Live Like Your Dying

"One of these days you’ll be under the covers you’ll be under the table and you’ll realize. That all of your days are numbered; all of them one to one hundred. All of them millions. All of them trillions. So what are you gonna do with them all? You can not trade them in for more.

Take every moment; you know that you own them. It’s all you can do, use what’s been given to you.

Give me a reason to fight the feeling that there’s nothing here for me. Cause none of its easy; I know it wasn’t meant to be. I know it’s all up to me, it's all up to me. So what am I gonna do with my time?

Ill take every moment, I know that I own them. It’s all up to you to do whatever you choose. Live like you’re dying and never stop trying. It’s all you can do, use what’s been given to you. All of the moments you didn’t notice; gone in the blink of an eye. All of the feelings you couldn’t help feeling no matter how you try."

Lyrics - Live Like Your Dying, Lenka
Listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkpMei54zUM&feature=related

Gratitude

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. It can turn an existance into a life, and disconnected situations into important and beneficial lessons. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision of tomorrow... Say thank you, until you mean it. If you say it long enough you will believe it." - The Language of Letting Go, Melody Beattie

Connecting the Dots

It was like... connecting the dots. Some nights I could connect three or four of them, and some nights they'd be really far apart. I'd have no idea how to get to the next one, if there was the next one. - quote from the movie {proof}

The Present Moment

"We must not lose ourselves in either the past or the future. The only moment in which we can touch life is in the present moment." - Thich Nhat Hanh

Meditation

"Meditation isn't just sitting someplace with our eyes closed or quietly contemplating something of spiritual nature. Meditation is a direct relationship with the sum of ourselves in the moment where we stand as witness to what moves through us instead of becoming captive through our reaction to it." The Essential Laws of Fearless Living, Guy Finley

In This Moment

"Open yourself to the potential in this moment.

Let go of how you think it should look. Let go of how you think it should feel. Let go of trying to control what is happening. Just let go.

Now you have created a space for magic to occur.
Now you have opened the door so that the mysteries may rush in.
Now you have made room in your heart for passion. "

-How Did I Get Here? Barbara DeAngelelis

The Ego and Relationships

"Only surrender can give you what you were looking for in the object of your love. The ego says surrender is not necessary because I love this person. It's an unconscious process of course. The moment you accept completely what is, something inside you emerges that had been covered up by egoic wanting. It is an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence." ET

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