If I have to describe my year 2013 in quotes - lessons, experience, inspiration - here they are:
--1--
"Life is not about good luck or bad luck. It’s about what you do with what you are given."
~ Joanna, Witches of East End
--2--
"Some victories lead to dead ends, and some defeats open new horizons."
~ Richard Bach
--3--
"After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box."
~ Italian proverb
--4--
"When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about."
~ Haruki Murakami
--5--
"You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy."
~ Garth Brooks
--6--
"An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad."
~ Bodhidharma
--7--
"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
--8--
"Have good trust in yourself, not in the one that you think you should be, but in the One that you are."
~ Zen Master Taizan Maezumi
--9--
"Everything passes, nothing remains. Understand this, loosen your grip and find serenity."
~ Lama Surya Das
--10--
“When do you propose to make your dream come true?”
“As soon as the opportunity arrives.”
“Opportunity never arrives,” said the Master. “It’s here.”
~ Anthony de Mello
--11--
"Ego says: Once everything falls into place, I’ll find inner peace.
Spirit says: Find your inner peace, and then everything will fall into place."
"Ego says: Once everything falls into place, I’ll find inner peace.
Spirit says: Find your inner peace, and then everything will fall into place."
~ Marianne Williamson
--12--
"I prayed for change, so I changed my mind.
I prayed for guidance and learned to trust myself.
I prayed for happiness and realized I am not my ego.
I prayed for peace and learned to accept others unconditionally.
I prayed for abundance and realized my doubt kept it out.
I prayed for wealth and realized it is my health.
I prayed for a miracle and realized I am the miracle.
I prayed for a soul mate and realized I am the One.
I prayed for love and realized it’s always knocking, but I have to allow it in."
~ Jackson Kiddard
--13--
"Those who were supposed to stay in your life will remain. Sometimes you have to walk the road alone and you don't need much of outside help. You might be thinking that you need. Who thinks so, and succumb to this thought becomes a victim. If you look deep into yourself, your path will be highlighted, whether you walk it alone or with others."
~ Robert Shvarts
--14--
"Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure and fulfillment, for validation, security or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer."
~ Eckhart Tolle
--15--
"The inward battle – against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past – is more terrible than outward battle."
~ Swami Sivananda
--16--
"If you want to improve your love life, improve how you love yourself. If you don't love yourself enough, you'll find ways not to find love. The love you have for yourself is in a way the only love you have in your life because all the other love is a mirror of it."
~ Karen Salmansohn
--17--
"To try everything, do not seek to try anything.
To hold everything, do not seek to possess anything.
To become everything, do not seek to become anything.
To achieve the unknown, choose the path that is unknown.
To discover what you don't have, take the path where you have nothing.
To become what you are not, take the path where you are nothing."
To hold everything, do not seek to possess anything.
To become everything, do not seek to become anything.
To achieve the unknown, choose the path that is unknown.
To discover what you don't have, take the path where you have nothing.
To become what you are not, take the path where you are nothing."
~ St.John Krastni
--18--
~ Lao Tzu
--19--
“Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.”
~ Alan Watts
--20--
"If you open your heart - love will come.
If you let go of the past - the pain will go away.
If you overcome your fears - Life will make you a gift.
If you love yourself - you'll love it all.
If you say " thank you" to your heart - you will be happy.
If you bless what surrounds you - you'll feel the incredible lightness of soul.
If you forgive what you brought you pain - you will experience the inner peace.
If you are not hasty in your actions - you are already successful.
If you are ready to find a "star " - you already found it.
If you know yourself - you know a whole universe.
If you accept yourself - you accept life in its entirety.
If you trust life - you're in wise, loving hands.
If you know that life is one that brings you - you're already a winner.
If you respect yourself - you will be in connection with the perfection in you.
If you believe in yourself - Life will support you.
The key is within yourself. You carry full responsibility to yourself and Life.
You are the cause and effect. And the choice was always there for you.
If you let go of the past - the pain will go away.
If you overcome your fears - Life will make you a gift.
If you love yourself - you'll love it all.
If you say " thank you" to your heart - you will be happy.
If you bless what surrounds you - you'll feel the incredible lightness of soul.
If you forgive what you brought you pain - you will experience the inner peace.
If you are not hasty in your actions - you are already successful.
If you are ready to find a "star " - you already found it.
If you know yourself - you know a whole universe.
If you accept yourself - you accept life in its entirety.
If you trust life - you're in wise, loving hands.
If you know that life is one that brings you - you're already a winner.
If you respect yourself - you will be in connection with the perfection in you.
If you believe in yourself - Life will support you.
The key is within yourself. You carry full responsibility to yourself and Life.
You are the cause and effect. And the choice was always there for you.
~ Tibetan wisdom
and one bonus from 2014:
"When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice. Only in this moment can we discover that which is timeless. Only here can we find the love that we seek. Love in the past is simply memory, and love in the future is fantasy. Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.”
~ Jack Kornfield
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