The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Beautiful Adventures
You Are That One
There is a tale among us, a legend preserved by the old tellers from the farthest distance of our past... It is said that upon the edge of the Earth at the end of time stands a lone man who holds the meaning of it all... It is said that he has mastered all skill and prowess that we desire, all restraint and calm, and has become perfection -- passion and mastery like unto the poised grandeur of mountains. And it is said, should ever one of us seek him out... and contest with him, we will learn the measure of our worth, in defeat or triumph. Therefore we are a seeking people. In each heart among us beats a yearning for this test and the knowledge it offers.
Yet the path which leads to him is unknown, has never been known. It is said that this path must not be known -- that it may only be found by one who knows without knowledge and has not come seeking the thing he seeks.
You are that one.
-- Stephen R. Donaldson, from The One Tree
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The Belief Principle
You have been created for some specific work. Nobody else has been entrusted with your role in human history. If you do not play your part, your part will go unplayed.
Foster the belief that you were born for a reason...and with every passing day you will begin to see the reason unfolding before your eyes.
All you have to do is prepare yourself and cooperate by choosing the-best-version-of-yourself in the moments of each day.
-- Matthew Kelly, from The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose
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Your Own Inner Voice
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
-- Steve Jobs
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Pray That the Way Be Long
You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.
-- Constantine Peter Cavafy
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Glorious Uniqueness
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
-- Gilda Radner
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Our Place in the World
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
-- Edward Chapin
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The Inner Whisper
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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What Makes You Come Alive
Don’t worry about what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
-- Robert Thurman
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Ideals are like Stars
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
-- Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
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What Your Soul Sings
You are not a human being having a spiritual experience, but a spiritual being having a human experience.
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Do, Every Day, Something No One Else Would...
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
-- Christopher Morley
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Ready to Try the Untried
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
-- Eric Hoffer
Side Note: The idea for one of the most famous toys in history was inspired by a meter for testing horsepower on battleships. A torsion spring used in a testing meter fell from the desk of marine engineer Richard James and tumbled end-over-end across the floor. James took it home to his wife Betty and said, "I think I can make a toy out of this." This he did by devising a steel formula that allowed the spring to "walk." Betty went through the dictionary for a fitting name for the toy and found it in SLINKY, which was defined as "stealthy, sleek and sinuous." In 1945, as Christmas neared, Gimbel's department store agreed to provide counter space for 400 SLINKYs. Richard James was there to demonstrate the toy to a crowd of shoppers and within 90 minutes all 400 SLINKYs were sold.
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If You Haven't Found Something Strange
If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.
-- John A. Wheeler
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In the Time of Your Life, Live
“In the time of your life, live . . . seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed. . . Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. Ignore the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart. Be the inferior of no man nor of any man be the superior. . . In the time of your life, live – so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.”
-- William Saroyan, playwright’s note appended to “The Time of Your Life”
Take the Attitude of a Student
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
-- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Fire The Grid, July 17, 2007, 11:11
For those who haven’t yet heard, Fire the Grid is a one-hour meditation that will take place Tuesday, July 17, 2007 at 11:11 Greenwich Mean Time. For one hour, it is hoped that millions of people will sit and pray or meditate with the intention of healing the Earth and reconnecting with Source Energy.
I think we all share hopes and dreams of creating a better Earth for ourselves and our children. Future generations need an Earth that is cared for rather than polluted; an Earth where the peoples of the world are at peace with each other; an Earth where poverty and hunger are eradicated. In the hope of bringing forth these changes, one hour of meditation is not too much to ask.
The Fire the Grid idea was conceived by Canadian Shelley Yates with assistance from her guides. Her compelling story may be read at www.firethegrid.org or viewed as a series of YouTube videos, the first of which is found here:
The whole series:
1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqUAluDvuU4
2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVhVCsv56kg
3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsqOZUmaECY
4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzrPCGP60As
5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66zQg0v_gn4
6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_6ajmdt39A
7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWtJncxNeLI
8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2sR8DWTD3U
Before July 17, visit the Fire the Grid web site to make sure you have the appropriate time to meditate for your time zone.
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