Inspirational Awakening

661. The 5 Fortunes Within By Saleem Rana
     What could be nearer to us than our own selves. What could be a greater fortune to discover than our own love. When you can accept yourself just as you are, with all your warts and wrinkles, with all those extra tucks of fat, with all those scars and blemishes, with all your broken promises and misadventures, then, and only then, can you begin to appreciate your own power, beauty, integrity, intelligence, and competence.The first fortune foun…



662. What is Passion? By Leanne Hoagland-Smith
     What is passion? Recently after a presentation, I was once again thanked for my passion. The compliment was genuinely given, as was my returned thank you. However, as the day progressed, my thoughts kept returning to what really is passion? For the next several days as I attempted to ponder this question, other questions surfaced. What does it mean when one has passion? What separates people with passion and those without passion? Is passion…



663. All You Want is Within Your Reach By Chris Widener
     If there is one thing that I believe with all my heart it is that you can have any life you choose to. You can live the life you have always dreamed of.We live in a period of unparalleled opportunity in human history. Think about it: Just one hundred years ago, most people really only had five or six options when it came to deciding what they would do with their lives. For most, they didn't even have the knowledge that they could do anything ot…



664. Tending the Fire By Chris Widener
     In old buildings there was a boiler room where men stood shoveling coal or wood into a furnace to keep the whole building warm. If they didn't tend to the fire, the place went cold. The same is true in our lives. We need to tend the inner fire so our lives do not go cold.Made for Success is based on the fact that humans are made up of three parts: The body, the soul and the spirit. The Body is that part that lives in the physical world. The Sou…



665. Afraid of The Light? By Steve Singleton
     Plato once said, “It is easy to forgive a small child afraid of the dark, but not a full-grown man afraid of the light.” Since long before Plato light has symbolized truth--facing the reality of our situation in relation to God, to others, and to self.Why are people afraid of the light?Some love evil and hate goodness. Some fear they are being deceived. Some know learning the truth will make great demands on their time, money, and energy. Some …



666. Conspiracy of Silence By Wayne Mitchell
     Direct Answers - Column for the week of January 12, 2004I'm hoping you can help me with a moral problem that crops up every now and then in my personal and professional life. Sometimes I find myself being blamed for an error or lack of judgment that actually occurred on someone else's part. For example, I asked someone at work about using a certain location for a display, was given the go-ahead, then chastised for using that location.When the…



667. A Course in Forgiveness By Darlene Zagata
     A sharp word or a harsh tone of voice can be devastating to those who are extremely sensitive. I know because I'm one of those sensitive individuals. When someone raises their voice to me I get a tingling sensation at the base of my spine that permeates my whole being. At times I have to fight back the tears. The hurt seems to be deep enough to touch my very soul. I can't explain why I react the way I do. I only know how I feel. It's not always…



668. Love Thy Neighbor By Vaughn Pascal
     I would like to take a moment to write about our neighbors. We all have them. They could live right next door to you or miles away. We all still have them. The bible quotes, you should love your neighbor as yourself. I was always taught from a very, yong age to help and respect your neighbors and people in general. Back in the old days people depended on the help of their neighbors and you could always depend on them in return. I am pretty luck…



669. Don't Ever Give Up By Drew Vics
     There is a reason I never gave up. A reason I never will give up my hope, my dreams, my desire to live. The reason is people who care. Those who have shown their concern for me, and their wish for me to succeed, to do the best I can do. They give me a reason to live.A couple of those people are my parents. I thank my father for his (possibly unintentional) ability to make me rethink what I did, or would do. Is it good enough? Am I good eno…



670. Lessons Learned Hard By Russ Miles
     Many of us seek consolation in the words of Frank Sinatra, “I did it my way.” I say many of us because I feel this trap has snared more than just me. Oh, it is a trap, alright, a way to defend our defiance, combat accountability, and excuse our own stupidity.Maybe, we don’t even say it aloud if our inflated egos and economic attainments have enabled us to dupe ourselves and fool a few others? Well, wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could learn fro…



671. A Cat In The Hand Is Worth Two Birds In The Bush! By Marlene Carter
     I bought this computer just over two years ago with my first venture into the world of credit cards. I'm a mature woman and have seen and done a lot in this world, but nothing could have prepared me for this. When I finished high school computers were not standard curriculum and, as was the way back then, I did the family thing with little to do in the way of secondary education. So, with my children married and raising families of their own, s…



672. Withstand the Test of Time By Audrina J. Bunton
     As I drove home from work late one wintry afternoon, chilled from the freezing temperatures, I noticed the beautiful trees aligned on both sides of the road. Amongst the evergreens and the pine trees, one tree in particular caught my attention as it majestically stood, with its strong branches extending outward. This tree, bare from the many leaves that had once hung from its branches, daringly saluted the sky.     I thought about how this deep…



673. Why Buddhism Succeeds - The Right Thing is the Thing to do By Stuart Malkin
     The ongoing teachings are exemplified in an understanding and execution of two ideas, which I will briefly describe:Karma: the Buddhist interpretation is in the words and actions of the individual. It means that good work brings about a good rebirth, and that each rebirth is a reflection of the good living and good deeds in the prior life. That is the deeper meaning of Karma, the Buddhist,and some New Age, thinking. It also applies to action…



674. Fighting Grief: The Time To Show You Care By Sheryl Joy Olaño
     The news came as a shock to us all. He who had been ill for days had been taken to the hospital. It was found out that he had very high amount of creatinine in his blood, resulting from a stone in one of his kidneys.Creatinine is a liquid waste. It causes slow blood circulation, making even breathing difficult. While the normal amount of creatinine in our body is 1.5%, he had 23.3% of it.He had assured us it was only a frustrating duo of ulcer …



675. Circles On The Water – The Impact You Make On People’s Lives By Doug Harvey
     When you were a child, or maybe even when you were older, did you ever toss a pebble into the water and watch the ripples that emanated from the point where it broke the surface? Or watched the effect of raindrops falling on a body of water? I have done these things and have since found myself pondering on this process, and just how much it can be compared to our lives.The pebble splashes in the water and affects the surface surrounding it. …



676. Inspiration: A Few More Things I've Noticed Along the Road So Far By Jeff Herring
     Here’s a quote from the late great columnist Sydney Harris that I believe says much about the state of marriage in our culture: “Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that they automatically deserve great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes they automatically deserve success in marriage.”One of the best unexpected blessings of marriage is to count the parents of your spouse among your friends.Certain so called “p…



677. The Pursuit of Greatness By Jeremy Likness
     On June 3rd, 1948, a blast rocked the Black Hills of South Dakota. Ten tons of stone were dislodged from the mountainside and tumbled to the earth below. Earlier that day, a man named Korczak had ascended the mountain and single-jacked four holes at 6,740 feet above sea level.Single-jacking is the practice of placing a drill-bit against hard rock, slamming it with a four-pound sledge hammer, then rotating the drill and banging it again until th…



678. Blessings for the Soul By Tony Cuckson
     In Corrogue I count my Blessings.These are numerous. There is every breath in. There is every breath out. There is every heartbeat that reminds me of the joy of compassion and the blessing of this experience called life.Each day I count my breath for ten minutes. In this way it becomes refined. I am refined and in truth I feel fine. I do not subscribe to our socially sanctioned emotional education. This is when we are asked, “How are you…



679. Are You The Master Of Your Destiny? By Michael Lee
     How strong are you?  I'm not asking if you can carry 150 lbs. of weight.  What I'm after is your strength of character.  How resilient are you to hang on to your dreams amidst the raging forces of discouragement and criticisms?  There are far too many individuals who never get to experience the joy of attaining their desires because other people's influence has significantly (and sometimes negatively) affected their crucial decisions.  Ar…



680. The Meaning of Life - Not Just Another Dust in the Wind Theory By John Dyer
     I grew up in the south in the 1960's. Married when I was 18 and joined the Army when I was 23. I traveled to Germany then back to the states where I lived in Connecticut for a while and then Tennessee for 10 years. I am now living in Maine.Of all the traveling I have done in my life I have heard people asking one question constantly. It doesn't matter if you are religious or not. We all want to know "What is the meaning of life?" I myself…



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