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1/23/2022: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“The human mind is far more fertile, far more incredible and mysterious than the land, but it works the same way. It doesn’t care what we plant…success…or failure. A concrete, worthwhile goal…or confusion, misunderstanding, fear, anxiety, and so on. But what we plant it must return to us.

“You see the human mind is the last great, unexplored continent on earth. It contains riches beyond our wildest dreams. It will return anything we want to plant.”

~ Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

You know that saying, “the grass is always greener on the other side”? Well, the truth is that the grass is greenest where you water it. So regardless of all the seeds you may have planted in the past, from here on out water only the ones you want to grow.

Be discerning, my friend. You reap what you sow and nurture.

1/22/2022: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Relaxation is the single most beneficial thing you can learn to do in this world. So apply even more faith, self-discipline, determination, concentration, and patience to the Dead Body Pose. You are fighting body tension plus guilt and impatience to get to next pose. You are fighting unruly mind that persists in flitting like butterfly. You must learn to make that butterfly sit perfectly quiet after taking nectar from its flower, doing nothing but being beautiful and digesting the nourishment that will make it even more beautiful and better butterfly. You must teach unruly butterfly mind that it is doing very difficult and good thing for itself. Tranquil inactivity of Savasana is full of more active and beneficial living than all the crazy rushing around you people do.”

~ Bikram Choudhury, Bikram’s Beginning Yoga Class

Oh, my friend, relax. Let yourself let go. Whether for 20 seconds or 5 minutes, just turn off your mind and be still.

Savasana is there for a reason. It’s where the magic happens. All kinds of things that you have no idea about are taking place under the surface and behind the scenes. You just have to relax, trust, and let go.

When you let go and let life flow, the world starts working for you instead of against you. Let it happen. It’s well worth every precious second of your time.

1/21/2022: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.”

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Peace brings contentment, calm, clarity, compassion, acceptance. We all want to experience peace.

Peace, my friend, comes when you release every harsh judgment you hold about everything in life. Peace comes when you align with the purity of who you are as spirit.

Spirit embraces only the good despite the fact that everything in life has both positive and negative aspects.

You want to experience peace? Then focus on the positives; purify your thoughts.

1/19/2022: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“In our tradition, the most important lesson we have to learn is obedience to God. Most people think this means to be like children who do what the school teacher tells them. They do not know that the word obey in our Greek language means ‘to listen.’ To obey God is to listen out for Him in every situation. This is my advice to you, Georgiou. Profit from your time alone, go into yourself, and listen out for the voice that comes unbidden. Listen to that part of you that knows all along what you have to do. This is the intelligence of love; the voice that speaks without complicated explanations, simple and to the point. When you hear that voice, do its bidding. Do not think twice and do not look back.”

~ Roger Housden, Chasing Rumi

How can you obey when you cannot hear? Being able to tune in and listen for your inner voice requires a quiet mind, a receptive mind.

So your first challenge, my friend, is learning how to quiet your mind, go within, and listen to your inner guidance. Your second challenge is actually obeying it.

Which is harder for you?

1/18/2022: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“You see what you choose to see, because all perception is a choice. And when you cease to impose your meanings on what you see, your spiritual eyes will open, and you will see a world free of judgment and shining in its endless beauty.”

~ Paul Ferrini

Try it, my friend. Suspend the meaning you’ve attached to the situation, suspend your interpretation, and trust that there’s a higher purpose behind your experience.

Things don’t always make sense until you can look back in retrospect and link all the pieces together. Meanwhile, keep in mind that sometimes the very things we resist the most are what we need the most.

Release your judgments, my friend, and let the beauty of life reveal itself to you.

1/17/2022: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.”

~ Florence Scovel Shinn

And you, my friend, get to choose whether you follow it or not. But, being that it’s guidance from Spirit, you will. Right?

Let’s hope so!

1/16/2022: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.”

~ Swami Vivekananda

Every religion, every teaching, has goodness and truths. There’s nothing new out there. In all these thoughts and quotes we share, not one is unique. But it may just be, my friend, that your voice brings new meaning to them, or that someone comes along and expresses them in a way that finally makes perfect sense to you.

Run everything through your own filters. Take what’s good, what works, and incorporate it into your life. Leave the rest behind. Be open to all avenues and know that each will somehow provide its gem.

You are what’s unique, my friend. Keep it that way.

1/15/2022: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“The number one reason most people don’t get what they want is that they don’t know what they want. Clarity is power.”

~ T. Harv Eker

When you know what you want you know where and how to focus your energy. Before then, a bit of your attention goes here and a little goes there and a little goes over this way…

Laser beam focus is what gets results, my friend. Decide what you want and focus on it and only it. You must drop any and all back-up plans and replace your fear with faith. Know that fear can only exist where there is no faith. Have patience and faith and your determination, discipline, and concentration will get you what you want.

Single pointed focus, my friend… This is your power!

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