Category Archives: Jewels of the Path

Create Space for the New

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The discomfort of drowning is what taught me to swim. Jason Reynolds

When you are evolving into a higher self, the road may seem lonely; but, you’re simply shedding the energies that no longer match the frequency of your destiny.  Unknown

Surrender is when you get put in an absolutely impossible position, and you see that there is no other way but to surrender.  Ram Dass

I am open to the guidance of synchronicity and do not let expectations hinder my path.  Dalai Lama

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.  How do you know this is the experience you need?  Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.  Eckhart Tolle

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.   Eckhart Tolle

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.   Eckhart Tolle

Home

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It’s a Long Way Home
   Sung by Vanessa Williams
It’s hard to say from where you stand
Exactly where it all began
But someplace there’s a point where you cross the line
You see the tears that stain your face
Mirrored in your make-up case
And you know it’s time to leave this place behind
It’s a long way home
Trying to retrace your steps
All too easy to forget
Just which way to go
It’s a long way home

Songwriters: Eric Carmen, Philip E. Galdston, Brock Patrick Walsh. © Universal Music Publishing Group, IMAGEM U.S. LLC

Home
  From the Broadway Musical “The Wiz”
When I think of home
I think of a place where there’s
Love overflowing
Maybe there’s a chance for me to go back
Now that I have some direction
And just maybe I can convince time to slow up
Giving me enough time in my life to grow up
Time be my friend
And let me start again
Songwriter: Charles Emanuel Smalls
© Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group

Unrelenting Pursuit

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The road to success is always under construction.  Lily Tomlin

Everything you are going through is a stepping stone for the Universe to offer you what you’ve asked for.  Trust the process.   Leslie Cassidy

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.  C. S. Lewis

Anything that annoys you is teaching you patience.  Anyone who abandons you is teaching you how to stand up on your own two feet.  Anything that angers you is teaching you forgiveness and compassion.  Anything that has power over you is teaching you how to take your power back.  Anything you hate is teaching you unconditional love.  Anything you fear is teaching you courage to overcome your fear.  Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go.  Jackson Kiddard

You signed up to do this dance before you were born.  Annie Kagan

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.   John Mayer

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.   Mario Andretti

Unstoppable

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She was unstoppable, not because she did not have failures or doubts, but because she continued on despite them.   Beau Taplin

The mind has a dilemma.  It is afraid of change, deeper change, yet the mind is attracted to life, which is change.  Don’t be mixed up in all that business.  You merely observe casually, passively, and keep your attention inside your Heart.  Mooji

I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.  Steve Jobs

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength, but through perseverance.  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The will must be stronger than the skill.  Muhammad Ali

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.  Confucius

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.  Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.  Without courage, we can’t be kind, true, generous, or honest.   Maya Angelou

If you can’t believe in miracles, then believe in yourself.  When you want something bad enough, let that drive push you to make it happen.  Sometimes you’ll run into brick walls that are put there to test you.  Find a way around them and stay focused on your dreams.  Isabel Lopez

The World as One

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To recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.  Eckhart Tolle

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens.  The sleeper must awaken.   Frank Herbert

Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and good things will be yours.  Swedish Proverb

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.  J.K. Rowling

We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.  Gwendolyn Brooks

Imagine there’s no countries.  It isn’t hard to do.  Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too.  Imagine all the people living life in peace.  You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.  I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will be as one.  John Lennon

The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.   Marcus Aurelius

Find Harmony in Self

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All the tragedy in the world, in the individual, and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony.  And harmony is best given by producing harmony in one’s own life.  Meenakshi Sharma

We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.  Thich Nhat Hanh

It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion for others.  If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.  Pema Chodron

When we accept that we alone have the power to determine whether we live in harmony, then we’ll understand that it is our choice whether we mostly accept peace and joy, or pain and despair as themes in our lives.   Maya Gentry

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.  Maya Angelou

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.   Carl Lewis

We Make the World

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Healers are spiritual warriors who have found the courage to defeat the darkness of their souls.  Awakening and arising from the depths of their deepest fears, like a Phoenix rising from the ashes.  Reborn with a wisdom and strength that creates a light that shines bright enough to help, encourage, and inspire others out of their own darkness.  Melanie Koulouris

Being a candle is not easy.  In order to give light, one must first burn.  Rumi

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.  Wayne Dyer

Whatever we focus on or give energy to is what presents in our life.  Feed what you want to manifest.  Maya Gentry

When a child learns to walk and falls down 50 times, she never thinks to herself: “Maybe this isn’t for me.”  Unknown

See the light in others and treat them as if that’s all you see.  Wayne Dyer

Anything that costs you your peace is too expensive.  Unknown

Our awareness moving as our thoughts, desires, feelings, and senses generates an experiential reality or world around us. We are the authors of this world.  Oprah Winfrey and Deepak Chopra

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. With our thoughts we make the world.  Gautama Buddha

Meditation

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Sleep is the best meditation.  Dalai Lama

We tend to think of meditation in only one way.  But life itself is a meditation.  Raul Julia

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching.  They may awaken simply because they can’t take the suffering anymore.   Eckhart Tolle

Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.  Deepak Chopra

Become slower in your journey through life.  Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‘hurry sickness.’  Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes.  Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.   Wayne Dyer

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.   Voltaire

Make the Life That You Want to Live

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I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.   Georgia O’Keefe

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you.  Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision.  So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.  Neil Gaiman

It’s your place in the world.  It’s your life.  Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.   Mae Jemison

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.   Ferdinand Foch

I have not always chosen the safest path.  I’ve made my mistakes, plenty of them.  I sometimes jump too soon and fail to appreciate the consequences.  But I’ve learned something important along the way: I’ve learned to heed the call of my heart.  I’ve learned that the safest path is not always the best path and I’ve learned that the voice of fear is not always to be trusted.   Steve Goodier

You can get what you want or you can just get old.   Billy Joel

When I quit my second job, my father told me a rolling stone gathers no moss.  I told him, “but a rolling stone gets to places.”  After many years, he agrees with me now.  Dichen ‘Di’ Dicden

What Got Me Through

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There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.   Nelson Mandela

Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you . . . yet, someone survived. . .  You can do anything you choose to do.  Maya Angelou

Strength does not come from winning.  Your struggles develop your strengths.  When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.  Arnold Schwarzenegger

You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life.  But I say, “Nothing happens to you.  It happens for you.”  See the positive in negative events.   Joel Osteen

In my deepest darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer.  Sometimes my prayer was “Help me.”  Sometimes a prayer was “Thank you.”  What I’ve discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.   Ivanla Vanzant

There was a special kind of gift that came with embracing the chaos, even if I cursed most of the way.  I’m convinced that, when everything is wiped blank, it’s life’s way of forcing you to become acquainted with and aware of who you are now, who you can become.   Jennifer DeLucy