No life is devoid of struggle. In fact, it is our struggle that makes us wiser, more grateful, and more appreciative of life. Our struggle gives us character. It gives us a story to tell.

It may be hard to see while we are in it, but if we are really aware, we realize no struggle comes without also bringing a blessing. These blessings sometimes come in the form of a “lesson learned.”

Every lesson teaches us something not just about ourselves but about life in general. True wisdom comes from the knowledge that every perceived “problem”, “challenge”, or “obstacle”, is ultimately making us a better and stronger person. Below are 10 inspirational quotes that can get you through any hardship.

Gary ‘Z’ McGee, Staff Writer
Waking Times

“There is another world but it is inside this one.” –Paul Eluard

Burnt-out husk or balanced-out biome? Progressive technologies or outdated technologies? Unsustainable comfort or sustainable discomfort? Spiritual ecocentrism or dogmatic egocentrism? Slapped with the truth or kissed with a lie?

Tough questions all, but excruciatingly important questions to ask. Unfortunately most people want to be kissed with a lie. They eat it up. They eagerly accept their spoon-feeding like a too-trusting baby in a too-high chair. They question too little and rely too much on so-called answers. They put the cart before the horse, and then wonder why the horse isn’t moving. Gee, I wonder?

HJ: Everything should be as simple as possible and no simpler, according to Einstein.  Wise words from a brilliant and wise man.  If you’re in overwhelm or even just feeling stretched a bit thin, it’s time to reconsider and slow down, which ironically will lead to more success and perhaps most importantly, more enjoyment out of life.

- Truth

3 Ways to Make Your Life Simple and Successful Again

By Marc Chernoff | Marc and Angel

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
―Leo Tolstoy

We all have days, weeks, months and – for some – even years of feeling anxious and overwhelmed with the work we have yet to do. It’s an elusive feeling that aches from deep within. From the outside, people think you have it all together, but they can’t see what’s going on in your head. Stress fills your thoughts and emotions all too often, nagging at you throughout the day. You have so many things to do and they never seem to get done. You always feel a day late and a buck short. The pressure is intense and overwhelming.

Jed Shlackman, Contributor
Waking Times

Scientists exploring the phenomena of cymatics have observed and documented how vibration governs the form of physical matter. When vibrational energy and information are introduced via sound, light, or other vibrational stimuli, physical systems change their form and function. Vibration can be perceived in multiple sensory ways, with all of our 5 senses being ways of interpreting vibratory patterns in our environment. Everything that is perceived to exist in physical reality is just the narrow, dense layer of wave forms and vibration that is being projected and manifested by higher density vibrational fields. Physicists have discovered that any particle which appears to exist is in a sense a snapshot of a wave, which appears in a momentary frozen form as a result of the observer perceiving it in order to crystallize a reality for the observer. Nothing is truly solid or stable, everything is energy in some state of motion, i.e. vibration.

The beginning of beauty, knowledge, truth and acceptance always starts within. Yes, you can look at the truths of others, examine, disseminate and think about them; however, it is up to you to decide what to incorporate for yourself. You were not provided with an instruction manual, but there have been maps all along the way. ~ Creator

By Ian Brown
Guest Writer for Wake Up World

Do you constantly allow your power to be taken from you? Are you aware of the effect this has on you energetically?

For a brief moment, take your mind back to your school days. Do you remember a bully in the playground? Maybe you were one who was bullied. Maybe you were one who knew it was wrong and wanted to do something, but kept a low profile so the bully would not come after you. In reality, there is not much difference between the one bullied and the one that stood by without taking action. Both have their power taken away by another. The only difference is that one is by violation, and the other is by fear. The effect is the same.

Aren’t you glad those days have passed? I propose they haven’t. It is just that the bully of your adulthood wears different clothes from the school uniform of the past. He, or she (or for that matter it, if we refer to the ‘system’) is still there trying to take your power.

Jon Rappoport, Guest
Waking Times

“According to evidence unearthed from the archives of the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) in the United States, it has been established that Monsanto was fully aware of the potential of glyphosate [the primary ingredient in Roundup] to cause cancer in mammals as long ago as 1981…EPA was worried in 1981 that these indications were sinister, and at first declined to issue a NOEL (no observed adverse effect level) — it asked for further information and additional research. In its 1982 Addendum, Monsanto presented evidence that minimised the effects and confused the data — and on that basis EPA accepted that glyphosate was unlikely to be dangerous. But Monsanto knew that scrutiny of the data in the studies would potentially threaten its commercial ambitions, and so it asked for the research documents concerned to be withheld and treated as Trade Secrets. So there was no effective independent scrutiny. Monsanto and EPA connived in keeping these documents away from unbiased expert assessment, in spite of the evidence of harm...