Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
-George Arliss

Humility makes us teachable and wiser. It makes us better listeners and friends. It helps us examine ourselves without judgment. Here’s how we get there…

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
-Teilhard de Chardin

Changing the things that make us who we are seems to be a daunting and impossible challenge. We may often have moments of inspiration and motivation when we stand up to the person we were and take on life with a whole new perspective. Eventually we find ourselves slipping back into our old ways and [...]

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This is not a political post nor an endorsement. Instead, I am sharing ideas on how to remain inspired and spiritual at a time when passions and negativity rule the discourse around us.
Here are five ideas on how to be inspired voters:
1. Practice Tolerance
The core of our political stance lies in our values and beliefs. [...]

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
-A. A. Milne

Here is a sequel to my earlier post, 20 Things I Learned from My Toddler.
My son, Tristen, continues to teach me lessons as he bounces through life, always in the moment, always free of regret and resentment, and maintaining priorities that allow him to maximize the joy in every moment in life for himself and [...]

Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.
-Mary C. Crowley

If everything happens for a reason and our fate and destiny are already determined, how can we have free will?
Are our lives predetermined by destiny or do we have the free will to map our own experience? The answer is Yes. Both are true.
Free will and destiny are not opposites. We tend to think [...]

There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier

When our hearts are calm and silent,

We see things clearly.
We build strength.
We are in tune to unlimited creativity.
Our intelligence sours.
Nothing can disturb or interrupt us.
We are unstoppable.

It is in moments of clear, focused silence, that we can identify with and cooperate with God, and therefore, gain access to God’s unlimited supply of inspiration and [...]

"I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all," Teddy said. "It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean."
-J.D. Salinger
Teddy

God is everywhere and everything. We often fail to recognize God when we focus on things we find displeasing, when we lack gratitude and when our thoughts are loud and busy.
Here are a few tips we can use to remove the obstructions to our view of God:

Be still and silent whenever you can. Make a [...]

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