Fun sayings, positive affirmations and powerful quotes:

The most popular labor-saving device is still money.

~Phyllis George

American sports broadcaster

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.

~Katherine Hepburn (1907-2003)

American actress

For no actual process happens twice;

only we meet the same sort of occasion again.

~Suzanne K. Langer (1895-1985)

American educator & philosopher

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

~Lauren Bacall

American actress

This is one of my favorite positive affirmations statements:

To understand the power and the magic of gratitude, you have to experience it for yourself. So why not begin by deciding to find 100 things a day to be grateful for?

If you practice gratitude every day it won't take long before gratitude is your natural state of being, and when that happens you will have unlocked one of the greatest secrets to life.

Rhonda Byrne

Creator of "The Secret"

Here is an excerpt from Deepak Chopra M.D. book,

Creating Affluence - Wealth Consciousness in the Field

of all Possibilities

"H" stands for happiness and humanity and the fact that we are here to make all humans we come into contact with happy.

Life naturally evolves in the direction of happiness. We must constantly ask ourselves if what we are doing is going to make us, and those around us,happy. Because happiness is the ultimate goal. It is the goal of all other goals.

When we seek money, or a good relationship, or a great job, what we are really seeking is happiness. The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.

Noah St. John Ph.D, author, shares his way through life in his book, The Secret Code of Success, Here is an excerpt:

The quality of your life depends on just two things: the quality of your communication with the world inside yourself, and the quality of your communication with the world outside yourself.

The point of Afformations does not lie in finding the answer, but in asking better questions. When you ask better questions, your mind will automatically focus on things you've probably never focused on before. Change the quality of communication with the world inside yourself. You will begin to ask yourself new, better, empowering questions, and stop asking yourself negative, disempowering questions.

This is the fastest, most effective way I've ever seen to immediately change the quality of your communication with both your inside and outside worlds.

Have a beautiful day,

Photo: PKM

Joy,

Rena

www.talktotheurtle.com

The unique gift of you

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you,
don't go back to sleep - you must ask for
what you really want; don't go back to sleep.

~Rumi




In 2007 Oprah interviewed Eckhart Tolle who is the author of several self awakening books. The book that Oprah talked with Eckhart about was from her book club, A New Earth. Oprah mentioned that it was Meg Ryan who gave her this unique gift of a book for her to read.


I had read this book just a few months prior and I found that it had some very interesting elements. Oprah hosted a seven class program where she discussed the book in the way that Eckhart Tolle had wanted it to be heard. I just happened to be available and was able to take in the classes with Oprah and Eckhart.



The thing I found interesting about this book was Eckharts explanation about how to take the time to observe your emotions rather than being in a reactionary state to them. This was explained through different stories to inspire you. Take a moment within your day and look in on your situation and give yourself space to observe what you are going through. The book mentioned many things that many of us already know, but threaded throughout were some noteworthy ways to look at your life, on a day to day basis. Eckhart also recommended that the book was geared for people upwards of thirty years old. He commented that people in their twenties had not accumulated enough life history to be able to get as much out of the New Earth material to the same degree as an older person.



I flashed on that in my memory as I was watching the Jack Canfield and Jessica Ortner video on your soul's purpose and EFT, emotional freedom technique. Jessica Ortner is clearly a young woman in her twenties and she was interviewing Jack on how he used "tapping" or EFT to release emotional blocks from his life. She also mentioned that she was introduced to emotional freedom technique when she was seventeen years old. Jack Canfield talked about using EFT daily as a tool to remove emotional obstacles that would show up in ways that kept him from success that he was reaching for.


I have included the video for you to view below, it is lengthy at thirty two minutes but there are some nuggets to make it worth your time.


The thread that weaves between these two men is they reveal that it is actually their daily practice of self love that is the key. Whether it is through the mindfulness of Eckhart Tolle and creating inner space or Jack Canfields focus on your soul purpose and using EFT as a tool, both speak of a daily ritual as their theme. When you first listen to them speak you hear in your mind the word healing. This is true but when you listen further you see that they both talk of the healing being like a muscle that needs to be developed. It takes a commitment and practice for these modalities and approaches to the mind to work.



It has been my own experience that this is true. When I slack off from living up to my highest inner self, I start to hurt in a sort of vague unexplained way. I then take the time to ask myself some questions, like hmm... what is that emotion all about-and start to unweave the puzzle. The only way to explain it is to liken it to exercising a muscle, the more you do it, the better you feel because you are not at the steps of your own head. We all have to find our own way to work with these many tools that are being offered for the taking, but they all require your participation. The question is what collection of self awareness tools work for you.


As Noah St. John would say, "what "why" question do you have to release you to your next level?"



hope you enjoy the video.







Have a beautiful day,


Photo: 'mountain lake' PKM


Joy,



Rena


www.talktotheturtle.com

Inspirational charms of Braveheart Women & Illuminata

Braveheart Women's community tagline is "Inspiration in Action". Ellie Drake M.D.has successfully created her global vision through her website community and now with her website t.v. show Braveheartwomentv.com. Still new, always changing and developing Ellie's TV division creates ten minute spots of inspirational charms for the mind. It is a resource that I enjoy and I have selected to share the video for you to view on "being unstuck".








As I was preparing to view this video to collect my ideas and inspire my encouraging thoughts to motivate you, I noticed out of the corner of my eye a book on my shelf tucked in beside a binder. I "unstuck" it from the bookshelf and read the jacket cover. Marianne Williamson, Illuminata - A Return to Prayer. I opened the front jacket cover and read that this book was published in 1994.

I turned the next page to read the inscription from my Irish girlfriend of three decades; "For my dear friend Rena - merry xmas 2002" lots of love ~PB.

If you are looking for a powerful, magnetic, book - if you are wondering where you are right now on your path this book with no apologies spells it out in the first 78 pages Marianne Williamson's book Illuminata and then offers up prayers for every aspect of your life. I feel it is even more timely today than it was in 1994.

Here are excerpts from the book Illuminata, by Marianne Williamson:

"Every loving thought we think is a powerful key to the kingdom. Through prayer, meditation, and the silence of a profound holiness, we refocus our dispersed and irresponsible thought forms. We thus take up the challenge to redirect world history. We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we really want. In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace. Thus we actualize the power within us to remedy the psychic wounds of humanity.

We are now at the crossroads of two huge, divergent points of view: One is materialistic and one is mystical. One is worldly and one is holy. One is based on fear of the world and one has fallen in love.

In July 1994, a huge comet bombarded Jupiter, releasing megatons of energy more powerful than anything we've ever seen on earth. Synchronistically, this parallels the spiritual release of heretofore suppressed forces of healing and power. According to ancient astrology, Jupiter represents the higher mind, philosophy, expansion and blessing. With this bombardment in space, Jupiter's power to bless us and heal us was released and increased a millionfold.

Suddenly, in the last few years, there has been a quickening. Books that used to be the purview of only dedicated spiritual seekers now hit the bestseller lists and stay there for weeks and months. As the philosopher Schopenhauer once wrote, "Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self-evident."

We have reached a critical mass of spiritual yearning, despite worldly appearances. There is a mass curiosity and openness to spiritual ideas, unprecedented in modern Western culture."

All God needs is a crack in the door.
The door is cracked.
Illumination follows.

Things we thought were primitive beliefs turn out to be more sophisticated than we are. Angels arrive in a burst of light: They are the bearers of breakthrough, the mystical helmet. Angels are the thoughts of God. They deliver the mind to profound understanding.

Angels are powerful thought forms that help to hold the world together. They are the thoughts of synthesis, connection and repair. To call on the angels is to move our attention in a higher, more creative direction, to invoke the structures of a more enlightened worldview. As our thoughts rise, the world rises. This is the resurrection of the human mind.



Hope you enjoyed this thought provoking read...




Have a beautiful day,


Photo: PKM


Joy,



Rena


www.talktotheturtle.com