Brain Food

Below are listed some quotes that I've come across that have either struck an emotional chord in myself or are simply something to think about. All commentary is welcomed.


“By referring to previous struggles and using them as reasons for not getting on with your life today, you’re assigning responsibility to the past for why you can’t be successful or happy in the present.” ~ Wayne Dyer

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” ~ Mother Teresa

There are so many wonderful things hidden inside each and every one of us but we don't know it. We aren't aware of all the treasures that are inside of us waiting to be discovered. And many of us will never know it simply because we spend too much time in our minds and very little time in our hearts.                                      ~Luminita, The Purpose Fairy

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well. 

~ Elizabeth Kubler - Ross

 

Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

~ Carl G. Gustav

“I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates. It doesn’t just hold—that’s ego. Love liberates. It doesn’t bind. Love says, ‘I love you. I love you if you’re in China. I love you if you’re across town. I love you if you’re in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I’d like to have your arms around me. I’d like to hear your voice in my ear. But that’s not possible now, so I love you. Go.’” ~ Dr. Maya Angelou 

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
                                          ~Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

 

 

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.

~Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

 

 

A man who in unconscious of himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbor.

~ Carl G. Jung, The Philosophical Tree

 







 

If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.  ~Joseph Campbell

 

“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something. They’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.” ~ Anthony Robbins

 

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Little Hiccups

Today is going to be one of those embarrassingly raw posts. It just might be of the type where you'll be able to hear my voice as you read my words, or perhaps not. I would like for my words to resonate somewhere in that beautiful head of yours. What I really mean is that I hope some of this shit I'm about to say really fucking sticks.

 Yes. I do curse/swear/have full knowledge of the vulgarity I am displaying on this blog. If you don't like it get the fuck out.

I'm a person with emotions and feelings. Perhaps too much and too often have I put them out there on display to receive the criticisms and harsh words of others. Then again what is too much? And why limit my ability to share with a   insert person/place/thing .  My response to that is............because it hurts. It hurts to be used, let down and to get your hopes up soooo inexplicably high just to watch them come crashing down. That level of hurt doesn't just go away from one day to the next and if it does it will surface later. For when that tempest arrives it will break you down harder than a ton of bricks falling from the sky.

I've found myself wondering...."When do I begin to care again? With that same level of rigor and freedom?"

A part of me just wants to automatically respond, "Just let it go. Release it all and be content in knowing that everything has worked out as it should." On the other hand I say to myself "Well shit, that ended up pretty fucked up. So now what?" Do I continue on being jaded and knowing that I will continue to be disappointed and that most people have become too predictable?

I really dislike not having the answer and as with most things I went out to find an answer. Luckily for me I was cleaning out the outbox  of my personal email and stumbled along The PurposeFairy site. Now I don't know about you guys but I just read her stuff and I feel better. Everything feels like it makes sense again and the walls that I've built around myself aren't necessary. I can breath again and continue on.

So after my recent little fall I've decided to embark on a 21 Day Happiness Challenge, in an attempt to bring myself up again from whatever pit I was stewing in. Hopefully it works and sticks. I'll keep you lovelies updated.

And to all my lovely little meanies.....I love you. I sincerely do from the bottom of my tar heart.

You are doing it WRONG

        Four little words that NO ONE likes to hear but a strong majority express everyday. There should be signs up everywhere with the truth on them "Negativity! Spread it around to make yourself feel better!" That is what people do. Hell, I used to do it and you know what I realized? It's bullshit. Complete and undeniable bullshit. I ask myself "When did shit get so twisted?" As in when did it become okay to belittle others to bring ourselves up. Its origin I cannot pin point or even begin to fathom. On an assumption I would have to say that since man has existed, maybe. Then that would lead me to think that some people are just innately bad and mean. Then if that is the case who do you learn to trust? Do you have to worry about factions developing which end up taking over and you end up not belonging?

           Yes that is the kind of crap I think about people. And I'm getting tired of that singular concept running through my mind.

      I'm sure you all know what it is like to be criticized for being different from the group norm. What few people actually practice and believe is that it is okay to be different. Next time you are at the grocery store, mall or evening in your car and you see someone next to/near you doing something weird, smile. And realize that you are witnessing and experiencing what it is to be humane. Instead look at them smile and remind yourself that they are feeling, breathing animals with a conscience that has the ability to affect others. So don't be a fucking prick.

       Ladies! Gentlemen! Women who don't like being called ladies! Men who think being gentlemanly is overrated!
   
                                                            Be. Nice. To. Each. Other.
 
     And not the superficial put a fake smile on, and act nice. I mean be genuinely kind. Just the way people don't know everything single thing about you, you don't know every single thing about them. Therefore, if you judge them, and chastise them mentally, before getting to know them you are really hindering yourself.
 

             There is always something to learn from each other. So make it happen.

                                                                                 -Mariza R. Reyes -

           Yes, you have just witnessed the creation of a personal quote. You are welcome.

    Winding down:

           What I am trying to say is that we are all different. I am no better than you and you are no better than me. That is the truth. Yes I may have more material wealth but at the end when we are gasping for our last breath, we are equal. Although, what we may have down while living will continue to have a lasting effect on the surviving you and I will be done. Our existence will be over and there is no promise of an after life; so appreciate all the wonderful different people that will come into your life and give you something to make you better.