Last year, I started the practice of writing down at the end of each day a quote that inspired that day. I began to share this here too – you’ll find my posts for May, June and July. I continued the practice in August too, but didn’t share it here and then became quite irregular with the practice until the beginning of December. In December, I started to maintain a special notebook to write down words that inspired me. So here I am sharing words that inspired me in December 2022.
Words That Inspired Me in December 2022
1 to 15 December
1 Dec – If every tip of every hair on me could speak, I still couldn’t say my full gratitude. – Rumi
2 Dec – Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage one cannot practise any virtue consistently. – Maya Angelou
3 Dec – Sometimes being still is the most potent form of movement. – Cory Allen
4 Dec – You don’t think yourself your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into into a new kind of thinking. – Henri Nouwen
5 Dec – You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. – Najavo Proverb
6 Dec – As you review your day, it is important to revise each negative reaction so that you can remember it as what you wished had happened rather than storing that memory as it did occur. What you think of with feeling or emotion is an actual fact. – Neville Goddard
7 Dec – Let everything happen to you : beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. – Rainer Maria Rilke
8 Dec – Difficult people appear in your life as opportunities for you to create authentic power. – Gary Zukav
9 Dec – We tend to see rest as the place we fall into after we’ve worn ourselves out with work. But what if our best work begings from a place of rest? – Alan Falding
10 Dec – When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed. – Zhoung Zhou
11 Dec – The world doesn’t just need light; it needs your unique light. – Rebecca Baldwin
12 Dec – Everything you lose gives you a little more space for something new. – Ashleigh Brilliant
13 Dec – It’s rebellious, in a way, to choose joy, to dance, to love your life. It’s much easier and much more common to be miserable. We could just live our normal, day to day lives, saving all the good living up for someday, but I think it’s our job to live each day like it’s a special ocassion because we’ve been given a gift. – Shauna Niequist
14 Dec – Nothing every goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. – Pema Chödrön
15 Dec – Sink deep into the peace that waits for you beyond the frantic, riotous thoughts. – A Course In Miracles
16 to 31 December
16 Dec – Each person is the architect of their own fate. – Appius Claudius Caecus
17 Dec – Grow. Not to teach them a lesson, not to make them sorry, not to brink them back. Grow …so that you can move forward. – Anon
18 Dec – Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live. – Paulo Coehlo
19 Dec – The only thing we can do about awful people is not to be one of them. – Bryant McGill
20 Dec – Abundance is not a numberor acquistion. It is the simple recognition of enoughness. – Alan Cohen
21 Dec – Our spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, expecting that new things will happen to us, new things that are far beyond our own imagination or prediction. This, indeed, is a very radical stance toward life in a world preoccupied with control. – Henri Nouwen
22 Dec – We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato
23 Dec – I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. – Rosa Parks
24 Dec – Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us. – David Cameron
25 Dec – Remember, if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree. – Charlotte Carpenter
26 Dec – Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. – Henry David Thoreau
27 Dec – Inspiration responds to our attentiveness in various and sometimes unexpected ways. – Wayne W. Dyer
28 Dec – Clutter is not just physical stuff. It’s old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better half. – Eleanor Brownn
29 – Good things take time…including learning to pace yourself. – Morgan H Nichols
30 Dec – Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one. – Pocahontas
31 Dec – Half of living is reflecting on what is being lived. Henri Nouwen
This is a real treasure house for me.