Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive, the risk to be alive and express what we 
really are.
-Don Miguel Ruiz
Facing Fear
Be Happy with You
The majority of folks have heard the phrase, “be happy with yourself.” 
Not new, right? Well, but are you? Happiness always seems to be just the corner. It is on the plate for sure, but always seems to be the next course. How often do we put something else on the plate for the next bite?
How are You Delaying Your Happiness?
Typical happiness delays include:
- I’ll be happy after I finish my degree,
- after I get a job,
- after I get a raise,
- after I “find myself“,
- after I have children,
- after the children are grown,
- when I lose weight,
- after I get that man or woman,
- after I move and so it goes, on and on…
Until.
Until the day you stop. Stop trying to be amazing, unique, fabulous, special or any other “ego” supporting word you choose. The truth is, happiness is not something you have to earn or deserve. It is your birthright.
Claim it.
And don’t allow or permit anyone to take it from you.
Cheers,
Catherine
Weekly Inspiration #18
Before the soul can see,
the harmony within must be attained,
and fleshly eyes be rendered blind
to all illusion.
Before the soul can hear,
the image (Man)
has to become as deaf
to roarings as to whispers,
to cries of bellowing elephants
as to the silvery buzzing
of the golden fire-fly.
Before the soul can comprehend
and may remember,
she must unto the silent speaker
be united,
just as the form
to which the clay is modeled
is first united
with the potter’s mind.
For then the soul will hear,
and will remember.
And the inner ear will speak
the voice of silence.
The author of this poem is unknown to me, if known please let me know so that I may give proper credit.
Weekly Inspiration #11
What do you believe or know about yourself?
Is it consistent with your self-talk?
You can always know what your beliefs are by your actions.
Examine what you do.
That is who you are, on the inside.
That is what you believe.
Weekly Reflection #3
Meditation has been laid stress upon by all religions. The meditative state of mind is declared by the yogis to be the highest state in which the mind exists. When the mind is studying the external object, it gets identified with it, loses itself. To use the simile of the old Indian philosopher: the soul of man is like a piece of crystal, but it takes the color of whatever is near it. Whatever the soul touches…it has to take its color. That is the difficulty. That constitutes the bondage. The color is so strong, the crystal forgets itself and identifies itself with the color. Suppose a red flower is near the crystal: the crystal takes the color and forgets itself, thinks it is red. We have taken the color of the body and have forgotten what we are. All the difficulties that follow come from that one dead body. All our fears, all worries, anxieties, troubles, mistakes, weakness, evil, are from that one blunder-that we are bodies. This is the ordinary person. It is the person taking the color of the flower near to it. We are no more bodies than the crystal is the red flower. – Vivekananda