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April 22, 2014 by Donna Thornton Leave a Comment

Love Light and Peace | Inspirational Sayings

Some days I just want to spread as much love, light and peace as I can. I know it may seem naive or silly, to some, when people share these kinds of pictures and these kinds of sentiments. But I do not think that. I think that it is all of these little things, all of these little sayings and sentiments, add up… and they CAN and DO make a difference in the world.

When you are on Facebook or Twitter or Pinterest, or when you open your email and see some lovely image, or read an inspiring quote, it may only last a minute, but admit it, you like the feeling it gives you. You may get a little warm feeling in your heart or you may feel a little smile spread across your face. When I share a little happy picture or inspirational quote or saying, that’s all I want. I just want that moment for you.

Why do I want that? Well, I want that because if you have a moment like that, maybe first thing in the morning or maybe during a break in your daily routine… or maybe even in a moment when you were feeling a little bit down… what happens? You take that little warm feeling, that little smile, and you bring it with you into the rest of your day. And maybe, you might share that little inspiration or lovely feeling with someone else, and they will get their own warm feeling or smile… or maybe you will just take that feeling that cheered you up a little and cheer someone else up.

Or maybe you won’t. But guess what? I’d much rather take the chance and assume that you will… and not worry about it if you don’t or if you think I’m silly or whatever. I’m okay with that.

You see, I’ve always sort of envied the people that bring BIG beauty or BIG inspiration into the world. I’ve always sort of wished I could do THAT. But, then, I thought about it. While that is a wonderful thing to do, I also think it is just as wonderful, and just as important to bring those little moments of beauty and the quick instances of inspiration into the world. When we pepper our days with those little ones… well, it makes a big difference. It just does.

Blessings!

January 25, 2014 by Donna Thornton Leave a Comment

Affirmation: I find love everywhere | Inspirational Quotes and Sayings

Here is an awesome affirmation for you, for today or any day:

I am very grateful for all the love in my life. I find it everywhere.

When we look for the love in every situation, with every person we are with… in any given moment, it is so amazing how it works… we start seeing it and finding it everywhere we go. If you write this affirmation down and keep it with you, or put it up around your house somewhere that you will see it, and read it, I think you’ll be surprised at how much love you will find at every turn you make!

I am reminded of the verse from the Bible – from Corinthians 13:4-7:

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

I remember this verse from when I was a very little girl going to church with my parents. This was always one of my favorites… and it sticks with me to this day. I admit, it is one of the verses that left me pondering the question of why all the people didn’t understand this and live in these words. I think that I was born to share and illuminate love on this planet. I think we were all born to share and illuminate love on this planet. I think there is no greater task for anyone to accept as their true heart’s calling.

You don’t have to be famous, you don’t have to be rich or highly educated or be in a position of influence or power to have a profound effect on the world. Really, all you have to do is love and be loved. There is nothing greater than that.

September 18, 2013 by Donna Thornton Leave a Comment

You Can Acquire Personal Power Through Self-Development | Inspired Action

It is the natural right of every human being to be happy to escape all the miseries of life. Happiness is the normal condition, as natural as the landscapes and the seasons. Happiness is the product of wisdom. To attain perfect wisdom, to comprehend fully the purpose of life, to realize completely the relationship of human beings to each other, is to put an end to all suffering, to escape every ill and evil that afflicts us. Perfect wisdom is unshadowed joy.

Because in the scheme of nature we are being forced forward in evolution and we lack the spiritual illumination that alone can light the way and enable us to move safely among the obstacles that lie before us. Aside from these greater tragedies of life innumerable things of lesser consequence continually bring to us minor heartaches and little miseries. The thing we lack is the spiritual illumination that will enable us to look far and wide, finding the hidden causes of human suffering and revealing the method by which they may be avoided; and if we can but reach illumination the evolutionary journey can be made both comfortably and swiftly.

The theory was that when a man was born he was a completed human being and that all that could be done for him was to load him up with information that would be used with more or less skill, according to the native ability he happened to be born with. The theosophical idea is that the physical man, and all that constitutes his life in the physical world, is but a very partial expression of the self; that in the ego of each there is practically unlimited power and wisdom; that these may be brought through into expression in the physical world as the physical body and its invisible counterparts, which together constitute the complex vehicle of the ego’s manifestation, are evolved and adapted to the purpose; and that in exact proportion that conscious effort is given to such self-development will spiritual illumination be achieved and wisdom attained.

Chiefly because it separates us from those we love. The only other reason why death brings grief or fear is because we do not understand it and comprehend the part it plays in human evolution.

Why do we have enemies from whose words or acts we suffer? Because in our limited physical consciousness we do not perceive the unity of all life and realize that our wrong thinking and doing must react upon us through other people a situation from which there is no possible escape except through ceasing to think evil and then patiently awaiting the time when the causes we have already generated are fully exhausted. When spiritual illumination comes, and we no longer stumble in the night of ignorance, the last enemy will disappear and we shall make no more forever.

Why do people suffer from poverty and disease? Only because of our blundering ignorance that makes their existence possible for us, and because we do not comprehend their meaning and their lessons, nor know the attitude to assume toward them. Had we but the wisdom to understand why they come to people, why they are necessary factors in their evolution, they would trouble us no longer. When nature’s lesson is fully learned these mute teachers will vanish.

And so it is with all forms of suffering we experience. When we have comprehended the lessons they teach they are no longer necessary and disappear.

To attain perfect wisdom, to comprehend fully the purpose of life, to realize completely the relationship of human beings to each other, is to put an end to all suffering, to escape every evil and ill that afflicts us. Because in the scheme of nature we are being forced forward in evolution and we lack the spiritual illumination that alone can light the way and enable us to move safely among the obstacles that lie before us. The thing we lack is the spiritual illumination that will enable us to look far and wide, finding the hidden causes of human suffering and revealing the method by which they may be avoided; and if we can but reach illumination the evolutionary journey can be made both comfortably and swiftly. Because in our limited physical consciousness we do not perceive the unity of all life and realize that our wrong thinking and doing must react upon us through other people a situation from which there is no possible escape except through ceasing to think evil and then patiently awaiting the time when the causes we have already generated are fully exhausted. Only because of our blundering ignorance that makes their existence possible for us, and because we do not comprehend their meaning and their lessons, nor know the attitude to assume toward them.

May 16, 2013 by Donna Thornton Leave a Comment

Inspirational Quotes and Sayings | Let Love Reign

As you know, collecting inspirational quotes and sayings is kind of a hobby of mine. I often don’t think of myself as a very creative person, although I do know that in many ways I am creative – but I don’t really see myself as the kind of person who is witty or clever, or who would be able to come up with inspirational quotes and sayings of my own, so, I have just collected them from creative geniuses that I have encountered (mostly in print), along the way.

That being said, I do occasionally get inspired. My angels and guides are with me, always, and sometimes an inspirational saying will come into my mind. When that happens, I do try to capture it!

At some point along my journey with my fellow lightworkers, I felt called upon to come up with some wording that I could use to inspire people, and to use a way to spread love throughout the matrix of the internet… a saying I could use on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, to put it out to the universe that I was asking for all the connections I made through these sites, and in person, to be blessed and protected in love and light.

All of a sudden, I was shown a vision of love raining down upon us all… like a beautiful spring rain – washing us clean and pouring down love and protection from the Creator, surrounding us all. So, I started writing “let love rain down on us… and let love reign in our hearts” in my statuses in various places around the internet. Eventually, it morphed to a simple “let LOVE reign” – and that is the saying that people now associate with me, all of the time! I even have it embroidered in the tote bag that I carry with me everywhere I go.

So, I’ve made some graphics (I just LOVE this beautiful white peacock) with that saying to share with people – my hope is that it is something that people like to see and feel comforted by … just like the inspirational quotes and sayings I’ve collected throughout my life! That is the prayer I pray whenever I put it out there. Regardless of the reception it gets, I just want people to know what my intention is whenever you see me say “let LOVE reign.” It is to invoke the love and protection of the creator for anyone who reads it!

Blessings to you… and remember… let LOVE reign!