SOUL AFLAME!

[knightofalbion]

This thread is for inspirational quotations, poems and short stories. If there is something that has touched your soul, led you to a higher path or given you strength in a time of adversity, then please add it here.
If it has inspired you, the chances are it will inspire others too and to help each other along is the duty of every soul.
Into the light!

All this talk of religion, but it's how you live your life that is the all-important thing.
If you set out each day to do all the goodness and kindness that you can, and to do no harm to man or beast, then you are walking the highest path.
And when your time is up, if you can leave the earth a better place than you found it, then yours will have been a life well lived.

[WholeNutt]

The Invitation

Oriah Mountain Dreamer


It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.


It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.


It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain.


I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it, or fade it, or fix it.


I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own; if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, remember the limitations of being human.


It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.


I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence.


I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, 'Yes.'


It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children.


It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back.


It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.


I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

[SalmonellaDeGhoul]

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.”


? Dalai Lama XIV

[SalmonellaDeGhoul]

knightofalbion I don't know who you are but just wanted to say that since my daughter died, your threads have helped me enormously xx

[Yougotbale]

Remember to smile and always keep your cock clean.

My grandad's mantra

[SecretWitch]

Yougotbale, your grandad was a very wise man!

[SecretWitch]

I have loved the stars to fondly too fondly to be fearful of the night..

Sarah Williams, An Astronomer to his Pupil

[trish5000]

Footsteps

Seems to help those in trying times

www.footprints-inthe-sand.com/index.php?page=Poem/Poem.php

[knightofalbion]

Go into the world and do well. But more importantly go into the world and do good - Minor Myers Jr.

[knightofalbion]

I have no desire to move mountains, construct monuments or leave behind in my wake material evidence of my existence. But in the final recollection, if the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart, then in living I have made my mark - Thomas L. Odem Jr

[twattock]

There is no fate but what we make.

[knightofalbion]

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day - Sally Koch

[DrankSangriaInThePark]

Knight of Albion, as others have said, I don't know who you are, but I love your quotes. You have introduced me to Oriah Mountain Dreamer and I have passed her on to another friend of mine. Thank you!

[knightofalbion]

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I malke it better?" To that there is an answer

• Leo Buscaglia

[knightofalbion]

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead

• Nelson Mandela

[knightofalbion]

Arise gentle sisters!

thegentlebrethren.wordpress.com

[knightofalbion]

Kindness can transform someone's dark moment with a blaze of light. You'll never know how much your caring matters

• Amy Leigh Mercree

[knightofalbion]

In the end, only kindness matters

• Jewel Kilcher

[knightofalbion]

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others

• Mahatma Gandhi

[knightofalbion]

I am grateful for all the bad things - all the hurt, all the pain, all the sorrow; for from it all I learnt compassion, empathy and understanding ...

[knightofalbion]

Forgiveness sets two souls free ....

[knightofalbion]

In oneself lies the whole world, and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand

• Jiddu Krishnamurti

[knightofalbion]

The greatest tragedy is indifference

• Red Cross slogan

[knightofalbion]

If not you, who?

[knightofalbion]

It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical, Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart

• Anne Frank