I thought we could start a thread to add words we find that inspire us. No matter who says them, if it warms your heart, helps you get through the day, share them here and we will always have a bank of inspiration to turn to when we need a boost.

I'll start with something that was very empowering for me.

very nice roland :-)

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For Saturday March 12th

Hey Gang! It's gonna get pretty boring here if I'm the only one posting...

Well anyway, here is to Monday!

Take care!

Human strenth and human greatness
Spring not from life's sunny side;
Heroes must be more than driftwood
Floating on a waveless tide.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

This one always makes me laugh. Sometimes we are quick to criticize others without reflecting upon our own actions, so…

to live happy
and peacefully
beyond the constriction of a
social design
and expectation
that would have me seek out material things
or experiences that would be
untrue to what keeps me
healthy happy surviving self managing
honoring me and mine
and 'the other'


in the west they hate and persecute limitation
in the middle east they are in denial that
they have it
in the far east they close their eyes and meditate
about it

Good one Mark!

I tried to find something good on attachment, but all I could find was this...

Now if I could just give up my attachment to doughnuts....

What all this means is, if I am always trying to find ways to get more money, buy more stuff, or that huge T.V. because I think I can’t be happy without them then I learn to give up my attachment to them. If I can do that I can find happiness and contentment with what I have.

Get it?

that's part of it roland - part of what i mean - just go for the attachement - the pleasure -
the things that is the one you really want - that help you be happy and healthy - there are so many forms of this too - so i'm not sayin be like me -
so in other words -
there are good and bad ones -
not something or some life design -
some non-souled corporation is trying to get you to buy and live -
and perepetuate a forcefed lifestyle -

i dunno i am feeling kind of preachy -
sorry -

look at ernie ebbers today -
all that money and he still had to steal more??? that's not strong -
or mentally healthy -
or happy -
so maybe he going for the wrong thing and he not know it ?

dunno

yuch i feel like i am preaching i don't like that -

later

--Buddha

Just a mixture I found,

ste

How exactly do you do that?

Hey Daniel,

You can do that by taking time out each day to sit and just breathe even if it’s only for a few minutes.

Just sit comfortably, close your eyes, and breathe normally. Try though to just concentrate on your breath, in… and out. If your thoughts start running (and they will) just bring your concentration back to your breath.

Sometimes it helps to count your breath, inhale counting one, exhale counting two… when you get to ten start over, and when your thoughts take over don’t get upset, just catch yourself and start back at one.

Just a few minutes of that a day can do wonders but it takes a little practice.

Let me know if it works for you.

" I suffer alone and in silence no more"

-Jim

From "What's So Amazing About Grace?" by Philip Yancey: and Thanks,

Joe

I like this...

"We are not more powerful to "mess up" than Christ is to redeem"

Colleen C. harrison


Wow that's a relief!
Lynn

Very nice Gang, I’m glad others are getting into this. You'll find that most of my stuff is Buddhist, but that's only because that's what I'm familiar with and I've been hoping others would be offering words from other spiritual origins...

So with that said, today's daily Dalai (I have a tear-off calendar on my work desk) says,

Hugs all ‘round

I have two that I pass to survivors i work with and most use them

1. Truth wil always be the truth, regardless of the lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignornace .

2. Life is not measured by the breath you take......but what takes your breath away!

Steve
Survivors Swindon

This thread was so good I had to join in. I am new here and have been searching a long while for someplace I can be myself and also explore avenues for healing such as spirituality, with others. This site has got everything! I am so happy to have found it...here is a fave quote from one of my most beloved spiritual teachers--Vernon Howard....

"STOP FIGHTING

Troubled human beings have everything exactly backward.
They think that by winning they can stop fighting. The
opposite is true. By ceasing to fight, you win - but
what you win is superior and different from what was
imagined. A man believes he can end the terrible inner
battle by winning wealth or power or endless sexual
experiences. If winning them he is dismayed to find
that the battle is not over; he must continue the weary
fight. His despair is overwhelming, for his dream has
turned into a nightmare of compulsive craving.
Stop fighting and you win.

Stop fighting and you end the illusion that you must win.
You have already won, but you do not understand what this
means. Find out."

I kinda like my tag line. It helps me...

Philip

and here are a couple of "originals" (ie by me)

"The meek may inherit the earth...but someone's going to contest the will."

"If God is your co-pilot....the wrong person is flying."

Looking through an old journal entry, I saw this:

"walk down a dark hallway when you leave your room and you will stumble for a while until you turn a corner and a light from another source will be a guide to where you are going. When you turn around the path behind you is not as dark as you thought or perceived it when you began. You can see the light in your room where you have been and the path back is lighted and not as dangerous as when you left it."

--philip

--Buddha

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

~ Montaigne

O'rose, thou art sick;
The invisible worm
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:

Has found out thy bed
Of Crimson joy;
And with his dark secret
Does thy life destroy.

William Blake

~ Claude Debussy