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Inspirational WritingsPrinter-friendly versionNote: Each of the following poems or sayings will print on its own page; if you don't want to print them all, you can specify the pages you would like to print out. Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves... Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. – Ranier Maria Rilke I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance, to live so that which came to me as seed goes on to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit. – Dawna Markova, from the book "I Shall Not Die an Unlived Life" Back to top of page There’s a hero if you look inside your heart You don’t have to be afraid of what you are There’s an answer if you reach into your soul And the sorrow that you know will melt away. And then a hero comes along With the strength to carry on And you cast your fears aside And you know you can survive So when you feel like hope is gone Look inside you and be strong And you’ll finally see the truth – that a hero lies in you. It’s a long road when you face the world alone No one reaches out a hand for you to hold You can find love if you search within yourself And the emptiness you felt will disappear. Lord knows dreams are hard to follow But don’t let anyone tear them away Hold on, there will be tomorrow In time, you’ll find the way. – Mariah Carey, "Hero" from the recording "Music Box" Back to top of page Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsiously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. – Marianne Williamson (often attributed to Nelson Mandala, who used this quote in a speech) Back to top of page Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth; then took the other, as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim, because it was grassy and wanted wear; though as for that the passing there had worn them really about the same, and both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood and I– I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost, 1920 Back to top of page For daily spiritual inspiration, see the Soul Boosters website. Following is an example of a Soul Booster: “Befriending myself seems to be about opening my heart as a homeless shelter for all the destituted and prostituted aspects of my being that I have been running from for years without even knowing that’s what I have been doing.” – Dawna Markova in “I Will Not Die an Unlived Life” To Practice This Thought: Give refuge to the parts of yourself you’d rather not invite to dinner. Back to top of page |
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