Inspirational Awakening

641. Entrepreneur and Mom By Jennifer Dugan
     When I was 12 years old, I had surgery with complications. I was told there was a chance I would not be able to have children. Growing up I could not imagine my life without children and worried about it often. When I got married close to my 21st birthday, my husband and I hoped that we would be lucky enough to have children. Luckily, I found out I was pregnant almost a year later. However, soon after the great news, I got very sick. I wa…



642. Listening to Your Inner Voice May Save Your Life By Romy Macias
     "I was washing my breakfast dishes one morning when it occurred to me to go visit a friend who lived several miles away. I did my work and started to dress for my journey, when there came over me such a feeling of depression, or despondency, or gloom, that I could not understand. I kept on getting ready, all the time trying to reason away the feeling. But it would not go. Finally, I got my hat on and one glove and started for the door, when suc…



643. The Fuel for Creative Vigor By Lynn Bradley
     Writing a book or creating a killer headline requires a special blend of imagination, inspiration, and knowledge. Whether the ordeal is like enduring a root canal or soaring on a cloud, depends on how upbeat you are. The fuel of creative vigor is enthusiasm.It is practically impossible to create with a negative attitude. Unless you are excited about what you are doing it can be like climbing a mountain with lead shoes. If you are thrilled with …



644. Who is the Pilot? By Audrina J. Bunton
     It was a mild summer day in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina when I boarded United Airline flight 7318 to Washington, DC. Like usual, I promptly located my window seat, with no doubts that the pilots would safely take me to my destination.      Suddenly, as I sat gazing out of the window waiting for take-off, certain questions unfolded in my mind. I wondered, "Who are these pilots that I wholeheartedly entrust with my life?" I wondered about my s…



645. Beyond the River: Kabbalah's Guidance for Our Times By Michael Ozair
     "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move ourselves in the opposite direction."Albert EinsteinIntroductionWhile there continues to be enough violence and insanity in our post election world right now to warrant the urgent need for any shift in consciousness that we can gather, there are no hints of this shift in consciousness in the newspapers or …



646. You are Unique By Arvind Katoch
     How much time do you waste in comparing yourself with others? Answer to this question is most of time. This is the story of many like you, because you are taught to do this. From the childhood conditioning starts. Parent would like the child to just like them, their carbon copies. They want their child to follow their philosophy, their religion, their ideology; their race and everything belong to them. They want to make the child their vehicle …



647. Go Ahead, Toss the Starfish! By Paul Shearstone
     There is an old story that tells of a man walking along a beach when up ahead in the distance, he catches sight of another man acting strangely. As he gets closer, he notices the man is picking things up from the sand and throwing them into the water.Upon reaching him, he sees the objects being tossed are starfish, stranded on shore by the retreating tide. Curious about his intentions, the first man asked, “What are you doing?”“I am saving thes…



648. Good-Bye Yesterday, Hello Today By Saundra L. Washington
     Many of us are unable to move forward with our lives because we refuse to let go of what no longer exist: YESTERDAY. The portal to yesterday is permanently closed; gone out of business. It is non-existent; a mere idea of what once was.It is disconcerting that so many, many people are stuck in the unyielding grip of what happened to them in yesteryears. They experience great difficulty living in the present. Yes, their bodies are here, but their…



649. Pattern of Ripples By C.L. Mareydt
     The Emmaus Journal Pattern of RipplesPicture within your mind an imaginary pool of water. Visualize a stone thrown into the water and see the waves of concentric circles that emulate from its point of contact. Watch the ripples as one after another emerges into the next ripple and the next, till the pattern of ripples disappear.This imaginary scene embodies an essence of reality in life. It contains the Universal Law of Cause and Effect …



650. Inspiration From Jack Dempsey By John Watson
     I really like Jack Dempsey's great one liner: "A champion is someone who gets up when he can't."It summarises, as powerfully and as swiftly as one of his explosive left hooks, the spirit of anyone who refuses to accept limitations and defeat whether they are a boxer or not.I just quoted the line on the phone to my brother who is temporarily floored by the problem of switching off his new scanner! Dempsey might well have 'solved' the problem by…



651. How To Deal With Rejection By Wilma Watson
     Rejection! Who hasn’t experienced the horrible feeling of being rejected? Unfortunately we are often judged on what we do or say, which leads to either being accepted or rejected, valued or discarded.The feeling of being rejected can come through a look, a sigh, comment, criticism or even silence - like when you apply for a job, summit a paper, send an email or letter and you get no reply! Or when you get a rejection letter having applied for …



652. Why Does it Take So Long to Slow Down By Roy Klienwachter
     Why do we wait so long, before we start thinking about whom and what we are? Why does it take a lifetime of living and struggling before we begin a meaningful search for our truth? I don’t believe that is necessary.I began my conscious journey to enlightenment when I was around 50 years of age. I was brought up in the churches and believed that it was just one of those things in life that we had to do. Actually I was dragged to church kicking a…



653. Ignorance and Fantasy By Laurent Grenier
     Are beliefs not often the children of ignorance and fantasy? Consider the heavenly view of the world that young souls entertain at the height of their innocence, when their youth has been surrounded by love and filled with happiness. Hear their laughter. Dreams expand in a vacuity of knowledge like a laughing gas and induce the blindest, the purest joy. Ignorance is bliss, as they say, because it spares us the mental restraints associated with …



654. Thoughts Are Like Seeds - Are You Planting Flowers or Weeds? By Vicki Miller
     “You can’t harvest what you don’t sow. So plant your desires, gently nurture them and they will be rewarded with abundance. ” Vivian Elisabeth Glyck -12 Lessons on Life I Learned From My Garden.Thoughts Are Like Seeds - Are You Planting Flowers or Weeds?I especially love springtime. I enjoy walking around my neighborhood each day and marveling at all the colorful plants in bloom. I am rewarded each day with seeing blossoms that were not…



655. Sixty-Second Caring By Steve Singleton
     "How are you doing?" you ask. There's a pause before the reply. "You don't really want to know." The eyes look down. The body language says, "If you turn and walk away, I won't blame you." Often we're unprepared for this golden moment, thrown off balance by the answer. We must pre-think our response to that situation. Response #1: "Want to talk about it?" Listen to understand, not to advise. We usually need acceptance and understanding more t…



656. Impaired Judgment By Wayne Mitchell
     Direct Answers - Column for the week of September 23, 2002My husband has a twofold addiction problem, drinking and drugs. In the six years we have been married, he has had periods of sobriety, but they don't ever last. I feel he has not confronted the underlying problem: he was molested as a child by a family member.He is currently in jail due to getting drunk and hitting a police car. Before we met he had an arrest history for violent crime…



657. Don’t Let the Boogeyman Steal Your Dreams By Sulana Stone
     The boogeyman lurking in the closet scares the bejesus out of little kids. “Big people” know the imaginary monster from their childhood isn’t real. Yet, adults freeze in their tracks when the same monster pops up on their path in life.The closer we come to reaching our dreams, the more our monstrous emotions and mind-talk flash their urgent warnings, “Stop! Don’t go any further. You can’t pull it off. You’re not good enough. You’re gonna screw …



658. Character is What's Left When You Leave By Tara Deck
     1 Samuel 16:7"...The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart."While I was recently on a technology imposed computer vacation, I evaluated many things about myself. I truly think this is important for every Christian to do often. The world has a tendency to affect every portion of our thoughts and actions if we don't keep them in check and in line with what the Lord w…



659. Clearing Your Inner Landscape: Freeing Yourself From Emotional Deadwood By Jodie Foster
     Do you suffer from emotional clutter? Is suffering even the right word? Maybe it is, maybe a better description is ‘living with’ emotional clutter. Emotional clutter is like an addiction.You carry your emotional baggage around thinking you can easily handle it, especially if you treat it like it doesn’t exist. Eventually it reaches a point when you feel it’s out of control, or even worse, you are out of control.Learning how to ‘let go’…



660. I Am… By Gene Simmons
     …you are, he is, she is, they are… But you knew that already, didn’t you? Or have you really stopped to think about it recently – or ever for that matter?Huh?I guess we need a little clarification on this. So…do this. Touch yourself. That’s right, go ahead and touch yourself.So, what did you feel? Skin? Of course. Maybe some hair? OK. How about warmth? Sure, unless you’re standing naked in your back yard in Minnesota in the middle of …



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