Fully Living Your God-Given Life

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.
Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned;
perhaps she won't suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow.
But when the person looks back - and at some point everyone look back -
she will hear her heart, saying,
"What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days?
What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you?"
- Paulo Coelho

Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey 

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible,
and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when
we concern ourselves with other people.
- Harry Chapin

Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: 7 Secrets for a Happy Life

Challenge Yourself

Curious - Adventurous

Be Fully Present in TODAY
   

Don't Resist Life

By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu

What you resist, persists.
- Carl Jung

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
- Jules Verne

Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu

If we fail to plan, we merely bob helplessly -
like a cork on the sea of life.
If we resist whatever life delivers to us,
we create untold misery for ourselves.
If we act with vision and commitment,
and then accept whatever Spirit provides,
we live a life of purpose and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today's affirmation:
I practice non-resistance.
I accept the wisdom of God
in creating the world exactly as it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Non-Resistance

Serenity in Times of Crisis

Everything Happens In Its Own Time

Acceptance Is Not Resignation
    

Mind Stretched by New Ideas

The human mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never returns to its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar,
you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
- Charles Kettering

Few new truths have ever won their way
against the resistance of established ideas
save by being overstated.
- Isaiah Berlin

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead

Let today be a day to break with convention,
and try out new ideas and ways of living.

Further reading: You are the Window

Cultivate Awareness

The Art of Seeing

New Ideas

Honoring Our Roots
    

Dream It - Do It

If you can dream it, you can do it.
- Walt Disney

It is difficult to say what is impossible,
for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today
and the reality of tomorrow.
- Robert H. Goddard
Today's picture shows rocket pioneer and dreamer Robert Goddard in 1926.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe
around him and calls the adventure Science.
- Edwin Powell Hubble

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright

It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela

Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller

Further reading: All That I May Be

Fears vs. Dreams

Hold Fast to Your Dreams

Choose to Soar
    

Gratitude Expands Life

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie

He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter
everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe
that change forever how we experience life and the world.
- John Milton

Suppose our gratitude could be zero-based gratitude.
With zero-based gratitude,
we would be grateful for everything we had each day -
regardless of whether it was more or less than yesterday.
With zero-based gratitude, I can be grateful for all the people,
the love, the food, the shelter, the services,
the health, that I am blessed with today,
regardless of what I had yesterday.
With zero-based gratitude,
I can be grateful each day for the gift of life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Zero-Based Gratitude

Know that You have been Blessed

The Truly Rich

My Glass of Life