Introducing a Month of Confidence

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ~Eleanor Roosevelt, You [...]

What Are You Choosing to Become?

Aristotle said “Time does not exist except for change.” The origin of the word change is the Old English cambium, which means “to become.” In other words, time does not exist except for becoming something new. What, exactly, are you choosing to become? ~Robert Cooper from The Other 90% Image Credit: Hiroyuki Takeda As we [...]

A Month of Celebration!

Welcome once again to a new month of wonderfulness here at The Calm Space! December is all at once one of my favourite months, and one of the ones I have been known to *ahem* stress a little over. This year, I’ve vowed to make December easy. And to celebrate all the little moments as [...]

The Power and Beauty of Dreams

Only one thing makes a dream impossible: the fear of failure. ~Paulo Coelho With life on full throttle as we hurtle towards 2012, it’s sometimes difficult to find a moment to breathe, let alone a moment to tap into our dreams. But dreams are powerful things, and they can help us slow down the pace [...]

How Much Beauty?

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the dawn! ~Logan Pearsall Smith Beauty feeds my soul. Beauty lifts my spirits when I am down. Beauty brings me back into the present moment, right where life is. Beauty raises me higher than I can go on effort alone. Beauty puts [...]

I held a moment in my hand…

I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dropped it carelessly, Ah! I didn’t know, I held opportunity. ~Hazel Lee~   image: Energy Ball by jam343

The doorway to opportunity

We’ve hit the half-way mark in another year. And we’re welcoming in the new financial year here in Australia. July for me marks a newness akin to January. A mid-point and the chance to seize the opportunity to really make the rest of the year matter. So we’re writing, this month, about Opportunity. The opportunity [...]

A Month of Kindness

Kindness: the quality of being friendly, generous and considerate. Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. ~Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire “… only kindness can do that.” There is something about reading the word, kindness, that fills me with a warmth that has nothing to do with [...]

Rockin’ it with Enthusiasm!

We can do so much when we’re enthusiastic, can’t we? Enthusiasm takes the place of willpower, and gets us off our backside and moving forward. So it’s with glee that I introduce our theme for May: ENTHUSIASM! Yes! All month long our contributors and a fantastic smattering of guests, are going to regale us with [...]

The Joy of Discovery

If you were all alone in the universe with no-one to talk to, no-one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy [...]

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