Daily Happiness Quote

"To unpathed waters, undreamed shores." -- William Shakespeare

Revolution

There can be no political revolution, no social revolution, no economic revolution. The only revolution is that of the spirit; it is individual. And if millions of individuals change, then the society will change as a consequence, not vice versa. You cannot change the society first and hope that individuals will change later on." Osho

Picasso

Picasso was in a park when a woman approached him and asked him to draw a portrait of her.

Picasso agreed and quickly sketches her.

After handing the sketch to her, she is pleased with the likeness and asks how much she owed to him.

Picasso replies: "$5,000."

The woman screamed, "But it took you only five minutes."

"No, madam, it took me all my life".

Be extraordinary

“When we think of failure; Failure will be ours. If we remain undecided; Nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure For what we think, will come about.” - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 

best inspirational video ever...awesome narration by Gary Racer

Inspirational moments from movie Remember the titans

Darwin Stephenson

‎"The good news is that we do not need to be talking to God or even thinking about God to be in prayer. We can simply be with God. That is the nature of communion. It is not dependent on constant communication. Think, for example, of being with someone you love and with whom you experience deep communion. Words are undoubtedly part of your being together, but notice how easily they can also fall away as you slip into a comfortable experience of simply being together in unworded presence. The same can be true of prayer.

Love makes this possible, and it is love that makes prayerful communion so fulfilling and transformational. Communion with God is the answer to our heart's deepest longings, because God is love. Prayer is a relationship. It is a dialogue that is based on a deep personal encounter. And since God is love, God can only be truly encountered in love." - David G. Benner

Darwin's Perspective: As I scour literature in search of quotes to share with you to reinforce this message of choosing love, I try to find passages that truly capture the essence of my teachings that can be applied in every day life. After all, if you can't apply a teaching in your regular day then it is hardly useful for bringing about change in your life. But so too, I shy away from passages that constrain wisdom to a single teaching, path or approach. There are many paths to a Spiritual existence and thus I shy away from authors that use words like "only."

However, in this case, I agree with David Benner that God is love and that God is encountered through love. In short, God is love and God created everything that is so that love can be fully actualized; as it requires being shared between two. Thus God, in a singularity, is less than complete and by creating all that is with the un-mandated choice to choose love, we live our lives in a free-will environment where we get to decide the fate of humankind. We are not merely passengers in life, but rather each of us hold within us the conscious ability to change the world. We get to change the world by choosing love.

For those of you that are into quantum physics, you will note that this is an interesting concept as God exists outside of the dimension of time. Thus God has created everything that is within the dimensions of our Universe (which includes time) but also since God exists outside of these dimensions... God is both complete and incomplete. In essence, God has introduced the ability for us to choose love to become fully actualized and, at the same time, is not incomplete for Humanity will one day awaken to this choice and choose Love. The only thing that is in flux is how long it will take Humanity to wake up to our divine purpose to choose love.

For those that are awakening, there is a blossoming of consciousness which introduces an awareness of our ability to choose love in our daily lives. This is not a one time event or a philosophy that changes things simply because you believe. This is an awakening where you recognize that by living your life in purpose, all the time, the world changes. The problems that we see in the world will not be fixed by others making changes. The problems change when we change. When more and more people awaken to living their life in purpose. These are the significant moments in the shift of history. When Humanity shifts, everything changes.

But if we wait for others to change this becomes a standoff. With everyone waiting for everyone else to change...the world remains the same. But as more and more people awaken to live their lives in purpose the scales to balance tip back to love. They tip back to God.

VINCENT VAN GOGH

If you hear a voice within you say, "You cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

VINCENT VAN GOGH

Killing our dreams

The first symptom of the process of our killing our dreams is the lack of time. The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the Good Fight.

The second symptom of the death of our dreams lies in our certainties. Because we don’t want to see life as a grand adventure, we begin to think of ourselves as wise and fair and correct in asking so little of life. We look beyond the walls of our day-to-day existence, and we hear the sound of lances breaking, we smell the dust and the sweat, and we see the great defeats and the fire in the eyes of the warriors. But we never see the delight, the immense delight in the hearts of those who are engaged in the battle. For them, neither victory nor defeat is important; what’s important is only that they are fighting the Good Fight.

And, finally, the third symptom of the passing of our dreams is peace. Life becomes a Sunday afternoon; we ask for nothing grand, and we cease to demand anything more than we are willing to give. In that state, we think of ourselves as being mature; we put aside the fantasies of our youth, and we seek personal and professional achievement. We are surprised when people our age say that they still want this or that out of life. But really, deep in our hearts, we know that what has happened is that we have renounced the battle for our dreams – we have refused to fight the Good Fight.

When we renounce our dreams and find peace, we go through a short period of tranquility. But the dead dreams begin to rot within us and to infect our entire being.
We become cruel to those around us, and then we begin to direct this cruelty against ourselves. That’s when illnesses and psychoses arise. What we sought to avoid in combat – disappointment and defeat – come upon us because of our cowardice.

And one day, the dead, spoiled dreams make it difficult to breathe, and we actually seek death. It’s death that frees us from our certainties, from our work, and from that terrible peace of our Sunday afternoons

Dreams

“Everyone has potential. It is an infinite resource that can not be exhausted, but can be lost in the clouds of fear and complacency. It may take courage to embrace the possibilities of your own potential, but once you’ve flown past the summit of your fears, nothing will seem impossible. Pursue your dreams.”

Inspirational speech by Kevin Spacey

Inspirational speech by Kevin Spacey [HD]

by theskyisthelimit.se (videos)

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Dance!

Everything moves. And everything moves to a rhythm.
And everything that moves produces a sound; that is happening here and all over the world at this very moment.
Our ancestors noticed the same thing when they tried to escape from the cold in their caves: things moved and made noise.
The first human beings perhaps looked on this with awe, and then with devotion: they understood that this was the way that a Superior Being communicated with them.
They began to imitate the noises and movements around them, hoping to communicate with this Being: and dancing and music were born.
When we dance, we are free.
To put it better, our spirit can travel through the universe, while our body follows a rhythm that is not part of the routine.

In this way, we can laugh at our sufferings large or small, and deliver ourselves to a new experience without any fear.
While prayer and meditation take us to the sacred through silence and inner pondering, in dance we celebrate with others a kind of collective trance.
They can write whatever they want about dancing, but it is no use: you have to dance to find out what they are talking about.
Dance to the point of exhaustion, like mountain-climbers scaling some sacred peak.
Dance until, out of breath, our organism can receive oxygen in a way that it is not used to, and this ends up making us lose our identity, our relation with space and time.

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
— Wayne Dyer

Learned helplessness

The American psychologist Martin Seligman’s foundational experiments and theory of learned helplessness began at University of Pennsylvania in 1967, as an extension of his interest in depression.

A person should be able to walk away from an abusive relationship, for example, or voluntarily quit a stressful job.

A psychological condition known as learned helplessness, however, can cause a person to feel completely powerless to change his or her circumstances for the better.

The result of learned helplessness is often severe depression and extremely low self-esteem.



Learned helplessness can be seen as a mechanism some people employ in order to survive difficult or abusive circumstances.

An abused child or spouse may eventually learn to remain passive and compliant at the hands of his or her abuser, since efforts to fight back or escape appear futile.

Learned helplessness results from being trained to be locked into a system. The system may be a family, a community, a culture, a tradition, a profession or an institution.

Initially, a system develops for a specific purpose. But as a system evolves, it increasingly tends to organize around beliefs, perspectives, activities and taboos that serve the continuation of the system. Awareness of the original purpose fades and the system starts to function automatically. It calcifies.

Some experts suggest learned helplessness can be passed on through observation, as in the case of a daughter watching her abused mother passively obey her husband’s commands.

The daughter may begin to associate passivity and low self-esteem with the “normal” demands of married life, leading to a perpetuation of the learned helplessness cycle.

Child abuse by neglect can be a manifestation of learned helplessness: when parents believe they are incapable of stopping an infant’s crying, they may simply give up trying to do anything for the child.
Another example of learned helplessness in social settings involves loneliness and shyness. Those who are extremely shy, passive, anxious and depressed may learn helplessness to offer stable explanations for unpleasant social experiences.

A third example is aging, with the elderly learning to be helpless and concluding that they have no control over losing their friends and family members, losing their jobs and incomes, getting old, weak and so on.

An interesting article by Ken McLeod on how to fight the symptoms)

Great Quotes

Some of the greatest quotes that needs to be visually experienced. 

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Osho

"And I am against plastic flowers. The real flowers have many differences;
the plastic flowers are permanent — the plastic love will be permanent.
The real flower is not permanent, it is changing moment to moment.
Today it is there dancing in the wind and in the sun and in the rain.
Tomorrow you will not be able to find it — it has disappeared
just as mysteriously as it has appeared.
Real love is like a real flower."

Inspirational

‎"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for
wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the
eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure
disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so
fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!" -

Soren Kierkegaard

We can sell our time, but we can’t buy it back again

Inspiration

When I fall, He lifts me up!
When I fail, He forgives!
When I am weak, He is strong!
When I am lost, He is the way!
When I am afraid, He is my courage!
When I stumble, He steadies me!
When I am hurt, He heals me!
When I am broken, He mends me!
When I am blind, He leads me!
When I am hungry, He feeds me!
When I face trials, He is... with me!
When I face persecution, He shields me!
When I face problems, He comforts me!
When I face loss, He provides for me!
When I face Death, He carries me Home!
What a Friend we have in God