Living Out Loud

Learn from everything

(a Thought for the Week)

"Your joy is divine and so is your suffering. There's so much to be learned from both." ~ Wayne Dyer

 "Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did." ~ Sarah Caldwell

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from." ~ Elizabeth Kubler Ross

"You learn something every day if you pay attention." ~ Ray LeBlond

Optimism is your friend

(a Thought for the Week)

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're usually right." ~ Henry Ford

"Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning." ~ Mahatma Gandhi

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstances" ~ Bruce Barton

"In all things it is better to hope than to despair." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Choose to Thrive

(a Thought for the Week)

"If you limit yourself only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise." ~ Robert Fritz

"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can." ~ Richard Bach

"Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours." ~ Swedish proverb

"Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them." ~ Henry Hoskins "It only takes one person to change your life - you." ~ Ruth Casey

Trust your intuition

(a Thought for the Week)

"Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right)." ~ Oprah Winfrey

"Your soul - that inner quiet space - is yours to consult. It will always guide you in the right direction." ~ Wayne Dyer

"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why." ~ Albert Einstein

"Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way." ~ Florence Scovel Shinn

Uncertainty carries Opportunity

(a Thought for the Week)

"Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity." ~ R. I. Fitzhenry

"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers." ~ Erich Fromm

"The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his life's adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings." ~ Lincoln Steffens

"Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities." ~ Deepak Chopra

Live your best life

(a Thought for the Week)

"Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think." ~ Horace

"This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy." ~ Susan Polis Schutz

"One day at a time--this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering." ~ Unknown

"One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching." ~ Unknown

How to experience inner peace

Inner Peace. Isn’t that what we’d all love to experience consistently as we weave our paths through everything life gives us?

The good news is that it is far simpler to attain than many of our outer (material or physical) goals.

The bad news is that simple isn’t always easy! Attaining inner peace is not easy because it means replacing old habits with new, and that requires dedicated commitment. But the benefits are absolutely worth the effort!

Inner peace gives you the ability to live your life with a sense of happiness, satisfaction and fulfillment which is not disturbed or influenced by outside events.

How do you acquire it? By living your life your own way, not how others think you should. By not worrying about what others think of you – we all judge others (both positively and negatively) according to our own values, so if you live your life in a way that honours somebody else’s values rather than your own, you’ll always have a little gnawing discomfort going on deep inside.

To experience inner peace, you also need to be able to forgive and to let go of guilt. Forgive yourself and forgive others. Feeling guilty about past actions won’t change them and won’t make anybody feel any better (either you or the person whom you’ve hurt). Do what you can to put things right, resolve to do better in the future and move on.

Likewise, letting go of anger or grudges will bring about a surprising sense of peace. Think about it – how does holding onto these negative emotions help you? And do you think they hurt those against whom you hold them more than they hurt you? Not at all. They are your emotions and you are the only person whom they can harm.

Start as you mean to go on!

(a Thought for the Week)

"I have decided to be happy because it's good for one's health." ~ Voltaire

Live with intention

Walk to the edge

Listen hard

Practice wellness

Play with abandon

Laugh

Choose with no regret

Continue to learn

Appreciate your friends

Do what you love

Live as if this is All there is 

        ~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Do unto yourself as you would do unto others

(a Thought for the Week)

“If we spoke to others the way we often speak to ourselves, we’d have no friends!” ~ Duncan Coppock

“The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others." ~ Sonya Friedman

“You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection”. ~ Buddha

Give what you want to receive

(a Thought for the Week)

"For it is in giving that we receive." ~ St Francis of Assisi

"If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another." ~ Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

"You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give." ~ Winston Churchill

"You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get." ~ Theodore H White