Author Archives: Susan L Hart

Realizing Your Potential

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Do you honor that which is crying out to be expressed in you? Do you arise to greet the days with excitement? Are you living a life that fulfills your innermost talents and desires, one that gives you joy? Or, do you work at a job that does not challenge you to pay the bills, and fill your leisure time with activities that feel even emptier?

These are very big (and frankly hard) questions, ones that you might be avoiding. If your answer is “I drag myself to my job”, it can be a thorny reality check. But wait! Do you think that your beautiful soul really came here to simply to wither on the vine?

Waking up and honestly addressing what is making you unhappy is the first important step towards changing it. It’s just too easy for us to gloss over what feels overwhelming, or numb the discontent with small superficial pleasures. Big change requires small steps. The good feeling you get from even one initial change grows into desire to do more. What can you change today that would move you a step closer to living a life that makes you feel fulfilled?

Society can make it tough to embrace our possibilities. From a young age and as we assert our individuality, we are told “no” quite a lot. “Learn the rules, accept your limitations, and strive to conform.”

Here is a dream that we can dream together for the world’s future: What if our society and education systems were geared to nurture the unique talents in each of us? That is, the innate creative intelligence with which we are each born, and our desire to express it fully. Just think of the world that we could build!

This is an excerpt from Becoming Bigger: In a world that wants to keep you small.

The Power of Love

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Love is the force that draws us inexorably together, the glue that will not allow us to give up on each other. It is our greatest challenge and biggest source of miracles. Infinite love already exists in everything that is alive, including you and me. Our love lessons are about removing the obstacles to love. They teach us out how to access, express, and live it. That is, if we choose to learn.

Do you realize? Your love gives you immense personal power to change the world. The mass media news is too often rife with division, hate, and fear. Some people just wait and hope for an external power or institution to cure the big problems of the world, because the events feel too big and out of their control. They will have a very long wait.

Consider that perhaps the high tension in the world right now is a challenge to each of us to work on unlocking our own love. Together we could collectively unleash a world of love that has never been seen before. It begins with each of us, with one random act of kindness, a single word of compassion, a step upward on the stairway of understanding.

It’s one bit of love at a time. It ripples outward and builds. It comes from you and I, and anyone else who chooses to participate instead of just complaining about how bad things are. It’s what the ancient Greeks called “agape”, a selfless love for humanity, and the world sorely needs more of it.

Adopt a global consciousness. Choose to be a living example of love, compassion, and understanding. Work to bridge the divides you encounter. As Gandhi said, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” 

Is a genuine smile a form of love we give to someone else? I think so…

Smiles

Smiles have
this way, they
captivate and
illuminate,
they raise up
our energy
and light up
the world,
the ripple
outward and
boomerang
back to us,
they’re a gift
we give to others
and to ourselves,
so just –

Smile.

The Power of Love is an excerpt from my free ebook Becoming Bigger: In a world that wants to keep you small. The premise of this short read book is that when we free ourselves from the limitations that hold us back, we not only create a better life for ourselves, we also create a better world. Please feel free to download a copy here.

Susan L Hart / HartInspirations.com / Find other free ebooks

You Are Big

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We live in a world where there are those who would do anything to make us believe we are small, our potential limited. Nothing could be further from the truth.

You are big.
You are part of everything.
Your potential is infinite.
Or, as Rumi so poetically put it,
“You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”

Susan L Hart / HartInspirations.com / Free ebooks

Light & Shadow

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“For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“In the garden, there is a sense of calm and contentment. It’s a place where time stands still.” ~ Chauncey Gardner, from the movie “Being There“

“The garden has taught me that everything has a beginning and an end.” ~ Chauncey Gardner, from the movie “Being There“

I invite you to help yourself today to a free copy of Our Beautiful Earth. (Normally it is a subscriber gift.) Because, well, there’s no time like the present, and nature is of the Light. I hope you have a beautiful Sunday!

Living Life with Gratitude

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Do you live each day of your life fully? We know we are mortal and life will sometime end, but we still tend to live as though we’ve been given an endless supply of days. The seconds, minutes, and hours tick away relentlessly. Tick-tock, tick-tock.

Each day is a gift, and the present moment is the only certain one. There is beauty and sacredness to be found in every single day, when we choose to live that way. It’s the small things all around us all the time that give life its true magic.

Intentionally taking notice of life’s beauty makes life feel infinitely richer, and when we express gratitude for it, we also amplify our abundance. That which we focus on expands, so more comes back to us in an upward positive energy spiral of our own making.

Never underestimate the power of gratitude! It is an attitude that shifts everything in its path. Life immediately becomes bigger and full of possibility with gratitude.

If you are not already doing so, there is no time like today to begin fully immersing yourself in life! Don’t miss out on anything that you could enjoy, embrace, love, or learn, every single day from now on. Wring every beautiful moment out of life that you can, because it will fly by faster than you might ever imagine.

You may well ask, “How exactly does this help the world?” People can feel your happiness and the fulfillment of your soul. You will be a conduit of positive energy and inspire others, therefore helping to uplift humanity and create a better world.

This post is an excerpt from Becoming Bigger: In a world that wants to keep you small. It is free to read online or download at this link.

Inspirational Gratitude Quotes:

“Being grateful does not mean that everything is necessarily good. It just means that you can accept it as a gift.” ~ Roy T. Bennett

“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” ~ G.K. Chesterton

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” ~ Maya Angelou

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

And to finish, I send a wish of Happy Thanksgiving to American readers celebrating your big day of gratitude today!