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Hope all of you are having a great start to your 2015!  I haven't created an Inspiration Wall in a little while and it seems so appropriate this time of year.  So here's a bit of ingenuity to support us all…

 

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.
– Mark Twain

 

There's another way to live. Accept indeterminacy as a principle, and you see your life in a new light, as a series of seemingly unrelated jewel-like stories within a dazzling setting of change and transformation. Recognize that you don't know where you stand, and you will begin to watch where you put your feet. That's when the path appears.
–  Aldous Huxley

 

Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities.
– Matthieu Ricard

 

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
– Joan Baez

 

If you find yourself in some difficulty, step aside, and allow Buddha to take your place. The Buddha is in you.
– Thich Nhat Hanh

 

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
– Yasutani Roshi

 

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
– Dr. Seuss

 

“I” is a word; it does not think, feel, do anything. Just a word preceding other words. Investigate this until it's clear.
– Ilona Ciunaite

 

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.
– Hafiz

 

Love All, 

Juliane

 

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July Inspiration Wall

If we love, we have and feel love. If we’re kind, we have and feel kindness. Contrary 
to what conditioning tells us, we only ever have our own experience—people, 
places, and circumstances truly are irrelevant. Any of it can be icing on the cake, 
but they’re never the cake! 
– Cheri Huber

 

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.  

– Richard Bach

 

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.
– Caroline Myss

 

“Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.”

— Mark Twain

 

The ultimate freedom for the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
– Adyashanti

 

 The correct attitude to our “possessions” is gratitude, not ownership.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

 

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.
– Carlos Castaneda

 

We shall see but a little way if we are required to understand what we see. How few things can one measure with the tape of understanding! How many greater things might one be seeing in the meanwhile?
– Henry David Thoreau

 

Success is not measured by what we accomplish or what we purchase. Our success is measured by the moments of joy we experience during our life.  We become rich by restricting and adjusting our desires, not by letting them loose and chasing after them.  

-Unknown

 

All things in moderation and Know thyself.  

-Apollo, The Greek Sun God & The God of Medicine

 

“He who, forgetting self, makes the object of his life service, helpfulness and kindness to others, finds his whole nature growing and expanding, himself becoming large-hearted, magnanimous, kind, sympathetic, joyous, and happy; his life becoming rich and beautiful.”

— Ralph Waldo Trine 

 

Forget safety.

Live where you fear to live.

Destroy your reputation.

Be notorious.

— Rumi 

 

Once you have established yourself as a center of love and kindness radiating throughout your being, which amounts to a cradling of yourself in loving kindness and acceptance, you can dwell here indefinitely, drinking at this fount, bathing in it, renewing yourself, nourishing yourself, enlivening yourself. This can be a profoundly healing practice for body and soul.
– Jon Kabat-Zinn

 

Which quote was your favorite?  

Who is/are your inspirational hero/s?  

Share your own favorite quote/s in the comments.

 

All Love,

Juliane

 

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January Inspiration Wall

 
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
– Margaret Drabble
 
 
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these. 
– George Washington
 
 
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
-Joseph Campbell
 
 
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
– Marianne Williamson
 
 
The only thing that will ever be enough is what you have within yourself, the freedom that exists within your own heart and mind.
-Cheri Huber
 
 
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why. The truly valuable thing is the intuition.
Albert Einstein
 
 
To understand everything is to forgive everything.
-Buddha
 
 
 You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
–Christopher Columbus
 
 
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
– JFK
 
 
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
-Buddha
 
 
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.
–Erma Bombeck
 
 
Of magic doors there is this, you do not see them even as you are passing through.
-Anonymous
 
 
Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
–George Addair
 
  
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
-Buddha
 
 
Every moment is a fresh beginning. 
-T.S. Elliot
 
 
 

What are your favorite quote/s?

Sending you wishes for a life filled with

Happiness, Joy and Laughter.

All love,
Juliane

 

 

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Inspiration Wall

 

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though
nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

-Albert Einstein

 

"There are no ordinary moments."

-Dan Millman


“Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.”

-Albert Einstein

 

"Becoming a genuine individual requires learning the
oppositions within oneself. Those who fail or refuse to face the oppositions
within have no choice but to find enemies to project
upon. Enemy simply means a "not-friend;" unless a
person deals with the not-friend within they require enemies around them."

-Michael Meade

 

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my
imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is
limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

-Albert Einstein

 

"You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great
telescopes."

-Alan Watts


"We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by
practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are
the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God."

-Martha Graham

 

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”

-Albert Einstein


Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true
wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you
realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

-Lao Tzu


Love is never afraid of
fear. Fear is always afraid of love.

-Sri
Chinmoy


When I let go of who I am, I become what I might be.

-Lao Tzu

 

The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one
hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other.  It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding
it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

-Alan Watts

 

All Love,

Juliane


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Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your Stillness within you. 
 Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality.
- Deepak Chopra

 
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. 
–  Anne Lamott

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
-  Antisthenes 

 
Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise from outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost centre in us all, where truth abides in fullness. 
 -  Robert Browning


There is a dramatic and powerful connection between our mind and body, and our body and mind—in fact, it really should not be called a connection, because it is just ONE bidirectional system. 
– Dr. Mark Hyman

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the  most difficult act of heroism you can perform.  
-Theodore H. White

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. 
–Albert Einstein

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.
-  Noah Webster 

O God, help me to believe the truth about myself no matter how beautiful it is! 
-  Macrina Weiderkher, a Benedictine nun

 

Show up and watch the magic happen!
-Unknown


You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places. But the spring of joy is in your heart. The haven of peace is in yourself.
- Satya Sai Baba

 

In loving kindess,

XOXO

Juliane

 

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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are
mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same
time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn
like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

                -Jack Kerouac, On the Road

 

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

                -Francois de la Rochefoucauld

 

And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no
matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very
arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our feet,
and learn to be at home.

                 - Wendell Berry

 

"When feeling urgent, you must slow down."

                
- Mark
Nepo

 

Continuous, calm, powerful use of the will shakes the forces
of creation and brings a response from the Infinite.

                   -Parmahansa Yogananda    

 

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn
from them.

                -H. Jackson Brown

 

Fear doesn’t frighten me as much as it used to. I know it’s
from clinging and I know it will pass. I can tell myself, “I’m frightened now
because even though I know what’s true, I have forgotten it right now. I know
the possibility of remembering exists.” That possibility, that conviction,
gives me a lot of hope in the middle of the biggest fright.

                -Sylvia Boorstein

 

I close my eyes

and see clearly . . .

 

I stop trying to listen

and I hear truth . . .

 

I am silent

and my heart sings . . .

 

I seek no contact

and I find union . . .

 

I am still

and move forward . . .

 

I am gentle

and need no strength . . .

 

I am humble

and remain whole . . .

                -Ancient Taoist Meditation

 

We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or
doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we
do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it
in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that
were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best.
Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on
the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as
when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing
is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is
always arrived at in the immediate moment.

                -Alan Watts

 

The best portion of a good

person’s life,

Those little, nameless,

Unremembered acts

Of kindness and love.

                -William Wordsworth

 

A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains eevn while living in paradise.

                -Bahu'u'llah

 

In loving kindess,

XOXO

Juliane

 

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