WORDS OF INSPIRATION FROM OTHERS
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This page will be kept for words of wisdom from others that I feel are important to the healing of those reading them. May you find peace, joy and inspiration from them.
Desiderata
Max Ehrmann - 1906
Desiderata. Desiderata. Desiderata.
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender, Be on good terms with all persons.Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others - Even the dull and ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons - they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter, For always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career - However humble, it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is. Many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection, neither be cynical about love. For in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, It is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the council of the years, Gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune, But do not distress yourself with imaginings - Many fears are borne of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe. No less than the trees and the stars, you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, No doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, Keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Be careful. Strive to be happy.
I May Never See Tomorrow
I may never see tomorrow,
there's no guarantee,
And things that happened yesterday belong to history.
I can't predict the future,
I can't change the past,
I have just the present memories to treat as my last.
I must use this moment wisely,
for soon it will pass away,
And be lost forever as a part of yesterday.
I must exercise compassion,
help the fallen to their feet,
Be a friend unto the friendless,
make their life complete.
The unkind things I do today may never be undone,
And friendships that I fail to win,
may never more be won.
I may not have another chance on bended knees to pray,
And I thank God with a humble heart for giving me this day!
--ANONYMOUS
The Invitation
by Oriah Mountain Dreamer, Canadian Woman, May 1994
It doesn't interest me what you do for a living, I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring with your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it, or fade it or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or even your own; if you can dance with the wilderness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being a human.
It doesn't interest me if the story you're telling me is true. I want to know if you can risk disappointing another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. I want to know if you can be faithless and therefore be trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty even when it is not pretty every day, and if you can source your life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, your and mine, and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "YES."
It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children. It doesn't matter to me who you are, how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.
It
doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know
what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if
you can be alone with yourself; and if you truly like the company you keep in
the empty moments.
by Oriah Mountain
Dreamer, May 1994
©1995 by Oriah House, from "Dreams Of Desire" Published by Mountain
Dreaming (out of print)
"I am a teacher and writer living in Toronto with my two teenage sons. While my family history includes stories of Scottish, German and Native American descent I am a Canadian woman, and not an 'Indian elder' as has sometimes been reported, being neither old enough nor wise enough to claim the status of 'elder' for any people." If you have any questions concerning this essay, please contact the following: Note of clarification by the above author regarding this prose: From Dreams of Desire, 1995 by Oriah House. All Rights Reserved. Published by Mountain Dreaming 300 Coxwell Avenue Box 22546 Toronto, Ontario Canada M4L 2A0
I
The Rose
Some say Love...
It is a river that drowns the tender reed
Some say Love...
It is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed
Some say Love...
It is a hunger, an endless aching need
I say Love...
It is a flower, and you its only seed.
It's the heart afraid of breaking
that never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking
that never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken,
who cannot seem to give
And the soul afraid of dying
that never learns to live.
When the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long
And you think that love is only
For the lucky and the strong
Just remember...
In the winter
Far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed
That with the sun's love
In the spring
Becomes the Rose.
~lyrics by Amanda McBroom
Don't Quit
When things go wrong
as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging
seems all uphill,
When the funds are low,
and the debts are high,
And you want to smile,
but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing
you down a bit...
Rest if you must,
but don't you quit.
Success is failure
turned inside out,
The silver tint of
the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell
how close you are,
It may be near
when it seems afar.
So, stick to the fight
when you're hardest hit...
It's when things go wrong
that you mustn't quit.
~Author unknown
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
~Elbert Hubbard
Expand your mind and you Expand your possibilities.
~Karen Fitts Penaluna
When one door closes, another opens;
but we often look so long and so regretfully
upon the closed door that we do not see
the one which has opened for us.
~Alexander Graham Bell
Tears are often the telescope by which
men see far into heaven.
~Henry Ward Beecher
The soul would have no rainbow,
if the eyes had no tears.
~Author unknown
You have to have a darkness...
for the dawn to come.
~Harrison Ford
You gain strength, courage and confidence
by every experience in which you really
stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which
you think you cannot do.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
The difference between winners and losers is attitude.
~Karen Fitts Penaluna
It All Depends On How You Think
If you think you are beaten - you are.
If you think you dare not - you don't.
If you'd like to win but think you can't,
It's almost certain you won't.
If you think you will lose, you've lost,
For out in the world you'll find
Success begins with a fellow's will.
It's all in the state of your mind.
If you think you're outclassed, you are.
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But sooner or later the one who wins
Is the one who thinks he can.
~Author unknown
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns
have roses. -- Tom Wilson
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.--
Jack Penn
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.-- Helen Keller
People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.-- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Many of us have forgotten to live today, thinking we have to wait for a special occasion to enjoy our lives.
FG
The wind of anger blows out the lamp of intelligence.
- unknown
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
- unknown
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be
beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail. --
Edward A. Navajo
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