“People who have the most to teach us are often the ones who reflect back to us the limits to our own capacity to love.” Attached by Dr. Sometimes it takes the knife that emotionally pierces our heart, to pierce the walls that lie in front of it.” Illness and death are often painful lessons in how much we love, but they are lessons nonetheless. “A life lived for oneself alone is not liberation, but merely another form of bondage.” “We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.” “It is our failure to accept people exactly as they are that gives us pain in a relationship.” “Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait and wait without anxiety.” A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson “Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.” A Course in Miracles by Foundation for Inner Peace When you realize that what you react to in others is also in you (and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own ego.” “Very unconscious people experience their own ego through its reflection in others. This forgetfulness is original sin, suffering, delusion.” This results in a total unawareness of my connectedness with the whole, my intrinsic oneness with every “other” as well as with the Source. If evil has any reality-and it has a relative, not an absolute, reality-this is also its definition: complete identification with form-physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms. “Ego is no more than this: identification with form, which primarily means thought forms. “You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.” And what is a grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.” Only your grievance about the past can do that. “The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Let’s see if these quotes can help!Ĥ4 Inspirational Quotes That Changed My Life A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle Truth is, there’s very little you can’t do when you’re inspired. For example, inspiration can help you:Īpproach challenging circumstances differently Getting inspired comes with many advantages.
In that regard, what could be more important than this breath, than inspiration itself? What are the benefits of inspiration? Either way, the idea that we’re breathing life into ourselves when we are inspired is a beautiful way of looking at it. Inspiration excites.Īccording to Merriam-Webster, the word inspiration “comes from the Latin inspiratus (the past participle of inspirare, ‘to breathe into, inspire’) and in English has had the meaning ‘the drawing of air into the lungs’ since the middle of the 16th century.” The way we define and use the word inspiration today-as a source of clarity, perspective, and motivation-didn’t come into use until sometime in the 19th century. It enriches us, providing clarity and hope and vigor. It takes hold of our mind and whisks us off to ports unknown.
Thus, inspiration is energizing, evocative, enveloping. The person in the grip of inspiration has received, as if by magic, some new perception, some holistic understanding, along with the feeling that she is capable of more than she thought.” In a New York Times piece on the topic of inspiration, David Brooks wrote: “There’s a thrilling feeling of elevation, a burst of energy, an awareness of enlarged possibilities. And that we don’t need to.Īll we need to do is remain open to new ways of thinking, to new ways of looking at things, to new possibilities. That’s what inspiration is really about, isn’t it? Recognizing that we don’t have all the answers. Elliot wrote, “The heights of human motivation spring from the beauty and goodness that precede us and awaken us to better possibilities.”
What is inspiration? Why is inspiration important? That’s why I’ve assembled the list of quotes below: to help you expand and grow in directions you may have never even imagined or thought possible, to help you find peace in these tumultuous times, to help you evolve.įirst, let’s look at the definition of inspiration and why it’s meaningful in our lives. Reading helps me to say, “Wow, I never thought about it like that.” Reading opens my mind for moments of clarity and transcendence to occur. Reading the work of others allows me see my own circumstances in a new light.
Now more than ever it’s important to engage in activities that help you remain grounded, challenge your assumptions, overcome your biases, find hope in the midst of uncertainty, cultivate peace, and change your perspective.įor me, reading is one of those activities. We’re living through interesting and challenging times.
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