“The only permission, the only validation, and the only opinions that matters in our quest for greatness is our own.” ~ Dr Steve Maraboli

There is nothing more tragic than a person that feels they need to wait for permission to be happy, live their life or be their most authentic self. When our minds are plagued by fear, guilt or unworthiness we begin to believe that we don’t deserve to be truly happy until the other people in our lives are as well.

Or perhaps we do the opposite. We feel as though we have no right to be angry, sad, depressed or unhappy because we still see so many in the world that have so little compared to us. Either way, when we feel guilty about being our most authentic self and start operating from the notion that we need to wait for the world outside of us to give us the green light to start feeling however we feel, we are wasting precious time.

How much are you relaying as opposed to how often you listen? When the moments strikes, stop and watch what it going on around you. It will ‘speak’ volumes. ~ Creator

https://thecreatorwritings.wordpress.com/2015/09/17/stop-and-watch/

Two years after Edward Snowden first leaked information about the National Security Agency’s illegal domestic spying programs, the once-cynical whistleblower is now striking a more optimistic tone about what he sees as a rising “post-terror” America.

In an op-ed published Thursday in The New York Times, whistleblower and former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden reflected on how circumstances have changed on the two-year anniversary of his first leaks. “Two years ago today, three journalists and I worked nervously in a Hong Kong hotel room, waiting to see how the world would react to the revelation that the National Security Agency had been making records of nearly every phone call in the United States. In the days that followed, those journalists and others published documents revealing that democratic governments had been monitoring the private activities of ordinary citizens who had done nothing wrong,” wrote Snowden in the opening of his retrospective.

By Nanice Ellis
Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

This is our opportunity to transform the future of humanity.

In 1987, I took part in a worldwide meditation – it was the Harmonic Convergence and the beginning of what many call “the New Age”. During this meditation, I witnessed the Earth break open, and inside a New Vibrant and Thriving Earth revealed itself to me.

Even as conditions have worsened over the last few decades, I have never forgotten that Sacred Vision. Despite evidence to the contrary, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that underneath the war, destruction and poverty that devastates our precious planet, there is a Bright New World cracking through the seams. You and I now hold that key. Yet, as we wait for our cultures or governments to change, we have forgotten that we have the power to transform humanity now and for future generations.

By Philip Shepherd
Guest Writer for Wake Up World

In chapter nine of Homer’s epic The Odyssey, a strange event is described: Odysseus arrived with his crew in the country of the Lotus Eaters, and chose three scouts to reconnoitre. On encountering the local inhabitants, the scouts were offered not hostility but food: a type of honey-sweet lotus fruit, which they devoured readily. But the more they ate, the more forgetful they became – forgetful of returning to Odysseus, forgetful even of their desire to return home. So deep was their craving for more of the fruit that when Odysseus and his men found them, they had to be carried forcibly back to the ships where, still weeping, they were tied beneath the rowing benches.

The story of the Lotus Eaters has a special relevance for us, for we too are driven by cravings. What really strikes home for me, though, isn’t so much the addictive longing the fruit creates, as the forgetfulness it induces. And more specifically, the fact that those eating the fruit seemed unaware of its power to induce forgetfulness.

Dear Ones, you are creators, each and every one of you, and you create by intention (deciding what is wanted) and holding the energetic essence of that desire in order to magnetize it to you. All creation begins within first. A very simple way to understand this is to think of the expression, “Build it and they will come.” Are you building the energetic framework of what you wish to experience? ~Archangel Gabriel

http://trinityesoterics.com/2015/09/17/daily-message-thursday-september-17-2015/