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January 30, 2008

Think Well:
Passage Meditations
Part VIII

This is Part VIII of an eight part blog.

As the New Year begins, I would like to offer a series of some of my favorite quotes. These quotes are meant to be read meditatively. In other words read each one slowly, then read it over a few times and then just sit and reflect on it either mentally or by journaling.

Some people find it difficult to just sit and meditate. Others of you can sit and meditate most of the time, but some days your minds are just too much on overdrive. So, this method of meditation, I have found, is a perfect way to slow the mind down and find peace and repose even for the most hyper of individuals.

It is called passage meditation. As well, it is great food for your Soul! You feel uplifted and inspired after doing this for 5 to 10 minutes a day.

So, for this whole month I will be offering you a series of quotes for this purpose. This is a great way to get your New Year started off on the right foot.

The foundation for all success and joy in life, from my point of view, is the quiet mind and the open heart.

So, let start these next few weeks with our hearts leading the way!

A Zen master went to Yosemite National Park in California and saw a waterfall. Upon returning he said:

"The river is one, and then, as it travels over the cliff, each drop of water hangs suspended individually until it reaches the river at the bottom again.

"That suspension is our life. Those individual drops are us, thinking we are apart from every other drop when we are actually a part of every other drop. This truth of our oneness is made clear as we come together again in the river."

Source Unknown

We are the leaves of one branch,
the drops of one sea,
the flowers of one garden.
Jean Baptiste Lacondaire

I have a body, but I am not my body. I have emotions, but I am not my emotions. And I have thoughts, but I am not my thoughts. I am something much larger and grander than all of these. I am the master of the vehicle. I am pure Essence which has taken a form in order to experience a life in time and space. I am Spirit, both visible and invisible, with individuality, unique meaning and sacred purpose.

Dr. Roberto Assagioli

This is Part VIII of an eight part blog.

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January 28, 2008

Think Well:
Passage Meditations
Part VI

This is Part VII of an eight part blog.

As the New Year begins, I would like to offer a series of some of my favorite quotes. These quotes are meant to be read meditatively. In other words read each one slowly, then read it over a few times and then just sit and reflect on it either mentally or by journaling.

Some people find it difficult to just sit and meditate. Others of you can sit and meditate most of the time, but some days your minds are just too much on overdrive. So, this method of meditation, I have found, is a perfect way to slow the mind down and find peace and repose even for the most hyper of individuals.

It is called passage meditation. As well, it is great food for your Soul! You feel uplifted and inspired after doing this for 5 to 10 minutes a day.

So, for this whole month I will be offering you a series of quotes for this purpose. This is a great way to get your New Year started off on the right foot.

The foundation for all success and joy in life, from my point of view, is the quiet mind and the open heart.

So, let start these next few weeks with our hearts leading the way!

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
Blaise Pascal

For light I go directly to the Source of light
not to any of the reflections.
Peace Pilgrim

Seek truth in meditation, not in moldy books.
Look in the sky to find the moon, not in the pond.
Persian proverb

When you practice meditation,
slowly the clouds of sorrow melt away.
And the sun of wisdom and true joy will
be shining in the clear sky of your mind.
Kalu Rinpoche

This is Part VII of an eight part blog.

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January 25, 2008

Think Well: Passage Meditations, Part III, Podcast


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January 23, 2008

Think Well:
Passage Meditations
Part VI

This is Part VI of an eight part blog.

As the New Year begins, I would like to offer a series of some of my favorite quotes. These quotes are meant to be read meditatively. In other words read each one slowly, then read it over a few times and then just sit and reflect on it either mentally or by journaling.

Some people find it difficult to just sit and meditate. Others of you can sit and meditate most of the time, but some days your minds are just too much on overdrive. So, this method of meditation, I have found, is a perfect way to slow the mind down and find peace and repose even for the most hyper of individuals.

It is called passage meditation. As well, it is great food for your Soul! You feel uplifted and inspired after doing this for 5 to 10 minutes a day.

So, for this whole month I will be offering you a series of quotes for this purpose. This is a great way to get your New Year started off on the right foot.

The foundation for all success and joy in life, from my point of view, is the quiet mind and the open heart.

So, let start these next few weeks with our hearts leading the way!


He who knows his own self, knows God.
Mohammed

As fragrance abides in the flower,
As the reflection is within the mirror,
So doth thy Lord abide within thee,
Why search for Him without?
Guru Nanak

One moon shows in every pool;
in every pool, the one moon
Zen saying

One need not scale the heights of the heavens
nor travel along the highways of the world
to find Ahura Mazda [God].
With purity of mind and holiness of heart
one can find Him in one’s own heart.
Zoroaster

This is Part VI of an eight part blog.

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January 21, 2008

Think Well:
Passage Meditations
Part V

This is Part V of an eight part blog.

As the New Year begins, I would like to offer a series of some of my favorite quotes. These quotes are meant to be read meditatively. In other words read each one slowly, then read it over a few times and then just sit and reflect on it either mentally or by journaling.

Some people find it difficult to just sit and meditate. Others of you can sit and meditate most of the time, but some days your minds are just too much on overdrive. So, this method of meditation, I have found, is a perfect way to slow the mind down and find peace and repose even for the most hyper of individuals.

It is called passage meditation. As well, it is great food for your Soul! You feel uplifted and inspired after doing this for 5 to 10 minutes a day.

So, for this whole month I will be offering you a series of quotes for this purpose. This is a great way to get your New Year started off on the right foot.

The foundation for all success and joy in life, from my point of view, is the quiet mind and the open heart.

So, let start these next few weeks with our hearts leading the way!

I don't think God cares where we graduated or what we did for a living.
God wants to know who we are.
Discovering this is the work of the soul - it is our true life's work.
Bernie Siegel

Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God was coming, he answered them,
"The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed;
nor will they say, ‘Lo, here it is!’ or ‘There!’
for behold, the kingdom of God is within you."
Jesus

It is impossible to find God outside of ourselves.
Our own souls contribute all of the divinity that is outside of us.
We are the greatest temple.
The objectification is only a faint imitation of what we can see within ourselves.
Swami Vivekananda

This is Part V of an eight part blog.

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January 18, 2008

Think Well: Passage Meditations, Part II, Podcast


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January 16, 2008

Think Well:
Passage Meditations
Part IV

This is Part IV of an eight part blog.

As the New Year begins, I would like to offer a series of some of my favorite quotes. These quotes are meant to be read meditatively. In other words read each one slowly, then read it over a few times and then just sit and reflect on it either mentally or by journaling.

Some people find it difficult to just sit and meditate. Others of you can sit and meditate most of the time, but some days your minds are just too much on overdrive. So, this method of meditation, I have found, is a perfect way to slow the mind down and find peace and repose even for the most hyper of individuals.

It is called passage meditation. As well, it is great food for your Soul! You feel uplifted and inspired after doing this for 5 to 10 minutes a day.

So, for this whole month I will be offering you a series of quotes for this purpose. This is a great way to get your New Year started off on the right foot.

The foundation for all success and joy in life, from my point of view, is the quiet mind and the open heart.

So, let start these next few weeks with our hearts leading the way!


The vision that you glorify in your mind,
the ideal that you enthrone in your heart,
this you will build your life by;
this you will become.
James Allen, As A Man Thinketh

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle

Happiness is a thing to be practiced like a violin.
Unknown

We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are.
Anais Nin

This is Part IV of an eight part blog.

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January 14, 2008

Think Well:
Passage Meditations
Part III

This is Part III of an eight part blog.

As the New Year begins, I would like to offer a series of some of my favorite quotes. These quotes are meant to be read meditatively. In other words read each one slowly, then read it over a few times and then just sit and reflect on it either mentally or by journaling.

Some people find it difficult to just sit and meditate. Others of you can sit and meditate most of the time, but some days your minds are just too much on overdrive. So, this method of meditation, I have found, is a perfect way to slow the mind down and find peace and repose even for the most hyper of individuals.

It is called passage meditation. As well, it is great food for your Soul! You feel uplifted and inspired after doing this for 5 to 10 minutes a day.

So, for this whole month I will be offering you a series of quotes for this purpose. This is a great way to get your New Year started off on the right foot.

The foundation for all success and joy in life, from my point of view, is the quiet mind and the open heart.

So, let start these next few weeks with our hearts leading the way!

Let us rise up and be thankful,
for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little
and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick,
and if we got sick, at least we didn't die;
so, let us all be thankful.
Buddha

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will not see the shadows.
Helen Keller

Be joyful always,
Pray continuously,
Give thanks in all circumstances
1Thessalonians 5, 16-18

Don't keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions.
Buddha

This is Part III of an eight part blog.

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January 11, 2008

Think Well: Passage Meditations, Part I, Podcast


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January 9, 2008

Think Well:
Passage Meditations
Part II

This is Part II of an eight part blog.

As the New Year begins, I would like to offer a series of some of my favorite quotes. These quotes are meant to be read meditatively. In other words read each one slowly, then read it over a few times and then just sit and reflect on it either mentally or by journaling.

Some people find it difficult to just sit and meditate. Others of you can sit and meditate most of the time, but some days your minds are just too much on overdrive. So, this method of meditation, I have found, is a perfect way to slow the mind down and find peace and repose even for the most hyper of individuals.

It is called passage meditation. As well, it is great food for your Soul! You feel uplifted and inspired after doing this for 5 to 10 minutes a day.

So, for this whole month I will be offering you a series of quotes for this purpose. This is a great way to get your New Year started off on the right foot.

The foundation for all success and joy in life, from my point of view, is the quiet mind and the open heart.

So, let start these next few weeks with our hearts leading the way!

The way to happiness:
Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry.
Live simply, expect little; give much.
Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine.
Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by.
Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Norman Vincent Peale

If the only prayer you say in your whole life is “Thank you,” it would suffice.
Meister Eckhart

We are going to give you a very simple formula for health. It is this, to live thankfully. When a heart beats with thankfulness for its creation and for all life’s experiences a light shines from the very center of the being, which illumines the whole life. Life itself, the very zest of living and experiencing the simple gifts we enjoy through the five senses, should evoke an outpouring of thankfulness from the child of God.

White Eagle

This is Part II of an eight part blog.

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January 7, 2008

Think Well:
Passage Meditations
Part I

This is Part I of an eight part blog.

As the New Year begins, I would like to offer a series of some of my favorite quotes. These quotes are meant to be read meditatively. In other words read each one slowly, then read it over a few times and then just sit and reflect on it either mentally or by journaling.

Some people find it difficult to just sit and meditate. Others of you can sit and meditate most of the time, but some days your minds are just too much on overdrive. So, this method of meditation, I have found, is a perfect way to slow the mind down and find peace and repose even for the most hyper of individuals.

It is called passage meditation. As well, it is great food for your Soul! You feel uplifted and inspired after doing this for 5 to 10 minutes a day.

So, for this whole month I will be offering you a series of quotes for this purpose. This is a great way to get your New Year started off on the right foot.

The foundation for all success and joy in life, from my point of view, is the quiet mind and the open heart.

So, let start these next few weeks with our hearts leading the way!


Do what makes you happiest.
Look upon what gives you joy.
Speak to those who warm your heart
Listen to that which lifts your spirit.
Surround yourself with sights and sounds and people who give you pleasure.
For all the happiness you give to others all year long, give yourself the perfect day.
Anonymous

What you think about and thank you get.
Dr. John DeMartini

We are going to give you a very simple formula for finding the path of truth. It is this – to daily live thankfully. It is very simple, so simple that few have attained this way of living. As soon as a heart beats with thankfulness, first of all for its creation, secondly for its preservation, and thirdly for all experiences which befall it, no matter what they are, that soul causes a light to shine forth from the very center of its being, an ancient light…. The very act of being thankful, of never seeing anything in life as too difficult, but accepting all life’s experiences, and above all, life itself – the very joy of breathing, the joy of speaking, of singing, of hearing, of tasting, even these simple gifts so often unrecognized by us, should invoke this outpouring of thankfulness from within… Open then, this heart of thine in thankfulness for life and everything that life brings!

White Eagle

This is Part I of an eight part blog.

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January 4, 2008

All Endings are Beginnings! Podcast


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January 2, 2008

All Endings are Beginnings!

Our beginnings never know our ends. T.S. Eliot

As 2007 comes to an end and 2008 begins, I just wanted to take the time to say thank you to all of you who read this blog. So, “Thank you!”

As well, I would like let you know that in 2008 I will be embarking on a major expansion of my work online. I will launch a new web site: www.InsideOutJourneys.com

1) On this site I will offer free and inexpensive Mini-Courses:

The HeArt of Listening
Awaken Your Intuition, Part I
Awaken Your Intuition, Part II
The HeArt of Intuition Mini-Course
Love is “Being Present.”
Create a New Vision for Yourself
And many more

2) A free 16 part Email Series:

Being a Master of Your Mind Makes You a Master of Yourself:
The Art of Really Listening to and Being Present with Yourself, Your Guides and God/Goddess

3) Live free and fee based Tele-Classes where you can interact with me and the other class members. The classes will be on Intuition and will begin in January. For more details see: http://www.freetelemessages.com/?tid=122

4) An extensive Online Audio Course entitled:

The HeArt of Intuition: Live From the Inside Out.

This course will be an in-depth study of Intuition. In the course you will learn how to “read” the energies of people and situations with ease. Therefore, you will be able to act and be empowered in all situations. As well, you will come to know yourself from the inside out. There will be over 8 hours of audio material, journal exercises and a dozen meditative exercises.

5) An inspirational Flash Movie entitled:

Living From the Inside Out

6) As well, I will launch my new book project co-authored with Susan Apollon entitled:

Intuition is Easy and Fun:
The Art and Practice of Developing Your Natural Born Gift of Intuition

This will also be available on CD; and there will be an in-depth online course based on the book, as well.

Also, we have created a free-Mini-Course and Email series based on the book. Lastly, we will be offering Tele-Classes on the book and course. We will launch this all in January.

So, I have a lot I will be sharing with you in this upcoming year to help you to live your life in an empowered and authentic way. Stay tuned!

May you have a very Healthy, Happy, Joyful, Empowered and Authentic New Year!

Next week, I’ll continue my practice of offering you insights and inspirations on all things spiritual! This week I am spending Christmas and New Years in Rome.

Blessings and Love!

Yanni

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