Our Deepest Desire

My Deep Driving Desire
I am what my deep driving desire is.
As my desire is, so is my will.
As my will is, so is my deed.
As my deed is, so is my destiny.

~ The Upanishads

Living Fully
(From Nelson Mandela's Inaugural Speech)

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 and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's 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's not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. As we let our light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fears,
our presence automatically liberates others.

~ Marianne Williamson

On Commitment:

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back,
always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation),
there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance,
which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

~ Author Unknown

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

~ Author Unknown

Meditations from a Simple Path:

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable.
Be honest and transparent anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People who really want help may attack you if you help them.
Help them anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt.
Give the world your best anyway.

~ Mother Teresa

If we continue down this road, we're liable to end up where we are headed.

~ Traditional Buddhist saying

The True Joy of Life:

This is the true joy in life: being used for a purpose recognized by yourself
as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little
clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote
itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work,
the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch, which I've got to hold up for the moment and I want
to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing on to future generations.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Bliss:

If you follow your bliss,
You put yourself on a kind of track
That has been there the whole while,
Waiting for you,
And the life you ought to be living
Is the one you are living.

~ Joseph Campbell

The Living Spirit:

All means prove but a blunt instrument, if they have not behind them
a living spirit. But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully
alive within us, then we shall not lack the strength to find the means
for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.

~ Albert Einstein

The Imagination:

Thus the corporate and work world now recognizes how desperately
they need the turbulence, anarchy, and growth possibilities that come
from the unpredictable world of the imagination. These are so vital for
the passion and force of a person's life. If you engage only the external side of yourself, and stay on this mechanical surface, you become secretly weary. Gradually, years of this practice make you desperate.

~ John O'Donohue