Intuition Can Make a Life and Save a Life

I write about the role of intuition in Born to Receive, the book I am currently editing. Yesterday, I took an all day self-defense course as part of my research for a new book I am writing.

The instructor, Ray, spent a long time talking about intuition. He said, “It’s the key to your safety.” I wonder why so few of us have developed this 6th sense. Intuition helps us make good decisions.

It can make a life and save a life.

Receive What People and the World Have to Give

When you receive what people and the world have to give, 

you open up pathways you couldn’t see before, 

stimulate your imagination in ways that could not happen before, 

and have energy that was not previously available to you. 

~Amanda Owen

Want Ask Receive

I am turning in the manuscript for my new book, Born to Receive, to my publisher at the end of this month. Finally! This morning I am thinking about the relationship between wanting, asking, and receiving.

Want. Ask. Receive.

1. Want: Be receptive to your inner life, to your feelings. There is nothing wrong with wanting something for yourself, whether it’s a moment of quiet, an extra hour of sleep, or appreciation from the people to whom you give.

2. Ask: Once you know what you want, you must ask for it. People are not mind-readers! Sometimes the answer will be no. But many times the answer will be yes. The point of asking is not to control the outcome. The point is to get used to including you and your desires in your relationships.

3. Receive: Express your appreciation when people give something to you, whether it is a compliment, a gift, or encouragement. Gratitude is one of the ways you give back to the person who has given to you.

New Year's Resolution

May my feet rest firmly on the ground

May my head touch the sky

May I see clearly

May I have the capacity to listen

May I be free to touch

May my words be true

May my heart and mind be open

May my hands be empty to fill the need

May my arms be open to others

May my gifts be revealed to me

So that I may return that which has been given.

The Terma Collective

Gratitude

For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes. ~Dag Hammarskjold

Stillness

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen -
that stillness becomes a radiance.
Morgan Freeman

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force.
Karl Menninger

Be Willing to Wait and Receive

There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, 

in water, or coming through the trees, 

emanating from the mosses, seeping through the undercurrents of the soil; 

but you have to be willing to wait and receive.  

John Hay

The Art of Receiving Stillness

Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, 

carry your stillness within you. 

 Then the chaotic movement around you 

will never overshadow your access 

to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality. ~Deepak Chopra

Gratitude

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Joseph Campbell

 

 

Appreciation and The Art of Receiving

When is the last time you looked around at your surroundings and felt appreciative?

Your five senses are receptors. Tuning into what you see, hear, taste, touch and smell brings you into the present moment. You don't have to be looking at the red rocks of Sedona to feel in awe. You can have this experience where ever you are. Keep your eyes and other senses wide open today and find something to be absolutely amazed about.

The Art of Receiving and Kindness

Wherever there is a human being, 

there is an opportunity for a kindness. 

~Seneca

The Art of Receiving and Letting Go

If you let it go, it will let you go. ~ Amrit Desai

The butterfly counts not months but moments ...

The butterfly counts not months but moments, 

and has time enough. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

Embrace What You Discover

Whether you look within or without or up or down, 

embrace what you discover. 

Every part of your world and every part of you 

needs your love and acceptance.

 ~ Amanda Owen

We need silence ...

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence.... We need silence to be able to touch souls.  

~Mother Teresa

New Year's Resolutions

May my feet rest firmly on the ground
May my head touch the sky
May I see clearly
May I have the capacity to listen
May I be free to touch
May my words be true
May my heart and mind be open
May my hands be empty to fill the need
May my arms be open to others
May my gifts be revealed to me
So that I may return that which has been given.

The Terma Collective

A Holiday Wish

The moment one gives close attention to anything

The moment one gives close attention to anything,

even a blade of grass,

it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably 

magnificent world in itself.

~Henry Miller

Clouds come floating into my life

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.  ~Rabindranath Tagore

Remember

Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows.

Charles Reade

Wild Geese

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.

Mary Oliver

Always be a first-rate version of yourself

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Judy Garland

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go to your fields and your gardens

Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,

But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.

For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life,

And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love,

And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

Kahlil Gibran

The world needs dreamers

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers.  But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

We do not see nature with our eyes

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.~William Hazlett

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

Ivan Panin

 

Follow effective action with quiet reflection

Follow effective action with quiet reflection.
From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
Peter F. Drucker



Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature,
and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito’s wing that falls on the rails.

Henry David Thoreau

Find your confidence in your insecurity

One of my major teachers gave me the instruction, he said he wanted me for a year to have [as] my main practice to always go into my insecurity. And he said, I want you to find your confidence in your insecurity, not by trying to get rid of your insecurity.

Pema Chodron