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Journal Writing Ideas from Famous Buddha Quotes

Liz Gracia — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:00:07 +0000

Today’s journal writing ideas and prompts are from a famous Buddha quote, “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”

Here’s my take on this quote:

The Law of Attraction is suggesting the very same thing. No matter what it is that you think about, positive or negative, you are creating those thoughts into an experience in your life. So, pay attention to where you are spending your time. What are you consistently thinking about? How are you consistently feeling while you are thinking these thoughts?

Did you know that you are emitting a vibration while you are thinking and feeling these thoughts? So what are they? If you are in a state of negative emotion and negative thought patterns, you are negatively creating the experience of your life.

If you are predominantly oriented in thinking about life in a positive direction, you are creating positive experiences for your life. If you take the time to see what it is your life has been, many of us will see that we are a mixed bag of the two, so our experiences are mixed.

Therefore, if you don’t like what you’ve created, take responsibility for your life. Take responsibility for your thoughts. Take responsibility for your feelings….and turn them around! Become the deliberate creator of your own life! When you come to the realization that you get everything that you get because you have “asked” for it “vibrationally”, you become the powerful creator of your own life experience now. For more on this topic, click here.

So, today’s journal writing ideas are this:

What aspects of your life do you tend to not take responsibility?
Can you catch yourself blaming others for things and turn it around?
Where do you want to start taking responsibility now in your life?
How can you go about doing this? What new thought can you have about this?

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Written by:
Liz Gracia
Co-Founder
Seeds of Intentions

Liz Gracia is an up and coming self help author now residing in Colorado. Her first nonfiction self help book is based on her true story of a quantum spiritual awakening that took place on the enchanting Island of Nantucket.

She is currently a contestant in the “Next Top Self Help Author” Writing Contest (Feb 2011-May 2011) where the winner will be offered a publishing contract with Conari Press, a major player in the self help publishing arena. Visit her website www.aUniqueVoice.com where you can be the first to read chapters of her book as they become available, vote for a title for the book, vote for this book to get published, read a Teaser and more!

Famous Mark Twain Quotes on Life, a Journal Writing Prompt

seedsofintentions — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:00:11 +0000

Here’s a famous Mark Twain Quote on Life, “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.”

For today’s journal writing prompts I encourage you to do the following:

Make a list of people who belittle your ambitions
Consider how you can stay away from them, if this is really what you want, or at least turn your subject matter with this person to something else. In fact make the belittler the focus of conversation not you (as “small” people would tend to prefer themselves as the center of attention) and simply allow them to be without judgment.
Then get rid of this list. It’s simply for comparison and contrast.
Now make a list of all the people that support, love, encourage and honor you.
What is it that they support, love and honor you for.
Appreciate this and create a list of new things you want to be supported, loved, encouraged and honored for.

Now that you have your journal writing prompts, here’s my take on this quote on life from Mark Twain:

So, I do appreciate the message here, but I would make some modifications. The term “Small people” suggests superiority over another when I feel a more “evolved” or appropriate perspective on all of life is to appreciate that we are all at a different place in our conscious awareness. I would loosely define “small people” as those that do not appreciate our own level of perspective and awareness. They are not there yet and have a limited point of view….at this moment.

I love the analogy from “Conversations with God” books which says that if you appreciate that all of life is going through school at one level or another (and age has nothing to do with it), then you would not call someone “small” if you realized that they were still in nursery school on a subject while you were in high school on the same subject. You would simply appreciate and understand their perspective and allow them their way.

We all know who the “small people” are in our lives. It is best to keep your ambitions to yourself and share them only with those that support you. Vibrationally, those that support you are in alignment with your greatest potential and assist you in maintaining your alignment. “Small people” don’t help you and send your alignment “vibrationally” in the opposite direction.

Don’t give negative attention to those in your life that you would consider “small”. This is an invitation to only offer compassion and kindness and allow them to “be right”. This way of being is much more in alignment with who you really are and who you want to be. …again:

“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.”—Einstein

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Liz Gracia
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Joseph Campbell “Follow Your Bliss…” Quote

Liz Gracia — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:00:06 +0000

Today we discuss the Joseph Campbell quote, “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”

At Seeds of Intentions’ blog we like to provide inspirational quotes as potential journal writing prompts for our readers. It is also a place to set intentions for your life…be deliberate about what you want. Be conscious of what you are asking for and where you give your attention.

Here’s my take on this Joseph Campbell quote about following your bliss:

I feel the “walls” in all of our lives are built with the bricks of “shoulds” we’ve imposed upon ourselves and the bricks of “shoulds” imposed upon us by others….of course I do not suggest that you bare a grudge upon anyone that “shoulds” all over you as it could not come to be if you have not asked for it “vibrationally” in one way or another.

You are the creator here remember.

Let’s start with not “shoulding all over ourselves” anymore. Yet allow others and ourselves to do and be exactly as they/we are in every moment. No matter what.

Become The Master Allower of All that is.

This is a powerful way to be.

So today’s journal writing prompt is this:

Where in your life do you “should” all over yourself?
What can you do today to change that and simply allow yourself to be as you are.
Who “shoulds” all over you and about what?
How can you allow them to continue “shoulding” (because you’ve asked for it!) yet no longer react or respond as you are used to?

When you no longer react…this “shoulding” will disappear. The bomb, so to speak, will diffuse itself because you no longer provide resistance to another. There is no longer anything for the ego to hold on to. (not to demonize the ego or anyone, but that has been decades of my own experience and observations)

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Liz Gracia
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We see things not as they are…HM Tomlinson Quote

Liz Gracia — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:38:29 +0000

“We see things not as they are but as we are”…a quote by HM Tomlinson.

At our Seeds of Intentions blog we like to consider inspirational quotes as journal writing prompts. It also offers us an opportunity to set our own intentions differently and from another perspective.

Here’s our take on this Hm Tomlinson quote:

What we can take from this is that we all have our own filters of perception and perspective. Many of us have a “rut” of perception and perspective. The opportunity here is to appreciate that we are all here to create and express in our own unique and divine way, but we as humans tend to perceive through the state or filter we are in at any given moment. So if you tend to be cynical, or one that has to be “right”, then you limit your experience to your “rutted” way of being…..

Divinity is limitless and infinite and cares to express throughout eternity.

Knowing that divinity, and all of us for that matter, is all eternal, why not allow all things to be seen from that perspective…as divine expression at all levels?

Don’t you love to be appreciated for your unique contribution? Then feel that same way for another and offer that to another by being open to another way.

Appreciate that we are all expressing at our own level of awareness and in the best way we know how for any given moment. This is where compassion and kindness make it easy to be open and loving and to come into the experience of “…seeing things as they truly are…not as we are”

Your life experiences become rich when you open yourself to limitless ways of being, expressing, and creating in this world. I invite you to practice this and see for yourself.

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Expect Miracles!

Amy — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:42:42 +0000

The greatest miracle is the opening of the human heart to the generosity of God.

Father Keating

I love hearning stories of miraculous events that have occurred around the world such as Mother Mary protecting the town in Bosnia, Medugorie. It was spared harm during the civil war even though it was three short miles from the front lines. At one point, bombs were even dropped on Medugorie; however, miraculously they never detonated. Images of Mother Mary have been witnessed in the town since 1981 until presently. Today one can visit Medugorie to witness the miracle firsthand.

When I heard this story, I had the same feeling of wonder I had as a child waking up on Christmas morning to find presents left from Santa under the tree. Miracles strengthen my belief in possibility. That is why Seeds of Intentions has selected miracles as the focus of December. For some reason, the world is a little more accepting of miracles this time of the year.

My husband and I recently experienced a miracle of our own. Last month, we had some financial blockages and were needing the flow of money to once again release. My husband went to pick up the mail one day and unexpectedly, within the pile of mail, was a check for $800. Neither of us recognized the sender nor the company that printed the check. Initially , because a temporary lack of faith, we both thought the check had to be a scam. Curiousity got the best of us though, and we took the check to the bank. Low and behold, the check was legitimate. As we left the bank, the two of us marveled at our miraculous blessing.

With so many people these days, driven by the media, I have observed a sense of hopelessness. It seems to me that strength has wavered. But I am here to tell you that today more than ever, we must hold onto our knowing, our belief in the improbable, and our soft spot in the center of our being.

We must expect miracles. They are not only possible, they are essential. God’s work, when accepted, will surpass our limited human constructs every time…just look at what God accomplished with Jesus.

So, please open your heart to the wonderment that life has to offer. Look for signs that you are not alone. Expect miracles around the next corner…or in your mailbox.

At Seeds of Intentions, you are our miracles. You support our vision to inspire others and to live in authenticity for the good of all. We never take for granted the gifts that we receive. Thank you from the deepest part of our hearts. May your December and the coming year be flooded with miracles.

Written by Amy Spradlin
Co-Founder
Seeds of Intentions
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Sarah McLachlan has a song entitled, “Ordinary Miracle” from the movie Charlotte’s Web that is a miracle unto itself. Listen and be inspired.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, “We are all inventors…”

seedsofintentions — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:53:47 +0000

Today’s Seeds of Intentions Blog is Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, “We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.”

I love this quote! We are eternal. We are limitless. We all have the same source of inspiration. We all have been inspired and moved in infinite ways.

Take the time now to remember what it is that has moved and inspired you. For many, look back to childhood. This is where your true calling was first discovered! By now though you’ve been dissuaded from pursuing it due to limited points of view and ways of being from others. You have been “shoulded” out of your dreams!

All dreams are realizable. All dreams can be one’s life work. One’s life work can be filled with financial abundance, prosperity and joy simply by the asking. Ask to be shown the way. Allow life to show you in numerous ways…this is the providence of synchronicity and coincidence!

Don’t dismiss it!

Simply intend it to be fun, prosperous, easy and wondrous. Then just “let it in” and get out of the way!

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Written by Liz Gracia
Co-Founder
Seeds of Intentions
“Plant Yours Today”

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Inner Child: Pearls of Wisdom

seedsofintentions — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:34:26 +0000

“What are you waiting for? Wear the pearls!”

This statement woke me from sleep at around 3:00 a.m. one night recently. I had selected a picture earlier that week for a picture collage I was doing to honor my inner child. The image was of a young girl, no more than six, draped in strand after strand of pearls. So, I believe these pearls of wisdom came from her. At 3:00 in the morning, I really didn’t want to ponder the message, but when I woke up later it was still ringing in my head. What was the message? What did that wise child want me to know and recognize?

Well, for me it was a message of living…especially in the moment. Why was I saving my lovely, expensive pearls just for special occasions? I can’t think of the last time that I wore them. Their beauty was trapped in a box and hidden from the world. What a shame? Needless to say, I heeded the message and put my pearls on with my denim skirt, flip flops, and my white cotton t-shirt that very morning. When I walked outside, I smiled a smile of naughtiness. Knowing I was doing something unconventional somewhat thrilled me.

During the day, a few people noticed. No one said anything though. I secretly wished they had because I would love to start a revolution. A revolution to not put anything on hold for the “right time”. There is no other time than right now. I am using the pearls of wisdom from my inner child to apply to other facets of my life that I have put away in a box. What am I waiting for? Wear the pearls!

At Seeds of Intentions, we have a perfect pearl necklace from Dogeared Jewelry to begin your process of “wearing the pearls”. It has it’s own inspiring message: “from humble beginnings as a grain of sand, the pearl slowly grows into an object of beauty and simplicity. symbolic of honesty, integrity, prosperity, and wisdom. pearls represent the best within us. let your necklace be a daily reminder of the beauty that shines from a loving heart. enjoy and believe!”

You may also consider journaling or creating a visual journal page to honor your own inner child. His or her wisdom is magical and should never be taken for granted. Below you’ll see my “Pearl Girl”. She is a wise one!

Written by Amy Spradlin
Co-Founder

Seeds of Intentions
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Les Brown says, “Accept responsibility for your life…”

seedsofintentions — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:19:02 +0000

“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”- Les Brown

Les Brown quotes resonate with me. Especially this one because I have come into the experience of knowing this to be true. I also realize that there are steps between doubt and knowing the truth about this and anything.

Here are my feelings about the steps to knowing…..

first there is fear about being responsible for your life,
then there is doubt that you can be responsible,
next there is hope that you are responsible for your life,
then trust comes about,
now there is belief that this is so,
finally you come into knowing that you are responsible for your own life. This is where true freedom exists, and you realize you are the creator of your own life experiences.

Each step is vibrationally different and is an experience unto itself. Allow yourself to be where you are on any subject. My feeling is, “what’s the hurry”? We are here throughout eternity. Enjoy the process. Enjoying the contrast as contrast is the spice of life. Each step is simply the “launching point” to another level of understanding.

You can “feel” your way into the knowingness and the acceptance that you are responsible for your own life experiences. You are the sole (soul) creator of your own life.

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What if We Are All Avatars?

seedsofintentions — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:22:47 +0000

Finding my way is always fun when huge new thoughts come to mind. Maybe this article will nudge you back or affirm your direction/path/place on the planet.

What if we – being from source, divine, essence of All – you know…

we are all part of deity that has come to earth as a part, in order to appreciate the whole better?

If you are wondering why you are feeling one way one week or month and then flip into another mode, take a look at this article. Those of you wondering about the New Earth, Earth changes, Shift of Earth Energy, Mother Earth “letting go”, your own ascension, enlightenment, or why you just know more for no apparent reason: you are not alone. All these things are related, connected, turned on. We are all experiencing some very new stuff. You may relate to quite a bit here. Please! Enjoy it!

Your experience of shift has occurred. It is occurring still in other aspects of life on earth.

Much of your experience now is blessed with new sight. You see differently. You feel more deeply.

You connect more intimately from the (heart). Take now and expand the heart for that is where your knowing comes from. This is where your dreams reside and with the refocusing on the heart and away from the (old) memories of the old book of the soul you open the new book of the soul. In it you find it resides in all of you.

The new book of the soul is a continuous wave that reaches the consciousness of what you call the Divine and tugs at your physical being to be allowed TO BE. This long lost being is found in the heart. It hears your breath and the rhythm of universal life. It collects vibrations that match your hearts desires and leaves you hungry for more. It leaves you filled to overflowing with love and gratitude, wonder and passion. It flows with compassion and understanding, joy and life itself. It manifests being from the beingness of al life and connects you intimately with your hearts desires. There is no limit here. There are only limitless bounty and abundance and it has been waiting for you for eons.

The new book of the soul is like no other before. It is the culmination of all that is contrast to what has once been said to be dark or lower vibration. This is enlightenment to the light of love. This is the squiggle and breath that resides so limitless and infinite through all beingness.

The new book of the soul moves and integrates with you and about you filling your cells and channels, your energy fields and those with whom you come into contact. Those is more than what you perceive, whether by sight or to be animate or alive. All is alive. All vibrates the energy of life. You are apart of it all and it a part of you and together you will feel at One.

The new book of the soul is connected and unified. It has neither depth nor depthlessness. It is the source of what you call Miracle. It is the source of the soul itself.

The new book of the soul has pages that are filled with your endless imagination. It can not hold karma. It can not hold memory. It only connects and moves; it integrates and connects. There is nothing faster calibrating, nor faster moving – not even light. This is beyond the Merkaba, beyond the state of mastery; for there is no light that is not shining, nor energy that is not vibrating perfectly in alignment with the source of the soul. There is nothing to master over. For divine understanding is relative and perfect as well.

The new book of the soul will be as coming home at last to the one you love most dear. You are at calm peace. You are confident and serene. You can not “slide” from this place or go back to where you thought you were. It is now and now IS.

The possibilities are endless and limitless. The human form has changed for those who have crossed over to the new book of the soul. We can now share this with you: the new book of the soul is like Atlantis in very small ways. The new book of the soul is how you say, heaven on earth. There is no death. There is no fear. There is only love. From now is now. Watch and know as you connect rapidly with those of your kind, with those crystal beings who were born unto you, with those who have traveled similar paths to come to be at one in what we call heaven on your earth.
It is not with some sadness you might feel regret and some aspects of grief upon leaving the earth you long knew. But how quickly love envelopes you, welcoming you into what you have longed for and prayed for and imagined.

You will find it fun and surprising at first how easily life becomes your hearts desires. It is exactly as if “no” is not uttered you. You become one with all and they feel their divine source through you and so pay service to their own self by serving you and those with whom you connect and who connect with you.

And so a family unlike the separateness you once knew grows in joy and thrives.

This is where your story begins.

This is where we will share the joy of being you.

Happiness Joy Love and Laughter to you!

Fran Picco Contributing Writer and Integrated Energy Therapist

Fran Picco
“Turned on, Tuned in, With Love”
http://integrated-energy-therapy-and-spiritual-healing.com
franisclear@yahoo.com

Spiritual Christmas Messages and Unconditional Love

Liz Gracia — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:27:06 +0000

Doves the Symbol of Peace

In the spirit of Christmas and unconditional love this is a spiritual Christmas message I’d like to share with you…..

As mentioned in an earlier blog post, the “Vibration” or “Frequency” of Unconditional Love calibrates at 540 on The Map of Consciousness…simply a scientific measurement of this vibration…click here for more on this.The point of this is that I personally have been “tuned in” to this frequency this week and am realizing I can actually feel it! The Spirit of Christmas, Peace on Earth, Good Will Towards Men is a seriously high frequency coming in at 675 on Dr. David R. hawkins’ Map of Consciousness.

I was at the grocery store today and this frequency of Unconditional Love is palpable. It is in the air. I see it in people’s faces and hear it in their voices. Everyone is lighter in spirit, warm, welcoming and genuinely quite loving by nature. The more I notice it the more I become “tuned in” to it. I feel so loving and light today; I know by experience and ….let’s call it revelation (for lack of a better word) this is how life is meant to be on an on-going basis.

So how do we go about this?

Well, without getting into the meaning of consciousness and all that high falootin’ scientific stuff, let’s simply look at it like a radio station. Uncondional love is quite a different frequency than the frequency most people are tuned in to on a daily basis. S o decide you want to tune your vibration to that of Unconditional Love. And since we can associate a number to it, in this case 540, you decide your going to tune your radio in to WKOSMO 540 on your cosmic radio dial. To tune into this station this week, go out into the public by yourself and simply observe what’s going on. This vibration is already in the air, so practice tuning into it.

To practice this, simply start appreciating how kind and loving people are right now and decide this is how you are going to be at every conscious moment (notice I said conscious moment!). Be kind, loving, compassionate and appreciative of everyone you encounter this week. See how incredible you can begin to feel! Because I consciously do this on a daily basis, I am living closer to this level of vibration every day. Some times I turn on WKOSMO 425, which is quite linear and intellectual, or some other radio frequency, but do manage to get back to channel 540 on my cosmic radio dial.

I can’t recommend to you enough the magnificence and beauty that the frequency of “radio station WKOSMO 540″ is. I say it again, I am Graced beyond words to have experienced it (this level of experience/life) purely and fully. It exists. It is accessible to everyone who wants to live in that experience and level of awareness. This is what Jesus Christ was suggesting as well….aspiring to this level of existence. Jesus was tuned into radio station WKOSMO 1000…and that’s a hole other ball game! But he knew the level of unconditional love, at 540 is attainable.

So during this Holiday, pay attention to what I am suggesting and decide for yourself whether it is worth your focus or not. If so, we have plenty of resources on our website for further pursuit and inquiry. In my experience, it is true…”when the student is ready, the teacher appears”… the “teacher” by the way is whatever you are drawn to…a book,

Liz Gracia Co-Founder Seeds of Intentions

an article in a magazine, the words in a song…everything in life is available to give you the guidance you have asked for. DO NOT dismiss it! I’ve traveled far paying attention to all “signs” and seeming coincidences…truly there are none!

Have a Joyous, Beautiful, and Unconditionally Loving Holiday Season…and in the words of Abraham thru Esther…..”There is great LOVE here!”

These spiritual Christmas messages in the true Spirit of Christmas and Unconditional Love are brought to you by Liz Gracia, Co-Founder www.SeedsofIntentions.com