Sad

I miss my home, my wife, my family...

The Only Thing You Own

"Most people like to own things--you know, land, luggage, other people--makes them feel secure. But all that can be taken away and in the end, the only thing you really own is your story. Just tryin' to live a good one." ~Hugh Jackman as Drover in Australia

Written by Stuart Beattie (screenplay) and Baz Luhrman

What the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." ~Marcus Aurelius

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." ~Shakespeare

"More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm." ~Buddha

"I just can't help but think of how many people -- somewhere between most of them and all of them -- are making good lives out of less than they had hoped they would get. Many people are doing without something they had thought was absolutely essential -- right up to the time they didn't get it -- but instead got something else they value, and realized they weren't willing to trade the new great thing for the erstwhile-essential thing." ~Carolyn Hax

"Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark." ~Rabindranath Tagore

"It's not ever going to get better than right now until it gets better right now!" ~Abraham

The Divine Within

In search of the divine we go everywhere -- we go to places of pilgrimage, visit temples, follow many paths and disciplines, and ignore our bodies. Yet your body is the most sacred place of pilgrimage you will ever come to; it is the dwelling place of the divine.

~Gurudev Shri Amritji

What MUST You Be?

"Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization."

~Abraham Maslow,
20th century humanistic psychologist,
from Motivation & Personality

Abraham Maslow taught that the need to grow, to reach our potential, and to self-actualize is an absolutely fundamental need.

According to Maslow, this need to actualize is not a "wish" or a "desire" or a "sure would be nice to have" kind of thing. It's a NEED like the need we have for oxygen.

To the extent that we’ve taken care of our more basic needs and we’re not satisfying this need to self-actualize, we’re going to live with anxiety, regret, and disillusionment. Period.

The specific manifestation of our self-actualizing process is obviously unique and varies greatly from person to person. As Maslow points out, in one individual it may "take the form of the desire to be an excellent parent, in another it may be expressed athletically, and in still another it may be expressed in painting pictures or in inventing things."

However, in all cases, the question remains: What must you be?

From Brian Johnson's thinkArete.com

Remember

You don't have to learn a single new thing in order to communicate and make conscious contact with your Source--it's all in you already.

All you have to do is remember.

~from Inspiration, Your Ultimate Calling
by Dr. Wayne Dyer, p. 223

Perfect Oneness

If g-d were to acknowledge anything except the idea of perfect oneness then there would no longer be perfect oneness.

~from The Disappearance of the Universe
by Gary Renard