Fully Engage with Life

 

The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

You can choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Further reading: I Dreamed a Dream

Live With Enthusiasm

Think Big, Act Big

Choose to Follow Your Heart
   

Live Life Full Out

The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

You can choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Further reading: I Dreamed a Dream

Live With Enthusiasm

Think Big, Act Big

Choose to Follow Your Heart
   

Go With Your Whole Heart

 

The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

You can choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Further reading: I Dreamed a Dream

Live With Enthusiasm

Think Big, Act Big

Choose to Follow Your Heart
   

Go with All Your Heart

 

The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

You can choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Further reading: I Dreamed a Dream

Live With Enthusiasm

Think Big, Act Big

Choose to Follow Your Heart
   

Share Your Inner Music with the World

The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

You can choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Further reading: I Dreamed a Dream

Live With Enthusiasm

Think Big, Act Big

Choose to Follow Your Heart
   

You Can't Stop Progress, Nobody Can Stop Progress

Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

You've gotta find a way to get out of your own way,
so you can progress in life.
- Steve Carlton

The important work of moving the world forward
does not wait to be done by perfect men.
- George Eliot

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

Cheer progress and never try to stop the music. Read more here...

Further reading: New Ideas

Moving Forward

Progress of the Human Mind
        

Progress Requires Change

Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

The important work of moving the world forward
does not wait to be done by perfect men.
- George Eliot

You've gotta find a way to get out of your own way,
so you can progress in life.
- Steve Carlton

Cheer progress and never try to stop the music. Read more here...

Further reading: Moving Forward

New Ideas

Progress of the Human Mind
     

Song of Angels

There are choirs singing in your head.
If you listen, you will hear the music.
It is the song of angels.
Pay no attention to the sounds of the world.
They are just noises, and even when
added up all together
they have no value, make no sense.
Strain to hear the song of angels.
Listen to the melody within your soul.
- Neale Donald Walsch

The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Knowledge is of the mind, wisdom is of the soul.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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.
- Anne Frank

From far beyond this life,
I hear the call.
From place beyond all place,
I feel the call.
From time before all time,
I know the call.
From one before all ones,
I am the call.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Harmony of the Soul

May You...

Being the Melody

Stillness
    

Sing Your Own Song

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

You can choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: I Dreamed a Dream

Think Big, Act Big

Live With Enthusiasm

Choose to Follow Your Heart
   

Passion and Enthusiasm

Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.
- Arnold J. Toynbee

Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
- Douglas MacArthur

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau

The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Take Charge of Your Life

Your Intuition is Your Guide

Think Big, Act Big

Live Your Greatest Life
   

Never Try To Stop The Music

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
- Charles Kettering
(Kettering's many inventions included the electric automobile starter)

You've gotta find a way to get out of your own way,
so you can progress in life.
- Steve Carlton

The important work of moving the world forward
does not wait to be done by perfect men.
- George Eliot

Cheer progress and never try to stop the music. Read more here...

Further reading:  New Ideas

Moving Forward

Progress of the Human Mind

Everything Happens In Its Own Time

March On

Plato: Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
- Plato

I will dance a little. I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer

Set Life’s Rhythm with Your Heart-Drum
- jlh

Music and dance add celebration to life.

Further reading: Celebrate Whimsey Today

The Secret of Happiness

Celebrate gratitude

CELEBRATION - the seventh Point of Simply An Inspired Life

Don't try to stop the music.

Quotes about Music

Dance Quotes

Don't Worry Be Happy quotes

Happy Days Quotes

Quotes on Being Happy

Dont die with your music still inside you. Wayne Dyer

Don't die with your music still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams, you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I Dream with Powerful Intention. Opening my mind to Spirit, I trust my intuition to deliver powerful visions of my inspired future, and I empower my intent to transform those visions into reality.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Wayne Dyer: Failure does not exist

Joy is a Choice - but Not an Easy Choice

Marianne Williamson: Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

You cant stop the music, nobody can stop the music. - Village People

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music. - Village People

Life is a force that is mightier than any individual, any group, any country, any century, any millennium. The momentum of progress is unstoppable.

The clock can never be turned back and the advancement of nature and humanity can barely be slowed, even by those who cling most firmly to the way things are or the way they used to be.

Our children's children will know wonders of which we cannot even imagine. They will wonder about us as we wonder about those who first sharpened sticks and drew animal figures on the walls of caves.

Cheer progress and never try to stop the music.

Further reading: A life lived in fear is a life half lived

Honor tradition AND question tradition. - jlh

Set Life’s Rhythm with Your Heart-Drum - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Set Life’s Rhythm with Your Heart-Drum
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is your dance. Set your own beat, your own cadence. Take the lead in your own life.

Mary Anne Radmacher: Dare to dream of your great success

Dare to dream of your great success 

- Mary Anne Radmacher 

dare to dream of your great success.
become intimate with those things which
deeply motivate you and regularly work
toward the realization of that mission.

At 28 years I traveled out of the country. Alone. In London. My bed and breakfast was filled with accents from all over the world and my ear was not yet trained to the unique inflection spoken in the Queen’s English. My second day there I intended to purchase one ticket for LES MISERABLES (it had opened the October before). Between jet lag and my language challenge I accidentally purchased two.

It took some amount of negotiating to persuade the young intellectual from Germany to be my guest at that night’s performance. While he insisted that musicals were frivolous and a waste of time, he thriftily concurred that not using my second ticket would be a waste of money.

That night both our world views shifted. As Fantine wept over her lost love and life in I DREAMED A DREAM, the heart in my guest was breaking. I resolved: never to be so achingly in the grasp of regret. The music became my soundtrack for many years. I cannot speak of the standing of his life but I know that night he was the first to stand to his feet as the curtain began its close. Hands above his head he was weeping for the wonder. He saw that what he had thought was one thing (frivolous musicals) was something else entirely.

And so it was for Susan Boyle, an almost 48 year old English woman who’s never been kissed, and lives alone with her cat. As she competed on BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT the somewhat cynical judges balked as she answered Simon Cowell’s, “What’s the dream?” with, “I want to become a professional singer.” Who in the audience didn’t laugh?

Somewhat nervous, rather awkward and no apparent stitch of makeup on her face she waited for the music to begin. She began to sing. The audience registered audible and visual surprise. Like my reluctant guest their assessment of one thing turned out to be something else entirely. As when any person is completely engaged with their passion, Susan transformed as I watched. Her dream enlivened her and took away any sense of nervousness.

As the audience stilled and returned from their leaping feet to their seats…I was reminded of the wisdom of George Eliot (aka Mary Ann Evans) who courageously embraced her dream and passion saying, “It is never too late to become who you might have been.” Said another way, “Continue to live toward your dream – the ultimate embrace of it will be worth your journey.”

Rumi: Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened.

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)

Vision - Creation - Art?

Vision - Creation - Art? Each of us is an artist, but many are repressed artists. There is something of ourselves that cannot be expressed in words. Perhaps that something can be expressed in form or color, dance or music. If only with crayons or a tin drum, let that something that cannot be said move your hands or your body today.