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MajestyJo
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 Posted - 09/04/2007 : 00:15:03
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Do you give to get?
"I have sensed a growing discontent amongst many who are on their spiritual path. A common theme appears to be -- I have been serving God for so long and have given up so much and it has been such a struggle -- when am I going to get my reward?"
-- Wendy Munroe
Its interesting to become aware of how we participate in the dynamic exchange of giving and receiving. When we give, do we do so whole-heartedly? Or do we do so with the ulterior motive of wanting something in return?
Its not wise to be always looking for a deal. The universe never short-changes us. We can afford to be generous. The Koran spells out a value-for-value principle. When something of value is given, something of value must be returned.
"Its not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."
-- Mother Teresa
Understand the spiritual principles of manifestation.
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MajestyJo
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590 Posts |
Posted - 09/04/2007 : 22:45:19
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Appreciate the mystery
"The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."
-- Aart Van Der Leeuw
"I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible."
-- William James
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."
-- Niels Bohr
"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
-- Copernicus
"Curiouser and curiouser!"
-- Lewis Carroll
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Each Day is a New Beginning, so have a great one. |
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MajestyJo
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Canada
590 Posts |
Posted - 09/09/2007 : 21:36:19
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On sadness
"Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain. To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the healing feeling."
-- John Bradshaw
"To weep is to make less the depth of grief."
-- William Shakespeare
"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and recovered hope."
-- George Eliot
"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness."
-- Lao-tzu
"When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left."
-- Sufi epigram
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Love Always,
Each Day is a New Beginning, so have a great one. |
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MajestyJo
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Canada
590 Posts |
Posted - 09/09/2007 : 21:38:13
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Use down time to good advantage
"The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation."
-- Milarepa
In our busy schedules, we can often complain that we dont have time to meditate. But if we are sincere in our desire to go inside, we can create our own moments of stillness in the midst of our activity.
Stopped at a traffic light? Do some deep breathing. Waiting in line at the bank or grocery store? Repeat an uplifting word such as love or peace. Riding the bus to and from work? Value these times as an opportunity to close your eyes and go within or to say a little prayer.
"Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness within you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality."
-- Deepak Chopra
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Each Day is a New Beginning, so have a great one. |
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MajestyJo
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Canada
590 Posts |
Posted - 09/09/2007 : 21:40:42
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Be willing to repeat
"Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix."
-- Christina Baldwin
Sometimes we repeat the Inner Journey messages in the series. Please guard against saying, "Ive seen this one -- I dont need to read it again."
The truth is: we are always changing. Who you are now is different from who you were when you read the message the first time. The circumstances of your life have changed as well. As a result, you may be open to new perspectives this time around.
Our ego is prone to think it knows it all, but life always offers us fresh and new experiences.
"It all depends on how we look at things and not on how they are in themselves."
-- C.G. Jung
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Each Day is a New Beginning, so have a great one. |
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MajestyJo
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Canada
590 Posts |
Posted - 09/09/2007 : 21:43:13
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Making a difference
"The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results."
-- Eknath Easwaran
Many of us feel deeply that we want to make a difference -- we want our lives to mean something in the bigger scheme of life. While this is a noble motive, we might want to explore what lies at its root.
Does the drive to make a difference arise from egos need to feel worthy? If my ego is not convinced that I matter, I may want visible proof that I do by making some kind of impact on life.
Soul doesnt need proof that its worthy. Soul thrives in being awake and connected. Perhaps if we let go of the pressure we feel from our egos need to be recognized, we will be more open and able to simply live soulfully. And by doing that, we WILL make a difference!
"A persons worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having."
-- Alice Mary Hilton
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Each Day is a New Beginning, so have a great one. |
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MajestyJo
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Canada
590 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2007 : 11:13:28
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Calm the mind
"All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone."
-- Blaise Pascal
Meditation calms our minds and makes it easier for us to pay attention to the reality around and within us. Meditation breaks through the masks that have built up as our identity. It helps us see through our defences and connect with unacknowledged and unloved aspects of ourselves. It opens us to higher mind and the voice of intuition.
We can consciously choose meditation as a way to become more aware of who we truly are. If we dont take the initiative to open to our authentic selves, we can be certain that deep challenge and pain from life experience will push us to awaken.
"Meditation helps me feel the shape, the texture of my inner life. Here, in the quiet, I can begin to taste what Buddhists would call my true nature, what Jews call the still, small voice, what Christians call the holy spirit."
-- Wayne Muller
"In a world filled with noise, we need to quiet ourselves to hear Gods voice."
--Paul Borthwick
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Love Always,
Each Day is a New Beginning, so have a great one. |
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MajestyJo
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Canada
590 Posts |
Posted - 09/11/2007 : 04:32:38
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Labels limit us
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
-- Lao Tzu
How do you label yourself? How do you label others?
Be aware that any label is limiting. Labels stick us in a box where theres no room to move. Today, experience how it feels to let go of the labels to rest in I am. Feel the freedom, the spaciousness, the infinite potential of simply being.
"As long as I am this or that, I am not all things."
-- Meister Eckhart
"Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you."
-- Og Mandino
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Love Always,
Each Day is a New Beginning, so have a great one. |
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MajestyJo
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Canada
590 Posts |
Posted - 09/12/2007 : 09:52:47
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Take the first step
"When we take one step toward God, he takes seven steps toward us."
-- Hindu Proverb
If our ego is to know spirit, we must make the first move. Spirit does not come down and knock on our door. It sits waiting for us to acknowledge it. We must want to change and take the initiative and persevere. The love of spirit will embrace us. But we must take the first steps.
In what areas of your life are you ready for change? What step can you take to open the door to new possibilities? It starts with you.
'Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You dont have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move."
-- Betty Eadie
"It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me."
-- Simone Weil
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Each Day is a New Beginning, so have a great one. |
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MajestyJo
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Canada
590 Posts |
Posted - 09/13/2007 : 14:44:24
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What's on your hot list?
"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want."
-- Ben Stein
A Hot List is basically a to-do list with one key difference: it only includes topics or tasks that really matter to you, those that genuinely affect your quality of life. You know -- the ones you never get around to! The ones that will make your life your own!
Keep a prioritised Hot List handy to remind you to claim 5 to 15 minutes to focus on and write about what counts in your life. Even 5 minutes is better than nothing. Start small and the momentum will build.
"You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside."
-- Stephen Covey
I asked a friend "What part of NO, don't you understand." She replied, "The 'O'"
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Each Day is a New Beginning, so have a great one. |
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MajestyJo
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Canada
590 Posts |
Posted - 09/14/2007 : 22:26:37
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Overwhelmed?
"Life does not happen to us, it happens from us."
-- Mike Wickett
Are you easily overwhelmed? If so, answer this question in your journal:
While growing up, what did you experience too much of?
Experiencing too much of something leads to feelings of overwhelm. When were young, overwhelm can lead us to believe that we are not capable or that we are not good enough. These are power issues.
Awareness of when we are feeling overwhelmed can help us go inside, claim our power and change our experience of any situation.
"When we know that the cause of something is in ourselves, and that we (ourselves) are one of the few things in the universe that we have the right and ability to change, we begin to get a sense of the choices we really do have, an inkling of the power we have, a feeling of being in charge... of our lives, of our future, of our dreams."
-- John-Roger and Peter McWilliams
"Be thine own palace, or the worlds thy jail."
-- John Donne
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Love Always,
Each Day is a New Beginning, so have a great one. |
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MajestyJo
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Canada
590 Posts |
Posted - 09/17/2007 : 08:50:34
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What is love?
"When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully -- in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to know; to love is to act. If you really love, from the depths of your Consciousness, that love gives you a native wisdom. You perceive the needs of others intuitively and clearly, with detachment from any personal desires; and you know how to act creatively to meet those needs, dexterously surmounting any obstacle that comes in the way. Such is the immense, driving power of love."
-- Eknath Easwaran
"Therefore, when I say that EI love,E it is not I who love, but in reality Love who acts through me. Love is not so much something I do as something that I am. Love is not a doing but a state of being - a relatedness, a connectedness to another mortal, an identification with her or him that simply flows within me and through me, independent of my intentions or my efforts."
-- Robert A. Johnson
"When you are aware that you are the force that is Life, anything is possible. Miracles happen all the time, because those miracles are performed by the heart. The heart is in direct communion with the human soul, and when the heart speaks, even with the resistance of the head, something inside you changes; your heart opens another heart, and true love is possible."
-- Don Miguel Ruiz
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Each Day is a New Beginning, so have a great one. |
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MajestyJo
Average Member
Canada
590 Posts |
Posted - 09/17/2007 : 08:52:07
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Procrastination
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
-- Don Marquis
Most of us struggle with procrastination -- the 'I'll do it later' syndrome. If this is one of your key time wasters, take time to become more aware of your behaviour.
- Identify what you are procrastinating.
- Identify why you have not done these things. Seek out your deepest reason.
- Is there a fear underlying your reason? There is for most people.
We typically procrastinate because of unclear goals, lack of information and/or skills, fear of moving into new territory, fear of failure or success, feeling overwhelmed, lack of time due to over-commitments, poor timing, and general disorganization.
"Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started."
-- David Allen
And, just for fun:
"The best labor saving device is doing it tomorrow."
-- Source Unknown
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Love Always,
Each Day is a New Beginning, so have a great one. |
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MajestyJo
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Canada
590 Posts |
Posted - 09/19/2007 : 02:14:29
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Really be there for another
"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. You can see that when you think how the friends that really listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius as though it did us good, like ultraviolet rays."
-- Brenda Ueland
How well do we communicate with others? Often, when we are interacting with others, our attention in both speaking and listening is focused on meeting our own needs.
Our communication skills improve when we can open to be aware of the needs of the other person. When we listen, we can release the filters that serve our own needs for security and receive the message with our compassionate heart. And when we speak, we can choose words that the listener is able to receive. True communication happens when we harmonize with the other individual.
"So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it."
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti
"The first duty of love is to listen."
-- Paul Tillich
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Love Always,
Each Day is a New Beginning, so have a great one. |
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MajestyJo
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Canada
590 Posts |
Posted - 09/19/2007 : 18:03:28
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Stop the battles
"When you fight something, youre tied to it forever. As long as youre fighting it, youre giving it power."
-- Anthony de Mello
What are you fighting?
Resistance always brings pain. Examine your struggle. What does your personality want from the situation? What does your soul want? What can you learn from this?
Always strive to mend separation and achieve unity. Always choose love over fear. If you can embrace whatever you are struggling against, the struggle will disappear.
"What you resist persists. And only what you look at, and own, can disappear. You make it disappear by simply changing your mind about it."
-- Neale Donald Walsch
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Love Always,
Each Day is a New Beginning, so have a great one. |
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MajestyJo
Average Member
Canada
590 Posts |
Posted - 09/19/2007 : 18:07:47
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Have been trying to accept what is in the moment and having some difficulty. I am afraid my attitude is "Enough Already!"
My eyes have been watering and vision blurred and I have to go for further eye tests. I went today to get more X-Rays at the request of the X-Ray Clinic and have to go back for an Ultra Sound as a follow up of the X-Rays I did two weeks ago. I have an appointment with the foot clinic next week too to have my big toe looked at. It is still very black from my fall three months ago.
All this on top of the diabetes is rather overwhelming. I am trying to remember that "What God bring you to, He'll take you through."
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Each Day is a New Beginning, so have a great one. |
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