Afromaverix

Your perception of the situation can either make you or break you. Some see the word impossible we see I'm possible. BELIEVE!

Most people tell me they "NEVER" want to be an undertaker, not even in a million years, yet they perpetually bury their dreams.

“I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.” – Martha Washington

“I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.“ – Golda Meir

“The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven.” – John Milton
Be careful what you feed your mind and what you dwell over...

“In this complex world, the best way to survive is to be genuine.” – Sogyal Rinpoche
Do you agree?

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom” – Anais Nin

“I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking. It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker

The ascent of the butterfly - Afromaverix

http://afromaverix.com/2014/11/the-ascent-of-the-butterfly/
Credit goes to Fenji Materechera

The ascent of the butterfly - Afromaverix The ascent of the butterfly by Fenji · November 25, 2014 pic: favim.com In our African culture it is not uncommon to hear of totems. These will often refer to either natural objects or animals that are believed to have spiritual significance and as such are adopted as emblems for a particular ethnic…

“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best”. Henry Van Dyk

◦“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you you’ve decided to look beyond imperfections.” – T. Bernard

Sometimes we let rejection define us. We curl up in a ball and shy away from our dreams... Remember:
“It’s never too late to be what you might have been” – George Eliot

Whatever it is you are facing today, look at the light and remember these words:
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” – Agatha Christie

“Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.” – Buddha
What truth/untruths have you been holding on to?

“Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time, and more tranquility. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’” – Marcus Aurelius

“Regardless of the shadows that cross the moon to make it appear less than it is, to the moon, it is always full. So it is with us.” – Buddha
do not let anyone tell you that you are less than what you really are...

“There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.” – Maya Angelou
What story have you left untold

“In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.”
Aaron Rose

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Blaise Pascal

Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment.”
― Myles Munroe, Understanding Your Potential

“There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experience our interconnectedness - it is a precursor to deep love. So in this quickening light, with the dawn of each new day, let us look for love. Let us no longer struggle. Let us ever become who we most want to be. As we begin to be who we truly are, the world will be a better place.”
John Denve

This year has seen many a great soul pass on...
Hard work and diligence are essential to success, but they require an internal motivation. That internal motivation is Vision
RIP Dr Myles Munroe

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. ~Alan Alda

"Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle Onassis

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

when you feel there is nothing left to hold on to, find that one thing and let it be "a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle... Anon
What have you done today to help the next person?

Fog is rain that whispers. ~Olivia Dresher
Be careful which fog you wake up to...

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. ~Rabindranath Tagore

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. ~Saint Basil

Weather is a great metaphor for life- sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella - Terri Guillemets