RB'S QOTD: March 31, 2011: Do you take time each day for a bit of quiet personal time???

Do you take time each day for a bit of quiet personal time?

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
~Virginia Woolf

RB'S QOTD: March 30, 2011: How do you view problems in your life? As tragedies or opportunities??

How do you view problems in your life?

As tragedies or opportunities??

"Out of clutter, find Simplicity.
From discord, find Harmony.
 In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity."
~Albert Einstein

RB'S QOTD: March 29, 2011: How deeply do you believe Colossians 2:10?

How deeply do you believe Colossians 2:10?

(Imagine that all you ARE and all you HAVE is enough. You don’t need to change or have anything more than you need, for you are complete in Him. Make that your life mantra, own it until nothing on earth can shake it. For it is truth.~RB)

"Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else."

~Wayne Dyer

RB'S QOTD: March 28, 2011: Were you raised with the instructions to do your duty? What does that mean to you??

Were you raised with the instructions to do your duty?

What does that mean to you??

"Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things."
~Albert Einstein

RB'S QOTD: March 27, 2011: How do you think you experience "soul/spirit" in your life?

How do you think you experience "soul/spirit" in your life?

"We all seek Soul.
While Soul is always present, it doesn’t appear in our lives automatically.
Soul requires our attention and reflection.
Offering our respectful regard to the Soul is a way of loving it, caring for it, nurturing it."
~Benjamin Shield and Richard Carlson

RB'S QOTD: March 26, 2011: What holds you back from being and doing more?

What holds you back from being and doing more?

"Don't make excuses -- make good."

~Elbert Hubbard

RB'S QOTD: March 25, 2011: How open are you to new perspectives?

How open are you to new perspectives?

"Remain open [minded]. 
There is something bigger than you know going on here."
~Iyanla VanZant

RB'S QOTD: March 24, 2011: How willing are you to learn something new?

How willing are you to learn something new?

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." 

~Alvin Toffler

RB'S QOTD: March 23, 2011: When you describe yourself to others, what words do you use?

When you describe yourself to others, what words do you use?

Husband/wife, mother/father, bus driver/dentist/musician, Christian/Muslim/Jew, joker/ dreamer/hard worker?

"When I let go of what I am,
[or what I think I am ~RB]
I become what I might be."
~Lao Tzu

RB'S QOTD: March 22, 2011: Do you generally welcome or resist change? Have you ever considered this??

Do you generally welcome or resist change?

Have you ever considered this??

"If nothing ever changed...
there'd be no butterflies."
~Author Unknown

RB'S QOTD: March 21, 2011: Have you ever looked to others to make changes so that something would work out better for you? Did you learn anything from that?? Did you make any changes to yourself because of it???

Have you ever looked to others to make changes so that something would work out better for you? 

Did you learn anything from that?? 

Did you make any changes to yourself because of it???

"You must take personal responsibility.
You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.
That is something you have charge of."
~Jim Rohn

RB'S QOTD: March 20, 2011: Would you say you are an adventurer???

Would you say you are an adventurer?

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.

~William Least Heat Moon

Personally, I would say I was, but now am not. Now I find I enjoy more being at home, occupying myself with crafts, cooking and gardening. ~RB

RB'S QOTD: March 18, 2011: Where do you think most of your problems begin???

Where do you think most of your problems begin?

"If you start to think the problem is ‘out there,’ stop yourself. That thought is the problem."
~Stephen Covey

When we are struggling with any challenge - whether it be ill health, a lack of money, a lost job, poor relationships, an accident, whatever, we need to look for the spiritual learning. We begin that by asking ourselves,
"What quality (or spiritual fruit - see Galatians 5:22) does God want me to live (or learn) more fully?"
(inspired by HigherAwareness.com)

RB'S QOTD: March 18, 2011: What would your soul consider a waste of time?

What would your soul consider a waste of time?

"He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."
~Horace

RB'S QOTD: March 17, 2011: How are you searching for peace and contentment outside of yourself?

How are you searching for peace and contentment outside of yourself?
Where do you usually look for it??

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."

~Denis Waitley

RB'S QOTD: March 16, 2011: Would you say you worry...

Would you say you worry:

(1)-a little, 

(2)-about normal, or 

(3)-a great deal?

"Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere."
- Glenn Turner


“Be careful [GR=merimnao; i.e. to be anxious or troubled] for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 4:6-7

RB'S QOTD: March 15, 2011: Name a situation where you believe you really need to think for yourself?

Name a situation where you believe you really need to think for yourself?

"Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to."

~Alan Keightley

RB'S QOTD: March 14, 2011: Is there something in your life that needs harmony?

Is there something in your life that needs harmony? 

Can you find a way to look at it as an opportunity 

(rather than as a difficulty)??

Could it be that adversarial beings are working to keep that clutter and discord in your life to keep confusion in your life as well???

"Out of clutter, find simplicity.
From discord, find harmony.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
- Albert Einstein

"For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace..."
1 Corinthians 14:33

RB'S QOTD: March 13, 2011: What do you think conscience is? Instinct or something of a spirituality nature...

What do you think conscience is?
Instinct or something of a spiritual nature...

“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.” 

~Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, mathematician, physicist, religious philosopher

“For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.”

1 John 3:20-22

RB'S QOTD: March 11, 2011: Are you a butterfly, or a caterpillar???

Are you a butterfly, or a caterpillar?

How does one become a butterfly?
You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
~Trina Paulus

"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."
Romans 12:2

RB'S QOTD: March 10, 2011: Do you believe you are deserving of success?

Do you believe you are deserving of success?

If not, why not??

What if that negative believing is the only thing keeping success from you???

"Believe in abundance and that you are deserving of it at all times."

~Lesetz

"Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them."

Mark 11:24

BELIEVE! Do you see it? BELIEVE you deserve success, and you shall RECEIVE it!!!

RB'S QOTD: March 9, 2011: I truly believe the following quote because I have found random acts of kindness truly bless someone's day, and I feel the blessing as well. What has your experience of this quote been?

I truly believe the following quote because I have found random acts of kindness truly bless someone's day, and I feel the blessing as well.

What has your experience of this quote been?

"The way to be happy is to make others so. "

~Robert Ingersoll

RB'S QOTD: March 8, 2011: Do you need to bring more balance to your life???

Excuse my absence yesterday. I had an appointment out of town and didn't have access to my computer. ~RB

Do you need to bring more balance to your life?
In what way??

How do you think you might do that???

"For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine."
~Robert Fulghum

RB'S QOTD: March 6, 2011: I don't know if I believe the following quote or not, because I believe enhancing can be progress as well. What do you believe about it??

I don't know if I believe the following quote or not, because I believe enhancing can be progress as well.
What do you think about it?

"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be."
- Kahlil Gibran

RB'S QOTD: March 4, 2011: How do you feel you get your best inspirations???

How do you feel you get your best inspirations?

“I learned that inspiration does not always come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic, striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time.” 

~Brenda Ueland, 1891-1985, Journalist, editor, teacher

MINE: For me, interestingly enough, it is usually in dreams.

RB'S QOTD: March 4, 2011: Do you do random acts of kindness? If you do, is it on a regular schedule, or random??

Do you do random acts of kindness? 

If you do, is it on a regular schedule, or random??

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read."
- Mark Twain

RB'S QOTD: March 3, 2011: Do you love the work you're doing right now? If not, what's stopping you from doing so??

Do you love the work you're doing right now? 

If not, what's stopping you from doing so??

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

-Rumi

RB'S QOTD: March 2, 2011: The following quote makes me chuckle. Have you ever found it to be true???

The following quote makes me chuckle.

Have you ever found it to be true? 

I know I have and thought afterwards,
"Well gee, that worked."

“Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. ”
~Al Bernstein, American sportscaster

RB'S QOTD: March 1, 2011: Where do you think your thoughts and words might undermine your experience of abundance???

Where do you think your thoughts and words might undermine your experience of abundance?

"Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."
~John Petit-Senn