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Love is a cycle of Inspiration

A friend sent this to me and I thought it appropriate for the first post of 2014…I’ve reposted it here from the original post on facebook, with permission.

Inspiration starts in the home. –Alpha English

What does being inspired really mean? Alpha would say it means having the faith to tackle difficult tasks. She surely had it. In a time when few women went to college, she did and with honors. Then after a lifetime of teaching in a small Arkansas town, she began writing plays and a history of African Americans for the benefit of young and old alike. She was inspired. Her example inspired others, too.

But what if we didn’t grow up in a home where inspiration was nurtured? Did that mean we couldn’t develop it? Taking notice of how we have solved problems and approached the unknown in our lives indicates the level of inspiration we acquired from somewhere. What’s obvious is that we did create it somehow. Any accomplishment we can point to is evidence. Nobody tackles anything without some inner drive that says they can. That’s inspiration.

Some of us did have more than others. Some of us still do. The good news is that we can “trade” inspiration with each other. We can give it away when a friend is in need, and we can borrow it back when we’re feeling uncertain about a direction or a task. It matters not where we get it. It never did. It was simply easier for us if it was one of the gifts passed on in our homes.

My inspiration can come from anywhere today. Those who are closest are the obvious “carriers.”

Love can be found in the giver and the receiver, in the act of inspiring and in the act of being inspired. For Love is at the root of both – the instigator in the sharing of an inspiration, the preparer of the heart ripe for inspiration. Yet, it is in the cycle that Love shines most, when hearts change places in a continual dance lifting each other closer and closer to love itself. All of it instigated by love to begin with.

Indeed Love is a cycle of Inspiration.

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love in leadership

A friend and former teacher of mine recently posted this quote by business consultant Ann McGee-Cooper. It lays an awesome foundation for the reconciliation of love in work. Check it out!

When you love life, when you love your customers, when you love your business you bring a different self to it, and effective leaders have the courage to fall in love …

– Ann McGee-Cooper

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Love is Belonging.

Belong to those you love.

– Anne Sexton

In the middle of recent posting on Brain Pickings about motherly advice I came across this quote by Anne Sexton that cuts right to chase of the nature of giving in a relationship. Taken from Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters:

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Love is Happiness

I just finished a great book on neuroscience, the subconscious, and humanity – Incognito, the Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman. At the end of book as David acknowledges his wife Sarah, I came across these beautiful lines:

The other day I saw a sign that simply read HAPPINESS – and I realized that the thought of Sarah was my instant mental headline. Deep in the canopies of my brain forest, happiness and Sarah have become synaptically synonymous, and for her presence in my life I am grateful.

Check out the rest of the book here:

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Can’t buy Love

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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