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Wednesday Wisdom

Seed tomorrow with wise truth today

For many, making commitments isn’t easy. For even more, keeping them is a greater challenge – especially the ones we make to ourselves. I know I’m not alone when I write that I would be horrified if I made a promise to someone and didn’t follow through. However, all too often, commitments to myself are easily broken.

Lose your temper and you lose a friend; lie and you lose yourself.  ~ Hopi proverb

When less than the truth comes out of our mouth it hurts others and serves as a boomerang of damage back onto ourselves. However, we don’t even have to speak the lie to lose ourselves in it.  As we prepare for the New Year, perhaps we can increase our ability to be more “impeccable with our word” (Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements) with the knowledge that there is freedom in the mindfulness of what we allow to roll around in our mind.

 

 

Life is calling . . .  Today’s the day . . . Make this moment matter!! 

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Wednesday Wisdom

Seed tomorrow with wise understanding, compassion and love today

To my Christian family and friends – Merry Christmas!  And, between November 1 and January 15 there are approximately 29 Holy Days observed by 7 of the world’s major religions. So, in honor of all who respectfully celebrate their sacred way, I contemplate on the call to compassion voiced by ancients – worthy of our listening:

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.   ~ Dalai Lama

Hurt not others with that which pains yourself.  ~ Buddhism

I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.  ~ Jesus Christ

Do unto others as you would have them to unto you.  ~ Christianity

God is compassionate and is fond of compassion, and He gives to the compassionate what he does not give to the harsh.  ~ Prophet Muhammad

Do unto all men as you would wish to have done unto you.  ~ Islam

When a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others as if they were his own, he has attained the highest state of spiritual union.   ~ Bhagavad Gita

What you yourself hate, do to no man.  ~ Judaism

The greatest wisdom of all is kindness. ~ Jewish proverb

Live in harmony, for we are all related.  ~ Native American

What sort of religion can it be without compassion? You need to show compassion to all living beings.  Compassion is the root of all religious faiths.  ~ Basavanna Vacana

 

Our spirituality is a oneness and an interconnectedness with all that lives and breathes, even with all that does not live or breathe. ~ Mudrooroo, Australian Aboriginal

Do as you will, as long as you harm no one.  ~ Sacred Earth

Just a sampling of what we’re called to do, no matter our spiritual practice.

Compassion is a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is hurting, in pain, or has misfortune and is accompanied by a strong desire to help the suffering.  Community is a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common; a body of nations unified by common interests.

This Holy Season, may we, as a community, share the common bonds of understanding, compassion and love.

  

Life is calling . . .  Today’s the day . . . Make this moment matter!! 

Learn Lavishly. Live Significantly. Leave a Legacy.

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Marilynn Semonick, CEO (Chief Exploration Officer)
Educator, Consultant, Coach, Facilitator, Professional Speaker
Marilynn@marilynnsemonick.com

Seed tomorrow with wise understanding, compassion and love today

 

To my Christian family and friends – Merry Christmas!  And, between November 1 and January 15 there are approximately 29 Holy Days observed by 7 of the world’s major religions. So, in honor of all who respectfully celebrate their sacred way, I contemplate on the call to compassion voiced by ancients – worthy of our listening:

 

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

~ Dalai Lama

 

Hurt not others with that which pains yourself.  ~ Buddhism

 

I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.  ~ Jesus Christ

 

Do unto others as you would have them to unto you.  ~ Christianity

 

God is compassionate and is fond of compassion, and He gives to the compassionate what he does not give to the harsh.  ~ Prophet Muhammad

 

Do unto all men as you would wish to have done unto you.  ~ Islam

 

When a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others as if they were his own, he has attained the highest state of spiritual union.   ~ Bhagavad Gita

 

What you yourself hate, do to no man.  ~ Judaism

 

The greatest wisdom of all is kindness. ~ Jewish proverb

 

Live in harmony, for we are all related.  ~ Native American

 

What sort of religion can it be without compassion? You need to show compassion to all living beings.  Compassion is the root of all religious faiths.  ~ Basavanna Vacana

 

The Bull of Dharma is born of compassion; content of mind holds creation together. 

~ Adi Garnth, Japuli

 

Our spirituality is a oneness and an interconnectedness with all that lives and breathes, even with all that does not live or breathe. ~ Mudrooroo, Australian Aboriginal

 

Do as you will, as long as you harm no one.  ~ Sacred Earth

 

Just a sampling of what we’re called to do, no matter our spiritual practice.

 

Compassion is a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is hurting, in pain, or has misfortune and is accompanied by a strong desire to help the suffering.  Community is a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common; a body of nations unified by common interests.

 

This Holy Season, may we, as a community, share the common bonds of understanding, compassion and love.

 

 

 

Life is calling . . .  Today’s the day . . . Make this moment matter!! 

Learn Lavishly. Live Significantly. Leave a Legacy.

Visit www.The Success Studio.com
www.marilynnsemonick.com

To subscribe to Wednesday Wisdom or to read archived postings visit:  http://www.thesuccessstudio.wordpress.com
Marilynn Semonick, CEO (Chief Exploration Officer)
Educator, Consultant, Coach, Facilitator, Professional Speaker
Marilynn@marilynnsemonick.com

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Wednesday Wisdom

Seed tomorrow with wise happy today

I read this last week and related to each and every one:

Five Tips for Happy Holidays:

  1. Turn off the news.
  2. Be totally in love with everyone and everything.
  3. Remember that the best things in life are not things at all.
  4. Donate, give away, or recycle any and all clutter
  5. Take a break – a real one.

Life can easily get crazy and overwhelming during this busy time of the year. Perhaps applying the above suggestions can slow down our thinking, increase our awareness and quicken our gratitude.

 

Life is calling . . .  Today’s the day . . . Make this moment matter!! 

Learn Lavishly. Live Significantly. Leave a Legacy.

Visit www.The Success Studio.com
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To subscribe to Wednesday Wisdom or to read archived postings visit:  http://www.thesuccessstudio.wordpress.com
Marilynn Semonick, CEO (Chief Exploration Officer)
Educator, Consultant, Coach, Facilitator, Professional Speaker
Marilynn@marilynnsemonick.com

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Wednesday Wisdom

Seed tomorrow with wise travel today

Curt and I are in Vietnam – an anniversary gift we gave to each other. Today, we experienced a day on the Mekong Delta, a maze of rivers, swamps and islands which are home to floating markets. We walked through island villages with rice paddies, pagodas, unknown fruits hanging abundantly from the trees, and breathed in aromas spewing from homes that warmed our souls. A family cooked us lunch prepared from what they grew and raised, gave us a cooking lesson and shared their rice version of moonshine. We watched women make rice paper, pop rice into puffs and weave baskets from water hyacinth roots. Life made sense today. Perhaps Anais Nin says it best for me:

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.

Those who listen and act on the call to travel may understand Mary Anne Radmacher:

I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

We share a sacred little community on a place we call Earth. For us, it gets smaller and our communal sense gets stronger and deeper every year. I wish the same for you, no matter where you plant yourself with others in the world.

 

Life is calling . . .  Today’s the day . . . Make this moment matter!! 

Learn Lavishly. Live Significantly. Leave a Legacy.

Visit www.The Success Studio.com
www.marilynnsemonick.com

To subscribe to Wednesday Wisdom or to read archived postings visit:  http://www.thesuccessstudio.wordpress.com
Marilynn Semonick, CEO (Chief Exploration Officer)
Educator, Consultant, Coach, Facilitator, Professional Speaker
Marilynn@marilynnsemonick.com

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