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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Monday, November 9, 2009

Today is your day to paint life in bold colors - jlh


Today is your day to paint life in bold colors,
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum,
walk today's march with courage,
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Out with the gray! In with color; in with the juice of life.

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.

New article: Feel Your Connection With the Infinite - a Meditation

Further reading: Be an Original

The Silver Lining of Losing Your Job

May your spirit soar

Today is your day to dance lightly with life. It really is. - jlh

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Victor Hugo quote: An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.


An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

What new ideas are you resisting? What traditions are you clinging to? What would be possible if you opened yourself to inspiration without reservation?

Affirmation: I am unlimited. I am unstoppable.


Further reading: Resilience is about believing in yourself, and trusting your own wisdom rather than being swayed by the opinions of others. - jlh

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Feel Your Connection With the Infinite - a Meditation

I Am One With Spirit and All Creation - I give thanks for the unity of all creation and for everything that has brought me to this moment. I release my entire being to the gentle nurture of Spirit.

Whenever it appears that life's troubles are conspiring against me, I find great comfort in this simple meditation...

Choose a quiet place and sit comfortably but erect in a chair with no arms. Remove your glasses, watch, jewelry and metal objects.

Place your feet flat on the floor. Lift your arms off your lap and extend them slightly to the side.

Close your eyes and begin to breathe deeply and rhythmically. Keeping your eyes shut, raise your chin slightly and focus your inner gaze upward.

With each in-breath, visualize clean white energy streaming in through the top of your head. Feel the renewal, the strength, the connection with Spirit and all creation. Feel the wellbeing, the relaxation, the sense of peace. Let the corners of your mouth form just the slightest smile of contentment in the knowing that all is right with your world.

On each out-breath, visualize dark clouds of stale energy leaving from the soles of your feet. Feel the tensions, the angers, the frustrations draining from your body. Feel all your fears and stress falling away as the dark cloud drifts toward the center of the earth.

As you continue breathing slowly, in and out, visualizing the new energy entering and the old energy leaving, the energy leaving through the soles of your feet will grow lighter, changing from black to dark gray to a lighter gray.

When the color of the energy you are exhaling has become almost as bright as the clean new energy that you are breathing in through the crown of your head, the process is complete.

Feel renewed and at peace with Spirit, with the world, with all people and beings, with yourself, with your past, your present and your future.

Give thanks for all that ever has been, all that is, and all that ever will be.

A Course In Miracles quote: Do you prefer that you be right or happy?

Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
- A Course In Miracles


One of the surest ways to cause yourself great suffering is to insist upon being right - to demand that all others view life exactly as you view it.

Why should it impede your happiness for others to have differing views on politics or religion? for others to paint their houses purple or grow asparagus in place of a grassy lawn? for others to dress, mingle, celebrate, or dine in their own manner?

The path to happiness is to live your life joyfully in your own way and to support and encourage others to do likewise.

Further reading: Live and let live

Acceptance Makes a Great Relationship Even Better

Know that Spirit transcends all cultural differences and embraces all creation.

Forgiveness and Acceptance, Another Look at the Challenges

Friday, November 6, 2009

Winston Churchill: Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.


Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill


What is failure? As the Churchill quote illuminates, a failure is neither permanent nor a blot on one's character. A failure is simply the state of not reaching a particular goal.

Choose to adopt the attitude that sports teams do toward failure. In each game, one team succeeds and one fails. Then the next week they both get out a play again. Life is also a game - with some successes and some failures.

Don't think of failing to meet a goal as something terrible, but merely as this week's box score, and then get ready to play next week's game.

Further reading: The Eye-of-the-Storm

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is - jlh

Lao Tzu: A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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