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Inspirations

Miracles

Many of us don't realize that miracles don't just happen to anyone they happen to all of us all the time. Most of us tend to think it only happens to those few we hear about but in reality, many of us don't realize that we create miracles every day within our own lives, but are unaware of their awareness to this fact.

When we think about miracles, we tend to think of things that happen outside of ourselves. There isn't a day that goes by that we don't hear about miracles that happen in our physical world and because we can see them, we tend to believe what we see. This is probably why it is so hard for us to believe that miracles also happen in our inner world for we have to be spiritually aware to see our formless dimension.

Do you Believe in Miracles? if you do you are one of the lucky ones for most people this realization is something they think is beyond their reach because so many of us get so caught up in the rat race of our busy lives which causes us to lose sight of who we are. And for many the dreams and the dreamer slowly fade away leaving them feeling unfulfilled and unhappy this is the sad reality in the world today.

Every human being that is born on this planet has the power within them to create his or her own miracles through the power of the self and it is happening all the time even if we are aware of it or not. And even to those that are aware sometimes mistake it for luck or fate not realizing that they themselves created their own miracle. One might ask how one gets in on the secret of creating miracles in their own life. Some of you may find this hard to believe but you are already creating them through your own power of thought, but you will only see them when you believe in them and the only thing that is stopping you from believing is seeing them.

Our miracles are form by our thoughts every thought is a seed if we plant positive seeds in time we will start to see the miracle for ourselves. When you change your thoughts, you change your inner world, which will reflect our outer world. It is our thoughts that make us successful in life and it is important that we follow that is in our hearts even if it means doing what ever it takes to get there.

Every one of us came here with our own mission to fulfill in this life time. It can be very hard sometimes to see the bigger picture when we fill our invisible world up with all the negative thoughts that we seem to pick up. And don't think you are the only one your not we all suffer some of us may suffer more than others until we learn that we have the power over our own thoughts.

Regardless of your life situations, you are the writer, director and the star of your own story. When you realize this you will start creating only the best for yourself which will manifest into miracles and you will believe it because you will see it not only in your inner world but your outer world as well.

Present

What does it mean to be present? When we think of being present most of us, believe we are already living in the present just by going about our every day busy schedules not realizing it is not what they think it is. Most people spend their whole day lost in their own world thoughts worrying about all sorts of thing that happened yesterday, last week or things that happened ten or twenty years ago and if they are not worrying about the past they are thinking about future things that haven't happen yet.

Many of us don't know any better because it seems everyone else is doing the same thing. It doesn't matter who it is even if you listen to someone's conversations you will find that they too are talking about either the past or the future. Therefore, it would seem for most people they would only experince their state of presence only accidentally and then only for a brief moment or never at all for many would not recognize for what it is.

Are you one of these types of people that do allot of waiting? How much time of your life do you spend waiting for things? There are small scale waiting like standing in line at the store or sitting in our car in a traffic jam and there are larger things we wait for like our vacation, for a better job, for a meaningful relationship, to be successful, to make more money. It is not uncommon these day for allot of people to spend their whole life waiting to start living. I once read in a new paper of a man that worked hard his whole life and all he could think about was how wonderful life would be after his retirement and on his last day of work in the evening while the wife was packing their things to go on a holiday he passed away from a heart attack. I thought how sad it was that they waited so long to start living. I am not saying that we should all stop working towards our goals or our dreams it is wonderful to accomplish something worthwhile in life, but is it taking up too much of your life to the point that it is taking the joy out of your life.

For example, many people are waiting for prosperity how many people do you know that are waiting to winning a lottery. Waiting is a state of the mind for it means you don't want the present you want the future. In reality, you want what you haven't got and with every kind of waiting you unconsciously create inner conflict between your here and now which is where you don't want to be. It can be very hard to look beyond our everyday life situation for we all suffer from it some of us suffer more than others making us lose our sense of the present.

One might think is there an answer to all this habitual thinking that we all suffer from the answer is yes. It comes when you honor, acknowledge, and fully accept your present reality meaning who you are, where you are, and as well what you are doing right now. Which will bring out your awareness in being thankful for what we have in our life now which is the true prosperity an in time that prosperity will manifest into abundance of all kinds?

Our life journey not only has an outer purpose we also have an inner purpose. Many of us think that they are both one of the same but in reality one has nothing to do with the other. Our outer world is more concerned with our desires or what we can accomplish in our material world which implies the future. Our inner purpose is more concerned with the now which has noting to do with the future, but has everything to do with the quality of our consciousness at this moment. Our outer journey may contain millions of steps to get to our destination while our inner journey only has one which is the step you are taking right now.

When you come to realize this, you become more deeply aware of your inner self. Could it be that our essence and our presence are one and the same that by living in the now, it will take us into the being and the light of our being will shine through it? However, in order for us to realize this you have to become aware of your inner purpose it won't matter how successful you are in our outer world many people have many riches and still have inner poverty.

Therefore, it would seem that the sooner you realize that your outer purpose cannot give you lasting fulfillment you stop looking for yourself in your unrealistic expectation of ideas or notion of what makes us happy and fulfilled and we start to enjoy our life in what ever we are doing right now this moment. In reality, all we really have is just this moment for the past is gone and our future is made in the now meaning the present moment by taking one step at a time start walking down our own path towards the future we create.

Enlightenment

Enlightenment what does it truly mean? To those of us who do embark on a spiritual journey enlightenment is motivated in different ways. Some of us may want to know the unknown; other may be searching for themselves; still others may be looking for a miracle. Even to those that are on spiritual journey they may not realize what it is that they are looking for. Most people when they think about enlightenment they think that it only happen to those few that we hear about like Buddha Masters, Zen Masters, but in reality it happen to all of us even if we are unaware of what it is when it happens.

When we think of enlightened person, we get these imagines in our heads of someone that walks around in a blissful state or in a state of happiness. We seem to think that they are someone that is liberated and free from life illusions, but in reality, this is farther than the truth. Very few of us will ever experince life on that level if you think about the world population there is only been a handful that have mastered themselves to that level and even to those that have they are not totally free of life illusions. I once read this wonderful explanation about enlightenment from a Zen Master. He said that before enlightenment you chop wood and carry water and after enlightenment you still chop wood and carry water, meaning we don't stop working we still have the same difficulties we had before we were enlightened, but the only difference between the before and after is that we are awaken to the truth that lies within us.

Our life is made so we will face many difficulties and it is through the experince it self that we experince enlightenment. Each one of us will experince enlightenment in many different ways for we all have our own path to follow and with each experince that we overcome we are liberated and free for we are awaken ultimately becoming fulfilled.

So one could say that enlightenment does express itself through our personality and our life lessons that we have chosen to learn in this life time. When the time comes each one of us will know the power and feeling of enlightenment. Many of us tend to think that enlightenment happens suddenly, but this is not so it only because we have become awaken or aware to the truth in us. If we were to stop think about what ever it was that awoken us you will realize it was a gradual progress of awareness.

Enlightenment means that you see the truth for what it is. Let say you worked at a job for ten years and one day you woke-up and that all of sudden you realized that you wanted to do more with your life. This realization in it self is a pointer that has awaken you in that you see the truth not to the fact that you are not happy, but to the fact that you were meant to do more with your life than what you thought. The problem is these days most of us are lost in our own world of thoughts that we seem to be walking around as if we were asleep. Our only task to self awakening is to awaken to who you are and there is nothing more to seek or look for and in doing so you will see who you truly are "Awaken from what? One might ask. It is to awaken to the reality that you are in this world, but not of it. When you come to realize this, you are enlightened to a new level of understanding and it through this awareness that you will begin to be one with all things.

Faith

How much faith do you have in your own talents and abilities? The number one reason why so many of us don't find our life's fulfillment is that we get so wrapped up in our every day life situations that we can lose sight of dreams. These days it can be very hard some of us suffer more than others and bit-by-bit it slowly steals not only our dreams and our faith as well. This is the sad reality in the world today and it is everywhere, we see it in our friends, neighbors, co-workers, but mostly it is in ourselves that we get these feeling of insecurities and self doubts about what it is we really want in life.

Are you one of those lucky ones that has realized that through having faith in your talents and abilities that you found that you were successful beyond our wildest dreams. If you are not one of those lucky ones you can be. Lack of self-confidence is the number one problem lacking in today's society seventy-five out of one hundred people are afraid and will hide themselves from life due to their insecurities.

Every one of us has the ability to be successful beyond anything you could imagine and the only thing that is stopping you is having faith within yourself that is all "Believing" is the number one secret to success.

How do you see yourself? Many of us don't realize that we talk to ourselves constantly we have many through out our day. When was the last time you had a private chat with yourself and said things like boy am l getting old, I'm getting grey hairs, l will never be good enough, l feel stupid, I'm fat, I'm ugly. How many times have you repeated those same words over and over to yourself day after day or year after year. You would be surprised that after awhile they do start to sink in and you do start to believe that you are what you think. Then you start to tell others your story and they too will start to confirm what you believe about yourself. It is funny thing about human beings no one abuses us more than what we do to ourselves.

The greatest way to the secret for eliminating our inferiority complex that we have built up over the many years is to fill our heads up with overwhelming thoughts of self confidence and faith in what ever our dreams are. Get rid of those self-doubts when they start to creep in and not only does it make us feel good we are planting our future seeds of prosperity. I know from my own life experinces it does work there's not a day that goes by that l don't fill my own head with my own dreams in creating my own miracles.

Another powerful concept which also will work is to believe or have faith in a higher power in believing that you are not alone and that there is help when ever you need guidance and all you have to do is ask and you shall receive help.

One must remember that we are always going to have problems or difficulties in our life this is because it is through overcoming the difficulties themselves that we learn to believe in the power of the self and when we look at it more as an opportunity whether than an obstacle we bring out our greatness from within.

We do become what we think about all day and when we change our thoughts we start creating a new dream for ourselves and bit-by-bit we slowly regain our inner power.

Here are a few seeds and if you plant them, they will start to change your life

1. Set a few minutes aside each day and tell yourself how "wonderful you are"
2. Every morning before you get out of bed say out loud "I believe I believe I believe"
3. When ever you feel you can't do something say to yourself " I can do any thing"
4. Be proud of who you are and your accomplishment for the self does matter
5. When ever a negative thought come in plant a positive one in its place
6. Believe in yourself for there is nothing you can't do

Inner Peace

What do you really value in your life? Your relationships, career, material wealth, inner happiness, all of us even if we are aware of it or not are searching for our own inner peace something to make us feel complete. When we think about it, most of us fill up our lives with all kinds of material and emotional clutter and for most part it seems like its one damn thing after another and after a while, we get so used to it not realizing that it is robbing us of our inner happiness and peace.

From the time, we awake in the morning we start to think about all the things we have to do and our day is already planned even before we have even gotten out of bed. When was the last time you were over stressed or tired and you said to yourself "l wish l had some peace in my life."

Well you are not alone these days life can be very hard and many of us think inner peace is something that happens to those few who have simplified their life, but in reality it doesn't matter how busy you are or what going on in your life inner peace is something you can tap into at any time. There are many things in our life that we seen to worry needlessly and when you think about all the thoughts you have in a day you will find that allot of them are just that thoughts and nothing more.

When was the last time you had an argument with someone close to you? And as you went about your day you started having this conversation with your self you say things like How dare they talk to me like that? Who does he/she think they are? And then the ego take over and says yes your right how dare they attack us we better fix them so that they know who the boss is. And by the time you get home or see that person again that little argument you had has now turned into a all out war and in your mind they either have their walking papers or you have disown them.

What Happened? Many of don't realize it is so easy to get swept up by the thoughts of the mind the ego will try real hard to convince you to fight back to stand up for yourself. There are times when we need to take a stand especially when it come to abuse no one has that right to take your soul and in those times you need to be strong. But for the most part all our arguments do is rob us of our inner peace and happiness.

I know it can be very hard especially when it come to others bringing us down or are dissatisfied with their own life we all know that saying misery loves company. It is important to realize that we can't change the other person's way of thinking or the way they act, we can only change yourselves by change the way we look at things.

Inner peace is something you can have at any time and it doesn't matter what is going on in your life. The only thing that is stopping you from having inner peace and happiness is that inner conversation you have with yourself. Learn to let go of the need to be right for they are only one person thoughts and that all.

Take a stand within yourself find out what is important to you and stick with it. If what you want is a better relationship, inner peace, and happiness it all starts with you and not the other person and what ever it is you want work toward accomplishing it. It is good to remember that what ever we think about all day all long is what we become.

Our life was meant for us to enjoy don't let others spoil your life just take it for what it is and move on mentally and emotionally for in the end you are only accountable for yourself and no one else.

Here are a few seeds and if you plant them, they will start to change your life

1. Replace your negative thoughts with the positive ones
2. Guard your inner peace and happiness by learning to let go of need to be right
3. When others insult you tell yourself it is none of my business what others think of me
4. Stand back and have a look at the bigger picture before taking any action
5. Remember with time all things will pass and so do our thoughts
6. Plant happy thoughts in our mind before you get up in the morning
7. Respect and honor yourself no matter what other say for the self does matter