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Inspiring Stories of Love, Healing, & Empowerment Inspirations
April 2005 Welcome to Inspirations! Global Community For All sends out this e-zine filled with short, inspiring stories of love, healing, and empowerment once every three months. We share these wonderfully inspiring stories to encourage and inspire each other to be the best we can be each day of our lives. If you would like to receive each issue of Inspirations as it is published, click here. Thanks for joining us, and may these words inspire us to ever deepen our commitment to love, heal, and empower; to open to divine guidance; and to choose what’s best for all. The four inspiring stories for this issue are: That I a Better Person May Be — Fred Burks & Friends
That I A Better Person May Be
— Fred Burks & Friends The first two stanzas of the following poem were read to me in a most inspiring, empowering dream by a woman of incredible depth and wisdom over 20 years ago. For many years, the poem captured some of the deepest wisdom available for me in moving through my life. Then, one day just last year, I realized that this insightful poem was yet incomplete. It spoke powerfully of the two sides of polarization, but not of the coming together of these two into a beautiful synthesis. Seemingly simultaneous to this realization, the third stanza came to me from a place deep within my heart. May this inspiring poem help guide all of us to find the deep wisdom of these qualities ever more within ourselves. That I A Better Person May Be Light that lies deep
within me Darkness
that lies deep within me Love
that lies deep within me A
Little Boy Makes a Big Sacrifice—Relayed by Dan Millman "So you think I'm courageous?" she asked. "Yes, I do." "Perhaps
I am. But that's because I've had some inspiring teachers. I'll tell you about
one of them. "Many years ago, when I worked as a volunteer at Stanford Hospital, I got to know a little girl named Liza who was suffering from a rare and serious disease. Her only chance of recovery appeared to be a blood transfusion from her five-year-old brother, who had miraculously survived the same disease and had developed the antibodies needed to combat the illness. "The doctor
explained the situation to her little brother, and asked the boy if he would
be willing to give his blood to his sister. I saw him hesitate for only a
moment before taking a deep breath and saying, 'Yes, I'll do it if it will
save Liza.' "As the transfusion progressed, he lay in bed next to his sister and smiled, as we all did, seeing the color returning to her cheeks. "Then his face grew pale and his smile faded. He looked up at the doctor and asked with a trembling voice, 'Will I start to die right away?' "Being young, the boy had misunderstood the doctor; he thought he was going to have to give her all his blood. "Yes,
I've learned to have courage," she added, "because I've had inspiring
teachers."
The Positive Approach – Peace Pilgrim I have chosen the positive approach—instead of stressing the bad things I am against, I stress the good things which I am for. Those who choose the negative approach dwell on what is wrong, resorting to judgment and criticism, and sometimes even to name-calling. Naturally, the negative approach has a detrimental effect on the person who uses it, while the positive approach has a good effect. When evil is attacked, it mobilizes, although it may have been weak and unorganized before, and therefore attack gives it validity and strength. When there is not attack, but instead good influences are brought to bear upon the situation, not only does the evil tend to fade away, but the evil-doer tends to be transformed. The positive approach inspires—the negative approach makes angry. When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. Anger is transient, whereas inspiration sometimes has a lifelong effect. Our
Deepest Fear
We ask ourselves Your playing small We
are all meant to shine, It's not just in some of us; And as we let our own light shine,
All the darkness of the world cannot put out the light of a single candle.
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