Words That Inspired Me in April 2023

Life has been going well – I’m reading a lot, writing a bit and learning a lot. These are the words that inspired me in April 2023.

01/04 – When you start paying closer attention to your mind, you slowly become more aware of your words, impulses, and how you express yourself in the world. It’s that slight gap of awareness where the choice for self-growth lives. – Cory Allen

02/04 – Enthusiasm is a form of social courage. – Gretchen Rubin

03/04 – Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage. – Claude M Bristol

04/04 – Make your own recovery the first priority in your life. – Robin Norwood

05/04 – Everytime we say ‘Let there be!’ in any form, something happens. – Stella Terrill Mann

06/04 – We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is something valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. – E E Cummings

07/04 – Gratitude arisese when we bring an open and full presence into our life and its sweetness is the feeling of homecoming. – Tara Brach

08/04 – We’re build to live simultaneously in love and loss, bitter and sweet. – Susan Cain

09/04 – Healing comes from letting there be room for everything : room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy. – Pema Chödrön

10/04 – May we each discover our own form of spiritual electricity – and light up our world. – Eileen Rivers

11/04 – When you move, you groove. When you flow, you grow. – Lariv Athem

12/04 – Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. – Seneca

13/04 – The way we show up for our lives today and tomorrow has an enormous effect on who will be and what will be experiencing years from now. – Madisyn Taylor

14/04 – If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavour. – Eleanor Roosevelt

15/04 – Part of our collective story is how to meaningfully hold grief and hope, acknowledging what cannot be changed and still envisioning all that can be. – Carrie Newcomer (listen to her song here)

16/04 – Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspectds of yourself you want to change. – Jerry Frankhauser

17/04 – We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic. – Susan Jeffers

18/04 – Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. – Shakti Gawain

19/04 – Whatever God’s dream about man may be, it seems certain that it cannot come true unless man cooperates. – Stella Terrill Mann

20/04 – I shut my eyes in order to see. – Paul Gauguin

21/04 – Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast, in the pool where you least inspect it, there will be a fish. – Ovid

22/04 – Desire, ask, believe, receive. – Stella Terrill Mann

23/04 – The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. – Hazrat Inayat

24/04 – Eliminate something superflous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure. – Piero Ferrucci

25/04 – Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. – Benjamin Franklin

26/04 – Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. – Charles Dickens

27/04 – With the gift of grace, there is no checklist, save allowing the healing places to work their magic. If I’m only focussed only on the payoff (destination), I miss the gifts on the journey. – Terry Hershey

28/04 – He who lacks time to mourn, lacks the time to mend. – Sir Henry Taylor

29/04 – How you love yourself is how your teach others to love you. – Rupi Kaur

30/04 – If you have the ability to love, love yourself first. – Charles Bukowski