Inspirational Writings:
Often a verse or poem can have more impact on us as it resonates with our innermost thoughts and emotions. I have included a selection of the writings which I hope will inspire you to be and have what you truly desire in this life time.
Wisdom from an Indian Elder
- Oriah Mountain Dreamer
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your
heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams,
for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon.
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow, if you have
been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from fear
of further pain! I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own,
without moving to hide it, fade it, or fix it. I want to know if you can be with
joy, mine or your own; if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill
you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be
realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn’t interest me if the story you’re telling me is true.
I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can
bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. I want to know
if you can be faithful and therefore be trustworthy. I want to know if you can
see beauty even when it is not pretty every day, and if can source your life
from God’s presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and
mine, and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full
moon,”Yes!”
It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary
and bruised the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children.
It doesn’t interest me who you are, how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not
shrink back.
It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I
want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the
company you keep in the empty moments.
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Courage
- Theodore Roosevelt
It is not the critic who counts, not the one who
points out how the strong man stumbled or how the
doer of deeds might have done them better.
The credit belongs to the one who is actually in the
arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust
and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and
comes short again and again; who knows the great
enthusiasms, and the great devotions, and spends
himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows
the triumphs of high achievement; and who, if he
fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his
place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Excerpt from ‘Circles’
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The Key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and
defying though he look, he has a helm, which he
obeys which is the idea after which all his facts are
classified. He can only be reformed by showing him
a new idea, which commands his own. The life of
man is a self-revolving circle, which from a ring
imperceptibly small rushes on all sides outwards to
new and larger circles, and that without end. The
extent to which this generation of circles wheel
without wheel, will go, depends on the force of
truth of the individual soul. For it is the inert
effort of each thought having formed itself into a
circular wave of circumstance, as, for instance, an
empire, rules of an art, and local usage, a religious
rite – to heap itself on that ridge, and to solidify
and him in life. But if the soul is quick and strong,
it bursts over that boundary on all sides and
expands another orbit on the great deep, which also
runs up into a high wave with attempt again to
stop and to bind. But the heart refuses to be
imprisoned; in it’s first and narrowest pulses, it
already tends outward with a vast force and to
immense and innumerable expansions.”
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A Creed to Live By
- Nancy Simms
Don’t undermine your worth by comparing yourself to others. It is
because we are different that each of us is special.
Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you
know what is best for you.
Don’t take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them
as you would your life, for without them, life is meaningless.
Don’t let life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the
future. By living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of
your life.
Don’t give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is
really over until the moment you stop trying.
Don’t be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect. It is this
fragile thread that binds us to each other.
Don’t be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances that we
learn to be brave.
Don’t shut love out of your life by saying it is impossible to find. The
quickest way to receive love is to give love. The fastest way to lose
love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give
it wings.
Don’t dismiss your dreams. To be without dreams is to be without
hope; to be without hope is to be without purpose.
Don’t run through life so fast that you forget not only where you’ve been, but also
where you are going. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured each step of
the way.
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If you have a dream
- Unknown
Don’t wait for some distant day to come,
it may be too late before you’ve even begun.
Not everyone will agree with all you decide.
Be true to yourself first and foremost.
The only important thing in life is what you do
with the time you spend here on Earth.
Don’t be afraid to follow your desires,
they are not silly nor selfish.
Take the time and do what makes you feel alive.
Leave your fears and regrets in the past,
for this is where they belong.
Don’t cloud today with things that can’t be undone.
You have no more control over yesterday or tomorrow,
than you do the raging of your passions.
Do not quiet these dreams nor quench your desires.
For if you do, your journey is ended.
You have only today to begin anew and follow your dreams.
For in the end all we have are our memories.
When the twilight comes to us, let there be,
No excuses, no explanations, no regrets!
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Set Your Sights High
- Eileen Caddy
Set your sights high;
The higher the better!
Expect the most WONDERFUL things to happen.
Not in the future but right now.
Realise that nothing is too good.
Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in
any way.
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