Daily quotes with thoughtful reflections to inspire you every day.

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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.
-Walt Whitman

Have you ever marveled at the miracle of the human body?
Several years ago, I broke my foot in a car accident. I remember how differently I began to look at my own body while I was going through the recovery process. One of the things I marveled at was how perfectly balanced a foot is. [...]

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
-Dalai Lama

When we make a decision to enjoy life, it seems natural to make kindness, consideration and generosity priorities. It is hard to imagine anything that could give us more joy than spreading joy to others.
Dr. Wayne Dyer talks about studies which conclude that serotonin, a neurotransmitter in the brain which elevates a sense of well-being, [...]

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
-Max Born

Glacier National Park in Montana.
Belief is Not Knowledge
Although I have chosen to follow the Christian religion, and I believe strongly in the existence of Jesus Christ, I know that belief is different than knowledge.
I do not know for certain that my understanding of God, life and death are as I believe them to be. I [...]

Life is good, without it we'd all be dead.
-Hannah

We want to change life and are working hard to make it happen. But sometimes, it doesn’t seem to happen fast enough. The changes are not here today. When focusing on self-improvement, personal development and inspiration, it is easy to fall into a pattern of dissatisfaction with our current conditions.
We know that tolerance leads [...]

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
-H. G. Wells

Does This Sound Like a Typical Day?
You get up just early enough to use the toilet, shower, shave, get dressed, groomed, wake up the kids, repeat the previous steps with them, grab something to eat, steal a sweaty kiss from the spouse, run out the door balancing a brief case, diaper bag, granola bar, a [...]

We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
-Alan Watts

Meditation is the Holy Grail of inspiration. It can bring peace, wisdom, awareness, stress relief, spiritual growth, connection to God’s will, intuition, purpose, improved physical health, pain management, intelligence and even increased metabolism.
There are countless methods of meditation varying from those which aim to achieve complete lack of conscious thought to those which focus on [...]

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
-William James

I am moving my weekly links post forward one day to Saturdays because it just seems to make more sense that way. Sundays are now being reserved for how-to posts, beginning tomorrow with a post about how to meditate effectively.
Here’s my list of posts within the past week that I found inspiring:

K. Stone at Life [...]

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