Remain true to your nature.

Walking through a field, you see a flower growing on the hillside. You admire its beauty, while wholly unaware of its leaves, opened like tiny solar panels to capture the sunlight. Without understanding the intricacies of this plant, you may fail to appreciate what it can teach you about manifesting your destiny.
Within its seed is a blueprint of everything it may become. As it pushes beyond the earth and rocks to initiate photosynthesis, it moves through the darkness, intuitively knowing there will be light at the end of the tunnel. Whether fruit or flower, all direction manifests from within. Through photosynthesis, it releases the oxygen atom from the carbon molecule. The plant thrives and yet, it nourishes other life forms in the process. By taking its place within the larger fabric, it is simply being the unique creature nature designed it to be.

Commitment

People who believe they are being judged by others are actually judgmental themselves. Those experiencing rejection are unwittingly attracting the type of mate least likely to commit. Feeling rejected is a safe escape for your own fear of commitment.

Learn From Nature

In our perfect world view of nature, we sometimes assume that a type of altruism is at work behind its interdependent process. Yet, this is not true. Most species are driven by their own needs and desires, yet inadvertently still play a role in the well being of others. In nature everything is a blending of inseparable differences.

Nature operates with a win/win philosophy apparent in the plant world's pollination processes and seed distribution methods. A flower attracts the tiny insects that will control infestations and steward its pollination processes. The bee is driven by its own need for sustenance, while carrying pollen on its legs from flower to flower. Some plants grow seeds that use the wind, or the fur of passing animals for procreation. Nature finds harmony even while honoring differences. This inspires the idea that you need not push your way into the world; a place has already been set for you.

Nature can inspire you with the knowledge that strength is not measured by how you conquer others, but how you conquer yourself. A fear of inadequacy can lead to defensiveness. When you overcome your fear, you can interact with a type of inner strength that need not be proven.

Your environment may nurture you, but it does not define you: that takes place from direction that rises within. Adaptation reveals that everything you will ever need to survive is already within you. Nothing new is added to the genetic mix, and you need only turn inward to allow experience to carve away the layers that hide your authenticity. More importantly, you need not fight the very thing that is ensuring your success.

Laugh When You Can

Always laugh when you can, it's cheap medicine.

Control

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Regret

You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savour it.

Blame

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with
another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change
you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you
are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or
frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about
something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it
is about you that is making you unhappy.

An Opportunity To Grow

With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

Success

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Happiness

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Moments

In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away

Community

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

Grab Immortality

Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.

You Are Immortal

In every unbeliever's heart there is the uneasy feeling that he may in fact, after all, awake from death to find out he is in fact immortal.

Every belief is an obstacle

Every belief is an obstacle. It does not even require your realization, since you are already who you are. But without realization, who you are does not shine forth into this world. It remains in the unmanifested which is, of course, your true home. You are then like an apparently poor person who does not know he has a bank account with $100 million in it and so his wealth remains an unexpressed potential.

Involve Me

Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I’ll understand.

Our Purpose

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal Proverb

Fear

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Love and Respect

“If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you. If that person doesn't walk away, you will surely endure many years of suffering with him or her. Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal. Then you can choose what you really want. You will find that you don't need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices.”

Society

Society is our extended mind and body. Yet the very society from which the individual is inseparable is using its whole irresistible force to persuade the individual that he is indeed separate! Society as we now know it is therefore playing a game with self-contradictory rules. Just because we do not exist apart from the community, the community is able to convince us that we do—that each one of us is an independent source of action with a mind of its own. The more successfully the community implants this feeling, the more trouble
it has in getting the individual to cooperate, with the result that children raised in such an environment are almost permanently confused. (Alan Watts)

Love is a response

For most people, love is a response to need fulfillment. Everyone has needs. You need this, another needs that. You both see in each other a chance for need fulfillment. So you agree—tacitly—to a trade. I’ll trade you what I’ve got if you’ll give me what you’ve got. It’s a transaction. But you don’t tell the truth about it. You don’t say, “I trade you very much.” You say, “I love you very much,” and then the disappointment begins.

Problems are opportunities

Cultivate the technique of seeing all problems as opportunities. Opportunities to...be, and decide, Who You Really Are.

Life Is

When you catch yourself thinking negative thoughts—thoughts that negate your highest idea about a thing—think again! I want you to do this, literally. If you think you are in a doldrum, in a pickle, and no good can come of this, think again. If you think the world is a bad place, filled with negative events, think again. If you think your life is falling apart, and it looks as if you’ll never get it back together again, think again.

Thought

Thought is pure energy. Every thought you have, have ever had, and ever will have is creative. The energy of your thought never ever dies. Ever. It leaves your being and heads out into the universe, extending forever. A thought is forever.

Seek

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, seek to determine Who You Want to Be. Your job on Earth, therefore, is not to learn (because you already know), but to remember Who You Are. And to remember who everyone else is.

Reality

You cannot resist something to which you grant no reality. The act of resisting a thing is the act of granting it life. When you resist an energy, you place it there. The more you resist, the more you make it real—whatever it is you are resisting.

Your ideas about right and wrong are just that—ideas. They are the thoughts which form the shape and create the substance of Who You Are. There would be only one reason to change any of these; only one purpose in making an alteration: if you are not happy with Who You Are.

What's the point

The point of life is not to get anywhere—it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there. You are, always and forever, in the moment of pure creation. The point of life is therefore to create—who and what you are, and then to experience that.

Truth

Life Begins

Time

See What Works

Ask Good Questions

Be Original

Let Go

Evolution

Which Path

Learn Nothing

It Has To Rain

Be Silent

Try and be silent today!

When I Grow Up

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” John Lennon

What are you thinking about?

Do Others Irritate You?

 

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung

What Counts

 

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts

When We Least Expect It

 

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

Just Be Happy

Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.



Action is about living fully

 

“Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years because you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action. You have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results and no reward.”
~ Don Miguel Ruiz