Lars Toomre

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Find Something To Feel Good About

Brunette Asian American model Karen Carreno poses in a pale blue bikini

Find something to feel good about and get out of the way, and allow the cells to receive what they've been asking for. That is the key to healing.

From a workshop in Orlando, Florida, USA on January 22, 2005

The Artist's Way Every Day - May 22nd

Brunette beauty Sandra Amer was Miss Universe Denmark 2011

Most of the time when we are blocked in an area of our life, it is because we feel safer that way. We may not be happy, but at least we know what we are — unhappy. Much fear of our own creativity is the fear of the unknown. If I am fully creative, what will it mean? What will happen to me and to others? We have some pretty awful notions about what could happen. So, rather than find out, we decide to stay blocked.

Find Beauty Inside Ourselves

Mexican-American actress Salma Hayek shows her cleavage in a blue dress

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

Raven-haired, Mexican-American film actress, director and producer (born 1966)

Thought for Today: Sow the Seed of Peace

An unusually empty Boston Common on April 19, 2013 after bombings

If we plant a positive, clean seed of thoughts and concentrate on it, we give it energy, like the sun gives to a seed in the earth. And as the seed in the earth awakens, stirs and begins to grow, the thoughts on which we concentrate awaken, stir and begin to grow. So let us sow positive thoughts. Each morning before we begin the journey of the day let us sit still, in silence, and sow the seed of peace. Peace is harmony and balance. Peace is — freedom from the burden of negativity and wastefulness. Let peace find its home within us. Peace is our original strength, our eternal tranquility of being.

Ego Looks For What To Criticize

Brunette actress Camilla Belle in red and purple outfit dressed for brunch

We are not responding to this instant, if we are judging any aspect of it. The ego looks for what to criticize. This always involves comparing with the past. But love looks upon the world peacefully and accepts. The ego searches for short comings and weaknesses. Love watches for any sign of strength. It sees how far each one has come, and not how far he has to go. How simple it is to love, and exhausting it is always to find fault, for every time we see a fault we think something needs to be done about it. Love knows that nothing is ever needed but more love. It is what we all do with our hearts that affects others most deeply. It is not the movements of our body or the words within our minds that transmit love. We love from heart to heart.

Introduced Transcendental Meditation to the Western world

Our Comfort Stems From The Spirit In Which We Face Circumstances

Brunette busty model Gina Smith poses in a tan string bikini with cleavage

I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort.

Stand Up To Your Obstacles

Brunette model Nicole Graves poses by ocean in pink bikini

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

American Protestant preacher and author, most notably of book The Power of Positive Thinking (1898-1993)

Answers Above All

Brunette Colombian model Melissa Giraldo poses in a Phax blue floral bikini

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions — as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

German classical scholar, philosopher and critic of culture (1844 - 1900)

Truth Is At Least Changeless

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

British novelist and short story writer who wrote under her birth name (1884 - 1963)

Within Our Dreams And Aspirations

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

Who Looks For Meat Will Find A Bone

Who looks for meat will find a bone.

Walter Anderson on Trust

Blonde celebrity Naomi Lowde in a black dress

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone — but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Long-time editor and guiding hand behind Parade magazine in Sunday newspapers (born 1944)

Find Something You Love And You Will Never Have To Work

Blonde American actress Kristen Bell wearing a tan jacket

Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.

American businessman and columnist as well as author of Swim With The Sharks (born 1932)

Thought for Today: Listen In

Twilight reflects of a bridge in Prague, Czech Republic

Only when we find the quietness in our own minds can we begin to hear our inner teacher, so that we may receive some in-tuition. Only when we are ready to recognize and value the wisdom that we carry at the core of our being will we turn our attention inwards and 'listen in'. But it's been a long time since we truly listened, so a little practice and patience will be needed. Sit down, be quiet and listen in at some point today and you might be surprised at what you hear. Then do it again tomorrow. All you need to do is remember that you are the listener and not the noise.

The Artist's Way Every Day - May 8th

Blonde model Elisandra Tomacheski poses in a blue and pink bikini

When we are rickety, Morning Pages lend us stability. They miniaturize the terrors that we are walking through. They bring life back down to the possible: Exactly what can we do today? Taken in a daily bit, most change, however extreme, can be metabolized. Our Pages give us time and place to get used to change. When we remember that we have a daily life, we begin to find our grounding. It is our job, faced with impending to find our grounding. It is our job, faced with impending change, to continue to husband the life that we have got. It is our job to buy the kitty litter, call the plumber, keep our hand moving across the page.

Opportunities For Judgment To Mature

Blonde American actress and model Jessica Alba in a white blouse

There must be opportunities for judgment to mature. When, therefore, you increase your business to a very great extent, and the multitude of problems increase with its growth, you will find, in the first place, that the man at the head has a diminishing knowledge of the facts and, in the second place, a diminishing opportunity of exercising a careful judgment upon them.

Testimony before the United States Senate, Committee On Interstate Commerce (December 14, 1911)

Thought for Today: Heal Yourself

Dual rainbows over field with hay bales in Padstow, England

The deepest wounds we all carry are locked in our subconscious (out of our awareness). Deep memories and subtle impressions, from unfinished experience, rooted in the past. The pain from those wounds comes to revisit, to block and paralyze us in the moment called now. We all know it comes without warning — "Why am I feeling this way, I didn't mean to do that, I don't know what made me say that." Healing does not mean finding and treating every single inner scar which send it message to haunt us. It means going even deeper, past those wounds, beyond those distant memories and recording of unfinished business, to the core of our self, to the heart of our spirit, where we find the light and warmth of our own core qualities of love and peace. They are eternally present within us they are what we need to heal all our inner wounds. That's why this kind of deep healing is called spirituality and not therapy.

Do Not Laugh At A Youth For His Affectations

Blonde model Kate Upton wearing a green dress on the red carpet

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

American-born essayist and critic (1865 - 1946)

When The Tide Goes Out

Brunette beauty Stefania Fernandez leans aginst tree in pageant bikini

You only find out who's been swimming naked when the tide goes out. Well, we found out that Wall Street has been kind of a nudist beach.

American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist, widely considered most successful investor of 20th century (born 1930)

A Successful Life

Brunette Playboy Playmate Kocsis Orsi with her ass up in air

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what it is one's destiny to do, and then to do it.

Father of modern assembly lines used in mass production of automobiles and many other consumer goods