Category Archives: Life Inspiration

Hero in the Making

A quote for our times? You be the judge.

Euripides apparently lived from 480 to 406 BC. A tragedian playwright in Ancient Greece, he has influenced drama into our modern times, especially the portrayal of mythical heroes as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.

Make no mistake, history repeats itself until we decide to do it differently. I think we will see many heroes emerge in the coming days, people who never dreamed they had greatness within them. Will you be one of them?

Inspirational Quotes:

“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”
~ Alan Moore

“Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.”
~ Gerard Way

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”
~ Tom Robbins

Begin with Love

Love is the fundamental center of our universe. Hate and fear try to worm their way in and take over, time and time again. Experience says that when they do, the best of the human spirit tends to rise up and say “no”.

Do you desire to build a better world right now? Make a personal pledge to always begin from a place of love and the results will astonish you. The dark has no real tools to defeat love. Loving yourself enough not to hook into your own dark side is a very strong beginning. When we succumb to our own dark thoughts, we are letting the controllers of this world divide and beat us.

Inspirational Love Quotes:

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
~ Martin Luther King Jr.

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
~ William Shakespeare

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
~ Paulo Coelho

“Where there is love there is life.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
~ Zelda Fitzgerald

“If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
~ John Lennon

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and can accomplish much. and what is done in love is done well.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Photo of Van Gogh’s “A Wheatfield with Cyrpresses”

Living Consciously

Do you feel lately like you’re being swept along against your will in a tidal wave of “fate”? The dictionary’s definition of fate: “The course of someone’s life, or the outcome of a particular situation for someone or something, seen as beyond their control.”

We are part of everything around us, including those big events seemingly out of our control. We do have a say in our destinies, but, this requires firstly that we start living consciously.

The bigger the external problems seem, the more apt we may be to engage in denial or escapism. Confronting what is uncomfortable may seem like too much work in the short term, “I’ll deal with this tomorrow…”, but in the long run that’s how we claim our lives and start living them intentionally and fully.

There is no time like now to claim your life.

This article offers interesting thoughts and tips about living consciously: The Importance of Living Consciously

Photo courtesy João Cabral, Pexels

A Reverent Life

Reverence for life feels like it is in short supply these days. We are each instruments of change. When we love life and embrace the beauty, when we make that an essential part of our lives every day, our lives become sacred. We bring reverence to the world.

Inspirational Quotes:

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. ~ Rumi

“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

True spirituality breathes reverence into every act and deed.” ~ Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Becoming Civilized

Are we a fully civilized society? We assume because we have advanced forward in linear time that it is naturally a given we are also more progressed in terms of our knowledge, wisdom, and sophistication. But are we?

How sophisticated is it to indulge in the kind of social behavior we witness in society at the moment? As our buildings get taller and our computers become faster, we are forgetting the fundamental human skills needed to build a truly great civilization. In short, we are losing touch with our humanness, our decency, our respect for the Earth that serves us.

There are societies we label as primitive that have or had a much greater grasp of the ethics and integrity of a respectful and fulfilling society. I suggest that it is time to put our inflated egos aside and learn from them, in order that we may incorporate some of their higher principles back into our modern life.

Additional thoughts:

Star Trek fans, remember the “Prime Directive”? It is a law of noninterference that dictates that there be no interference with the natural development of any primitive society. In the Star Trek stories, the defining line is to have achieved warp speed technology on their own. These days I wonder what civilizations might be observing us and just shaking their heads. “Sorry, we would really like to help you, we see you are floundering around and it is really painful to watch. But, you haven’t figured out certain things on your own yet… Give us a call when you get it.