Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

"One man can make a difference and every man should try."

- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

I have come to understand the judgement implied in the word SHOULD. I giggle when I hear a friend say, "Don't SHOULD on me." It's funnier when you say it fast. Kinda juvenile like when the Minions say, "He said Underpants. Chortle chortle."

That said, I reframe that in my mind and translate that into, "....every man can try."

Llewelyn Powers

"To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy... is the true aim and end to life."

- Llewelyn Powers

Waking Universe with Darryl Anka & Bashar

I had the opportunity to listen to this interview with Darryl Anka & Bashar, from YouTube this week with my spiritual group:

http://youtu.be/DyNwxRMgJbY

I do not have any personal experience with channeling and as usual I am skeptical but open to it.  Perhaps the only thing close to channeling is several times in my life, I have not intentionally given people my opinion on "things" and when I was done, I kind of shook my head and wondered where did that come from?  I don't know if that is channeling but it is the closest thing that I can relate to but certainly, I was surprised and can not replicate it.

Anyway back to Bashar.  After this video clip, I checked out some of his other stuff on YouTube.  I noted that the "persona" in this video and other Bashars seemed to be slightly different. Not sure what that means.  My perception is that Bashar is humorously animated and I liked his sarcasm. I'm not sure if he is the "real deal" but I think I should treat him and channeling the same way I treat things that I am not sure of....keep an open mind and use my discernment and look beyond the smoke and mirrors (distractions) and noodle the information to see if I might want to consider updating my "truth".

Much of the time, my analytic brain kept saying, can't prove it, can't replicate it, can't trust it...his truth, not mine.  There were several things I did find interesting. 

One thing that has always troubled me is when people make comments that time is an illusion.  That puzzles me because I experience the passage of time and my body is aging.  And why do people tell you to stay in the NOW...which seems to be different from the past and the future. Bashar talks a lot about alternative realities that you can jump to, based on your choices...I can't get my mind around that yet. 

Bashar did explain the illusion of the passage of time concept in a way that peaked my interest.  He described it like a movie which is made up of single frames that are spliced together. When you look at a single frame you might see a picture of a car, still, not moving.  But when you run the movie that single picture of a car can give you the illusion of movement.  It also makes sense when we used to draw cartoons on cards and then fan them to see the characters move.  That seemed to make some sense to me, kind of, sort of.....I don't know that I would call it a truth for me but my mind didn't reject it....it said, hmmmmmm.

John Hersey

"The reality is that changes are coming... They must come. You must share in bringing them."

- John Hersey

John Armstrong

"Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, is hope."

- John Armstrong

Arthur Ashe

"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost."

- Arthur Ashe

George Eliot

"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."

- George Eliot

Herman Melvill

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men."

- Herman Melvill

Henry David Thoreau

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

Denis Waitley

"It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit."

- Denis Waitley

Marcel Proust

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

- Marcel Proust

Steve Jobs

"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

- Steve Jobs

Robert Sargent Shriver

"It is not what you get out of life that counts. It's what you give and what is given from the heart."

- Robert Sargent Shriver

Marshall B. Rosenberg

"At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled."

- Marshall B. Rosenberg

Henry David Thoreau

"The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched."

- Henry David Thoreau

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"A world without love would be no world."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Doc Childre and Howard Martin

"Care provides a conduit for our spirit's expression in the midst of our social existence. The more we truly care, the more we'll come to know ourselves and others. Care provides the key to unlocking our potential and making it real."

- Doc Childre and Howard Martin

Benjamin Mays

"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."

- Benjamin Mays