Right. Well that makes sense. Basically an act as simple as BREATHING in can be ‘inspiring’! It is true – ask a person who’s lungs are collapsing how ‘inspiring’ a breath of fresh air can be! It can make the difference between life and death. Yet, we take it for granted. We get so jaded at times with life around us that we have to search for inspiration. We claim that the things we do everyday just don’t inspire us anymore. Life becomes a drag. Nothing is ‘fresh and new’. The monotony of daily living creeps in and dulls our senses. We sit around and wonder to ourselves – ‘Is this it? Isn’t there anything more to life? I gotta do THIS for how many more years?!’

Wow even writing that down got me into a state of mind for a moment of feeling the worlds weight on my shoulders and this sense of dullness. Imagine living that day in and day out! * shudder* So how come there are people living their lives dragging their feet about as if weighed down with a ball and chain and others that seem to be floating on this magical cloud with angelic smiles on their faces as if they know a secret you don’t know! Do they??? Perhaps. Or perhaps they just realize the ‘magic’ of a simple breath which keeps them in a constant state of ‘inspiration’! Hmm…..

By Dina Sabnani

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The road to attracting and achieving our desires is not always a smooth one. Sometimes we suffer a few obstacles on the path and earn our desire. These obstacles can be painful and scarring ones and at that moment we are unable to comprehend how these tragedies help us to attain that which we desire. The truth is when we set the law of attraction in motion, we aren’t fully aware of the schematics the Universe has laid out in order for us to achieve our goal. Sometimes we must travel down the road less trodden and we unwittingly learn and grow over the journey. This is where implicit faith comes in to play. Faith that there is a bigger picture, a greater plan and during the darkest moments is when we stay strong, positive and focus on our desires and achieving them. Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, so do we prevail through adversity and arrive at our destination, the achievement of our desire.

There is a story about a Zen Master and a boy who on his 14th birthday receives a horse as a gift. The villagers are happy for the boy and are heard saying,

‘How wonderful the boy got a horse.’

The Zen Master simply responds,

‘We’ll see…’

Some time later the boy takes a spill off the horse and breaks his leg. The villagers are saddened for the boy and are heard saying,

‘How terrible!’

The Zen Master once again simply responds,

‘We’ll see…’

Soon after a war breaks out and all the young men from the village are recruited and forced to fight in the war. The only boy that isn’t recruited is the one with the broken leg. At this point the villagers are heard saying,

‘How wonderful!’

The Zen Master simply responds,

‘We’ll see.’

The fact is we don’t always see the Universes grand scheme but we have to believe there is one. To illustrate this point let me share a real life example…

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