Failure -- or fresh start?
Topic: Empowerment

 

 

"Act as if it were impossible to fail." -- Dorothea Brande

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." -- Henry Ford

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -- Bill Cosby

"Fall seven times, stand up eight." -- Japanese Proverb

"Stumbling is not falling." -- Portuguese Proverb

 

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." -- Mary Pickford

 

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -- Confucius

"The way to succeed is to double your failure rate." -- Thomas Watson, Founder of IBM

homelesness & spiritual growth
Now Playing: personal security comes only from Spiritt
Topic: Empowerment

 “When things get worse, people get better.” 

   "The blessing of homelessness”, Abdul Baha said,  “shall endure forever" :)) 

  I get that & I  don't think it just refers to the work and service He was doing either.     I feel so blessed to "get" homelessness, having been there. At 18 I set out, thumb in hand, to learn more about myself and the world. My spur to do it was my feeling of being so lacking to meet life, so inadequate. I know if I could meet this thing head on and tackle the world with nothing but myself, I could do anything. And I would say it worked. I did find that place of inner security we all need to have, to go to when things get tough. And much more as well. People say I was lucky not to get killed. I know that, but hey what can you tell a teenager?    

      Today I notice similar effects of the sort of “temporary homelessness” of even those few days when I go away to a conference, or visiting, etc. The blessing, I think, refers to the tremendous tests --&/or blessings that have come my way when I surrender my usual security. These are often multiplied at during a radical change of circumstance, a momentary or not so momentary releasing of the usual ties and what we are rooted to and in. what a blessing it is that when things get worse, people can get better through the tests and triumph that they face. We get stronger inside.    So that’s what Im thinking about today.

     “When things get worse, people get better.”  Someone somewhere must have said that. If not, i claim it !  I know its not always true, but it can be...

Topic: Empowerment
Bored, with the Basics
Bored, with Growing?....

I started learning the "Basics"of living from
the 12 steps -- the first thing I ever really stuck with. After that I started to learn the power of sticking to the basics & how it can be a guide for the whole life.
Guess I thought i was too important to have to do basics, plus i never really had a grounding in the idea of First things first-- or what on earth those FIRSTS were....They are all in the basics.
First-- a clean nest (home)
That includes my thoughts. When they are not right nothing else can be. That means putting lust, anger, fear,sadness & spirituality plus any troubling emotions in right perspective --FIRST. Then my body needs. Sometimes this is ALL I can do in a day-- and it is ALOT. And when I do this to the best i can-- all the rest will follow in good order, in HPs time.. (Seek ye first the kingdom of God & all things will be added....")
I've had my share of troubling emotions that have come up my whole life, mostly fear & a grief that was hard to face -- & taking a long time to face it-- ugly stuf no one wants to hear or belive even-- this unfortunately is a part of the lives of many of us. I used other feelings , work, addictions & more to mask it all-- yes even boredom &/or distraction I used to divert my attention from seeing the truth about me & life, & my life.....
One Day at a time Ive had to learn the Basics-- from the clean "nest" (home) , to a clean body treated with respect, & letting the troubling inner emotions (the base of my distress) come out, & to ask help & lean on the Spirit or Something Greater than myself as well, for this. And one thing THIS journey is NOT-- is boring! And it all starts with the Basics-- for me that inludes the 12 steps to "clean house" & abstain from addiction...

And always,,, there is so much More to be revealed! Dont quit before the miracle! I hope we will all stay for our own personal miracles to be revealed...
Hugs, Lucky