We crazy spiritual seekers...spending our lives trying to awaken, instead of resting in the awakening that is already here now and always. Kathleen McCarthy Once you’ve created inner, spiritual peace and happiness, and the ability to really appreciate the world around you, along with the habit of successfully setting and achieving goals, it is perfectly natural for outer, material success to follow. Mark White!, Australin Inspirator Enlightenment is not something alien, outside you. It is not somewhere else in time and space. It is you, your very core. Osho Each experience is designed to awaken, enlighten and empower you. When your interpretation of each experience includes the knowing that there IS a divine energy who loves and accepts you just as you are, you can never have a "bad" experience. The Universe is an infinitely intelligent and conscious energy which is always supporting you to awaken into your greatest potentiality. Each issue in your life repeats itself because it is unlearned and ignored. Once you pay attention to the wake up call by realizing the infinite being you really are, your problems will dissolve immediately. Jafree Ozwald Gather yourselves! Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we've been waiting for. A Hopi Elder, Oraibi, Arizona For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Bible, Jeremiah 29:11 Man - a figment of God's imagination. Mark Twain It was all so clear this morning, My mind and heart had never felt More convinced: There is only God, A Great Wild God. Hafiz Renderings God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh. Voltaire (1694-1778), French Philosopher, Author When you forgive you don't hold on to the past hurt that is blocking you from seeing the healing truth in that past experience, and holding your life from moving on. By fogiving you allow yourself to move on instead of still hurting. Caroline Myss, Personal Growth Leader, Author One perfect being is enough to change the world. Rama, Krishna and Christ were not many, they were only one. And they changed the world. I tell you these things so you will not think that quantity is necessary. One spark from the light is enough to enlighten the universe. Babaji, April 6, 1982 Love commands the Universe, the adamantine particles, the One Spirit, the Heart and all of life. Therefore, when you have separation from that power, you resort to ploys for control. Therein is the leverage that structure has over you. As long as you seek to control life or think that you can, you will grovel for structure and it will hold you in its grip. The tragedy of such pursuit is that you will never control life. A child of God, however, does have the greater power to command it. Control is an instrument of separation. Command is an instrument of Oneness. Love is magnified thru Command. Jeshua and Glenda Green, LOVE WITHOUT END…JESUS SPEAKS….10th ed. True Healing is a joint venture of all concerned by a natural or God given energy transformation. Tiyana Maksimovich-Binno, Holistic Healer, Natural Therapist Live in such a way that those who know you but don't know God will come to know God because they know you. Unknown Stay focussed on your Divine Self. Grow faith by faith. That is Power. Rishaan Raphael, Australian Spiritual Healer Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. Joseph Campbel (1904-1987), American Mythology Profesor, Author Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish Novelist, Playwright, Poet Allowing others their experiences allows you yours. Abraham-Hicks No oak became mighty in a moment, No mountain towered overnight; True greatness flowers in the soul By long exposure to God's light. Guy Finley, Spiritual Growth Leader, Author Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith. Margaret Shepherd, Calligrapher, Author The truth of Prosperity is not found in oneself but in people connecting to people connecting to God. A Monk For behold, the kingdom of God is within you. Bible, Luke 17:21 Your problems are always your greatest spiritual teachers in disguise. Explore each of them with a childlike curiosity and they will reveal themselves as the brilliant messengers that they are. You have a greater wisdom inside you that simply needs a bit of nurturing and compassion. If you feel stuck and cannot see what your issues/problems are, simply practice being grateful for whatever is in your life right now and enjoy it! Jafree Ozwald You have come to earth with great intentions, and the Universe constantly guides you on your chosen path. When you are feeling good, you are, in that moment, allowing more of that which you have intended from your broader perspective. (You are Spirit Incarnate.) Relax into your natural Well-being. All is well. (Really it is!) Abraham-Hicks Forgive, release, let go, surrender, be free of negative thoughts or attachments to another, and you will move higher, and out of those limiting circumstances you don't like. If your reading fast, slow down and read that last sentence again. Jonathan Parker Excerpts from the U-Tube video http://inspirationmanifestation.com/259/nick-vujicic-speaks-at-the-rock-church-san-diego.php Citizen of Heaven I am Serbian, born in Australia, live in California - and I am the citizen of Heaven. If you are an atheist you are in only 2% of the world population. Identity You can put on a brave face, but what's the point of being complete on the outside when you are broken on the inside? Don't try to find your identity in temporary things! You are loved by God, you are created by God - for God's purposes. God's identity in you. God's legacy, God's destiny for you. Being Godly When the world says, "Not good enough!" - get a second opinion! You want to be somebody? I do't want to be a 'good' person - I want to be a godly person! If I want a godly woman then why shouldn't I be a goldy man first?! Don't find your identity under people, find your identity in your Creator. The Hands and Feet of God "Nick, God's forgotten you!" - that's false. I am wanderfully made. God has not given me the spirit of fear, but of power and of love, and a sound mind, and I am a child of God, created for a purpose and a destiny, leaving a legacy. It is not too difficult to get through my life, because I am not just a man without arms and legs. I am the hands and feet of God, standing at the gates of hell as an ambassador of the King of Kings and I redirect trafic. Letting God Move I don't think you have found anything to live for unless you are ready to die for it. Are you ready to let God move?! What do you have faith in? "I am disabled." When you go, and when you put 'go' in front of 'disabled' it spells 'God is abled'. Forgiveness I am the richest man in the world. I know my God Is and I have received the greatest miracle of all. It's forgiveness. I couldn't even forgive myself for what I have done. I couldn't forgive people for hurt they've done to my family. If you think you are good you aren't holy. You fail yourself. You fail your friends. You fail your family. And you fail God - like I do every single day. But the difference is God never fails, and I put my trust in Him. I fail God every day and I ask God for forgiveness every day. His mercies are in you every day. I am under construction every day. I need Him every day. God's Miracle When God does not give you a miracle - you ARE a Miracle of God. You are in a broken home? God can use you more powerfully than me. 'Cause I don't know how it feel to be in a broken home. you can encourage someone else who has no father, who has no mother. God will see you face to face. And he'll ask you, "Do you know me? And who did you break?" Being a Man You are a man? And you are taugh? Go and say sorry to all those who you have hurt emotionally. That's a man. A man without pride. And the only man that can become a man without pride is a man with God. Being a Girl Girls, stop wering short skirts to be loved. You are better than that. You know it! Surrender I have never done this in my life, I don't know what to expect. I am just going to be obedient. How many more times God needs to get your attention? You are born to live, you are born to lead. Father, come and touch your people. Thank you, God, for being ever present. Every spirit of fear be gone. I want to live for you all my life. Give me faith, give me faith. I want to know you more. Amen. Receiving If you hold something in your hands, a hand closed is unable to receive. Open your hands and let it go. You can't do it on your own. God forgives no matter what sin you have done. Come to the Holy Spirit, be free. It is never too late. Prayer Lift your voices in majesty! Prise God! Come down, Holly Spirit. Thank you for never giving up on me. Help me to never give up on you. I am so sorry of all the things I've done wrong. Please come into my life, fill me with the Holy Spirit. Change me, give me a new mind, that I may think Your thoughts. Teach me, God, to pray. Teach me, God, to thank you. Teach me, God, to trust you. Bless my family, bless my friends. Use me. Help me, God, to love them like you love me. Help me, God, to forgive them as you forgive me. Amen. I am sorry I want to say: From your farther - I am sorry. From your grandfather - I am sorry. From your uncle - I am sorry. From your mother, your sister, your brother - I am sorry. From a stranger who hurt you - I am sorry. From your firend - I am sorry. Thank you, Lord, there is Peace and rest. Thank you for the profound healing for all people. Halleluia. Faith Community If you prayed, and you don't know exactly what that prayer meant, but you meant it... you are going to awaken in the morning and ask yourself, "What now?" Come to us, we are here to help you. We love you. God's Love God does not love murdering, but He loves the murderers. God does not love stealing but he loves the thiefs. He loves all of you. Nick Vujicic, Inspirational Speaker born without limbs and with a supposedly 'incurrable' spinal disease, now healed The 'Dark Night of the Soul' is just moodiness for ordinary individuals. For the enlightened, it is the game of hide-&-seek the Divine plays with them. http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/beautiful-inspirational-motivational-life/f3039e53b78b45cdf97aba016db58ab1 Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving. Lewis B. Smedes - Forgive & Forget: Healing the Hurts We Don't Deserve Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by holding grudges, harbouring resentments, and nursing unhealed wounds. It is rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to understand and accept other people and ourselves. Dr. Sidney Simon, Professor, Author of Values Clarification and Getting Unstuck THE FORGIVENESS PRINCIPLE - give up all hopes for a better past and commit to living happily ever after. Dr. Robert Holden, British Psychologist, Author, Broadcaster God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try. Mother Teresa As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. John Fitzgerald Kennedy A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. Cicero Forgiveness is an inside job; it has nothing to do with the other person. It has everything to do with you, as you are the one holding on to the hurt. Carolyn Townes, Life Transitions Expert With regards to suffering, our pain hurts a little less whenever we can remember this strange (but true) spiritual fact: many of God's greatest gifts seem, at first, unbearable to receive. Guy Finley, Personal Growth and Development Expert If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinths, for they would feed my soul. Prophet Muhammad God has to be approached through an I-Thou relationship with people, animals, trees, even... a heap of stones. Aubrey Hodes, Author | 
