Life is a Dance

Your life within God's arms,
Your dance within God's arms,
Is already Perfect!
- Hafiz

Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance,
I hope you dance.
- Lee Ann Womack

Today is your day to dance lightly with life,
sing wild songs of adventure,
invite rainbows and butterflies out to play,
soar your spirit, and unfurl your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: A List of Gratitudes

Appreciate the Unexpected

The Paradox Of Living In The Moment

Dance Quotes

Music Quotes

Quotes about Being Happy

Quotes to Live By

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Teresa

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa

Be gentle first with yourself - if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe

May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- jlh

Smile. Today would be a wonderful day not to take life so seriously. Today may end up the way you prefer - and it may not. Happiness is not about being a winner - it's about being gentle with life - being gentle with yourself. Let life be a dance, and choose the kind of dance you want for today - perhaps a gentle loving dance.

*** Today's picture comes from a collection of 8.5x11" mail-a-prints - high-quality reproductions of original watercolors by my wife Suze Stewart Huie. These prints are very affordable to frame and hang - and they also make great easy-to-mail seasonal gifts. To see these mermaid, cat, and other mail-a-prints go to
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Further reading: How to be Happy in Life by Breaking the Cycle of Self-Inflicted Suffering

Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

Quotes about Letting Go

Life Quotes to Live By

Life Purpose Quotes

Sayings about Life

Living In The Now

Living Life Quotes

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. - William Arthur Ward

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby

Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Let today be a day to relax and dance lightly with life.

Further Reading: 12 Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat

What to Do When Your Whole World is Falling Apart?

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -William James

Quotes about Balance in Life

Powerful Quotes

Uplifting Quotes

Respect Quotes

Clever Quotes

Hilarious Quotes

Sarcastic Quotes

Dance in the Rain - quote by Vivian Greene

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene

I will dance a little. I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous

Is today a day to gather strength from the storm - a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle? Or is today a day to sit by the fire and watch the storm rage outside? Either way, the storm is just life. Give thanks for all of Life.

*** Book of the day

Today's beautiful quote by Vivian Greene inspired Mac Anderson
and B J Gallagher to write the book...
Learning to Dance in the Rain: The Power of Gratitude.
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Further reading: How to Move On and Let Go

Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat

Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life

How to Get Over a Broken Heart

Amazing Quotes

Cheer Up Quotes

Quotes about Not Caring What People Think

Quotes about Change

Dance... enjoy each step along the way - Wayne Dyer

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
- Oprah Winfrey

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Gratitude is the prayer, while Celebration is the song and the dance of praise.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whenever you are grateful -- and I hope you are always grateful -- celebrate your gratitude with great enthusiasm and joy.



Simply an Inspired Life: Consciously Choosing Unbounded Happiness in Good Times & Bad by Jonathan Lockwood Huie and Mary Anne Radmacher
www.amazon.com/gp/product/1573244570?tag=simaninslif-20



Further reading: The Eight Points of Simply An Inspired Life

CELEBRATION - the seventh Point of Simply An Inspired Life

Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life

Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

Growing Up Quotes

Cheer Up Quotes

Uplifting Quotes

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene

Let today be a day to face life with courage, with faith, and with a light heart.

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Further reading: Wisdom Quotes

mary anne radmacher: courage doesn't always roar

Mark Twain quote: Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ...

Living in the Now quotes

Life is too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde

Play with life, laugh with life, dance lightly with life, and smile at the riddles of life, knowing that life’s only true lessons are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde

*** Book of the day:
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Further reading: Oscar Wilde Quotes

My own "Best Quotes"

De-Stress Your Life - Reducing Stress

Dalai Lama: The purpose of our lives is to be happy

Be sure to smell the flowers along the way. Walter Hagen

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen

Let today be a day to enjoy life exactly as it comes - a day to relax and enjoy life's small pleasures.

Learning to Dance In The Rain with Free DVD

Further reading: 12 Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat

Let It Be - Paul McCartney

Lao Tzu: Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished

No Regrets Quotes

I hope you dance

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.
- Lee Ann Womack (Watch the I Hope You Dance video)

Today is your day to dance lightly with life.
Sing wild songs of adventure.
Invite rainbows & butterflies out to play.
Soar your spirit and unfurl your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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A few days ago, I asked you to send in your Happy Day quotes. I have put a few of them on a Happy Day Quotes page.

Deflect the blows of life

Play with life, laugh with life, dance lightly with life, and smile at the riddles of life, knowing that life’s only true lessons are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is unpredictable and unknowable. Attempting to resist life leads to suffering. Yet, floating through life like a dead log also leads to a loss of all joy. For a meaningful and joyous life, gently guide the forces of life in the direction of your goals.

Visualize how the martial arts fighter uses the strength of his opponent against him. Use that principle in your encounter with life. Deflect the blows rather than allowing them to crush you.

*** Learn about my Regaining Your Happiness in Seven Weeks e-Training Program. Read what those who have experienced the program have to say at
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Further reading: True learning is not about facts, but about conscious appreciation of the experience of living. - jlh

Positive Attitude: When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.

What To Do When Your Whole World Is Falling Apart?

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous

Play with life, laugh with life, dance lightly with life, and smile at the riddles of life, knowing that life’s only true lessons are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today's lead quote is the closing line of an anonymous story about random acts of kindness that is making its way around the internet. Read The Cab Ride and see what you think.

Further reading: Oscar Wilde: The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

Mark Twain: Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Albert Pike: What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us.

Mark Twain: It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain

The fight is with life. Life is a constant opponent, and an overpowering adversary if attacked directly. The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life - a parry here, a feint there - always engaged, but never in the direct line of life's heaviest blows.

Mary Anne Radmacher:Find your balance and stand with it

Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Francesco Garri Garripoli: The Dance of the Cosmos

The Dance of the Cosmos
- Francesco Garri Garripoli

The dance of the cosmos and the world we experience every day are wonderfully intertwined... Most times we are so caught up in our daily lives that we forget about anything but our immediate challenges or joys... nose to the grindstone... With this challenge of not "seeing the forest through the trees" we can so easily get caught up in the small stuff and forget about our true nature as infinite expressions of an infinite universe... Sounds kinda spiritual/new age right? But guess what? This week a group of very respected astrophysicists from respected universities in the U.S. and Germany have moved a step closer to being quite certain that we all live in a universe that is actually a hologram. Ha! People practicing high-level Qigong for millennia have said this... spiritual practitioners have known this intuitively forever... the Master teacher I studied with for years in the 1970's in Hawaii impressed this upon me regularly... A hologram? Does that mean that our world isn't real?

Well, the last I checked, this world is very real... I spent all morning repairing another 50 feet of fence that the wild pigs destroyed last night... so the physical that we experience - our bodies and all the fences we interact with - is quite real to us... what is up for grabs is how we relate to it... Sure, some of this is played out in our attitude and mood; good attitude = nice day, bad mood = lousy experiences... but it goes so much deeper... to the way our subtle energy affects everything we experience on the physical and energetic planes.

This is part of what those astrophysicists are dealing with... for them, they are finding solutions to challenges that have plagued great minds like Einstein. These challenges came from not being able to resolve why physics (the workings of the physical world) didn't behave the same on small scales as it did on large scales... why light was the limit of speed... and what accounted for so much mass in the universe when it couldn't be seen... These might not seem like challenges to you, but for these guys - and the universities that fund them millions of dollars annually - it is a professional lifework to resolve them. I remind you that when Einstein proposed a theory (Relativity) on a piece of paper, it opened the minds of people like Oppenheimer and Fermi so that they could go on to create things that were ABSOLUTELY new and impossible before the change of their belief systems. This of course was atomic power and atomic weapons.

Imagine what will come about when these new theories of the holographic nature of our universe become fully accepted by the intellectual powerbrokers of today? That acceptance shifts the construct system of group-think... and when that happens, watch out... new things will naturally come into existence.

The dance of the cosmos... syncing with Obama as president of the U.S... another expression of major shifting in group-think...

This hologram theory that the astrophysicists are presenting stems from some irregularities observed in a large-scale test done searching for minute gravitational waves. The only good solution to the interference is that, get this, atoms at the edge of our known universe dictate the creation of all the atoms in all the matter we experience, and the ripple of this is disturbance in space/time is what is being seen as the "interference." In other words, everything we experience as solid and observable physical stuff is a projection of those atoms sitting some 7 billion light years away. I'm not making this up! I just want to end this dissertation with the idea that in a hologram, everything reflects everything... this means that space (distance and things) and time (the illusion of passing experience) no longer exist as factual... a shift within an atom at one edge of the universe instantaneously affects everything else, everywhere else...

...so dream on what it will be like when this becomes the accepted truth for the scientific community... that's how realities change, don't they? Change what you believe and your world changes... The better you learn how to dream and shift your beliefs, the more efficient you will be at shifting your world, at being free... Qigong is a great tool at learning how to work with this... focusing on your health is an easy entry point for wanting to work with Qigong... but it's only the beginning....

Guest author Francesco Garri Garripoli is a respected Qigong instructor, author, wellness advocate, Emmy Award winning television graphics designer and program Producer-Director. Learn about Qigong at www.wujiproductions.com and about Francesco's retreats, workshops, classes and international study trips at www.kahunavalley.org

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Karate Kid Movie Quotes - Miyagi Quotes

First, wash all car. Then wax. Wax on...
Wax on, right hand. Wax off, left hand. Wax on, wax off. Breathe in through nose, out the mouth. Wax on, wax off. Don't forget to breathe, very important.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

Problem: attitude.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

Walk on road, hmmm? Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe. Walk middle, sooner or later get squish just like grape. Here, karate, same thing. Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no." You karate do "guess so," squish just like grape. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

Better learn balance. Balance is key. Balance good, karate good. Everything good. Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid

For man with no forgiveness in heart, life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2

Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in movie The Next Karate Kid

Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in movie The Next Karate Kid

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Earth laughs in flowers

Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rabindranath Tagore: Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore

There is always enough time to celebrate life. Nothing is more important than celebrating your accomplishments, your lessons, your family, your friends, and especially yourself. Raise a glass, thank Spirit, celebrate today, and anticipate tomorrow joyfully.

What If Every Day Were Your Day - Celebrate Whimsey Today

today is your day to dance lightly with life,
invite rainbows & butterflies out to play,
today is your day to practice whimsey,
watch wondrous cloud animals parade your story,
find a magical white bunny down every rabbit hole.
- jonathan lockwood huie

Who made the rule that life has to be so serious? One would think that "life is serious" had been engraved upon stone tablets to judge from how most lives are lived. Get a life, smile broadly, sing loudly, paint your rooms in bold colors, search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny, have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner, wear a purple coat with a red hat - dance lightly with life.

if being good isn't working - try being outrageous. - mary anne radmacher

Most of us seldom let the outrageous part of ourselves out to play. Notice that I didn't say "never," I said "seldom." Halloween is one of those exceptions. While there are certainly many "bah humbug" houses on our street, more than half the houses wear an acknowledgement of Halloween - and nothing about Halloween is NOT outrageous.

Mardi Gras is the other time that momentum builds to express our outrageous side. Both Halloween and Mardi Gras feature costumes - behind which we can hide our "real" identity as we try on our outrageous persona.

What if we like our outrageous side best? We "know" that the "right" thing to do is to suck it up, put the costume and the happy face back in storage for another year, re-dress in our frown and gray flannel suit, and trudge back to job, chores, "responsibilities," and "duty."

Stop! Maybe TODAY is the day to put the frown and gray flannel into that dusty storage locker, and start to LIVE. Not just today, but EVERY DAY for the rest of your life!

Celebrate today... Celebrate ME... Celebrate Life... Celebrate Rainbows & Butterflies... Celebrate Whimsey...

Take off your shoes and dance on the beach... Play in the mud... Sing at the top of your lungs... and don't care who hears you.

Today In-My-World: Do something Outrageous - just because I want to.

Don't die with your music still inside you. - Wayne Dyer

What do you want written on your tombstone? It won't be there if you haven't done it. Start today. If you want "never missed a day of work," go for it, but if you want it said that you "radiated happiness to all around - put a smile on every face - inspired us all to be the best we could be," you might want to start today to lighten up, and start to put happiness - yours, your family's, and your friends - ahead of material success or "achievement."

Follow Your Bliss. - Joseph Campbell

If you want to do it, do it - TODAY.

Today is your day to dance lightly with life.

Today is your day to dance lightly with life. It really is.
- jonathan lockwood huie

Smile. Today would be a wonderful day not to take life so seriously. Today may end up the way you prefer - and it may not. Happiness is not about being a winner - it's about being gentle with life - being gentle with yourself. Let life be a dance, and choose the kind of dance you want for today - perhaps a gentle loving dance.

I Hope You Dance - the Lee Ann Womack song - has lyrics that align well with today's thought.

Today is your day to dance lightly with life. It really is. - jlh

Today is your day to dance lightly with life. It really is. - jlh dance lightly with life today is your day to dance lightly with life, sing wild songs of adventure, invite rainbows & butterflies out to play, soar your spirit, and unfurl your joy. today is your day to paint life in bold colors, set today's rhythm with your heart-drum, walk today's march with courage, create today as your celebration of life. today is your day to practice whimsey, skip on the beach, and play with the waves, watch wondrous cloud animals parade your story, find a magical white bunny down every rabbit hole. today is your day to laugh at life, laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad, laugh loud - laugh often, laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life. today is your day to honor your being, release each and every struggle, gather strength from life's storms, relax into the arms of spirit. today is your day to see in yourself the face of god. your mind sparks, your soul sparkles. your peace is counterpoint to the clamor of life. you are a magnificent gift to the world. - jonathan lockwood huie A quote from LIVE BOLDLY dare to dream of your great success. become intimate with those things which deeply motivate you and regularly work toward the realization of that mission. - mary anne radmacher