Category Archives: Life Inspiration

Finding Flow

When we get in touch with our authentic selves and our purpose, we begin to flow more smoothly. Frustration is rooted in resistance, from listening to others who want to mold us into their idea of being.

When we flow, our angst and need for material things and all the incidental clutter begins to fall away. We discover that we are elegant just as we are. Then as the river does, we move around and through, in a state of grace, avoiding or smoothing the rough patches on our path.

When we embrace change (that which is unsettled and unstable), we also move towards new vistas. Growth does not occur within static stability. Be fluid and in flow with it, like the river.

“Come, submerge yourself within us, we who are the flowing stream.” (Rumi)

Self Discovery

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If we didn’t have to spend so much time focusing on survival, would we spend more time on creative pursuits, and developing our own natural talents? Or is the question moot? Is technology slowly but surely reducing the human being to simply an observer of life?

The question is an important one, because the path we’re on may not be in the best interests of the growth of the human soul, and the real potential of the collective we call humanity.

What do you think?

“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

Susan L Hart 2023 | HartInspirations.com

Scatter Some Sunshine

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There is a song out there that epitomizes a life philosophy, which if we all embraced it, would make the world a phenomenally better place. Somewhere along the way, society’s mandate for winning at life became about beating the other guy to “the goods”. Success started to mean a bigger house and more TVs.

But this song, when it wafted from the radio when I was a kid, spoke to me even then of how life should be. Make Someone Happy was written by Jule Styne, Adolph Green and Betty Comden, and first performed December 26, 1960. This song has never gone out of style – read the list of 100+ performers who sang it over 31 years – because although admittedly romantic in nature, it also expresses a fundamental truth about life.

When we are of service to others, when we are busy making someone else happy, we become happy too. Service to others is a core philosophy that humanity is working on understanding and adopting as a collective, in order that we may shift to a higher level of vibration.

Look around you. What something can you do today for someone you know (or a stranger) that would contribute to that person’s happiness, your own happiness in the doing of it, and the bigger picture of the growth of humanity?

Let’s bring some old-fashioned values back into style.

“Make someone happy.
Make just one someone happy
And you will be happy too…”

A quote by Norman Vincent Peale, from his book The Power of Positive Thinking:

The way to happiness:
Keep your heart free from hate,
your mind from worry.
Live simply, expect little, give much.
Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others.
Try this for a week, and you will be surprised.

Have a wonderful day. Please feel free to save my sunflower painting ecard and send it to whoever may need the message. 🙂

Susan L Hart 2023 | HartInspirations.com

Clearing the Mud

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A World of Questions

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Science is logic based in fact, and scientists (such as Albert Einstein in the quote) question what has come before. In order to make groundbreaking advancements, a new idea is the basis for a hypothesis, which then must proven via usually extensive experimentation.

Intuitive people also question. Based on their gut feelings – “something doesn’t feel right here” – they watch for the spaces and incongruities (the holes, as it were) in what is being presented as absolute truth. They also do their own research instead of blindly accepting what is being put in front of them. This is called having discernment and using critical thinking.

We are living in times where increasingly we’re being told that we should not question. But not questioning will keep us in a stagnant state, and possibly also an ignorant one. If it really is the truth, it will stand the test of questioning, and if it’s not the truth, ultimately it will not.

So my question is, why aren’t more people questioning being told they should not question?

There’s still time today to celebrate the arrival of May flowers (yesterday’s post) with a free copy of my ebook Our Beautiful Earth. It’s not normally free, so please take advantage of the opportunity today. Download it here.

Susan L Hart 2023 | HartInspirations.com