Come Alive!

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Ancient Seeker

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Howard Thurman

The soul is the source of our joy, truth, beauty, and infinite potential. When we live from this level of life, we are immediately connected to and supported by other souls. We heal and are healed in return. Oprah Winfrey / Deepak Chopra

The truth is, you don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride and nothing is guaranteed. Eminem

Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever; you just have to live. Natalie Babbitt

Slow down and everything that you are chasing will come around and catch you. John de Paula

Seeds of Life

Posted on November 17, 2015 by Ancient Seeker

I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go. Neil Gaiman

Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change. Steve Maraboli

An empowered life begins with serious personal questions about oneself. Those answers bare the seeds of success. Steve Maraboli

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God. Pope Francis

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever being able to do it. Peter Pan

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. Rumi

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. Socrates

Creative Suffering

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Ancient Seeker

The wound is the place where the Light enters you. Rumi

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. Kahlil Gibran

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way. Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Albert Einstein

Any fool can know. The point is to understand. Albert Einstein

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. Albert Einstein

Understand Life

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Ancient Seeker

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. Pablo Picasso

Whoever must be a creator in good and evil, verily, he must first be an annihilator and break values. Thus the highest evil belongs to the highest goodness: but this is creative. Nietzsche

We will likely be better able to integrate the destroyer aspect of our identity if we can see ourselves as “creative destroyers,” those who destroy in the service of creation, which in the end, may be the secret key to unlocking and releasing the floodgates of our creative potential for growth and constructive transformation. Scott Kiser

Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone. Marion Woodman

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Marie Curie

A fire-like event may be just what you need in your life to press the great reset-button and allow for a new start. Regardless if the fire was set by external circumstances or of your own doing, it is important to see how that destruction may spawn a complete rebirth of life, opportunities, and possibilities that otherwise may have not existed before. In the wake of destruction, welcome the forthcoming creation to follow and rise above whatever happens. Andy Wooten

Surrender to the Divine Will

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Ancient Seeker

Learn to surrender to the Divine Will

So you will understand quickly

And have a mind fragrant with love of God

When disaster falls on you suddenly.

While others whiten with terror

In the hour of gain or loss,

Laugh like the rose, for the rose –

Even if you tear petal after petal from it –

Never stops laughing and never grows cast down.

“Why,” says the rose, “should a thorn sadden me,

When I grew this laugh because of a thorn?”

A man asked, “What is Sufism?” The sheikh replied,

“To feel joy in the heart when anguish comes.”

Think of His punishment as like the eagle

That whisked away the Prophet’s sandal

To save him from the black snake in it.

God says, “Never despair.

At losing what leaves you.”

If a wolf comes and destroys your sheep

This misery averts worse misery,

This loss far more terrible loss. Rumi

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.

The name that can be named is not the eternal name.

The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.

The named is the mother of ten thousand things.

Ever desireless, one can see the mystery.

Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations.

These two spring from the same source, but differ in name; this appears as darkness.

Darkness within darkness.

The gate to all mystery. Tao Te Ching

The Illusion of Fear

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Ancient Seeker

The illumined walk without fear – by Grace. Joel Goldsmith

Fear – False Evidence Appearing Real

You are in a spot that is absolutely safe, with one exception: the danger created by your own fear. The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho

When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering. Miguel Ruiz

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment. Eckhart Tolle

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. African Proverb

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without. Eckhart Tolle

Finite Thought, Infinite Existence

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Ancient Seeker

For the first time I noticed – as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next – that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right. (It was daylight that brought my protest: “No! No! No! My suffering does matter. I want to live! I can’t help but mix my life with that of the universe. Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness – how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view I have of things? This peephole is all I’ve got!”). I mumbled words of Muslim prayer and went back to sleep. Yann Martel, Life of Pi

[H]igh in the firmament where soul material gathers and plays out all the dreams and joys of which we temporal beings can barely conceive, [there are] all the things that are beyond our comprehension; but, even so, are not beyond our attainment if we choose to attain them, and believe that we truly can. Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

ONE VOICE

From the album “Never Say Never” by Brandy

I had a dream, a crazy vision

It may sound strange, this intuition

But it was true beyond description

And somehow I knew that it was real

When I saw

One sky above

There is just one source of love

If I got one chance, one choice

I’ll sing it from the heart, one song, one voice

I’ve seen the fires of deep division

The hearts of stone, the cold ambition

But I have found my sacred mission

To live in this world and still believe

That there is

One sky above

There is just one source of love

If I got one chance, one choice

I’ll sing it from the heart, one song, one voice

A New Level of My Destiny

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Ancient Seeker

Went to the edge of the ledge, but I didn’t jump. Mary J. Blige

We are made from stronger stuff than any of us knows. The number one thing is not even just to keep going, but to trust that there’s something more. Always. O, The Oprah Magazine

If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through. Chinese Proverb

While achieving your goal may not happen on your preferred timetable, it is important to have faith that time will bring success. Trusting that achievement is not only possible, but probable will help soften your fears. Ash Blankenship.

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

From Joel Osteen’s Sermons

If you’re going to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

I am soaking up God’s goodness.

I count it all joy!

My best days are in front of me.

No weapon formed against me will ever prosper.

I remember who I am and whose I am.

The most powerful Force in the Universe is pushing back the darkness in my life.

I give God praise in all things as I move forward in joy and peace.

On the other side of this difficulty is a new level of my destiny.

Release Stress

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Ancient Seeker

Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace. Joan Borysenko

You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway. Steve Maraboli

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait. Be still and allow the mud to settle. Lao Tzu

At certain moments you need to have discipline, and in others you need to just be guided by life. You have to balance your willpower with the capacity to relax and enjoy and go with the flow. There is a Zen proverb that says, basically, if you want something, step aside and let this thing come to you. Paulo Coelho.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. Agnes de Mille

Love in the Midst

Posted on September 20, 2015 by Ancient Seeker

Always rely on mental happiness alone.

Whenever others falsely criticize you even though you have not done anything; whenever you experience physical and mental illness and pain; in short, whenever any undesired suffering occurs, delight in it and think, “I can bring [this experience] into the path of mind training without allowing my [practice] to deteriorate. In this way, make your mind stable. Gomo Tulku, Becoming a Child of the Buddhas pp. 52-53

I will be capable of loving, regardless of whether I am loved in return; of giving, even when I have nothing; of working happily, even in the midst of difficulties;of holding out my hand, even when utterly alone and abandoned; of drying my tears, even while I weep; of believing, even when no one believes in me. Aleph by Paulo Coelho

The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body – to feel it at all times. This will rapidly deepen and transform your life. The more consciousness you direct into the inner body, the higher its vibrational frequency becomes. 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

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. African Proverb