“This image is of Diego Frazao Torquato, a 12-year-old Brazilian boy playing the violin at his teacher’s funeral. The same teacher that helped him escape poverty and violence through music.
I hear people mention finding their purpose. I hear people speaking of the stress in their lives in trying to uphold the energy behind their careers and homes and relationships. I mostly hear echoes of things I too have said when I hear these things and thank others, in silence, for the reminder that I too hold onto these conditioned beliefs. The truth is that our purpose is simply to be. Being requires nothing more than breathing and who, I ask,
“Hope does not consist of the expectation that things will come out exactly right, but the expectation that they will make sense regardless of how they come out.”
Vaclav Halev
http://www.giacintobosco.com/2014/01/luna-caprese/
“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 most 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 all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Marianne Williamson
“Every day, God gives us, as well as the sun, a moment when it is possible to change anything that is causing us unhappiness. Every day, we try to pretend that we do not see that moment, that it does not exist, that today is the same as yesterday and that tomorrow will be the same too. However, anyone who pays close attention to his day will discover the magic moment. It might be hidden in the instant that we put the key in the door in the morning, in the moment of silence after supper, in the thousand and one things that appear to us to be the same. This moment exists, a moment in which all the strength of the stars flows through us and allows us to perform miracles.”
Paulo Coelho – By the river Piedra I sat Down and Wept
Image: Daniel Kordan- Taganay National Park, Ural Mountains
“….I realized that success is a moment, but what we’re always celebrating is creativity and mastery. But this is the thing: What gets us to convert success into mastery? This is a question I’ve long asked myself. I think it comes when we start to value the gift of a near win.
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Mastery is not just the same as excellence, though. It’s not the same as success,
“When I am down and, oh, my soul, so weary;
When troubles come and my heart burdened be;
Then I am still and wait here in the silence,
Until you come and sit awhile with me.
You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up to more than I can be.
There is no life – no life without its hunger;
Each restless heart beats so imperfectly;
But when you come and I am filled with wonder,
Sometimes, I think I glimpse eternity.
You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up to more than I can be.”
Josh Groban You Raise Me Up – lyrics by Brendan Graham