my attention off the past and the present. I step into the Now.
• I sense my senses fully inside and out. I am where I am. I see, feel, hear. I feel the energy within me.
• I focus on the process, not the result. I give full attention to the action, the fruit will follow of its own accord.
• I regularly monitor my mental and emotional state. Am I at ease in this moment? If I feel unease, in what way am I avoiding, resisting or denying life by denying the now?
• I die to the future and past. I ask "What problem do I have right now?" Not next year, tomorrow or in 5 minutes time. What is wrong with this moment? If I can and choose to act, I do. If not, I surrender fully.
• I give up "waiting"`as a state of mind. I come into the present and enjoy being. I am grateful for the present and the fullness of life right now.
• I act now if I can and choose to. If not, I surrender to what is.
• I always keep some of my attention in the energy field of my body. I feel my body from within. This helps keep me present. I always feel the stillness inside. I keep the portal open in all I do. Always staying rooted within.
• When I need an answer, a solution or creative idea, I stop thinking for a moment and become focused on my inner energy field. I become aware of the stillness. In thought, I go back every few minutes between thinking and stillness. This keeps my mind fresh and creative.

Surrender

• I yield to the flow of life, I do not oppose it. I accept the present moment unconditionally for what it is. I do not resist it. Can I act? Do I choose to? Then I act calmly. If not, I surrender fully.
• In the state of surrender, I see clearly what needs to be done. I take action, focusing on one thing at a time. Calmly and in the now.
• I surrender to the ebbs of life. Ebbs are needed for new growth to happen. One cycle cannot exist without the other.
• I become transparent to the cause of negative reactions. I let irritations (e.g. noise) pass through me.
• If I am not feeling at peace, I accept my "non peace." Anything I accept fully will take me into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.

The Result

• Beauty arises in the stillness of one's presence.
• A higher level of consciousness is awakened. I get in touch with the vast realm of intelligence beyond thought.
• The litmus test for being in the Now: Is there joy, ease, peace and lightness in what I am doing?
• To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease and lightness. This state is no longer dependant upon things being in a certain way, good or bad.

Other

• Become more patient. Patience adds a dimension of ease and acceptance to your life. Being patient involves opening your heart to the present moment, even if you don't like it. Practice patience. Say "Ok, for the next five minutes I won't allow myself to be bothered by anything. I'll be patient. Richard Carlson
• Do one thing at a time. Block out periods of time where you commit to doing one thing at a time. Be present in what you are doing. Concentrate. Be in the moment. Even the mundane can become enjoyable. And you'll be amazed how quickly and efficiently you'll get things done. Richard Carlson
• Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift - which is why they call it the present. Bill Keane
• I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is. Donald Trump
• The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live. Epicurus

Coming home to myself and to life

• I am enough. I go easy on myself. I nurture myself.
• I am enough, there is enough and this moment is perfect
• I catch myself doing things right. I capture things I am proud of.
• I feel and acknowledge my feelings. I feel free to express them openly if I choose.
• I do not take life too seriously. It is a wondrous and fun adventure to be enjoyed.
• I love my imperfections and foibles as I love my strengths.
• I choose to grow, not to improve or better myself, but to increase my capacity for happiness.
• I make plenty of time for what I love.
• I nurture my body through healthy diet, fun exercise and plenty of rest.
• I am calmly assertive, knowing I am worthy of respect. I am not afraid to say "no."
• I am my own best friend. I give myself a hug.
• I am not afraid to ask.
• I free myself of "musts" and "shoulds" I do because I choose to.
• I do to enjoy, not because "I have to win" or "be the best"
• I surrender to the inevitable ebbs and flows of life.
• I act where I can and choose to, then allow all to flow.
• I welcome mistakes and failures as I welcome successes for they are portals of discovery and signs I am truly alive.
• I listen to my own truth far more than the praise, criticism and insistences of others.
• I feel free to be myself, make my own rules and develop my own original style.
• I allow things to develop with time knowing that great things can be achieved through consistent, small steps in the right direction.
• I let go of perfectionism for it clogs freedom and creative energy.

Coming home

• I pull up a chair and get acquainted with the me that exists right now. I am enough! I am beautiful as I am. This is a wonderful and courageous step. I can relax and enjoy myself. I become more tolerant of myself and others. I am able to delight in uniqueness. John Kehoe
• I come home to life as well. Things are what they are. I let go and allow life to just happen, instead of trying to orchestrate it. I appreciate everything just for what it is. I've tried to make believe life is something it is not - some utopia where every dream is fulfilled. Life is happy and sad. Life is joy and grief. Life is health and sickness. Life is excitement and boredom. Life is having friends and being lonely. Life is achieving your goals and failing at your goals. Life is being confused and being sure. Life is what it is and if I look at it beyond my illusion of what I think it should be, I find within its diversity, tremendous beauty and goodness. Friendship, a brilliant blue sky, making love, sunsets, acts of kindness, the beach, trees, a good movie, delicious food, a hot bath, beautiful music. Maybe there's no caviar but there's always a hot bowl of soup and it will nourish me. I let go of any bitterness, disappointment, anxiety or frustration and let the sun warm my bones. Wake up! Life is spilling out abundantly. Come home and enjoy it. John Kehoe

I nourish my centre

• Learn to pat yourself on the back for your past and present victories, not matter how small. Search for things to acknowledge. Write down every strong point you can come up with in your life, past and present. John Kehoe
• Redefine a "meaningful accomplishment." If being peaceful and loving are amongst your primary goals, then why not redefine your most meaningful accomplishments as being those that support and measure qualities such as kindness and happiness. Richard Carlson
• I catch myself doing things right
• I am my own best friend
• Give yourself a hug. Dr Irene C. Kassorla
• Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. E.E. Cummings

I nourish my body

• I nourish my body through exercise, rest, good posture and healthy food
• Vibrant health is based on natural principles. It grows over time out of regular exercise, proper nutrition, adequate rest, a healthy mind-set, avoiding substances that are harmful to the body. Stephen Covey

The power of gratitude

• I search out treasure in this moment
• I thank the Great Mystery
• I draw positive people close
• I see opportunities

Thanking the Great Mystery

• A single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
• “If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.” Meister Eckhart
• The more I thank and praise, the more beauty I perceive. As if praise washes and cleanses my eyes, so more is revealed. This prayer is a door into the path of beauty.
• You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, and swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing, and grace before I dip the pen in ink. G. K. Chesterton
• Waking up this morning, I see the blue sky. I join my hands in thanks for the many wonders of life; for having twenty-four brand- new hours before me. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Savor it. Say mmmmmmm! Say "WOW!" Susan Jeffers
• Wealth is not his who has it but his who enjoys it.
• Give Thanks. What excites me? What do I relish doing? What is going well for me right now? Who is special to me? What are my blessings? What am I unhappy about? What are the positives in this?

Focusing on Treasure

• It's not about having what you want. It's about wanting what you have and what you are, right at this moment. Zen saying
• Actively search out the beautiful and positive that life has to offer. Dr Irene Kassorla
• I am the prism by which all is perceived. I need not change, make myself better or more beautiful - I have merely to behold myself as beautiful and it will be so. Wondrous, it is so. All exists within. So it has been and will be forever more. And so I choose to behold myself and my life through the vision the Great Mystery has shown me. I will behold my life as glorious in sickness as well as health. In despair and in hope. In sadness and happiness. This will be my gift. This is my sacred song. To behold the wonder and glory - and to proclaim it loud and clear for all to hear. There is no greater honour than to honour myself. My life. All I can see and touch. Every person I meet. Each day becomes my miracle, simply because I live within the Great Mystery. The Great Mystery is there in all I do and experience. Each day becomes a tribute and a prayer and worship. Always together. Always one. Holy art thou, Mysterious One. John Kehoe
• Celebrate what you want to see more of. (Tom Peters)
• Try the "I have had this" exercise. When looking onto a magnificent view, say "I have had this." These experiences accumulate into a feeling of a life well led. Susan Jeffers
• We can only focus on a couple of things at a time. Ensure they are positive, constructive and uplifting. Anthony Robbins
• There are two ways you can be rich. One is to have all you want, the other is to be satisfied with what you have.
• We are building up or tearing down in everything we do. Do you belong to the construction gang or the wrecking crew?
• I know that life is short. I appreciate every moment I have. Susan Jeffers
• If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. Oprah Winfrey
• My experience of life reflects what you pay attention to. If I'm paying attention mostly to the BAD, BLEAK AND BLAH, my experience of life reflects a life that doesn't seem worth living. If I'm paying attention to mostly the GOOD, GREAT AND GRAND, it reflects a wonderful life. And make no mistake, what I pay attention to is really up to me. Susan Jeffers
• Be an Alchemist. The real alchemist is one who learns the secret of turning everyday situations into gold. There are no such things as problems, only opportunities.
• Count your blessings instead of your crosses, Count you gains instead of your losses, Count your joys instead of your woes,Count your friends instead of your foes. Count your courage instead of your fears, Count your laughs instead of your tears. Count your full years instead of your lean,Count your kind deeds instead of your mean. Count your health instead of your wealth, Count on God instead of yourself. (Irish Blessing)
• Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary. We see in life what we look for. Richard Carlson
• For everything you have missed, you have gained something else. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mistakes

• I celebrate mistakes too.
• A man's errors are his portals of discovery. James Joyce
• Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour. (Truman Captoe)
• You cannot experience that Which You Are in the absence of that which you are not. Therefore, know that when you experience that which you are not, it is not a failure to experience but a way to experience That Which You Are. N. D. Walsch

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When the going gets tough

• What treasure can I see in this? No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shape the soul and let the glory out. Susan Jeffers
• We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. (Pogo)
• When it is dark enough you can see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• So much that is good can come from so much that is bad. Susan Jeffers
• Each circumstance is a gift, and in each experience is hidden a treasure. N. D. Walsch
• Barn's burned down - now I can see the moon. Zen Master Masahide
• Most people go through life stepping on flowers while pointing out the weeds.
• My house burned down. Now I can better see the rising moon Basho (12th century Japanese wanderer)
• Every exit is an entry somewhere else. (Tom Stoppard)
• Don't cry because it is over. Smile because it happened.
• Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there. (Norman Vicent Peale)
• Every style that is not boring is a good one. (Voltaire)
• Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius
• I had the blues because I had no shoes, until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. Dale Carnegie
• Sometimes things don't go the way we feel they should. Maybe it's because something we never dreamed about is going to happen. (Flavia Weedn)

Awakening beauty

• It is my sacred duty to awaken beauty in my life. To let it fill my heart and mind. In this way, I help to purify the consciousness of my race. The first step is when I accept life totally and unconditionally. I allow life to be what it is. Life becomes my lover, spouse, companion. Everything in life is transitory. I feel the tenderness and fragility of it all. This makes it all the more precious. For every moment is unique. It can be appreciated only once and only now. Let us kiss our lover each moment. Let us accept it totally. Everything is perfect in being what it is. When I fully accept this, I walk the path of beauty. When I cease my judging, criticizing, comparing, I see that all things have their place. In the grand scheme of the universe unfolding, all things are as they should be. Not so much as a hair is out of place in the universe. All things are unfolding in their special way. I have much to celebrate. The present moment is always alive with infinite treasures. Life is spilling out at us in abundance. Children playing. Birds singing. Colours. Flowers blooming. Wind in the branches. Ants crawling. Night and day. Poetry. Music. Making love. Friendship. Travelling. Eating. The universe is celebrating. Let us celebrate with it. A child sees everything as wondrous. Walking the path of beauty means living moment to glorious moment, letting everything be new and exciting again. Let us also see the beauty in one another's hearts. As I see beauty, I praise it. Give thanks for it. Fill my mind with it. With practice, I too will see God in a blade of grass and eternity in a grain of sand. John Kehoe

Exploring

Going where you have never been

• Be an explorer. Actively seek out new ideas. There are new worlds, options, products, friends, methods and ideas waiting to be discovered. Venture off the beaten path. John Kehoe

• My favourite thing is to go where I've never been. Drane Arbus

• Explore the unknown. Be open to new experiences. Dr Wayne W. Dyer

• The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. Ralph W.Sockman

• I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. Franklin P. Adams

• Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Exploring through travel

• The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. (G.K. Chesterton)

• A traveller without knowledge is like a bird without wings. (Gulistan)

• The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. Saint Augustine

• He who would travel happily must travel light. Antoine de Saint Exupery

• Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost

Explore new ways

• If you only do What you've always done You'll only get What you already have.
  I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
  A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. Wendell L. Wilke

• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Read articles and books and speak to people with entirely different points of view from our own. We form opinions, then spend our whole lives validating what we believe to be true. There so much we can learn and explore. Richard Carlson

Seeing With New Eyes

• The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust

• I will see one thing today as if for the first time. Today I give myself permission to apply new feelings of appreciation to a flower, a curtain fluttering in the breeze, a child's game, a tree gracing the roadside - anything I have taken for granted which calls out to be seen anew. Deepak Chopra

• Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different. Albert Schenz

• We must not cease from our exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive at the place where we began and to know the place for the first time. T.S.Elliot

• Contemplate. Break through the surface ideas, truths, laws, whatever it is that we are contemplating, to explore their deeper meaning and implications. John Kehoe

• The child lives in the neighbourhood of wonder where innocence keeps mystery playful. Each new event and encounter is all- absorbing. John O'Donohue

• The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first time or last time. Then your time on Earth will be filled with joy. Betty Smith

• If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. Buddha
  Every normal function of life holds some delight. Will Durant

Exporing Within

• The longest journey of any person is the journey inward. Dag Hjalmar Agné Carl Hammarskjold

• I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. Lillian Smith

• I think that I travelled not outwards but within… Imtiaz Dharker

• In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height; In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth. Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861- 1941)

• The earth belongs to anyone who stops for a moment, gazes, and goes on his way. Colette
  

Ask new questions

• Questions are portals of discovery

• All human progress is preceded by new questions. Anthony Robbins

• Questions are powerful tools to persuade and get people involved. Be insatiably curious. Ask “why?” a lot. Life's Little Instruction Book

• Questions are the creative acts of intelligence. Frank Kingdon

• Millions say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why. Bernard M. Baruch

• The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstei

• For any question you pose, your brain provides an answer. Always make questions positive, actionable and constructive. Questions are lasers of human consciousness. Their power can cut through any obstacle. Ask empowering questions that will increase the quality of my life and uplift my spirit. Questions create answers - even where they seemingly do not exist. Anthony Robbins

• A prudent question is one- half of wisdom. Francis Bacon

• Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso

• It is much harder to ask the right question than to find the right answer to the wrong question. E.H.Morison

• Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. Voltaire

• My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. Peter Drucker
  

Creating yourself as you choose to be

• Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shore
• It is the purpose of your soul to announce and declare, to be and to express, to experience and to fulfil Who You Really Are. And who is that? Whoever you say you are! Your life lived is your declaration. Your choices define you. Every act is an act of self definition. N. D. Walsch
• 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 but determine Who You Want to Be. N. D. Walsch
• Life is about choosing what I want to experience of my Self N. D. Walsch
• Life is a constant process of limitless creation. It is about recreating Who You are, by remembering all you have always known, and choosing what you want to experience of your Self. Go therefore into this magnificent world of your creation and make your lifetime an extraordinary statement of and a breathtaking experience of the greatest idea that you have ever had of yourself. N. D. Walsch
• Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself. (Erich Fromm)
• It is not God's function to create or uncreate the circumstances of my life. God created me in the likeness of God. I have created the rest, through the power God has given me. God has given me the free choice to create with life as I will. N. D. Walsch
• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. (Anais Nin)
• What we see depends mainly on what we look for. John Lubbock
• We are the cutting edge of becoming. Terence McKenna
• You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. Arlo Guthrie
• Your focus becomes your reality.
• Your purpose is to create and recreate yourself anew in each golden moment of Now in the next grandest version of the greatest vision you have ever held about Who You Really Are. To announce and become, express and fulfil, experience and know your true Self. N. D. Walsch
• I am not my past. I am not my yesterdays. I am not what I did yesterday, what I said yesterday, what I thought yesterday. I am the grandest version of the greatest vision I've ever had about who I am. Creating myself anew in the golden moment of now. N. D. Walsch
• I remember I am simply using illusions to create a localised contextual field within which I can experience, and not merely conceptualise, any one of the myriad aspects of Who I Am. I use this contextual field like an artist using a paint brush, producing wonderful pictures and creating powerful and extraordinary moments - moments of grace - in which I may know myself experientially. N. D. Walsch
• "Be the change you wish to see in the world" Gandhi

Creating powerful habits

• It is infinitely better to practice a few minutes every day than to do it for an hour once a week.
• I use personal leverages and create powerful habits.
• Remember that you become what you practice most. Repeated practice is the most basic principle of most spiritual and meditative paths. Where is your attention? How do you spend your time? Are you cultivating habits that are helpful to your goals? Richard Carlson
• Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them far apart. Confucius
• Sow an act...reap a habit; Sow a habit...reap a character; Sow a character...reap a destiny. George Dana Boardman
• The essence of a belief is the establishment of a habit. Charles S. Pearce
• Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. Frank Outlaw
• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle
• We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. John Dryden
• Deep continuous investment over time brings real, sustaining change. Cramming or quick fix solutions do nothing. Stephen Covey

Creating powerful beliefs

Believing our Own Truth

• All we have to know is our own truth, not someone else's. When we understand this, we understand everything. We understand that what others are saying doesn't have to be The Truth; it only has to lead us to our own. All things lead us to our inner most truth. That is their purpose. When it comes to knowing the Truth, the highest authority lies within you. N. D. Walsch
• The highest authority lies within me. I believe only what resonates deep within. I let the truth reveal itself. I do not grasp. Does it ring true? Does it inspire me? Is this an expression of Who I Am? If it is, it will ring true - for I will have been reunited with my innermost wisdom. N. D. Walsch
• Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words. Eileen Caddy
• Say not this is true. Say this is true for me. Say not mine is a better way. Say mine is merely another way. N. D. Walsch
• Say not I have found the truth, but rather I have found a truth. Kahlil Gibran
• Be a light unto yourself. Buddha
• All things based on illusion rather than principle have no sustaining power because they don't tap into that deep burning yes. Stephen Covey
• Find your truth. Stand in your truth. Speak from your truth.

The power of believing

• "What is real?” asks the voice of Truth to the spirits of all who have lived. Like the sound of a raging river, I hear the voices of millions, each proclaiming their truth - all different with many contradictions. Silence fills the air and there is great expectation. Then The Book of Law falls open. Its pages are empty. And the voice of Truth answers: "As thou hast believed, so it is true. Whatever you believe within, that you will see without. All power belongs to those who believe."
• Whatever I believe within, that will I see without. All power belongs to those who believe. I re-examine every belief I possess. Does it empower me? Awaken within me my sacred song? All the beliefs that fail are halved and quartered by the Warrior. I choose my beliefs from within. Daily, like eating and bathing, I focus and meditate upon the things I wish to believe. Imagine them to be true. Use simple affirmations. To imprint these onto my consciousness in much the same way as the times table. I know that any thought or concept, which is fed and nourished through repetition, will take hold within me. John Kehoe
• Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov
• There are fundamental laws of life (Truths) that operate with unerring consistency - and I am better off to the degree to which I learn to live according to them. Stephen Covey
• I live my life by True North principles - the Laws of Life. I connect with the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of the heart. My security does not come from the way people treat me or by comparing myself to others. It comes from my basic integrity. Stephen Covey
• Beliefs are the key. Affirming beliefs spur us to action towards our dreams. Associate pleasure with affirming beliefs. Look for legs to support them and build them up. Cast doubt on beliefs that hold you back. Anthony Robbins
• I recreate my beliefs. Thus, I have the power to recreate my reality. For what I believe, I experience. This is original power. I change beliefs that don't belong. Like beliefs of need, separateness, scarcity, failure, judgement, conditionality of love, condemnation and superiority. N. D. Walsch
• Whether you believe you can do a thing or believe you cannot, you are right. Henry Ford
• Once your subconscious has accepted a belief or idea, wether true or not, it will continually feed you thoughts to support that belief. John Kehoe

There are many ways home

• God's greatest truth is that there is not one way only but many ways Home. There are a thousand paths to God and every one will get you there. Indeed all paths lead to God. This is because there is no other place to go. N. D. Walsch
• The spiritual path is not about religions or dogma. It is not about finding the one true way. It is simply the wonder of our own beauty being revealed to ourselves. Of discovering inner sources of power and guidance, and following the path our hearts show us. It is about opening ourselves up to the amazing possibilities that life affords us. For there is more here than we can possibly imagine and all will be greatly rewarded who venture within. John Kehoe
• The Great way has no gate; there are a thousand paths to it. Wu-Men

Creating by Believing

• What I believe, I will see in reality. I have the free will to believe or not believe what I choose. A master's beliefs are not based on his experience, his experience is based on his beliefs. I use thoughts creatively to create beliefs - then I let go of thoughts and move to experience. N. D. Walsch
• The correct prayer is never a prayer of supplication but a prayer of gratitude. Thankfulness is a powerful statement to God; an affirmation that even before you ask, God has answered. Therefore never supplicate. Appreciate. Every prayer - every thought, every statement, every feeling - is creative. To the degree that it is fervently held as truth, to that degree will it be made manifest in your experience. N. D. Walsch
• The will to disbelieve is the strongest deterrent to wider horizons. (Hans Holzer)

Creating beliefs

• Create new, more supportive beliefs.  Remind yourself that you can voluntarily plant in your subconscious mind any thought or belief you desire, and your mind will accept it provided it is introduced with enough feeling and reinforced through repetition.  John Kehoe
• True imprinting requires one to three months before its effects are firmly fixed in the mind.  John Kehoe
• The essence of a belief is the establishment of a habit. Charles S. Pearce
• A complete restructuring of my belief system is required.  I am called to build a temple with new, more powerful spiritual beliefs.  My old, limiting beliefs must be changed.  Every belief I possess about myself and my world must be re-examined in this new light.  Will it strengthen the temple?  Empower me?  Awaken within me my sacred song?  Assist me on my path?  All the beliefs that fail must be halved and quartered by the Warrior.  I am prepared to deny my reality.  Turn heaven and earth upside down.  I need not accept what others have previously accepted.  My temple will be a strong vessel, able to withstand the most vigorous journeys, for I intend to explore vigorously through unknown waters both within and without.  John Kehoe
• In building my temple, I draw from many sources.  I drink deeply from the well of my ancestors.  I choose the finest beliefs I can find.  Beliefs that speak to my heart.  I feel no restraint in borrowing, adding or deleting from one system to the next. Do I believe it?  It doesn't matter!  Do I choose to believe it!  My beliefs are chosen from within, not imposed from without. Daily, like eating and bathing, I focus and meditate upon the things I wish to believe.  Imagine them to be true.  And use simple affirmations.  To imprint these onto my consciousness in much the same way as the times table.  I know that any thought or concept which is fed and nourished through repetition will take hold within me.  "Think not of results, just do."  Until my beliefs become a living, flaming reality.  Remember, this is not a path for the sluggard.  Much is required before anything is gained.  But I persist because there is no way for the temple to built but for one stone upon another.  John Kehoe

Creating vibrant intentions

Practical exercises

• Visualise your goal as if it is actually happening to you right now at least once a day, each and every day. Physically sense the feeling of accomplishment you are after too. John Kehoe
• I make a list of all my desires. I will carry this wherever I go. I will look at this list before I go into stillness and sleep. And when I wake. I release this list of my desires and surrender it to the womb of creation, trusting that when things don't seem to go my way, there is a reason, that the cosmic plan has designs for me grander than even those that I have conceived. Deepak Chopra
• The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they inspire your creativity and ignite your passion. Anthony Robbins
• You get your life to "take off" by first becoming very, very clear in your thinking. Think about what you want to be, do and have. Think about it often until you are very clear about this. Then when you are very clear, think about nothing else. Imagine no other possibilities. Throw all negative thoughts out. Release all your doubts. Reject all fears. Discipline your mind to hold fast to the original creative thought. When your thoughts are clear and steadfast, begin to speak them as truths. Say them out loud. Use the great command that calls forth creative power: I am. "I am" is the strongest creative statement in the universe. Whatever you think, whatever you say, after the words "I am" sets in motion those experiences, calls them forth, brings them to you. N. D. Walsch

Intention with detachment

• Have intentions but don't have expectations, and certainly don't have requirements. Do not become addicted to a particular result. Do not even prefer one. Elevate your Addictions to Preferences, and your Preferences to Acceptances. N. D. Walsch
• Intention combined with detachment leads to life centred, present-moment awareness. My intent is for the future, but my attention is in the present. I accept the present and intend the future. I let go of my attachment to outcome. I enjoy every moment in the journey of life. Deepak Chopra

Develop the right consciousness

• When I have a strong intention, I set energy in motion. Energy in motion touches other energy in motion and remarkable things can happen. Susan Jeffers
• You can have, be and do whatever you imagine. Thought is pure energy. Every thought is creative. N. D. Walsch
• Want to change your circumstances? Develop the necessary consciousness. A successful person has a success consciousness. A wealthy person has developed a prosperity consciousness, and his thoughts are on abundance, success and prosperity. John Kehoe
• Your powerful, inner collaborator (subconscious) will bring to you the people and circumstances you require to fulfil your goals. "A thousand unseen hands", as Joseph Campbell describes them, will come to your aid. John Kehoe
• When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. Paulo Coelho
• So think as if your every thought were etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see, for so, in truth, it is. Book of Mirdad
• Consciousness is but energy in its finest and most dynamic form. This helps explain why events are effected by what we imagine, visualise, desire, want or fear, and why and how an image held in the mind can be made real. John Kehoe
• Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. Louisa May Alcott

Focus

• Weak and scattered thoughts are weak and scattered forces. Strong and concentrated thoughts are strong and concentrated forces.
• Through repetition, a thought can become concentrated and directed, and its force can be magnified many times. John Kehoe
• Focus! True direction is being woken up at 3 am and knowing exactly what your one goal is. Anthony Robbins
• Focus on what you want, not on what you fear or don't want. Focus on what you fear and that's exactly where you'll end up. (Anthony Robbins)
• The secret of success is constancy to purpose. (Benjamin Disraeli)

Dreaming. Visioning. Imagining

• Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. George Bernard Shaw
• Nothing happens unless first a dream. (Carl Sandburg)
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt
• If the vision is there, the means will follow. Faith Popcorn
• Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem
• Turn on your dream machine. Create mental pictures of what you want. Peter. J. Daniels

The power of intentions

• The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The shortest distance between two points is an intention. Richard Carlson
• Whatever things ye pray for and ask for believing that ye have received, ye shall receive them. Jesus
• When an object or purpose is clearly held in thought, its precipitation, in tangible and visible form, is merely a question of time. The vision always precedes the realisation. Lillian Whiting
• If you can dream it, you can do it Walt Disney
• A person expands or contracts the world to the dimension of his own vision. That which the mind can conceive and believe can be achieved. The best way to predict the future is to create it. Visualise!
• Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.
• He who determines the end, provides the means. (Benedetto Varchi)
• I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. (Thoreau)
• Nothing magnifies your creative powers more than a clear sense of mission. He who puts in four hours of want to will almost always outperform the person who puts in eight hours of have to. How can you convert your have to's to can't wait to's?
• One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life. (Alexander A.Bogomoletz)
• Realise the power of a single choice acted upon immediately and with total conviction. Anthony Robbins
• The ability to progress and achieve extraordinary results even in the midst of chaos is to take just one step at a time in the right direction. Anthony Robbins
• The best way to predict the future is to invent it. (Alan Kay)
• Three people were at work on a construction site. All were doing the same job, but when each was asked what his job was, the answers varied. 'Breaking rocks,' the first replied. 'Earning my living,' said the second. 'Helping to build a cathedral,' said the third. (Peter Schultz)
• We are more in need of a destination and less in need of a road map. Stephen Covey
• What we vividly imagine, ardently desire, enthusiastically act upon, must inevitably come to pass. Colin P. Sisson
• What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Goethe
• Your life proceeds out of your intentions for it. N. D. Walsch
• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Freidrich Nietzhe

The Flip Side

• If you don't know where you are going, any path will take you there. (Sioux Proverb)
• Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. Thomas Carlyle
• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. (Henry Ford)
• Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterise our age. (Albert Einstein)
• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker
• Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least. (Goethe)
• When you're up to your knees in alligators, it's hard to remember that your original goal was to drain the swamp.
• What is the use of running when we are on the wrong road? Bavarian proverb

Creating with love and passion

Creating according to my purpose

• I make a list of my unique talents. Then I list all the things I love to do while expressing my unique talents. When I express my unique talents and use them in the service of humanity, I lose track of time and create abundance in my life as well as the life of others. Deepak Chopra
• What makes life dreary is the want of motive. (George Eliot)

Doing what I love

• Find something you love to do, and you'll never have to work another day in your life. Harvey Mackay
• The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. - Arnold Toynbee
• Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And never do it for the money. Don't go to work to make money, go to work to spread joy. Marianne Williamson
• Work is love made visible. Kahlil Gibran
• '…we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make" - J.R.R. Tolkien, Fellowship of the Ring.
• Go ahead and do what you love to do. Do nothing else! You have so little time. How can you think of wasting a single moment doing something for a living you don't like to do. That is not a living, that is dying! N. D. Walsch
• I don't care what you do for a living. If you love it, you re a success. George Burns
• To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work. Sister Mary Lauretta
• No man is a failure who is enjoying life. William Feather
• What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. (Bob Dylan)
• The best career advice to give to the young is, "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it." (Katharine Whitehorn)

Enthusiasm and passion

• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. R.W. Emerson
• Throw your heart out in front of you and run ahead to catch it. (Arab proverb)

Cherishing Others

The sacred nature of relationships

• When we lose sight of each other as sacred souls on a sacred journey, then we cannot see the purpose behind all relationships. The purpose of a relationship is to decide what part of ourselves we would like to experience and express - not what part of another we can capture and hold. Not to have someone to complete us but to have another with whom to share our completeness. N. D. Walsch

• When I see others in need, I allow myself to use the illusion to express the part of myself that I choose to experience. But be clear that I never do anything for another. Everything I do I do for myself. That is because the self is all there is . In this way, there is no resentment. N. D. Walsch

• I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. Roy Croft
  Quality relationships are built on principles - especially the principle of trust. And trust grows out of trustworthiness, out of the character to make and keep commitments, to share resources, to be caring and responsible, to belong, to love unconditionally. Stephen Covey

• Perhaps God is in the space between people as they try to connect. Before Sunrise
  Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. Alexander Smith

• Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers learn the art of sewing shreds together and of seeing beauty in a multiplicity of patches. American Quilt

• We come to love, not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

The gift of friendship

• From quiet homes and first beginnings, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends. Hilaire Belloc

• It's the friends you can call up at 4 am that matter. Marlene Dietrich

• Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

• What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle

• And what is as important as knowledge, asked the mind. Caring and seeing with the heart, said the soul. Flavia Weedn

• A sorrow shared is half a trouble, but joy that's shared is joy made double. English proverb

• Let there be spaces in your togetherness. Kahlil Gibran

• It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.

Finding and cherishing the beauty in others

• Every person is special, unique and deserves respect. Learn to see beyond what people see in themselves. Everyone has the seeds of greatness in them and you empower people by seeing beyond their imperfections and problems to their potential, their depth, their inner beauty and their possibilities. John Kehoe

• Is the tulip superior to the rose? Are the mountains more majestic than the sea? Which snowflake is the most magnificent? Is it possible that they are all magnificent - and that, celebrating their magnificence together, they create an awesome display. See the beauty and the wonder of all whose lives you touch. For you are each wondrous indeed, yet no- one more wondrous than another. And you will oneday melt into Oneness, and know then that you form together a single stream N. D. Walsch

• A man is like a bit of labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle, then it shows deep and beautiful colours. Emerson

• When you see others who appear separate from you, look at them deeply. Look into them. Do this for a long moment and you will capture their essence. And you'll meet you, waiting there. N. D. Walsch
  

Affirming others

• Affirm each person you meet. Feed positive energy to your friends and family. The waitress after a meal. The taxi driver. The letter carrier. John Kehoe

• See God in everyone and help everyone to see God in themselves. N. D. Walsch
  The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli

• Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you. Sir William Arthur

• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. Johann W. von Goethe

• The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. William James
  A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

• A person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated. Life's Little Instruction Book
  Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. Sir Arthur Helps

• A woman wants to be cherished - to be loved and accepted for who she is. Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.
  

Accepting others

• Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you. Dr Wayne W Dyer

• True love requires nothing. N. D. Walsch

• Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood. Karen Casey

• I allow myself and those around me the freedom to be as they are. I do not rigidly apply my idea of how things should be. I do not force solutions on problems. Deepak Chopra

• You will not see in yourself that which is Divine until you forgive that which you believe is not. And you will be unable to behold the divinity in another unless and until you do the same. Forgiveness is the expander of perception. N. D. Walsch

Listening

• Nurture a genuine interest in others. You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Dale Carnegie

• Breathe before you speak. Pause - breath - after the person to whom you are speaking is finished. Richard Carlson

• A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. Wilson Mizner

• There is only one rule for being a good talker: learn to listen. Christopher Morley

• Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger

• Become a better listener and a more peaceful person by slowing down your responses. Don't fire back your response. Wait for the person you are listening to finish. You'll notice that the pressure you feel is off. Richard Carlson

• Seek first to understand. Be more interested in understanding others and less in having other people understand you. Stephen Covey
  

Giving

• Wherever I go, and whoever I encounter, I will bring them a gift. The gift may be a compliment, a flower, or a prayer. Today I will gratefully receive all the gifts that life has to offer me. The gifts of nature, sunlight and the sounds of birds singing. Deepak Chopra

• Each day, I make a difference to someone's life.

• Spend a moment everyday thinking of someone to love. Who shall I send love to today? Gear your mind towards love. Even if it just to wish them a day filled with love. Richard Carlson

• My heart expands to embrace others. And so I help because I want to. To lend a hand, an ear, give some time, concern, money - whatever seems appropriate. As I lose myself momentarily in service to others, I am nourished & find a nurturing inner peace. I let my heart breathe & beat for more than just myself. I become the vehicle through which the Great Mystery showers gifts upon others, because so many gifts have been showered upon me. Every act of kindness becomes a prayer. John Kehoe

• Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha

• Make service an integral pat of your life. Ask yourself at the start of the day "How can I be of service?" The best way of being of service is often very simple - it's those little, quiet, often unnoticed acts of kindness that I can choose on a daily basis - being supportive.

• Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire or appreciate about them. Richard Carlson

• Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty. Pay for the person behind you at toll booths.

• No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens

• Each of us has a gift, a talent to give back to the world. It may be small or large, it does not matter. The sacred song is our unique gift, our purpose, & each of us was born to discover & share it with the world.

• Meaning is in contribution, in living for something higher than self. Stephen Covey

• One turning point amid life’s lessons comes when we receive an acknowledgement of gratitude from someone who may or may not know us. Something clicks inside of us and we realise we are contributing something. Suddenly we realise that our life really matters and we have found a life path that will feed more than just the brain and ego; it will feed our heart and our soul. An influx of energy bursts through us, and we enjoy a sense of satisfaction, spiritual accomplishment and self- esteem. These feelings gather together to create a kind of magical synchronicity. We begin going with that flow rather than paddling up stream. We begin to flow with an unseen force ‘Dancing the Dream’ Jamie Sams

What you give, you become (receiving through giving)

• Be the source. If you want joy, give joy to others. If you want love, learn to give love. The easiest way to get what you want is to help others get what they want. Deepak Chopra

• From the soul's perspective, both helpee and helper are just hanging out together - complementary roles in a dance. Without helpees, what would the helpers have to do? Susan Jeffers

• It is in sharing the most, not gathering the most, that the most is received. N. D. Walsch
  The more you give, the more you receive because you keep the abundance of the universe circulating in your life. Deepak Chopra

• However little of anything you have, you can always find someone who has less. Find that someone and give to them from the abundance that is yours. Seek not to be the recipient of anything but to the the source. That which you wish to have , cause another to have. That which you hope to experience, cause anther to experience. For what you give you become. And in so doing, you will realise that you have had these things in your possession all along. N. D. Walsch

• Be what you are looking for and what you are looking for will find you. What you seek from another, give to another. That which you wish to experience from another, cause another to experience. N. D. Walsch

• There is a wonderful, mystical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life - happiness, freedom and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else.

We are sacred spirits on a sacred journey

• Life is a cosmic game of hide and seek in which we lose ourselves to find ourselves.  Deepak Chopra

• In reality, we are divinity in disguise, and the gods and goddesses in embyro that are contained within us seek to be fully materialised.  True success is therefore the experience of the miraculous.  It is the unfolding of the divinity within us.  It is the perception of divinity wherever we go, in whatever we perceive. Deepak Chopra

• We are not human beings trying to be spiritual.  We are spiritual beings trying to be human.

• The parable of the soul and the sun:  There was once a soul who knew itself to be the light.  This was a new soul, and so, anxious for experience.  "I am the light," it said.  "I am the light."  Yet all the knowing of it and the all the saying of it could not substitute for the experience of it.  For in the realm from which the this little soul emerged, there was nothing BUT the light.  Every soul was magnificent, and shone with the brilliance of My awesome light.  And so the little soul in question was as a candle in the sun.  In the midst of the grandest light, of which it was a part, it could not see itself, nor experience itself as Who It Really Is.  Now it came to pass that this soul yearned and yearned to know itself.  And so great was its yearning that I one day said "Do you know, Little One, what you must do to satisfy this yearning of yours? You must separate yourself from the rest of us and then you must call upon yourself the darkness."  "What is the darkness, oh Holy One?" the little soul asked.  "That which you are not." I replied and the little soul understood.  And so this the soul did, removing itself from all Yea, and going even unto another realm.  And in this realm, the soul had the power to call into its experience all sorts of darkness.  And this it did.  And yet in the midst of all the darkness did it cry out, "Father, father, why have you forsaken me?"  But I have never forsaken you, but stand by you always, ready to remind you of Who You Really Are, ready, always ready to call you home.   N. D. Walsch

• In creating "something else" - namely the realm of the relative - we have produced an environment in which we may choose to be God, rather than simply be told that we are God, in which we may experience our Godness as an act of creation, rather than conceptualisation, in which the little candle in the sun - the littlest soul - can know itself as the light. N. D. Walsch

• You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. Arlo Guthrie

• My purpose in creating you, My spiritual offspring, was for Me to know myself as God.  I have no way to do that save through you.  Thus it can be said that My purpose for you is that You should know yourself as Me.   N. D. Walsch

• We are all God, Godding - experiencing Our Self through the experiencing of Our parts.  We are God expressing Our Self.  N. D. Walsch

• We are all the Light.  Light is all we are.  But we have been placed in a relative realm (light and dark) so we can experience who we are and who we are not.

If it isn't about love, it isn't about God

• God is love. God accepts me as I am. God expects nothing of me.  God does not judge. Nothing makes God unhappy. God would never condemn anyone. I do not need to change anything or "get better" to be seen as perfect and beautiful in God's eyes.  N. D. Walsch

• The Great Mystery never judges me.  The Great Mystery supports, nourishes, loves and accepts me totally. And encourages me to do the same.  "Love thyself as I love you." And it is not just me that the Great Mystery loves. It comforts everyone, even the most wicked. Such is its love. None will be punished except those who punish themselves. All is forgiven when you forgive yourself. One thing only is asked of us: that we love and accept ourselves as the universe has loved and accepted us. That is all. John Kehoe

• God needs nothing. God cannot fail, and neither can I. Nothing is separate from anything. There is enough. There is nothing I have to do. I will never be judged. Love knows no condition. A thing cannot be superior to itself. I already know all of this.  N. D. Walsch

• If it isn't about love, it isn't about God  Susan Jeffers

• When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart", but rather, "I am in the heart of God". Kahlil Gibran

• Earthly things must be known to be loved;  Divine things must be loved to be known. Blaise Pascal

• As swimmers dare
  to lie face to the sky
  and water bears them,
  as hawks rest upon air
  and air sustains them,
  so I would learn to attain
  free fall and float
  into Creator Spirit's deep embrace,
  knowing no effort earns
  that all surrounding grace. Denise Levertov

The Great Mystery

• In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness...  I see what people call God in all these things.  Pablo Casals

• "How do you know," a Bedouin asked, "that there is a God?" "In the same way," his friend replied. "that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by his footprints in the world around me."  Henry Parry Liddon

Footprints   (inspired by the quotes above)

   Through the loving ways that people connect;
   laughter between friends, a couple holding hands,
   the generosity of a stranger, the smile of a child
   Through the gift of knowing I am enough, no matter what
   Through my highest thoughts, my truest words, my kindests deeds
   Through the wonders of sunsets and mountains, ocean waves, dolphins and daffodils
   Through the uplifting beauty of music, art and poetry
   Through the infiniteness of time and space and the intricacies of atoms and less
   Through the mighty power of silence and the peace that stillness brings
   Through these things,
   I see the footprints of a benevolent Mystery unfolding
   and I look out into the vast night sky
   and I smile at the stars and the moon
   content in the knowledge
   that the universe smiles back

N. D. Walsch

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 but determine Who You Want to Be. N. D. Walsch

It is the purpose of your soul to announce and declare, to be and to express, to experience and to fulfill Who You Really Are. And who is that? Whoever you say you are! Your life lived is your declaration. Your choices define you. Every act is an act of self definition. N. D. Walsch

See God in everyone and help everyone to see God in themselves. N. D. Walsch

Be what you are looking for and what you are looking for will find you. What you seek from another, give to another. That which you wish to experience from another, cause another to experience. N. D. Walsch

Your purpose is to create and recreate yourself anew in each golden moment of Now in the next grandest version of the greatest vision you have ever held about Who You Really Are. To announce and become, express and fulfil, experience and know your true Self. Life is a constant process of limitless creation. It is about recreating Who You are, by remembering all you have always known, & choosing what you want to experience of your Self. Go therefore into this magnificent world of your creation and make your lifetime an extraordinary statement of and a breathtaking experience of the greatest idea that you have ever had of yourself. N. D. Walsch

The correct prayer is never a prayer of supplication but a prayer of gratitiude. Thankfullness is a powerful statement to God; an affirmation that even before you ask, God has answered. Therefore never supplicate. Appreciate. Every prayer - every thought, every statement, every feeling - is creative. To the degree that it is fervently held as truth, to that degree will it be made manifest in your experience. N. D. Walsch

Every moment of your life is a holy moment, a moment of creation. Each moment is a new beginning. In each moment, you am born again. N. D. Walsch

It is in sharing the most, not gathering the most, that the most is received. N. D. Walsch

God's greatest truth is that there is not one way only but many ways Home. There are a thousand paths to God and every one will get you there. Indeed all paths lead to God. This is because there is no other place to go. N. D. Walsch

Say not this is true. Say this is true for me. Say not mine is a better way. Say mine is merely another way. N. D. Walsch

Go ahead and do what you love to do. Do nothing else! You have so little time. How can you think of wasting a single moment doing something for a living you don't like to do. That is not a living, that is dying! N. D. Walsch

The parable of the soul and the sun: There was once a soul who knew itself to the the light. This was a new soul, and so, anxious for experience. "I am the light," it said. "I am the light." Yet all the knowing of it and the all the saying of it could not substitute for the experience of it. For in the realm from which the this little soul emerged, there was nothing BUT the light. Every soul was magnificent, and shone with the brilliance of My awesome light. And so the little soul in question was as a candle in the sun. In the midst of the grandest light, of which it was a part, it could not see itself, nor experience itself as Who It Really Is. Now it came to pass that this soul yearned and yearned to know itself. And so great was its yearning that I one day said "Do you know, Little One, what you must do to satisfy this yearning of yours? You must separate yourself from the rest of us and then you must call upon yourself the darkness." "What is the darkness, oh Holy One?" the little soul asked. "That which you are not." I replied and the little soul understood. And so this the soul did, removing itself from all Yea, and going even unto another realm. And in this realm, the soul had the power to call into its experience all sorts of darkness. And this it did. And yet in the midst of all the darkness did it cry out, "father, father, why have you forsaken me?" But I have never forsaken you, but stand by you always, ready to remind you of Who You Really Are, ready, always ready to call you home. N. D. Walsch

In the stillness, you will find your true being. In the silence, you will hear the breathing of your soul - and of God.

Each circumstance is a gift, and in each experience is hidden a treasure. N. D. Walsch

You get your life to "take off" by first becoming very very clear in your thinking. Think about what you want to be, do and have. Think about it often until you are very clear about this. Then when you are very clear, think about nothing else. Imagine no other possibilities. Throw all negative thoughts out. Release all your doubts. Reject all fears. Discipline your mind to hold fast to the original creative thought. When your thoughts are clear and steadfast, begin to speak them as truths. Say them out loud. Use the greatcommand that calls forth creative power: I am. "I am" is the strongest creative statement in the universe. Whatever you think, whatever you say, after the words "I am" sets in motion those experiences, calls them forth, brings them to you. N. D. Walsch

Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nowhere you have to be except exactly who you're being right now. N. D. Walsch

A true Master is not the one with the most students, but one who creates the most Masters. A true leader is not the one with the most followers but one who creatses the most leaders. A true teacher is not the one with the most knowledge, but one who causes the most others to have knowledge. And a true God is not One with the most servants, but One who serves the most, thereby making Gods of all others. N. D. Walsch

Your life proceeds out of your intentions for it. N. D. Walsch

When you lose sight of each other as sacred souls on a sacred journey, then you cannot see the purpsose behind all relationships. The purpose of a relationship is to decide what part of yourself you would like to experience and express - not what part of another you can capture and hold. Not to have somone to complete you but to have another with whom to share your completeness. N. D. Walsch

Your soul doesn't care what it does for a living - and when your life is over, neither will you. Your souls cares only about what you're being while you're doing whatever you're doing. It is a state of beingness the soul is after, not a state of doingness. N. D. Walsch

Have intentions but don't have expectations, and certainly don't have requirements. Do not become addicted to a particular result. Do not even prefer one. Elevate your Addictions to Preferences, and your Preferences to Acceptances. N. D. Walsch

Every event of life is a miracle, as is life itself Life is designed to provide your soul with the perfect tools, the perfect circumstances, the perfect conditions with which to realise and experience, announce and declare, fulfill and become Who You Really Are. Therefor judge not, and neither condemn. Love your enemies, pray for your persecutors, and embrace every moment and circumstance of life as a treasure, a perfect gift from a perfect Creator. For I have sent you nothing but angels. I have given you nothing but miracles. N. D. Walsch

We are all of us, exactly where it is perfect for us to be, all the time. And we need nothing more of our evolution than exactly what we have, and are experiencing, right now. N. D. Walsch

Simply be quiet. Be with your Self in the stillness. Do this daily. Just stop. Stop all your doingness. Stop all your thinking. Stop all your thinking. Just "be for a while. Take an hour every day at dawn and give it to your Self. Meet your Self there in the holy moment. Then go about your day. You will be a different person. N. D. Walsch

When you do not require a person to show up as you imagine you need them to be, then you can drop expectation. Then you love them exactly as they are. Yet this can only happen when you love your Self exactly as you are. N. D. Walsch

Nothing happens in life by accident. Nothing. Nothing occurs in your life by chance. Nothing. Nothing takes place without producing the opportunity for real and lasting benefit to you. Nothng at all. The perfection of every moment may not be apparent to you, yet that will make the moment no less perfect. It will be no less a gift. N. D. Walsch

In the stillness, you will find your true being. In the silence, you will hear the breathing of your soul - and of God. You will find God in the Stillness. N. D. Walsch

You cannot experience that Which You Are in the absence of that which you are not. Therefore, know that when you experience that which you are not, it is not a failure to experience but a way to experience That Which You Are. N. D. Walsch

When you see others who appear separate from you, look at them deeply. Look into them. Do this for a long moment and you will capture their essence. And you'll meet you, waiting there. N. D. Walsch

However little of anything you have, you can always find someone who has less. Find that someone and give to them from the abundance that is yours. Seek not to be the recipient of anything but to the the source. That which you wish to have , cause another to have. That which you hope to experience, cause anther to experience. For what you give you become. And in so doing, you will realise that you have had these things in your possession all along. N. D. Walsch

At the end of your life, you will know that nothing you have done will matter - only who you have been while you have done it. Have you been happy? Have you been kind? Have you been grcious? Have you been compassionate and considerate of others? And most of all, have you been loving? You will see that it is who you have been, not what you have done, that matters to the soul. And you will see that it is your soul, after all, that is Who You Are. N. D. Walsch

Is the tulip superior to the rose? Are the mountains more majestic than the sea? Which snowflake is the most magnificent? Is it possible that they are all magnificent - and that, celebrating their magnificence together, they create an awesome display. See the beauty and the wonder of all whose lives you touch. For you are each wondrous indeed, yet no-one more wondrous than another. And you will oneday melt into Oneness, and know then that you form together a single stream N. D. Walsch

Deepak Chopra

You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait. You need not even wait, just learn to be quiet, and still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstacy at your feet. Deepak Chopra

Wherever I go, and whoever I encounter, I will bring them a gift. The gift may be a compliment, a flower, or a prayer. Today I will gratefully receive all the gifts that life has to offer me. The gifts of nature, sunlight and the sounds of birds singing. Deepak Chopra

The more you give, the more you receive because you keep the abundance of the universe circulating in your life. Deepak Chopra

Be the source. If you want joy, give joy to others. If you want love, learn to give love. The easiest way to get what you want is to help others get what they want. Deepak Chopra

Intention combined with detachment leads to to life centred, present-moment awareness. My intent is for the future, but my attention is in the present. I accept the present and intend the future. I let go of my attachment to outcome. I enjoy every moment in the journey of life. Deepak Chopra

I make a list of all my desires. I will carry this wherever I go. I will look at this list before I go into stillness and sleep. And when I wake. I release this list of my desires and surrender it to the womb of creation, trusting that when things don't seem to go my way, there is a reason, that the cosmic plan has designs for me grander than even those that I have conceived. Deepak Chopra

Life is a cosmic game of hide and seek in which we lose ourselves to find ourselves. Deepak Chopra

Non judgement creates silence in your mind. Judgement is the constant evaluation of things as right or wrong, good or bad. When you are constantly evaluating, classifying, labelling, analyzing, you create a lot of turbulence in your internal dialogue. This turbulence constricts the flow of energy between you and the field of pure potentiality. Deepak Chopra

Most of our energy goes into maintaining our own importance. If we were capable of losing some of that importance, two extraordinary things would happen to us. One, we would free ourselves from trying to maintain the illusory idea of our grandeur; and two, we would provide ourselves with enough energy to catch a glimpse of the actual grandeur of the universe. Deepak Chopra

Today I will accept people, situations, circumstances and events as they occur. I know that this moment is as it should be because the whole universe is as it should be. When I struggle against this moment, I struggle against the whole universe. I embrace the present and become one with it. I fully experience it. Deepak Chopra

I make a list of my unique talents. Then I list all the things I love to do while expressing my unique talents. When I express my unique talents and use them in the service of humanity, I lose track of time and create abundance in my life as well as the life of others. Deepak Chopra

In reality, we are divinity in disguise, and the gods and goddeses in embyro that are contained within us seek to be fully materialised. True success is therefore the experience of the miraculous. It is the unfolding of the divinity within us. It is the perception of divinity wherever we go, in whatever we perceive. Deepak Chopra

I lovingly nurture the god in embryo that lies deep within my soul. I awaken myself to the deep stillness that lies deep within my heart. Deepak Chopra

When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. Deepak Chopra