Favorite Inspirational Quotes

You are a distinct portion of the essence of God in yourself. Why, then, are you ignorant of your noble birth? Why do you not consider whence you came? Why do you not remember when you are eating, who you are who eat; and whom you feed: do you not know that it is the divine you feed; the divine you exercise? You carry a God about with you.

Epictetus

How marvelous that a man born a slave and who was not freed until he was 35 could realize we each carry the divine within us. Funny how I grew up learning that God was omnipresent but still was taught He was a separate being “up in Heaven”.

Why did we never realize that omnipresence means everywhere which includes within us as well as within a blade of grass? What we feed ourselves is of the divine as well. Why are we so ignorant that the divine is within us all, and around us and in all that is around us? We are star stuff. We are noble born and we should start to treat ourselves that way.

Would you berate the divine as you berate yourself? Begin to talk to yourself more gently and kindly for you carry the divine within.

And don’t use negative self talk. Would you complain to God if he was truly right in front of you? Ok, maybe some of us would still complain about the “bum’s rush” we got, but would that be the kind of impression you would want to make on someone important, to complain to them? Then why do we complain and use negative self talk?

Would you not take care of God as you do not take care of yourself? You body is indeed a temple that holds the spark of God. Why have I done the things I have done to this temple? I, now knowing more, must endeavor to put things right.

If only we were truly taught these things as children. If only I had been wise enough to teach my own children when they were young. “If only’s” don’t get us anywhere, though, and so I must work from this point to recognize that we are all divine and so too is all that surrounds us.