INSPIRING QUOTES

Successful, inspirational, unique,
On my path to seek.

Success is doing what makes me resonate,
No longer will I continue to hesitate.

Inspirational is about empowering others,
No longer can I stay under cover.

Unique is "to do what I love and love what I do",
Discarding others' limitations of "who are you!?"

Honoring my energy,
Joining Spirit in synergy.

Being in alignment,
That's my assignment.

Putting my intention out to the Universe,
Letting go then see what comes first.

Honoring and nurturing my heart's desire,
Conscious attention on the element of fire.

Allowing my inner truth to bring me to authenticity,
Letting go of the tyrannical burden of scarcity.

Honoring the sound of the resonance within,
Patience &awareness I'm sure to manifest then.

Letting go of my old imposed upon legacy,
Listening to inner truth and my authenticity.

No longer can you only go so far,
Limitation and scarcity isn't who you really are.

So patiently cultivate the messages appearing,
Peering through clouds until you really are seeing.

The obstacles all having their particular reason,
Leading you to live your life's passion.

Jerry Brown

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening
That is translated through you into action,
And because there is only one of you in all time,
This expression is unique.

If you block it,
It will never exist through any other medium
And will be lost.
The world will not have it.
It is not your business to determine how good it is;
nor how valuable it is;
Nor how it compares with other expressions.
It is your business to keep it yours, clearly and directly,
To keep the channel open.

You do not have to believe in yourself or your work.
You have to keep open and aware and directly
To the urges that motivate you.

Keep the channel open.
No artist is pleased.
There is no satisfaction whatever at any time.
There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction;
A blessed unrest that keeps us marching
And makes us more alive than the others.

Martha Graham and Agnes Demille

The Journey

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice--
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do--
determined to save
the only life you could save.

Mary Oliver

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning is a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness
Some momentary awareness comes
As an unexpected visitor.

Welcome, and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows
Who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture.

Still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice
Go to the door laughing
And invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes
For each has been sent
As a guide from beyond.

Rumi

Be patient toward
all that is unresolved
in your heart.
Try to love the
questions themselves
like locked rooms
and like books written
in a very foreign tongue.
Do not seek now the
answers, which cannot
be given to you because
you would not be able
to live them.

And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.

...perhaps you will
then gradually,
without noticing it,
live along
some distant day
into the answer...

Rainer Maria Rilke

you suppose you are the trouble
but you are the cure
you suppose that you are the lock on the door
but you are the key that opens it
It’s too bad that you want to be someone else
You don’t see your own face, your own beauty
Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours.

Rumi