a reminder

A few years ago I made a decision to read on a regular basis… to expand my knowledge and to remind myself there is never an ending to learning through experience. As many of you who read will know already, a great book opens you to an experience for as long as you are indulged within it.

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies” - George R.R. Martin

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The more I read, the more my reading style developed.

It went from a ridged process of: “okay I’m going to sit down and read for exactly 30 minutes every night before sleep” to intuitively observing an internal pull… similar to a guide with the intention, ’now is the right time to continue’.

The more I listened, understood and proceeded with this understanding, the more I would trust myself and read for 3 hours straight if I felt I needed to; stop a book 3 quarters of the way through to begin another; or choose to not read for 3 days if I didn’t feel inspired to.

This way, the words were beginning to become more potent and I would be at the exact state in life I needed to be to receive, understand and take them in completely.

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I was beginning to notice my life events were pairing with the words I would read.

The most interesting part was that the words that matched my life, came not before, but after each experience would take place. Generally in under a weeks time.

It was as though something significant would happen in my life, maybe a conversation or an influential experience of some sort. Something with enough capture that it wouldn’t go unforgotten. Not that it was anything too out of the ordinary - simply moments which would open my awareness to states of wonder and curiosity.

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A few days ago I found myself in a conversation with somebody who inspires me plenty.

We spoke about creation, the importance of continuously being inspired and the driving factor of only having this specific human on earth experience; one. single. time.

Exchanging thoughts around the time we have here being limited... struggling to come to terms with the possibility and ease of a life lived sleepwalking, doing the mundane things we are born into thinking we have to do. And if we all really are capable of doing anything we can think up, why spend our lives doing any less than what we're actually creatively capable of?

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The day after I was reading my current book [The Tenth Insight - by James Redfield],

when I come across a quote that read;

“Most important of all is to look deeply enough to remember what you want to do with your life. Real healing takes place when we can envision a new kind of future for ourselves that excites us. Inspiration is what keeps us well. People aren’t healed to watch more TV."

It acted as a reminder of the importance to ask myself and continuously come back to these questions;

Am I inspired right now?

How can I make the absolute most of my experience?

What do I consciously want to bring into this world, for this world?

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A reminder that if we are open to being inspired, the inspiration will show up.

It may be as simple as reading a few words, on the right page, at just the right time.