Inspiration - Timeless Wisdom for the Journey

Welcome to my Inspiration page. These pieces of prose came to me as discoveries along the way. They danced their way into my heart as poetry, song lyrics, quotes, or prayers from fellow travelers on the Road of Life. Always, I was struck by their beauty, simple truth, and poignancy. I hope what you discover here inspires and quickens your Soul. Travel Lightly, fellow traveler!
Diana

One Earth One Heart courtesy of Daniel B Holeman ©

...We, Angels and Mortals, Believers and Non-believers,
Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace.
We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.
We look at each other, then into ourselves,
And we say without shyness or apology or hesitation:
Peace, My Brother. Peace, My Sister.
Peace, My Soul. ~ Maya Angelou

Miracles are merely the translation of denial into Truth. ~ A Course in Miracles

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others. ~ Marianne Williamson

Should you shield the valleys from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their canyons. ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the Earth by the Master Craftsman. ~Max Lucado

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. ~Buddha

I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself enough to not only make a promise to myself, but I love myself enough to keep that promise. ~ Steve Maraboli

Plant your own garden and decorate your own Soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. ~ Veronica A. Shoffstall

Nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great ever came out of imitations. The thing that is really hard and really amazing is to give up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. ~ Anna Quindlen

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. ~Michel de Montaigne

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Assume that in spite of the ways we have been divided, it is possible to reach through these divisions, to listen to each other well and to change habitual ways of acting which have kept us separated. ~ Sherover-Marcuse

The great Western disease is, ‘I’ll be happy when… When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job.’ Well, the reality is, you never get to when. The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It’s in here. And happiness is not next week. It’s now. ~ Marshall Goldsmith

It has been said that studying ourselves provides all the books we need. ~ Pema Chodron

Every loving thought is true. Everything else is an appeal for healing and help regardless of the form it takes. ~ A Course in Miracles

When we surrender to God, we surrender to something bigger than ourselves - to a universe that knows what it's doing. When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives.~ Marianne Williamson

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

This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh