Cat Stevens - Morning Has Broken - Live 1973

Who could ever out do this song?

Poem by Omar Khayyam
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on.
Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line,
Nor all thy tears wash out one word of it.

Give Up Your Personal History

Most people have a tendency to live their life in the wake of past events by hanging on to their past histories to justify their self defeating behaviors. They will hang on to past pains, abuses, and shortcomings as calling cards to announce a "poor me" status to everyone they meet. I am sure just this moment someone like that has just popped into your head as you've finished reading this line. They will say things like,"I'm short", "I'm old", "I am an alcoholic", "I was abused", the list can go on and on for days.

Remember, your past is OVER!

When you bond with your past, you'll become immobilized today. And not only that, you will prevent yourself from healing. It can become easy to refer to the past struggles and use them for reasons for not getting on with your life today.

Also, many people refer to the "Good Ole Days" that are gone forever as a reason why they can't be happy and fulfilled today. This also is a way of assigning the responsibility to the past and making it a reason for why you can't be successful today. Learn to give up your past history!

When You Are At Peace

Did you ever noticed that when you are at peace with yourself you radiate a different type of energy then when you are stressed or depressed? The more peaceful you become, the more easier it is to deflect all the negative energy that you encounter. Its almost like having an invisible shield around you that nothing can penetrate unless it is a higher spiritual energy then your shield. When you greet hostile energy with a smile, you are letting it know that it is not your thing or style. A person who tries to bring you into their misery cannot do so without permission. If you practice meditation, it will keep you immune to negative energy.

Loving and Respecting Yourself

Become more loving towards yourself. When you do this, you will attract the kind of energy that is higher and begin to change what is inside you. With your thoughts you can cultivate your inner voice and attitude that's 100 per cent for you. Try to schedule a time in the day where the only thought is only supporting and loving you. Sooner or later you will gradually see this attitude extend to other people. You only need to do this a minute or so a day. You will begin to receive this energy back to you. Notice when you start to feel anger, hatred, guilt or ridicule and change that thought that very moment! If you are unable to change the thought, then at least love yourself for what did do-that is, for noticing.

Purpose Is About Serving

Yes! You heard me right! Purpose is about serving! You know what I mean. It about taking the focus off you and all your self interests, and turning to serve others in some way. Easy said huh? Learn to build because you love to build. But you build to make others happy. Let yourself design as your heart directs you. Those designs are a service to others. Let your work help and inspire others. If you don't know what your purpose is, you will always be seeking throughout your stages of life.

"Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose".
by Helen Keller

“There are two important days in a person’s life: The day he is born and the day he finds out why?” ~Anonymous

Suppose You Had Two Magic Wands

Let us stop and think about what we would do if we had to choose between two magic wands. The first one you can have anything that is physical on this planet and the other the sense of peace and tranquility regardless of the obstacles or circumstances that may arise. Which one would you choose? A lifetime of things or inner peace?
If you choose the wand for inner peace, believe it or not, you already have it! Simply have a mind set that is open to everything, but attached to nothing! Let all things come and go as they will. Enjoy all, but don't let your happiness depend on any attachments to things, places or persons. If you love someone enough, you will let them be whatever they choose to be - without any attachments or expectations to you. True love is to love a person for who they are and not what you think they should be.

Finding Your Purpose

We all most likely yearn to know what is our purpose here on this earth! So often we find ourselves asking, "How can I find my purpose?" And this question usually is hindged on the thought, "I would be happier if I knew my purpose, but I just don't know what it is!" What can I say? Nothing! You will leave this world exactly the same as you came. All your acquisitions and acheivements can't go back with you. So, the only thing that you can do is with your life is give it away. You'll find your purpose if you can find a way to always being a service to others!

Purpose is about serving!

Be Enthusiastic About All You Do

Be enthusiastic about all you do! Wow! That sure is a big mouth full! Let me reword that. Have that passion that from the awareness that comes from the word enthusiasm which literally means, "the God(enthos) within (iasm)." The passion that you feel is God inside of you waiting, wanting, and encouraging you to take the risk of you being you. The risk of you being your own person! Listen to how you feel and play your own brand of music!

You Can't Give Away What You Don't Have

You can't give away what you don't have. Well, that is a pretty direct comment! I bet you never figured that one out! What I am saying is, people who never found inner joy or peace inside themselves in their lives have failed this simple truth.

I'm sure that you know at least one person who when faced with a negative situation, respond to it with love and positive feedback. There aren't many out there like that, but they are there! The ones who are able to are because they have it in the first place to give away. They already know that it is impossible to give away something that they don't have. If love and joy is what you want to give and receive, then remember, you can only give away what you already have! Also, you can change your life by changing what is inside of you! It will take you to go the distance, to go that extra mile.

If You Think Peaceful Thoughts

If you think peaceful thoughts, then you will have peaceful emotions that will come into your everyday living. Sounds easy enough, but how often do we let our attachments to other ways of thinking rule the way we live out our ordinary days? If you are the type that has to be right or positively need something to be peaceful or successful, you'll live a life always trying to obtain it yet never reaching or arriving at that goal and feel at peace.

If your main identification is with yourself and your possessions, your ego is more or less running the show. If you can keep your ego in check, then your spiritual self can guide you. When that happens, you can see your body and become a witness to your existence. Your spiritual self sees the folly of attachments because the spiritual side is infinite. Nothing can make you happy or successful. These are constructs that you bring into your life, rather then receive from it.

Play The Music Inside You

What is your passion? What sets your soul on fire and makes you feel like you are totally in harmony for the reason you exist? You can know this for sure: Whatever it may be, you can make a living doing it and at the same time provide a service for others. I'll bet my bottom dollar on that!

The only thing that will keep you from playing your music inside of you and listening to your heart is fear. According to A Course In Miracles, there are only two emotions: the first one is fear, the other love. You may fear disapproval from others. Take the risk and find out that you may receive more approval then you ever thought you'd get! You may fear the unknown. Take that risk also! Ask yourself, "What is the worst thing that could happen if this falls through?" Guess what? You just move beyond and get through it! You will find that you won't starve to death or be tortured for not succeeding!

You may have been conditioned to believe that you are inadequate and limited. Throw these ideas out the door! Challenge these absurd thoughts and go for what you know that you are here for on this Earth! Let success chase you, for no doubt it will. Let the music play that is inside you!

See The Little Things In Life

How many times in our busy lives do we let ourselves pass up the opportunity to observe the many little miracles around us. Take time to stop and look at a small green sprout emerging from a seed this spring. Allow yourself to feel the awe of what you are seeing. The scene of the emerging sprout represents the beginning of life. No one in this world knows how all this works. What is that creative spark that makes this work?

If Your Thoughts Are Filled With Doubt

What you think about expands. So if your thoughts are filled with doubt and you have a closed mind, you will act upon those closed-minded doubt and you will see evidence from those thoughts everywhere you are. But, if you are to have an open mind to everything, you will act upon the inner energy which will make you the creator and receipient of miracles wherever you are. Open yourself up to all ideas of people. Listen to what they have to say and be curious.

Have An Open Mind

I always entertain great hopes.

by Robert Frost

I think this quote is great! How often do we keep our mind open to new thoughts or ideas. And when we do get a great idea, how often do we just let go of it out of fear. You know what I'm telling you. The fear of not being able to succeed, what will others think or maybe even the fear of succeeding. Who hasn't let fear creep into our everyday lives?

I made up my mind to refuse to allow myself to have low expectations of what I am capable of doing in this lifetime. As Michelangelo suggested, the greater danger is not that your hopes are too high and you fail them; it's that they are too low and you do.

I believe one of the hardest things to do is letting go to the attachments of certain mind sets that we were conditioned over the years. From an early age we have been bombarded with rules and what we are capable to do. An example of this would be the myth that girls can't do math. It took me years later to find out that I was actually quite good at math! We let society put labels on us. How often we let these thoughts take over our every day living!

Open Your mind to all possibilities!

Life On The Fast Track

How often do we find ourselves stuck on the freeway of life and can't find the exit ramp. You know exactly what I mean. We get up everyday, grab a quick cup of coffee and out the door. Usually your spouse is still in the shower or just rolls over in bed to catch just another few more winks before their rat race begins.

It almost feels like we are being made into some kind of human robots. Your employer has you as a number and reminds you daily of it. Our society has made us that way. I don't know who set up the ground rules, but here we are!

I think it is time for us to start to take the road less traveled and live our lives that we had dreamt it could be when we were young at heart. Who said in the first place that we had to give up our dreams? I don't recall anyone even asking me!