"Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him & then choose that way with all his strength." (I don't know whose quote this is, but it's my brothers favorite "words of wisdom" & one I hold dear to my heart. submitted by Kelli @ Kelli’s Musings) Thank you Kelli!
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is not the body; it is not the mind; it is not the soul. It is a force" ~Don Miguel Ruiz - "the Mastery of Love"
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Well the long weekend I had been so anticipating has come and gone. I got a lot accomplished. I nearly finished cleaning out the second bedroom. I did some other cleaning things. I had a great breakfast, I saw some friends, watched a movie with my mom. And all weekend long (except for last night) I slept wonderfully. Now why I ask you was I able to sleep all weekend long and yet last night I tossed and turned so that I only got about 2 hours sleep total. Ugh. Now I'm tired and have a headache (go figure).
My post today will be added to over the course of the day so keep checking back if you want to see more. For now, I leave you with the daily inspirations in the hopes that they will make me too feel better ;)
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ADDED AFTER ORIGINAL POSTING
In the process of cleaning up and throwing out, I found some really nice things. They may seem trivial to most, but they are things I enjoy. For example I found a 1999 Chicken Soup for the Soul Calendar. I'm scanning those images in as we speak and will load them up when done. I also found some other nice images, and finally got all my pictures into my one photo box. So many secrets of the past were uncovered ;) like old bills (yuck) and taxes (bleh), but there were some other things I found too... like my old journal. Long before the modernization of journalling now known as "Blogging" :P we used to have things such as pens and paper and for the true innovators, we even had Word Processors! (heh) I found stories I had written, quotes I had written down etc. Here are some of the things I had written down:
On the spring day, my spirit roams the fields of yellow flowers, rising like the choir singing happy praises to fly above the cares of my humanity.
If we aren't love, then what are we except for material... Love is the highest self we can find, if we can find it and become it.
I even found drawings I had done. Heh, I did try drawing a lot more when I was a teen than I did when I was an adult, but I did also find the beach scene I painted (Apparently I stole it from my mother :P). It was nice to find these things. It's funny, the memories that wash over you when you see your past in thoughts, words, prose. Oh! I also found the very first poetry I ever wrote!
Interstingly enough, back before the marriage, back before the man, I was still a woman looking for love. All my life I guess, I've been the seeker of love. My journal is all about that. Maybe if I'm brave, I'll post snippets ;) We'll see...
Have a wonderful day everyone!
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DAILY INSPIRATION
If Life is a Game; Then These are the Rules
by: Cherie Carter-Scott
In workshops and retreats, on photocopies and emails, on noticeboards and fridge doors, the 'Ten Rules for Being Human' have been spreading round the world like wildfire, so, in all probability, you've already seen them. In case you haven't, they're brilliant, and here they are, together with Cherie Carter-Scott's summary of how you can use them as a primer for higher consciousness.
Rule One
You will receive a body. You may love it or hate it, but it will be yours for the duration of your life on Earth.
Rule Two
You will be presented with lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called ‘life.' Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or hate them, but you have designed them as part of your curriculum.
Rule Three
There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories. The failed experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that work.
Rule Four
A lesson is repeated until learned. Lessons will be repeated to you in various forms until you have learned them. When you have learned them, you can then go on to the next lesson.
Rule Five
Learning does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
Rule Six
‘There’ is no better than ‘here’. When your ‘there’ has become a ‘here,' you will simply obtain a ‘there’ that will look better to you than your present ‘here’.
Rule Seven
Others are only mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.
Rule Eight
What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you.
Rule Nine
Your answers lie inside of you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
Rule Ten
You will forget all of this at birth. You can remember it if you want by unravelling the double helix of inner knowing.
Summary
Your time here on Earth is brief. Time passes and things change. You have options and choices in which to make your wishes, dreams, and goals become reality.
When you ask yourself, ‘Why am I here?’ or ‘Why is this happening to me?’ or ‘What's it all about?’ turn to your spiritual primer. Ask yourself, ‘What is the lesson?’ If you hear a defensive reaction using the words ‘never’ or ‘always’ in your response, you haven’t yet learned the lesson. Next, go a little deeper and ask, ‘What is there for me to learn from this experience?’
Each time you view your circumstances as possessing value, regardless of the apparent confusion or hardship, you grow. Your personal evolution will depend on how readily you embrace your lessons and integrate them into your life. Remember, the only consequence for resisting lessons, is that they will keep repeating themselves until you learn them. When you have learned a lesson, you will always be tested. When the lesson is learned, the test will be easily passed, and you then move on to more complex and challenging ones.
You can look back on the incidents in your past and see clearly the lessons you have learned, resisted, and are still repeating. ‘Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift, that is why we call it the present.
’It is more challenging to look at your present situation and see exactly what your lessons are. Looking into the future is the most difficult. Wishing that you had already graduated from the school of life does not accelerate your progress or make the lessons any easier. Examining the situation for the real lesson is the scavenger hunt.
Remind yourself that you are here to learn lessons. Be present with your process. Pay attention to what you are experiencing. Be diligent with actions which enable you to ‘get' the lessons presented to you. Ask for answers and you shall receive them. Listen with an open heart. Explore all options. See your judgment as a mirror. View each crisis as an opportunity. Trust yourself. Believe in yourself. Look within yourself, to your higher self, for guidance on all your choices. Extend compassion to yourself.
Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons (Rule Three). Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible!
From If Life is a Game, These are the Rules, © 1998 by Cherie Carter-Scott, published in the UK in 1999 by Hodder & Stoughton.
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WELL WISHES
Today i hope everyone enjoys their day. Look for and find the small thing that makes you smile. And if you're like me Ibuprofen works wonders too :P
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AND REMEMBER
Ten thousand flowers in spring,
the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer,
snow in winter.
If your mind isn't clouded by
unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life. ~ Wu-Men
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I am always "filled" when I visit here. Thank you so much.
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