Here are a few beautiful, insightful and inspirational affirmations, excerpts from books or spoken messages. These "gifts through words" are inspirations in the creative journey of life for all to enjoy!
"Everything has spirit. I don't care what it is. Water likes to talk to us. All you have to do is go sit by a creek somewhere, and it'll start singing to you. If you listen carefully, you can hear a voice in it. It's also important to go out and start talking to trees. If you start drumming in the forests, pretty soon you'll see the trees begin moving with the rhythm of the drum - that's the spirit of the tree. Trees have special powers. If you sit under a tree or lie there day dreaming, the tree will give you energy".
Corbin Harney, an elder and spiritual leader of the Western Shoshone peoples as quoted in Plant Spirit Healing (p25) by Pam Montgomery (2008)
"Stories are flowers, they give pleasure. But the flowers come from seed, the truth of principle or message. The flowers change. Some grow big, some small, some are tossed by the wind unti you hardly recognise the blossom. But the seed - the message - remains true."
Quote by Mary Pukui taken from The Hawaiian Oracle, Animal Spirit Guides from the Land of Light (p19) by Rima A. Morrell PhD
"Remember that it is your thoughts that have made the world what it is today. Do not be afriad of change. Trust yourself and acknowledge your greatness and your divinity. Use your power to demand your full potential from understanding who you are. You have a choice to stand up and be counted and speak out what you know to help the ones who are still asleep to this awareness".
Excerpt taken from The Body is the Barometer of the Soul, So Be Your Own Doctor II (chp 3, p27) by Annette Noontil www.annettenoontil.com
"The moment you become aware of the ego in yourself, that emerging awareness is who you are beyond ego, the deeper 'I'. The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real".
Excerpt taken from A New Earth (chp 3, p81) by Eckhart Tolle www.eckharttolle.com
"Breath is the vehicle of our existence, and it is the only means for developing fundamental trust in the moment. When we sit on our cushions and simply drift, let ourselves be swept away by the past or the future, that's not trusting the moment. It's the opposite of equanimity. Trusting the moment means trusting the breath, melting into it. By losing ourselves in each breath-moment, we set up a boundless mutual flow. We trust the breath and the breath trusts us. Every breath we give is returned, fulfilling us completely. There's nothing more we need: goal and purpose become one. At that moment, our breathing fully expresses everything that exists. The whole universe is part of the process, literally".
Excerpt taken from Grassroots Zen (p47) by Manfred B. Steger and Perle Besserman
"The acceptance of change can be an important factor in reducing a large measure of our self-created suffering. So often, for instance, we cause our own suffering by refusing to relinquish the past. If we define our self-image in terms of what we used to look like or in terms of what we used to be able to do and can't do now, it is a pretty safe bet that we won't grow happier as we grow older. Sometimes, the more we try to hold on, the more grotesque and distorted life becomes".
Excerpt taken from The Art of Happiness - A Handbook for Living (chp 9, p164) by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, M. D. www.theartofhappiness.com | 
