Author: mysticheartsong

After thirty years of teaching Inner City, Special Education students and forty-five years of metaphysical studies, I have decided to share my life's philosophical understandings on this wonderful website. For me, everything in my life has been a spiritual experience from being raised in an alcoholic household, to marriage and teaching, and finally caring for an Alzheimer parent. I have sought at least fifteen, personal psychic readings to try and assist me as a wife, teacher and caretaker. I want to share the wisdom that I have gained from following the valuable spiritual guidance from my inner knowing and from heeding the advise of channeled answers from trusted psychics. At almost 70 years old, I am writing, traveling and enjoying retirement in Florida.

“The Man In The Arena” by Theodore Roosevelt

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory or defeat.”                                              Theodore Roosevelt

Practical Spirituality

“A famous passage from the Bible advises: ‘Ask and it shall be given to you; seek, and you will find. For everyone that asks receives, they who seek find, and to they who knock, the door shall be opened.’

This refers to spiritual awareness and wisdom. The original meaning of ‘ask’ was ‘claim’. Claim awareness. Claim wisdom. Claim prosperity. Claim peace, happiness and love. This is one of the most important steps to spirituality.”

365 Steps To Practical Spirituality
DAVID LAWRENCE PRESTON

Pleased With What Comes To You

“By paying attention to the way you feel, and then choosing thoughts that feel the very best, you are managing your own vibration, which means you are controlling your own point of attraction — which means you are creating your own reality.

It’s such a wonderful thing to realize that you can create your own reality without sticking your nose in everybody else’s, and that the less attention you give to everybody else’s reality, the purer your vibration is going to be — and the more you are going to be pleased with what comes to you.”

Abraham-Hicks, 12/8/01

Compassion And Love – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart.

When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says things that are not easy to accept.  We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent on the other person being lovable.

We have to have loving speech.  And if we are honest, if we are true, terrorists will open their hearts.  Then we practice compassionate listening, and we can learn so much about our own perception and their perception.  Only after that can we help remove wrong perception. That is the best way, the only way, to remove terrorism.

It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love.  Every moment, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.

When we look deeply into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth and everything else in the cosmos in it.  Without clouds there would be no rain, and without rain there would be no flower.

We really have to understand the person if we want to love.  If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.”

Thich Nhat Hanh, Pebbles Of Peace, p.4