Fun sayings, positive affirmations and powerful quotes:

Peace begins with a smile..

~Mother Teresa  (1910-1997)
  Roman Catholic Nun




If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

~Mother Teresa  (1910-1997)
  Roman Catholic Nun



Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

~Mother Teresa  (1910-1997)
  Roman Catholic Nun



Yesterday is gone.  Tomorrow has not yet come.  We only have today.  Let us begin.

~Mother Teresa  (1910-1997)
  Roman Catholic Nun








This is one of my favorite positive affirmations statements:

Begin your day by feeling grateful.  Be grateful for the bed you just slept in, the roof over your head, the carpet or floor under your feet, the running water, the soap, your shower, your toothbrush, your clothes, your shoes, the refrigerator that keeps your food cold, the car that you drive, your job, your friends. 
Be grateful for the stores that make it so easy to buy the things you need, the restaurants, the utilities, services and electrical appliances that make your life effortless.  Be grateful for the magazines and the books that you read.  Be grateful for the chair that you sit on, and the pavement that you walk on. Be grateful for the weather, the sun, the sky, the birds, the trees, the grass, the rain and the flowers.

Thank you, thank you thank you!

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

"Z" stands for zest for life. It is to appreciate life in all its vitality and exuberance.  It is to know that there is only one life that expresses itself in myriad forms.  To see that life is to know that power is in the present moment.  It is to know that I am that, that you are that, that all this is that, and that's all there is.
Tagore once said, "The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day and dances in rhythmic measure.  It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of flowers."   
He calls this "the life throb of ages, dancing in my blood this moment."  To be in touch with this life throb of ages dancing in our blood this moment, is to have zest for life.  It is to face the unknown with carefreeness and freedom.  The unknown is the field of all possibilities in every moment of the present.  And this is freedom, beyond the known of past conditioning, beyond the prison of space, time, and causation.  As Don Juan once said to Carlos Castaneda,  "It does not matter what our specific fate is, as long as we face it with ultimate abandon."  This is carefreeness.  This is joy.  This is freedom.  This is zest for life.






The Beatles - All You Need is Love...












A lovely quote by author Louise L. Hay ~ an excerpt from her book,Heart Thoughts.

Many of you start new year resolutions on the first of the year, but because you don't make internal changes, the resolutions fall away very quickly.  Until you make the inner changes and are willing to do some mental work, nothing out there is going to change.  The only thing you need to change is a thought-only a thought. Even self-hatred is only hating a thought you have about yourself.  What can you do for yourself this year in a positive way?  What would you like to do for yourself this year that you did not do for yourself last. year?  What would you like to let go of this year, that you clung to so tightly last year?  What would you like to change in your life?  Are you willing to do the work that will bring about those changes?

Go for the Joy.  Make that your motto this year:
GO FOR JOY!       LIFE IS HERE FOR YOU TO ENJOY TODAY!


Have a beautiful day,



Photo: PKM


joy,


Rena 


www.talktotheturtle.com

Power of Intention

With the winter days just recently passing their shortest daylight hours the forward looking enjoyment of longer days is now something to anticipate.   Living within the rhythm of our planet earth is really a humbling special experience when I take the time  to ponder. Half of the year the northern part of our planet earth's geography  is basking in the sun's rays of spring summer and fall.  The other half of the year we are shown the quietness and solitude of darkness with limited daylight.

It is a wonderful time to light your house up with the celebration of gratitude and also a welcome time to reflect over the year's events.  How can I know how far I have come if I do not take the time to see where I have been.  It is within this question of reflection that I found myself revisiting the work of Dr. Wayne Dyer. 

                           

                                             

I remember in 2004 when Dr. Wayne Dyer's PBS special, The Power of Intention was aired on TV.    My boyfriend was watching it with me and very patiently listening as  I was going on and on about the placement of the lights on the stage. 

"Don't you see that someone has done some energy work and the stage  space has been cleared?"   

"All I see is a really pleasing set design." he replied.

"Well I can see it and I can feel it." I thought to myself quietly...

That is all I  pretty much remember about the Power of Intention broadcast. 

To re-visit this broadcast in video form was actually kind of interesting to me because it created a milestone factor. It offered me a reflection of what I could hear and see where I was eight years ago.

To explain this  another way: two people take a class and at the end of it share their notes.  What they will discover and I share this with you through my own life experience, is both individuals  will have different notes. 

One person would have heard certain things that the other was not able to download.  These personal findings still amaze me and is my personal  "why"  I write about all of us finding our own way, and never giving up.

So this is my big Why question to you.  Where were you in 2004?  What is the difference in your happiness quotient between then and now.  Are you running ahead?  Are you backing up?  Maybe  you have indeed found the rhythm of your own path...

Dr. Wayne Dyer, video: The Power of Intention pt. 1

Dr. Wayne Dyer, video: The Power of Intention pt. 2

May the New Year of 2013 be filled with all of us finding our own special instrument and voice of happiness.

Beethoven symphony; Ode to Joy

Have a beautiful day,

Photo:  'reflection' PKM

joy,

Rena

www.talktotheturtle.com 

  

  

Oprah asks Life's Big Questions

Christmas is just a few days away.  Can you feel the excitement and awe in the wonder and beauty of the approaching celebration.   In an electronic world that moves quicker than we can think I believe it is worth your consideration to take some time out for you and just breathe. Five minutes out of your day gives you the personal gift of your own breathing. Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth. It is just that easy and just that simple. Find a place to sit and focus on your breath. The results can be very calming to your day.  




Oprah Winfrey's Super Soul Celebration of life episode  delivered just that opportunity  with 42:02  minutes to contemplate and breathe in life's big questions. I thought it was so brave. I thought it took courage to ask and I genuinely believe that her motivation was Love based. 


Oprah asks the leading spiritual thinkers of our time Life's Big Questions.
They all answered with their own truth and in their own way. 



The first question that Oprah asks her guests in this episode is this:

What is YOUR Definition of God?



Here are their answers:

~ Wayne Dyer: "God is the highest place within each and every one of us.  It is
    our divine self."

~Michael Singer: "The source of you."

~Debbie Ford:  "To know that I am one with a energy a force greater than myself."

~Devon Franklin:  "The Alpha and the Omega. A friend and confident. He is my 
  buddy. He is a lover of my soul."

~Marianne Williamson:  "A all encompassing love that is the source of all. The 
  reality of all, and the being through which I am."

~Llewellyn Vaughn-Lee:  "He is my beloved.  My most intimate beloved. My friend
  the one I look to in everything. I would not try to define him because only God 
  knows God."

~Eckhart Tolle:  "God is beyond all the forms of life but also dwells in every form
  of  life as their essence.  God is both beyond and within."  

~Gabrielle Bernstein:  "The ever presence essence of love."

~Mastin Kipp:  "God is love."

~Marie Forleo:  "Everything in the creative force"

~Caroline Myss:  "God is law. God to me is mystical law. The order of things.  The  
  negotiating principles with mystical laws is prayer - that is what make them 
  intimate.  A miracle is when God bends these laws for you."

~Iyanla Vanzant:  "All that is.  Everything, everything. Breath. Life.  It's everything.
  God is everything.

~Deepak Chopra: "God is the evolutionary impulse of the universe.  God is infinite  
  creativity.  God is infinite love, infinite compassion, infinite caring."



Here were some of the other questions Oprah posed:

* What is the difference between spirituality and religion?

* What is the soul?

* What role does prayer mean to you?




WATCH THE FULL EPISODE ~CLICK HERE~OPRAH WINFREY




What I  took away from these questions was that each of these seekers had found their own way.  All so different and yet the constant thread of Love weaving through and connecting their responses.  We all have to find our own way..




I liked Iyanla Vanzants prayer to God that she shared.  It goes like this...

Help.
Help me now.
Thank-You.






Oprah commented on Marianne Williamson prayer from her book, Illuminata.


MORNING PRAYER

Dear God,
I give this day to You.
May my mind stay centered on the things of spirit.
May I not be tempted to stray from love.
As I begin this day, I open to receive You.
Please enter where You already abide.
May my mind and heart be pure and true,
and may I not deviate from the things of 
goodness.
May I see the love and innocence in all
mankind, behind the masks we all wear and
the illusions of this worldly plane.
I surrender to You my doings this day.
I ask only that they serve You and the healing of
the world.
May I bring Your love and goodness with me, to 
give unto others wherever I go.
Make me the person You would have me be.
Direct my footsteps, and show me what You 
would have me do.
Make the world a safer, more beautiful place.
Bless all your creatures.
Heal us all, and use me, dear Lord, that I might
know the joy of being used by You.
Amen.






Jean Houston when asked "What the world needs?"  answered with this thought.
"The world needs the sense that we are all in it together."


All in it together...







I share this video by Jeff Sullivan it is  quietly beautiful... 









Pastor Joel Osteen's Full Sermon:

"The Power of "I AM"










Have a beautiful day,



Photo: PKM



joy,


Rena

www.talktotheturtle.com





  





   
  

Fun sayings, positive affirmations and powerful quotes

We may make our future by the best use of the present.  There is no moment like the present.

~Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849)
  English children's author




The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.

~Helen Keller (1880-1968)
  American author, political activist and lecturer




A word after a word after a word is power.

~Margaret Atwood  (1939 - )
  Canadian novelist, short story writer and poet




Old age ain't no place for sissies.

~Bette Davis  (1908-1989)
  American actress




This is one of my favorite positive affirmations statements:


You cannot bring what you want to you if you are feeling stress. Stress or any tension at all is something you have to remove from your system.

You must let the stress go - it is the only way you can bring what you want. The emotion of stress is saying strongly that you do NOT  have what you want. Stress
or tension is the absence of faith, and so to remove it all you have to do is increase your faith!

~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

"Y" stands for youthful vigor. We experience health when out identity of who we are comes from reference to the self.  When we identify with objects, whether these are situations, circumstances, people or things, then we relinquish our energy to the object of reference.  As a result, we feel lack of energy and vitality.

When our identity comes from the self, then we keep our energy to ourselves. We feel energetic, we feel powerful, and we experience youthful vigor.






A lovely quote by author Louise L. Hay ~ An excerpt from her book, Heart Thoughts

MY LOVE IS LIMITLESS

We have so much love in this world, and we have so much love in our hearts, and sometimes we forget.  Sometimes we think there isn't enough, or there is just a small amount. So we hoard what we have or we are afraid to let it go.  We are afraid to let it out.  But those of use who are willing to learn, realize that the more love we allow to flow out from us, the more there is within us and the more we receive. It is endless and timeless.  Love is really the most powerful healing force that there is.  Without love we could not survive at all.  If little tiny babies are not given love and affection, they wither and die.  Most of us think we can survive without love, but we cannot.  Love for ourselves is the power that heals us. 
Practice as much as you can..

One of the bonuses about loving yourself is that you get to feel good.








Have a beautiful day,



Photo:  'return visit'  PKM



joy,



Rena


www.talktotheturtle.com


  

The treasure of revelation breathes in the ocean

It all started out so innocently.  I saw a video shared on Facebook  of some  porpoises here in  Howe Sound, British Columbia.   Howe Sound, where this rather large group of porpoises were photographed jumping around is fifty minutes from downtown Vancouver, B. C. Canada.  This was special footage because there have not been a lot of dolphins  in that sound because of the pollution that had built up over the years.  There has been a concerted effort from the various different environmental factions  and apparently their efforts to clean up the water so the fish would  come back for the porpoises to feed on  is paying off.

As the year  draws to a close and I am  tidying up my computer  I noticed that I had accumulated some West Coast  whale videos -  all close up and personal.  Kayakers and boaters out in the water viewing these magnificent mammals in their natural habitat, the ocean.  The treasure of my revelation in viewing these videos is the mere fact that these whales are free.  Whales love their freedom.  

I feel if  you want to really understand what a whale is then visit them in their natural habitat.  My heart starts thumping with such emotion because I am so grateful for these  whales that are cruising around in the cold waters off the West Coast of British Columbia.

Orcas approach boat.






Freedom is important and I wonder what will be saved for the next generation of planet earth lovers.  If we push right past through our fear and embrace the kindness of self acceptance as a place to rest and reflect we may find the answer.
I believe if we are kind to ourselves then it invites the possibility for us to be kind to whales too. 



Santigold live at BBC radio. 












Gray whale, Broken Island off of Vancouver Island, B. C.










Tourists out  for a little fishing trip off Tofino B.C. meet a Humpback whale. Flying  and free. 







Maybe seeing a whale move through the ocean is something for you to add to your life list of things to do?  This Sooke B. C. kayak rental company ended up with some orca killer whale footage, that will make you sit up.  






Florence and the Machine, Live at KEXP, ( Seattle WA)
Cosmic Love








 Ocean footage of a dog in a boat  watches pod of orcas. The impact of awe still abounds.





I guess I never realized how much I like seeing whales in the wild. I am so grateful to live here on planet earth.  We are caretakers of this planet's amazing gift of waters and mountains to explore.  It all comes down to love. 


The xx-angels from their album Co-exist






Have a beautiful day,



Photo: PKM



joy,


Rena


www.talktotheturtle.com

Your own unusual bestowal of self love

I believe the freedom of your mind is quite possibly the most important thing to wish for at any given opportunity. You have met people who have become dreary and downtrodden by their jobs or financial situations.  I am sure you have also met the other group who have jobs that create a sense of security. Are they any  happier?  A false sense of security can be as much of a lifestyle obstacle as a  situation that spells a certain  "lack of"  in our lives.   Life's obstacles are an opportunity to open the door to our own unusual bestowal of self-love.

If I were to draw this with a crayon it would be a picture of you with gratitude in one hand a happy vision in your  other hand.  A drawing of a heart  with the words self love would be worn on the t-shirt as the main focal point.  
Self love = gratitude & happy vision.

By focusing on your vision, the possibility of success increases.   That desire far out there still in the thought energy realm,  already has your own self-love of acceptance  woven into it.  Focus on your vision and regardless of the day to day tests, never give up. Never give up on yourself by accepting where you are today but bask in the lightness  of knowing that each day gets you closer to your vision. 


This is what I felt what so uplifting about the ending to the movie Shawshank Redemption.  The hard work done.  You do not have to be in prison to feel locked up and put away in your mind.  We have all had the opportunity to serve time in the solitude of our own sadness. We can do that with all the freedom in the world by our very own self loathing.  So what are you waiting for?  Grab a dream and set the nose of that metaphorical boat of yours into the wind. Don't give up. 

This is the question. At the crossroads of your decision making either get busy living or get busy dying... 









Giving yourself permission to receive the get out of jail mind card is something to look forward.  When you step back into your life of gratitude, you will realize that you can  seize opportunities and turn them into your own.


Making it count...





Remember the obstacles can show up and you have the opportunity to transform these temptations in life into a resource that will help.  Maybe like Kendrick Lamar's  poetically  tough song....a reflective treatise on the perils of alcoholism and peer pressure. 










Poet, Marie Howe:

PRAYER

Every day I want to speak with you.  And every day something 
more important
calls for my attention - the drugstore, the beauty products, the luggage
I need to buy for the trip.
Even now I can hardly sit here
among the falling piles of paper and clothing, the garbage trucks outside
already screeching and banging.
The mystics say you are as close as my own breath.
Why do I flee from you?
My days and nights pour through me like complaints
and become a story I forgot to tell.
Help me.  Even as I write these words I am planning
to rise from the chair as soon as I finish this sentence.

~From The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (Norton 2008)






Your vision never leaves you.  Your gratitude never wavers. No matter what is going on around you, your resolve of self love shining through with joy and enthusiasm. The moving waters calm again as you breathe in deeply. Love is the greatest gift of all... 

Shake it out.....







Have a beautiful day,



Photo: 'look up' PKM



joy,


Rena


www.talktotheturtle.com