Living a life of dreams often feels like a rollercoaster ride. Is this life even real? From time to time, it feels so close that you can smell it, touch it, taste it, and even feel it. Other moments, it feels like it exists on the other side of the universe. Obstacles and difficulties are always present on the way to any worthwhile dream.

Read more: 4 Huge Decisions We All Have To Make In Order To Live the Life We Dream Of

Tara Lemieux writes:

My loves, this morning I’m inspired through the words of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi who writes;
“Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.”
In these words, we find the roots of awareness; an immeasurable spiritual power formed through the process of self inquiry.
And, speaking directly to our attachments in this life – to people, to things, to perceptions of being.
The books will caution our clinging, reminding us of the inherent suffering manifested through expectation, need and desire. We assume the guidance to be absolute; attaching to nothing for fear of pain.
But there is a joy within the transient nature of things. The fading warmth of a ceramic mug, a snowflake to the top of a tongue — we cherish that which is immediately ‘there’, sharing this space of interbeing.
Perhaps this is the lesson, my loves? That all things must eventually pass. Opening our hearts to a divine awareness, a sense of oneness with all that remains.

Source: http://www.mindfullymusing.com/2016/12/18/the-lesson-of-interbeing/

Get more here: http://www.lifehack.org/508435/50-highly-motivational-quotes-prepare-you-for-2017

“Whether your feelings have a logical explanation or not, recognize them as valid and trust that, when given permission to exist, they will eventually pass. (I promise they will.)” ~Jill Gross

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“…you’re assuming the person needs fixing, that what they’re doing is ‘wrong.’ Our journey in this lifetime is our own. We’re the only ones who know what is best for us. And only we have a full perspective of all the elements of our lives and how they serve us. Even when we’re facing challenges, they are ours to face down. Our way. And when we see fit. Yes, we need to take responsibility for any fall-out, but isn’t that where our growth lies? Making choices and then dealing with the consequences? Good or bad?” ~Jacky Exton

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Source: Tiny Buddha – Google+

Source: Tiny Buddha – Google+

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall

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“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” ~Japanese Proverb

Life knocks all us down at times, but you don’t have to stay down. This might help you get back on your feet so you can turn it all around.

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“No matter how awful your last relationship was, how wrong the other person was, or how ready you think you are to find someone new, you must look at your part in this relationship or you’ll be very likely to repeat your experience. Be willing to accept responsibility for your life, your past and your future. The common denominator in all of your relationships is you. You were there for all of them. If you have a pattern of being cheated on, mistreated, or dumped, you owe it to yourself to take a closer look at why these things happened. This doesn’t mean that the other person was blameless, but you’re the only one you can do anything about.” ~Renée Suzanne

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Essential reading for the new year!

Have you ever felt the urge to declutter your work life?
Do you often find yourself stretched too thin?
Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underutilized?
Are you frequently busy but not productive?
Do you feel like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people’s agendas?
If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the Way of the Essentialist.
The Way of the Essentialist isn’t about getting more done in less time. It’s about getting only the right things done.  It is not  a time management strategy, or a productivity technique. It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution towards the things that really matter. 
By forcing us to apply a more selective criteria for what is Essential, the disciplined pursuit of less empowers us to reclaim control of our own choices about where to spend our precious time and energy – instead of giving others the implicit permission to choose for us.
Essentialism is not one more thing – it’s a whole new way of doing everything. A must-read for any leader, manager, or individual who wants to do less, but better, and declutter and organize their own their lives, Essentialism is a movement whose time has come.

Purchase your copy here: Amazon.com: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less eBook: Greg McKeown: Kindle Store

One of my favorite websites talks about two of my favorite podcasters on a topic that I love: minimalism.

The typical U.S. household has tripled in size over the past 50 years, now large enough to hold the 300,000 items the average family owns. Back in 2007, Joshua Fields Millburn was living out this norm, with a lucrative corporate job that afforded him luxuries like a nice car, a house with more toilets than people, and plenty of “stuff” to fill it with. He was epitomizing the American dream—until he realized it wasn’t his dream at all.

A bout of introspection after his marriage ended and his mother died in the same month left Millburn wondering when he’d become so consumed in this chase for more. More wealth, more possessions, more power.

“Those events forced me to question what had become my life’s focus. I realized I was so focused on so-called success and achievement, especially what achievement meant in our society, which was the accumulation of stuff, that I forsook the things that were most important,” he tells mindbodygreen. “I was fat, I was out of shape, I ignored the people who were closest to me, and I wasn’t really focused on what I wanted to do creatively. I wasn’t growing. I wasn’t contributing.”

Go to the source for more: “The Minimalists” On How To Declutter Your Home & Your Life – mindbodygreen