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Wilderness – a Place of Learning, Spiritual Growth and Understanding

Ironically, according to ancient legend, the word Wilderness didn’t conjure up a place of punishment, but rather a place of learning, spiritual growth, understanding, healing and accomplishment. It referred to a wellspring of Divine energy in the guise of despair, hardship and pain; your experience in the wilderness was designed to prepare or propel you toward your destiny. Or pry you loose from whatever was keeping you from it. Sarah Ban Breathnach

Sharon Barnes July 19, 2012

Providence

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them. –Anne-Sophie Swethine

Sharon Barnes July 10, 2012

Our Way Is Not Soft Grass

Our way is not soft grass, it’s a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun. Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Sharon Barnes July 9, 2012

We Cannot Go Back. We Can Only Go Forward

We cannot go back. We can only go forward. To go back to Eden would be like trying to return to our mother’s womb, to infancy. Since we cannot go back, we must grow up. We can only go forward through the desert of life, making our way painfully over parched and barren ground into increasingly deeper levels of consciousness. Scott Peck

Sharon Barnes June 12, 2012

Solutions to Problems May Be Found in the Circumstances

There is no problem which does not have an appropriate solution. . . the solution often may be found in the circumstances creating the problem. – Napoleon Hill

Sharon Barnes June 5, 2012

Creating Our World

We are all creating our world all the time; the important task is to do so consciously. Pat Allen

Sharon Barnes May 30, 2012

Live as Much From the Heart as From the Head

We know we are on the way toward soul when we feel attachment to the world and the people around us and when we live as much from the heart as from the head. – Thomas Moore

Sharon Barnes May 29, 2012

Walk, Work and Speak

We will walk on our own feet; We will work with our own hands; We will speak our own minds. – Emerson

Sharon Barnes May 24, 2012

Becoming More Conscious

The more conscious we become, the more we see the games that other people play and their sins and manipulations, but we’re also more conscious of their burdens and sorrows. –Scott Peck

Sharon Barnes May 22, 2012

Be Willing to Share Pain

More often than not, the most healing thing we can do with someone who is in pain, rather than trying to get rid of that pain, is to sit there and be willing to share it. –Scott Peck

Sharon Barnes May 21, 2012