Spiritual Enlightenment --How do we discover daily inspirations within inspiring life quotes? Part II

Let's start with this inspiring life quote. How do we experience these words as a door to increasing daily inspirations, and spiritual enlightenment.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

So suffering must become love. That is the mystery.
Katherine Mansfield


“Everything in life” – I experience that everything in this room, every thought and reaction in my brain, every event that has occurred or is anticipated has God’s energy and meaning all in and through it. Nothing is wasted. And everything is personally meaningful by higher design.

“Everything in life that we really accept” – I experience acceptance as the insertion of higher Presence -- through daily inspirations -- into every thought, experience and event of my life. This provides the sense of meaning and purpose for “everything in life”

The opposite of acceptance, for me, is control. As I breathe and experience
Control, I experience separation and abandonment from my past, the expectation – within my brain’s programming – that this pain will continue. I experience a constriction of neural energy aimed instinctively at “controlling” the pending outcomes of my life.

Constriction of neural energy hurts – “suffering” – mentally, emotionally, physically, and socially. In the absence of Presence, my brain resists what is, and I suffer. The solution for me is acceptance -- the loving and caring Presence of my higher Power.

Everything in my life that I suffer must go through change. For me, daily inspirations and meditations – including inspiring life quotes -- have created filters of caring Presence through which the sewage of my past can be changed from pain to love. Love for me is the intimate and unconditional connection and participation with my higher Presence, others, and ultimately myself.

“This is the mystery.” This is an exciting sentence. I experience my life beginning to change without my understanding and intellect -- exceeding all the expectations that my brain can produce.

My child self calls this “magic”. There is a personal energy swirling around and entering my brain that is creating a better “story” – the exciting adventures and stories of my life. Everything is enormously unpredictable, and as I surrender to Presence, and listen to their voices, wonderful unexpected “things” happen – within my perceptions and reactions. And life is incredibly never the same.

Life and spiritual healing begins with suffering – because I am human. Life mysteriously arrives at spiritual enlightenment and loving Presence, through the practice of daily inspirations – the experience of inspiring life quotes – each moment, each breath of my day.

With each new day I put away the past

and discover the new beginnings I have been given.
Angela Wozniak

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Daily Inspirations -- Spiritual EnLIGHTenment Begins with Experiencing the Darkness

Experience the darkness.
Resistance is futile. We are powerless over the Darkness, and light – our human awareness -- has become unmanageable. We need to stop and consciously feel – experience – the Darkness.

I would suggest the following exercise:
Close your eyes, and sit quietly with your eyes closed. Experience the physical darkness – the absence of light.

With your eyes still closed, get up and begin to move about. Bump into things. Feel for reference points in the room. Pick up things and try to put them back. Be aware of your sense of disconnectedness, helplessness, and need for Someone who can see what you can’t.

Sit back down with your eyes still closed. Breathe deeply for a few moments.

Gently open your eyes. Write down your observations and experiences of the following questions:
1. What do you feel?
2. What thoughts come to the surface of your brain?
3. What memories seemed to come into your experience?
4. How would you describe your helplessness, and the separation – from mild to incredible loneliness?

Our brains have learned to use physical sensation – primarily visual sight -- as distractions from awareness of the darkness. The sensory and visible world is not real. Only what we experience is real – not our perceptions. And under the influence of human sight and sensation, the

Darkness becomes hidden in the artificial and imaginary brightness of physical light and sound.

Another suggested exercise:
Go into a room of people. Sit in or near the group. Close your eyes, and experience the voices and words – and the distance and perhaps the connection between yourself and them.

Darkness is the absence of the light of Presence – the absence of intimate connection with our higher Presence, others and ourselves. Without this intimate connection, there is no exchange or flow of energy that can empower our brains and souls to feel Presence and love.

Consciously and deliberately experience the Darkness. This will be the beginning for experiencing our higher Presence and spiritual enlightenment through daily inspirations.

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Daily Inspirations Can Change Darkness into Spiritual EnLIGHTenment

Life is difficult – when it is conscious. In the absence of consciousness – without spiritual enlightenment –human beings live in a massive void of darkness, without it ever becoming a major life problem to be dealt with. Normally, one is born, lives 70-80 years, and never really experiences the darkness – unless something or someone in one’s life breaks the seal of the primitive brain, and opens the stored neural darkness to glimmers of light and conscious sensation.

Our Real Enemy
Our real enemy as human beings is not illness, poverty, bondage, or death—but consciousness. We can endure the worst of circumstances and even death – as long as we are not forced to do so consciously. And everything can be going exactly as we think we want it, externally, but if our level of consciousness is too high, we are of all people most miserable. So our brain resists and fights consciousness as if it is death. Actually the fear of death is the fear of consciousness – of ultimate conscious separation and abandonment.

Stay Away From the Light
The problem with consciousness – with the Light coming on inside -- is that it begins to expose the wretched separation and abandonment that is the real human condition on this material plane. We human beings live separated and alone – aching in the shame that something is terribly and horribly wrong with us, and that this is the reason we are so alone -- why no one is there – no one is there inside with us.

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As a result, our brains have closed our eyes to truth, and created an imaginary world, composed of imaginary people -- where we have a collection of alternating imaginary selves –masked selves – who participate in this imaginary world without having to experience the Darkness -- consciously.

“I Am Not Sick!”
There is a story told about Jesus talking to a group of religious intellectuals of his day. He said to them, “those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.” For years I puzzled his statement. Spiritually, these intellectuals were some of the “sickest” people of the day. Then one day I experienced what he was saying: if a person does not consciously experience that they are sick – or in the Darkness – they have no need for help – or the Light – no matter how sick or how dark their lives are.

The fortunate -- or unfortunate -- few have had some major life event or series of events that shoves them into consciousness of the Darkness – and they have been blinded by the initial light of human consciousness. The result is major conscious bearing pain and fear.

So when this happens, what can we do? How do we learn to live in Light?

Connect with the Light of Presence
Darkness involves our brains blocking out parts of the neural network in order to avoid conscious experience of the absence of higher Presence and of the incredible separation and alienation from ourselves and from others.

First light begins when human life experiences expose these dark areas of the brain to light – human conscious awareness. If higher Presence is not also accessed, the brain will reassert darkness, and the human conscious awareness will fade back into the dark abyss.

Sustained Light begins with the insertion of an emerging spiritual experience of higher Presence, which most frequently begins with the experience, strength, and hope of others. So to begin we need to connect with others, specifically through the experience of daily inspirations. We need to connect with the Light of Presence.

Openings
Daily inspirations are others’ expressed experiences of the Light that has entered and influenced their lives. These expressions are openings for receiving spiritual enlightenment that reconnects us with the Light. I believe that sometimes these expressions were conscious experiences for the author, and sometimes they were expressed in unconsciousness. Ultimately, what I hear and experience is more important than what was said – or meant.

These openings – daily inspirations -- include inspiring life quotes, inspirational readings, spiritual coaching, and the stories and sharings by others of spiritual principles -- their application of spiritual enlightenment.

Connecting with the Light of Presence means to collect and regularly experience those daily inspirations --spiritual openings and resources -- that bring spiritual enlightenment and Presence into our Darkness on a regular basis.

The Light of Presence reveals and heals the Darkness of the past and present – creating openings and opportunities for spiritual enlightenments and a Better Life by Higher Design.

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Twelve Spiritual Principles of Daily Inspirations And Spiritual Enlightenment: Part Five -- Spiritual Therapy

Now that we have completed an initial spiritual history of our human disease, and have shared it with our higher Presence and ourselves by admitting its secrets to a spiritual coach or guide, these next two spiritual principles are the spiritual therapy which can bring spiritual healing.

Daily inspirations are sources of spiritual enlightenment and Presence from inspiring life quotes, inspirational readings, spiritual coaching, spiritual meditations, and others’ personal stories and experiences. They prepare us to receive spiritual therapy, and they are administered regularly as actual spiritual therapy.

Daily inspirations provide sources of spiritual energy – intimate Presence – which begin restoring us to spiritual enlightenment with others, ourselves and our higher Presence.

Sixth Spiritual Principle: We became entirely ready to have our higher Presence treat and heal the symptoms of our humanness.

As we disclose our secrets, we begin and continue the healing process of spiritual therapy for our wounded brains. To continue the process of spiritual healing and spiritual enlightenment, we must proceed through the progression of spiritual therapy treatments – inserting and improving conscious connection to our higher Presence into the unPresence. For this spiritual principle to operate, two things are necessary:
1. Our level of conscious human experience – pain -- must be great enough to create a willingness to be treated. Short term, spiritual therapy is going to increase our neural discomfort. Long term, only spiritual therapy will actually heal our humanness and eliminate our symptoms. If the conscious pain is not great enough we will abandon spiritual therapy, and return to active human illness.
2. Our level of conscious spiritual Presence must be great enough to protect us from being overwhelmed by emerging consciousness, and by resulting emotional pain. Our level of higher spiritual Presence must be great enough to restore serenity to our unPresent neural pathways.

This spiritual principle involves preparation for spiritual therapy, and the maintenance of this preparation, both by the steady practice of daily inspirations with the help of spiritual coaching.

Seventh Spiritual Principle: We humbly asked Him and/or Her to heal our humanness.

We ask humbly because we are powerless to remove our own symptoms and illness. This too is a part of the process. I cannot treat my own illness or remove my own symptoms. I must maintain and experience an intimate relationship with my higher Presence that allows me to ask and receive the necessary spiritual therapy of Presence.

We receive the spiritual therapy of increasing Presence
1. When we are faced with circumstances that make our illness and symptoms conscious.
2. When we respond – humbly – to these circumstances and events by disclosing our feelings and experiences in spiritual coaching, and asking through this support and through daily inspirations for spiritual healing.
3. When we have experienced the renewed calmness and serenity of spiritual enlightenment.

In practicing these principles of spiritual enlightenment and spiritual therapy, we begin to regain our lost and wounded selves from the neural abyss of our brains – and our lives become a Better Place by Higher Design.

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How Does Love and Faith Relate to Finding Daily Inspiration? (Part Four)

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see,
and knows what the mind cannot understand.
Robert Vallett

Finding daily inspirations is about learning to live primarily in the experiences of the human heart not the mind or brain.

The brain is merely a laptop of the soul. But our species and culture have made it the ultimate destination of existence. It is believed that if we know the facts, and understand the dynamics of life, we can control our ultimate outcomes.

The real quality of living is not in the outcomes – that is a human myth. Ultimately inspiration helps us see that quality living exists in the perceptions and reactions of a heart that’s intimately connected to a higher Presence.

Inspirational quotes and readings contain messages that only the heart can read. And when it does, we can feel our brains and bodies relax deeply into the warm loving Arms of “they” who are Present. Daily inspiration involves learning to live within those warm loving Arms. We don’t want to be “just visiting”.

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How Do We Listen to Inspirational Life Quotes?

In search of inspirational living, I added to my journalling the reading of daily inspirations – often called daily meditation books. Since 1990 I have read readings from eight to fifteen meditation and other inspirational books in my mornings.

The following is an inspirational life quote from one such book:

There exists a mystic Power that is able to transform your life so thoroughly, so radically, so completely, that when the process is completed your own friends would hardly be able to recognize you, and in fact, you would scarcely be able to recognize yourself.
Emmet Fox


These are words. These words are organized into thoughts. The thoughts are inspirational because they describe the hope and change possible when we develop consistent routines of finding daily inspirations, and living in their energy and strength.

However, there is more to inspirational life quotes and words than the thoughts they produce. I have experienced a deeper level of inspiration, which I believe is available to all who pursue their power.

Understanding Me: My brain operates on the presence or absence of Presence – disconnection or intimacy with my Self, others, and a higher Presence. Disconnection and absence of presence is traumatic – painful and frightening – the ultimate separation feared being death.

The part of me that thinks, reasons, and seems to makes decisions is only the mask that I present to others – and to myself. In a natural state of existence, the primitive part of my brain, which some call the “reptilian brain”, actually has a controlling interest in what I perceive, how I react emotionally, and what I ultimately do and say.

In a natural state of human being, these two parts of my brain operate independent of each other, as long as the neural energy of my brain is stable.

Separation and Abandonment: When I have experienced massive separation from others, I was also separated from my Self, and my higher Presence. At these times, the neural energy of my brain became unstable. At that point, my primitive brain took over, and there was no longer a “will” or choices, or reasonable decision-making. My brain went into survival mode, and my brain did whatever is necessary to reduce the perceived ”threat” of neural overload.

Because of the frequency and intensity of my past separation experiences, my primitive brain has created an unconscious mind, which is maintained by reducing the amount of sensation that my senses receive (for example, forgetfulness, and being oblivious to details right in front of me.). And my unconscious mind is maintained by suppressing past experiences – especially the undischarged energy that were activated with the separations.

So, my senses do not perceive accurately because sensory receptors are turned of, and because intellectually the perceptual part of my reasoning and thinking mind is neutralized. And my reactions are muted by automatically suppressed neural energies, whether unresolved from the past or activated by the present.

So what does all of this have to do with finding daily inspirations, and experiencing their inspiring life messages?

In my experience, the only thing that restores the connections between the disconnected parts of my brain, and allows the past to be discharged from the present is the conscious contact with a personal, intimate Presence. And the most effective means of this occurring is learning to listen to and experience inspirational life quotes and words as if they were being spoken personally and intimately to me by my higher Presence.


This requires us to bypass mere thoughts and words and move into experience and feelings, in order to open our deeper selves to our higher Presence. This is the crux and core of finding daily inspiration that can inspire and change our lives.

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Finding Daily Inspirations and Journalling: Learning to Listen

In using journalling to find daily inspirations, I had to begin to learn how to listen.

Sound is experienced by the human brain. Sound waves – varying wavelengths and frequencies of air motion, enters the ear, causing the eardrum to vibrate. This vibration of energy by the eardrum activates neural receptors in the ear, and energy is activated and sent to the brain. The brain has developed perceptual filters that analyze the neural energy waves, labeling and distinguishing sounds by their patterns. So one can hear and distinguish a bird singing, a bell ringing, a person talking, a dog barking, and etc…

Learning to listen at the level of inspirations through journaling involves a different set of sensory receptors and perceptual filters. My brain cannot receive this input and process the data. When I am actually listening with my spiritual senses, I experience a Presence that exceeds my brain’s understanding resulting in a corresponding serenity and joy that exceeds my understanding.

I hear many people making mental thought the “god” of human experience and change. My experience is that mental thought is actually a barrier to inspiration, hope, and a serene sense of presence.

Thought is like a magician’s magic tricks – a sleight of hand, a hidden compartment, a secret passage – illusion and deception. Thought was created to hide us from ourselves so we could seemingly survive the separation and abandonments of life. The facts feel threatening, so instead of consciously experiencing them, we think them, inserting a neural space between what is and who am I perceive myself to be.

So when I was journaling and finding daily inspirations, I had to learn how to get past my human attraction to thought, and into experiencing of an intimately loving Presence. I had to learn to listen with a different set of “ears”.

The words that I heard and still hear frequently is “listen to the stillness”, and “listen to the rustling in the backgrounds” – the background of what is being thought by my brain.

So I would take several deep breaths, “listen” to the “stillness”, and to the faint rustling in background, and write down the words that seemed to flow out the end of my pen.

Sometimes it seemed like random gibberish and nonsense. But as I continued to “listen” and write, I began to experience a growing Presence –someone who loved, cared about, and accepted me unconditionally – someone who was actively present in my life.

Slowly the words began to vibrate with a different energy. The words became filled with a personal and flowing energy of Presence, and my human perceptions and reactions began to change.

It began with the conscious experience of my Self – my feelings, questions, and struggles – in my journalling, and continued a listening and hearing that exceeded my brain’s thoughts. And through the words on the paper, I began to experience intimate energies through the sense of my spiritual self, and to receive life changing and incredible awakenings of perception and reaction.

Finding daily inspirations through journalling requires learning to listen with a different set of "ears".



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Finding Daily Inspirations and Journalling

In 1985, during the beginning of the darkest period of my life, I was in counseling with an Episcopal priest – a very gentle, wise, and caring person. At one session, he gave me an assignment to write a letter to God – to share my deepest feelings, thoughts, fears, and questions. I came back the next session and read my letter. We talked about what I had written, and felt, and the questions I was asking “God” to answer. The letter was a very positive experience.

For the next session, my assignment was to write a letter from God to me. This felt very alien and somehow forbidden. How could I presume to talk for “God”? For my whole life – at least since eight years old – I had tried really hard to hear God’s voice – to be open to His verbal expression in my thoughts and decisions.

It had never really happened.

As I prepared to write this letter, I found a quiet place – alone – closed my eyes, and whispered some kind of prayer – then I listened, and put my pen to the paper, writing, “Dear Will”. I simply began to write what was coming to the surface of my mind. I don’t remember what I wrote, but I do remember a growing sense of warmth, and a caring sense of Presence. Someone seemed to be there in a new and unusual way.

I continued the letter for several days. And when I came back for the next session, I shared my letter and the experience with the priest. I thought out loud my wonder at what it would be like to do this every day as part of my finding daily inspirations.

I went back to my office after the session, and got a steno pad. And nearly every day since then I have started my day by writing down, “Dear God” – expressing my feelings, fears, struggles, and questions – asking for support, direction, and Presence. And then after a quiet stillness, writing down what I felt I heard – deep, deep inside.

At first what I heard was very simple and loving, with simple loving support and suggestions. It has never really involved direct instructions or “commands”. In fact, over time I began to realize that the primary result of what I heard was the “answers” to four critical questions that would ultimately determine the quality of my life.
1. Is Somebody really there? Is there a personal Someone – not just some life force that merely blows life and death around according to some organized set of rules and laws? I had tried so hard to find this Somebody with my mind through books and education and religion since I was a small child. My mental attempts had failed miserably.
2. Does this Someone really care about me? Am I important to this personal being? Does what I feel and experience matter to Someone? Does this Someone have caring concern about my life and my welfare?
3. Can this Someone take care of me? How powerful and effective is this person? When I have a problem, does He and/or She have the ability to really take care of “things’? Or are they just concerned spectators who sit helplessly by, watching my demise?
4. Are they taking care of me right now? Are they actually actively doing what is needed to take care of me? Do they have a plan and a destiny for my life – that I would want and agree with if I could see with their eyes?

To me these are the ultimate spiritual and emotional questions of the human race – and certainly of my life. And the answers are not “yes or no”. In fact the part of my brain that would answer “yes or no” really has no access to the experiences and awakenings that really has the answers.

Finding daily inspirations and journalling has become a lifestyle, an ongoing healing process and journey. And in the coming days, I will be sharing more and more of my experience, strength and hope, with the belief that you too can be finding daily inspirations that make your life a better place by higher design.

INSPIRATIONAL LIFE QUOTES FOR BETTER LIVING

How can inspirational life quotes improve my life?

Life is composed of events, circumstances, and outcomes. Sometimes – many times – the volume and quality of these occurrences are disturbing, mood altering, or at least distracting. Somewhere in the flurry of what is and what could be, we lose focus, hope, a sense of companionship and well-being. The experience of living becomes a vacant, isolated spot in a meaningless universe of detail and effort.

We need reminders of something bigger and better than the normal struggles of being human. We need something that can remind us of a better place by a higher design that gives meaning and purpose to what seems to be.

Inspirational life quotes are words, written from the depths of human experience, that show and remind us of what we have forgotten. The words of inspirational life quotes reflect energy, motion, a sense of purpose and destiny. Inspirational life quotes reflect the meaning and purpose of living from the personal experience, strength and hope of human beings who have been “there”.

It is time to stop for a moment. Take some deep and conscious breaths. Reflect deeply on the expressions that inspirational life quotes provide. What we are looking for is something that changes our perceptions and reactions – even if only for a few moments. Inspirational life quotes can begin our daily journey back to our hopes, and dreams, and higher presence in the midst of life’s storms.

Stopping to listen—listening to hear – hearing hope, meaning, purpose -- and maybe the lightness of humor –inspirational life quotes – reaching out for better living experiences through meaningful, insightful words.

How to use inspirational ecards to inspire others

Life can be a busy place. Hustling, bustling , rushing from one destination to another event and away from recent situations and demands. In such a world, there is a serious need for hope and presence – the kind that can come from an inspirational message from inspirational ecards.

Completely downloadable and printable at home, without having to leave your chair, these caring and inspirational ecards bring moments and hours of assurance, hope, sense of being cared about and special.

Many of the people we know and care about could use the encouragement and support of inspirational attention. Knowing that they are not alone can inspire others to reach beyond their human fear and fatigue, their lives taking new and better directions, and finding new inspired experiences of who they really are.

Different people will respond to different inspirational cards. There are cards for those who have strong Christian faiths. Others will find inspiration in the positive energies of caring friends. Others will find motivational inspirations encouraging and uplifting. And others will be uplifted and relaxed by humorous inspirational cards.

Another type of inspirational ecard that many find uplifting are personalized ecards. With these cards, one can put together different inspirational material and quotes to make a card that says something personal that one wants to say.

There are lots and lots of alternatives. The first step is the desire to touch another person – and then find the inspiration that you want to share.

WHERE ARE WE FINDING DAILY INSPIRATIONS?

Finding Daily Inspirations
Everyone, every day has life situations that challenges their peace and happiness. Everyone is challenged with finding daily inspirations that can lift their spirits, help them through unpleasant events, and just make their day go smoother.

Finding daily inspirations can be difficult when everyone around us is focused on the problems at hand, when everyone is struggling to comprehend and understand the meaning and purpose of the unexplainable.

Inspirations are words and images that remind us deep inside, below the level of thought, that there is a force and presence for good, progress and success in our lives. These experiences relax our minds from the daily rumblings of impending uncertainty, and allows us live in the flow of life events without having to hide and seek with what is.

What we are offering in the way of finding daily inspirations are resources where one can see different alternatives of inspirational quotes, stories, books, and other literature and resources that can be used daily for inspiring our minds and hearts to see the positive and experience the hope that life can offer.

Inspiration is about finding a better living by discovering daily the words, images, and experience that can maintain our individual and collective positive attitudes. Inspiration reminds us of what we have forgotten in the turbulence of human life.

Daily inspirations makes this remembering constant and steady. And when the heat get hotter, daily inspiration can cool the flames, and bring us home to our quiet places of rest.