My willingness to grow is my demand for power

When we face our challenges with faith, prepared to learn, willing to make changes and if necessary, to let go, we are demanding our power be returned. – Acts of Faith

Recharge your batteries, plug into the Source and stop living in the grip of your own highly critical prejudices.

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Lifesatori

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Once upon a time, powerful wizard, who wanted to destroy an entire kingdom, placed a magic potion in the well from which the inhabitants drank. Whoever drank that water would go mad.

The following morning, the whole population drank from the well and they all went mad, apart from the king and his family, who had a well set aside for them alone, which the magician had not managed to poison. The king was worried and tried to control the population by issuing a series of edicts governing security and public health. The policemen and the inspectors, however, had also drunk the poisoned water, and they thought the king’s decisions were absurd and resolved to take notice of them.

When the inhabitants of the kingdom heard these decrees, they became convinced that the king had gone mad and was now giving nonsensical orders. The marched on the castle and called for his abdication.

In despair the king prepared to step down from the throne, but the queen stopped him, saying: ‘Let us go and drink from the communal well. Then we will be the same as them.’

And that was what they did: The king and queen drank the water of madness and immediately began talking nonsense. Their subjects repented at once; now that the king was displaying such ‘wisdom’, why not allow him to rule the country?

The country continued to live in peace, although its inhabitants behaved very differently from those of its neighbors. And the king was able to govern until the end of his days.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

 

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A story of redemption….W

When your soul awakens….

When your soul awakens, you begin to truly inherit your life. You leave the kingdom of fake surfaces, repetitive talk and weary roles and slip deeper into the true adventure of who you are and who you are called to become. The greatest friend of the soul is the unknown. Yet we are afraid of the unknown because it lies outside our vision and our control. We avoid it or quell it by filtering it through our protective barriers of domestication and control. The normal way never leads home.

John O’Donohue

When your soul awakens….

When your soul awakens, you begin to truly inherit your life. You leave the kingdom of fake surfaces, repetitive talk and weary roles and slip deeper into the true adventure of who you are and who you are called to become. The greatest friend of the soul is the unknown. Yet we are afraid of the unknown because it lies outside our vision and our control. We avoid it or quell it by filtering it through our protective barriers of domestication and control. The normal way never leads home.

John O’Donohue

When your soul awakens…..

When your soul awakens, you begin to truly inherit your life. You leave the kingdom of fake surfaces, repetitive talk and weary roles and slip deeper into the true adventure of who you are and who you are called to become. The greatest friend of the soul is the unknown. Yet we are afraid of the unknown because it lies outside our vision and our control. We avoid it or quell it by filtering it through our protective barriers of domestication and control. The normal way never leads home.

John O’Donohue

When your soul awakens….

When your soul awakens, you begin to truly inherit your life. You leave the kingdom of fake surfaces, repetitive talk and weary roles and slip deeper into the true adventure of who you are and who you are called to become. The greatest friend of the soul is the unknown. Yet we are afraid of the unknown because it lies outside our vision and our control. We avoid it or quell it by filtering it through our protective barriers of domestication and control. The normal way never leads home.

John O’Donohue

DECISIONS

With each decision you are declaring yourself, your intentions, your purpose, your character, and the spiritual impulse you bring to the world. We must mold ourselves to the world as it presents itself to us. The world too, molds itself to what we are and what we bring. The interaction works both ways.

Don’t get me wrong, naturally courage, tenacity, talent, and desire too are essential qualities of success. But if you are making decisions and living those decisions on a regular basis, as life and circumstances demand, then in all likelihood you already posses courage, tenacity, and desire. Talent is God given and as such we need not worry about it, let’s focus rather on what we can influence.

 Each decision, once taken, opens up new paths, opportunities and possibilities.

Still, if you are some kind of neanderthal,  maverick, or sick puppy, who doesn’t wish to conform to this dystopian vision of a global Wall Mart, then, well just then, I suppose you would have to make a few decisions.

 by Stephen on August 8, 2011

Why don’t you act like you’ve got a pair and find Your Inner Cowboy…..

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All human interactions are opportunities either to learn or to teach and when you neither learn nor teach, you are passing up an opportunity. – Scott Peck – Taking the Road Less Traveled.

Finding Your Faith

Sometimes life may seem like a pilgrimage which apparently fails but never forget, it is us who have lost ourselves in the soundless desserts of mapped out reality.

He who wishes to live long must serve rather than rule. They are few who are born to be masters; and they remain happy and healthy. But all others who have only become masters through endevour risk ending up with nothing, or worse………

Despair – merely an individuals lack of faith and vision. Have you lost faith in the meaning and necessity of your actions? What you need is something stronger than reality or probability. Exercise your will even if it means reliving your difficult story over and over again, but ever faithfully as possible. Never rely on or let yourself be disconcerted by reason, knowing that faith is stronger than reality.

From Hermann Hesse – The Journey to the East

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The Application of Compassion

Only when you have a healthy, honorable, affirming relationship with yourself can you have the same with others.  This relationship is the foundation of your ability to demonstrate and practice compassion. Only when you have truly mastered yourself and are able to strand in your sense of personal power can you be compassionate.

If this is not the truth of your being, your attempts to be compassionate will mean being too nice and you will become a doormat.  You will believe that you are being used.  You will feel put upon and eventually become resentful of all that you have done or are doing for others.

It is only from a sense of true and authentic personal power that you can give, support, share, and assist without feeling that you are losing anything.

When you are a powerful master of yourself you know that what you give is of the universal divine energy flowing through you.  It is not yours.  It belongs to life.

When a powerful person gives life, s/he knows they cannot be depleted.  Instead, they know they are being strengthened.

You must be strong in order to be compassionate.

A compassionate person:

• understands what the other person is going through, rather than joining
  in with his/her suffering and fear
• sees the lesson, the blessings and the victory at the end
• stands strong with the other person
• supports the other through the acceptance of the situation
• knows with the other person, for the other, and when necessary in spite
  of the other, that all things work together for the good
• holds the vision

Adapted from One Day My Soul Just Opened Up  

by
Iyanla Vanzant