Soulful Coach

Don't be a Hobgoblin !!

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. - 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' -- Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."

Lesson:  Don't be a Hobgoblin!!!

Spending our Lives

"I don't want to be saved, I want to be spent."   Fritz Perls

"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no ‘brief candle' to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations."  George Bernard Shaw

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you."  William James

Coaching Inquiry:  When do notice you have the most energy?  How do you gain your energy.  Tell me about a time that you were in "flow."  What were you doing?  How did it feel?

Namaste,

Sheila

Getting Through This Winter!

“In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”

                                    A. Camus

Quote for the Week - Emerson

Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.

 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meet Yourself - daily

Take an hour every day at dawn and give it to your Self. Meet your Self there, in the holy moment. Then go about your day. You will be a different person.

 Neale Donald Walsch

Quote for the Week - Mother Teresa

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."

- Mother Teresa

Quote for the Week - Buscaglia

"As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming."

~ Leo Buscaglia, 20th century Dr. of Love from Love

Quote for the Week - Rumi

....one cannot lodge in "if."

        Mevlana Rumi

Are you living in the "if's" and "when's"?  The magic in in the moment.

Sheila

 

Quote for the Week - Kahlil Gibran

"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you break bread with indifference, you bake bitter bread that feeds but half a man’s hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man’s ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night."

~ Kahlil Gibran, 20th century Syrian-born mystic poet, philosopher, and artist
from The Prophet.

Quote for the Week - Another Emerson!

Emerson will show up often:

Tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

Ralph Waldo Emerson