‎"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right."

Follow your heart

"Look deep into your heart. Listen to the still small voice within. And remember one thing: life is fulfilled only through longings, never through ambitions. Life becomes blissful only through the heart, never through the mind. Mind creates science, the heart creates religion. Mind can give you better technology, better gadgets. The heart gives you the real, ultimate values: love, bliss, truth, freedom, awareness, God. And a life without these values is valueless."

"You go on dreaming, imagining beautiful things for the coming days, the future. But in moments when danger is imminent, then suddenly you become aware that there may be no future, no tomorrow, that this is the only moment you have got. So times of disaster are very revealing. They don´t bring anything new in the world; they simply make you aware of the world as it is. They wake you up. If you don´t understand this, you can go mad; if you understand this, you can become awakened."

“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.” ~ Oscar Wilde

"Sadness also has a being. Allow it, embrace it, sit with it, hold hands with it. Be friendly. Be in love with it. Sadness is beautiful! Nothing is wrong with it. Who told you that something is wrong in being sad? In fact, only sadness gives you depth. Laughter is shallow; happiness is skin-deep. Sadness goes to the very bones, to the marrow. Nothing goes as deep as sadness."-Osho

‘If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got.’

Don't quit poem

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart,…you’ll know when you find it.” — Steve Jobs

The secret powers of time

"Every day we are faced with hundreds, if not thousands, of opportunities to choose love or hate. With a physical existence, we can forget God’s intention for us to fulfill our purpose and fool ourselves into believing that our choice doesn’t matter. Or we can believe that God will punish us for not making the correct choice. Alternatively, we can live a Spiritual existence and make choosing love our only choice.

One by one, soul by soul, each and everyday more and more people choose to live a Spiritual existence. In choosing love over hate, they invite more loving energy into their lives and find that life is miraculously better. By listening to their Spirit, they allow God’s love to guide their path through life. Listening and loving, they navigate through the trials and tribulations of life with an understanding that their purpose is Divinely inspired.

Do those who live a Spiritual existence have magical, mystical powers? Do they have immune systems capable of beating any illness? Are they able to walk on fire? Most certainly not, for a Spiritual existence is not a physical existence and does not elevate us beyond the eleven dimensions of this Universe.

However, there is one distinct advantage of a Spiritual existence that is worth noting. When you live a physical existence, you’re on your own with no reason for God’s healing energy to flow through and into you. When you live a Spiritual existence, your purpose fulfilling actions draw God’s healing life force energy into and through you." Darwin Stephenson, from my book Inspiration Divine

"The great successful men of the world have used their imagination; they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building, steadily building." - Robert Collier

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him." - Buddha

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight & his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion....this is the place to go now.
But the sky knows the reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.

Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect.
Then be sure of one thing:
The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have.

A boat longing for the sea...

I have studied many times
The marble which was chiseled for me—
A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor.
In truth it pictures not my destination but my life.
For love was offered me and I shrank from its disillusionment;
Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid;
Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances.
Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life.
And now I know that we must lift the sail
And catch the winds of destiny, wherever they drive the boat.
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is the torture of restlessness and vague desire—
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

- George Gray

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Darwin Stephenson

Our life is the union of the Body, Spirit and Mind but it isn’t often that all three of our entities experience the same path to completeness. Sometimes the Body is sick, but the Spirit is at an all time high. Or possibly your Mind is sharp as a tack, but your Body is struggling. When we experience ourselves as a singularity of consciousness, the comingling of our Body, Spirit and Mind is difficult to understand. But when we distinguish between the three, it is easier for us to see the cycle that is playing out in our lives.

With the goal to grow the Body, Spirit and Mind into balanced union towards completion, life would be so much easier to manage if our three entities were in perfect synchronicity. However, for most of us, the Spirit may be rising, but the Body is dropping and the Mind is flat-lining. Or the Body is rock solid, but we’re Spiritually bankrupt and the Mind has never experienced the nurturing it craves. With the three out of synch, our efforts to make our lives better never seems to garner the impact we expect.

As a result, is it any wonder that we hear stories everyday about perfectly healthy people dropping dead from a heart attack? Or being dismayed to find out that someone committed suicide when they appeared to have it all together? With our three entities not operating as a team, our efforts to nurture one of them in isolation is a futile exercise that often ends without achieving the results we desire.

If this cycle were unbreakable, then life would have very little meaning. Without the ability to change the course of our lives, we could do little more than hang on and wait for our next lifetime and hope that it is better. But this cycle is not only breakable, but breaking this cycle is instrumental in both you and God attaining enlightenment.

Whoa? God attaining enlightenment? You’re probably asking yourself how that would even be possible with God being God? Isn’t God already enlightened? When we envision enlightenment, we tend to think of this experience connecting us to the Divine. God is all knowing and by way of us connecting to God, our enlightenment will bring with it an understanding that is Divine. So if that is the case, then how could God possibly not already be enlightened?

To understand, consider that before there was a Universe or Humanity there was only God. In this state, God was complete, all knowing and perfect. In this singular state, God’s love was less than it could be. With only God and no other, love could not be shared and thus was not the full embodiment of love. And so God created the Universe and brought forth life. To do this, God took part of himself to make what we now experience as the Universe and Life.

In this selfless act, God allowed himself to be less than complete in order to expand love. By bringing forth life capable of loving and embracing God’s love, God sacrificed his completeness for us. He created a Universe that sustains life so that we could exponentially bring more and more love into the world. In return, we provide God with original creations that expand collective consciousness and fascinate his all-knowing nature.

However, we should not think of God as being satisfied with his creation. His bringing forth of the Universe and Life is the means by which love grows, but our purpose is tied to his original intention. God’s hope for us is that we will become complete so that he too can return to completion. - Darwin Stephenson, from my book Inspiration Divine