The Energy of Inspiration

If the soul's light had to stay inside its house
I'd open every door and window!
- Rumi, In the Arms of the Belovèd


LORD MAKE ME AN INSTRUMENT

Lord make me an instrument of Thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.

O divine master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.

- Saint Francis of Assisi

LOOK FOR THE BEAUTY

Let the things of beauty transform you
and inspire you to your highest and best.
Beauty draws the very best out of you
and unites you with the highest.
The beauty that is within you
cannot be contained.
It will be reflected without;
let it shine forth.
Fill your hearts and minds
with beautiful thoughts
and reflect Me for I am beauty.

Look for the beauty in everything,
and when you look deep enough
and long enough
you will see it.
Rise above the sordid ugly things in life,
for by rising above them
you can help to transform and transmute them.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder;
therefore it is deep within you.
Go forth this day determined to see beauty
in everyone and everything
and you will do so.

Eileen Caddy, Footprints on the Path

KEEP THE CHANNEL OPEN

There is a vitality, a life force,
an energy, a quickening
that is translated through you into action,
and because there is only one of you
in all of time
this expression is unique.

And 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,
or how it compares with other expressions.

It is your business to keep it yours
clearly and directly,
to stay open and aware
to the urges that motivate you.

Keep the channel open.

Martha Graham to Agnes DeMille, in
Dance to the Piper & Promenade Home

SEVEN FUNDAMENTAL CHOICES

The choice of fear if you want to struggle and barely survive.
The choice of power if you want to compete and achieve.
The choice of inner reflection if you want peace.
The choice to know yourself if you want insight.
The choice to create if you want to discover the workings of nature.
The choice of love if you want to heal others and yourself.
The choice to be if you want to appreciate the infinite scope of God's creation.

Deepak Chopra, How to Know God

from DESIDERATA

Go placidly
amid the noise and haste
and remember what peace there may be in silence…

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
and whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore, be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations
in the noisy confusion of life
keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.

IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME

I am the wind which rustles your hair.
I am the sun which warms your body.
I am the rain which dances on your face.
I am the smell of flowers in the air,
and I am the flowers which send their fragrance upward.
I am the air which carries the fragrance.

I am the beginning of your first thought.
I am the end of your last.
I am the idea
which sparked your most brilliant moment.
I am the glory of its fulfillment.
I am the feeling which fueled
the most loving thing you ever did.
I am the part of you
which yearns for that feeling
again and again.

Whatever works for you,
whatever makes it happen
- whatever ritual, ceremony,
demonstration, meditation,
thought, song, word, or action it takes
for you to 'reconnect'
- do this.
Do this in remembrance of Me.

Neale Donald Walsch,
Conversations with God,
Book 2
Photos © Al Westnedge, Barbara L. Mallory

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