The Past

... we need to view our past from the perspective of everything that we've ever done or not done being over. We can't undo or redo it -- we have the choice to look back at the past either through eyes clouded by ego judgments or through an inspired point of view. We can forgive ourselves or we can shame ourselves.
(Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Inspiration, p. 89)
7 October 2015

Regret

Attempting to do something, even if it doesn't succeed, is inspiring because we don't tend to regret what we do, we regret what we didn't do.
(Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Inspiration, p. 73)
18 September 2015

D-Day Remembered

D-Day - 6 June 1944

Omaha Beach Cemetery

Reflecting on the generations who have gone before gives us continued inspiration and motivation.

(after Upper Room Disciplines - 2008, 5 November)

6 June 2013

This Deary Seashore

I stand, on this dreary seashore of my life, looking over this dreary backwash bay. Nothing invigorating, or inspiring. Nothing ... to inspire anyone. (Amy Carmichael in A Gentle Spirit, 3 November) 3 November 2012

Good Thoughts

Think good thoughts, and your thoughts will be turned into good actions.  Everything begins in thought.  Guiding your thoughts is one of the keys to self-perfection.  If you suffer misfortunes in your life, look for their cause, not in your actions, but in the thoughts which inspired them, and try to improve those thoughts. If you are inspired by an event in your life, look for its origins in your previous thoughts which caused the event. (Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar Of Wisdom, 9 August) 9 August 2012

Employment

Let every man be occupied in the highest employment of which he is capable and die conscious that he has done his best. (Sidney Smith in Keepers Of The Wisdom by Karen Casey, 28 January)

You could drop dead the moment after you've finished sacrificing your entire life for your retirement. (Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Pulling Your Own Strings, p. 179)

Many people are fooled in the end who at the beginning seemed led by a good inspiration. (Thomas 'A Kempis, The Imitation Of Christ, Book 3, Chapter 15, p. 102)
31 March 2012