Sharing Some Uplifting, Empowering and Inspirational Thoughts (from My Notes)

Article Title: Sharing Some Uplifting, Empowering and Inspirational Thoughts (from My Notes)
Shared by: Craig Lock
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Sharing a few Uplifting Thoughts (from my notes)

Submitters Note

Here are some of my notes and thoughts (in point form) that I've collected and written down over the years, which may be of interest and get you “tinking”about these “airey-fairey matters”. Some are from authors unknown. I find them uplifting, empowering and inspirational on my own journey "on the path less travelled". So will share with you and hope they may be uplifting, empowering and perhaps even inspirational to you too. Enjoy...

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The journey is more important and enjoyable) than the destination.

Education is food for the family

"My ambition is the souls of men"

You have to know yourself before you can know God.

Spirituality (and religion) is man reaching out to God, but Christianity is God reaching out to man.

"Sin is not having faith in your dreams."

Have a heart for lost people.

Sow seeds of hope to as many people as possible.

"it fanned the flame of vengeance"

I make art through using materials…and words are my tools

New Zealand has a BIG heart for a little country.

God, Divine Source doesn't need you to pray.

"The thing always happens that you believe in. And the belief in a thing makes it happen."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Humanity and solidarity

Gandhi was a 'pilgrim of peace'. A story of his experiments with truth. He took the moral high ground.

"Christ gave me the message. Gandhi gave me the method."

- Dr Martin Luther King, Jnr

God transcends human comprehension.

The Divine (Divine Source) speaks to us (primarily) through feelings and connects us to the Ultimate Source.

How you choose to get through adversity.

The power of decision.

We can all do great things in our lives. Aspire to do significant things.

Here are some thoughts from Dr Deepak Chopra...

The power of:

* intention

* imagination

* information

* wisdom

and

* memory.

Stretch your faith

Christianity is a bridge. God reaching down and touching us.

With clarity comes understanding and with it comes knowledge.

Blend theology with psychology.

You don't have to have made a good start in life - you just need to have a great finish.

I will instruct you and guide you along the best pathway for your life

- Psalm 328??

I live by what I believe... and not by what I feel

Feelings follow actions.

The Holy Spirit helps me in what honours me most???

Stretch your faith.

You have to know yourself before you can know God

"Sin is not having faith in your dreams."

"The me I see is the me I'll be."

What you think is what you become.

"As a man thinketh (in his heart), so is he."

- Proverbs

Reframing is taking a thought(s) and changing the way you see it/them.

What counts in life is not what in the depths (of the past), but what's in the future."

- Auschwitz survivor, Viktor Frankl in his compelling book 'Man's Search for Meaning'

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And finally…

“When you arrive in heaven, let faith and love be the wings that carried you there.”

- craig (as adapted from the words of Jonathan Edwards, a former minister in Massachusetts (New England)

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