Thanks for the comments Largo.
I find showing how I am inside a true challenge, but one I think I should take because it eventually frees me from having to waste energy keeping myself from shining. And it also frees others because indirectly I give them the permission to come out and shine as well.
We are all special in our own way, and inspiration is a need we all have... so here's some more of what inspires me...
QUOTES:
"Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, Poet and Essayist
"Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more."
Robert Collier
Writer and Publisher
Until One is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness.
Regarding all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself Providence moves too. All things occur to one that would never otherwise have occured. a stream of events issue from the decision raising in one's favour all manner of unforseen incidents, meeting and material assistance which no man would have dreamed would have come his way.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it!
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749-1832, Poet and Novelist
"Treat a man as he appears to be and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he already were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749-1832, Poet and Novelist
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749-1832, Poet and Novelist
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
The Buddha
I pray you who read, heed well the following admonitions, since upon them depend the word "success" and all that it implies:
Whatsoever you desire of good is yours. You have but to stretch forth your hand and take it.
Learn that the consciousness of dominant power within you is the possession of all things attainable.
Have no fear of any sort or shape, for fear is an adjunct of the minus-entity.
If you have skill, apply it; the world must profit by it, and therefore, you.
Make a daily and nightly companion of your plus-entity; if you heed its advice, you cannot go wrong.
Remember, philosophy is an argument; the world, which is your property, is an accumulation of facts.
Go therefore, and do that which is within you to do; take no heed of gestures which would beckon you aside;
ask of no man permission to perform.
The minus-entity requests favors; the plus-entity grants them. Fortune waits upon every footstep you take; seize her, bind her, hold her, for she is yours; she belongs to you.
Start out now, with these admonitions in your mind.
Stretch out your hand, and grasp the plus, which, maybe, you have never made use of, save in great emergencies. Life is an emergency most grave.
Your plus-entity is beside you now; cleanse your brain, and strengthen your will. It will take possession. It waits upon you.
Start tonight; start now upon this new journey.
Be always on your guard. Whichever entity controls you, the other hovers at your side; beware lest the evil enter, even for a moment.
From: The Magic Story
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw away your bowliness. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
Wapakununk is a native American word meaning "to be able to do everything to exist in this world." To be able to achieve "wapakununk" all the elders take turns educating the children so they are able to fish, ride horses and do all things needed for survival.
In our part of the world "wapakununk" means being competent, confident and comfortable with life and it's constant changes. Sadly this is what our education system fails to do.
"Wapakununk" without humility also renders our education incomplete. Arrogance has crept into our soceity, the main source being higher education. The higher ones education, the more he looks down upon others. Arrogance is a virus destroying our communities. The arrogant mind is always right and never ready to learn new things from others.
Only the most arrogant would insist that we are not one, but are seperated by invisible boundaries that divide "them" from "us."
As the saying goes "let haughty people command weakened people, and rare is the nation that will not perish as a result."
Let's learn something from our native American brothers, that no matter our level of education we should always strive to be humble. We are all equal in the eyes of The Great Spirit.
Found it on the internet somewhere
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