Inspiring Poems & Quotes


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"Those we love never truly leave us. They remain forever in our hearts." - Unknown

"Through compassion, you find that all human beings are just like you." - Dalai Lama

"...learn to love and learn to be loved." - Mary Oliver


Don't be perfect.

Be yourself.

Unknown


I define myself by my ability to give.

I define myself by my ability to understand.

I define myself by my ethics and

by my truth.

These are the things that inform who I am

other than exterior moments that come and ebb and flow.

Goldie Hawn


Life moves pretty fast.

If you don't stop and look around once in awhile,

you could miss it.

Ferris Bueller


You are Spirit.

You are not your body.

Your body may fail you.

However, the real you - your Spirit

lives on forever.

When you leave this world,

you will continue to live on.

Do not fear death.

It is merely a transition into a greater world.

Fear not

for we are with you always.

© 2011 Gayle Kirk
Channeled Spirit Writing


In case you've been wondering,

YES you are 'good enough'!

© 2011 Gayle Kirk


You have to choose inner peace.

It doesn't just find you.

© 2011 Gayle Kirk
Channeled Spirit Writing


I've learned that people will forget what you said,

people will forget what you did,

but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou


Even if there's only one small thing you can enjoy now,

fill yourself with appreciation for that.

Find joy now and joy will always find you.

Oprah Winfrey


I've converted everything in my life into love.

Phyllis Diller


If we all did the things we are capable of doing

we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas Edison


What would you do if you weren't afraid?

Oprah Winfrey


Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, the White Queen


That still small voice, known also as our inner voice,

is the Creator, our Higher Self/Soul, and Spirit Guides speaking to us

through our psychic senses.

We all have this ability to varying degrees

whether we believe it, know it, listen to it, and follow it, or not.

© 2011 Gayle Kirk


Thinking of others with love definitely increases our capacity to understand them...

Empathy can be an astounding experience in the spiritual realm.

Often one senses another's needs and emotions to a remarkable extent...

The more selfless our love, it seems, the keener become our faculties with which to

comprehend the inner needs of our fellow men (and women)

and thus better to serve them and our Master (God/Source/the All That Is).

Wilda Lowell Conger

"ANAM CARA"


May you recognize in your life the presence, power, and light of your soul.

May you realize that you are never alone,
that your soul in its brightness and belonging connects you intimately
with the rhythm of the universe.

May you have respect for you own individuality and difference.
May you realize that the shape of your soul is unique,
that you have a special destiny here,

that behind the facade of your life
there is something beautiful, good, and eternal happening.

May you learn to see yourself with the same delight, pride, and expectation
with which God sees you in every moment.

John O'Donohue

"GIVE"


Give of yourself to others the best you can
in whatever way you can
with no thought of yourself and
you will have lived a life well lived.

Do not wait to give until you are good enough, know enough or have enough.
No, rather, give freely, generously, and lovingly to those in need
without expectation of recognition or return.

Yes, you can make a difference in this world

in ways greater than you will ever see and
in more ways than you will ever know.

Recognize yourself in the face of another.
There are many who would rejoice at your offering
no matter how small.

Let giving be your way of life
for as you give to one another,
so shall you receive.

© 2010 Gayle Kirk
Channeled Spirit Writing from "A Brother"

"POEM FOR MY FRIEND"


I can never know the full extent of the pain you are feeling.
I can't begin to know the depth of sadness you must feel.

But, in your time of darkness,
In this moment of uncertainty,
My thoughts are with you.

My arms are open wide,
And my love reaches towards you.

On that you can depend.
I love you, my friend.

© 2010 Gayle Kirk

"TRUST & ACCEPT"


Enjoy and make the most of each and every day.
Focus on the positive and try to see the good in everything.

Our attitudes affect so much of how we experience life - no matter what life brings us.
Let go of any expectations or shoulds or needing to understand and make sense of things.

Sometimes we just have to accept not knowing why and
Trust that all things happen for a higher spiritual purpose.

Maybe someday, when we're over on the Other Side, we'll understand.

© 2010 Gayle Kirk

"WHISPERS FROM HEAVEN"


When I left this world without you, I know it made you blue.
Your tears fell so freely. I watched. I know this is true.

While you were weeping, days after I passed away -
While all was silent within me, I saw you kneel to pray.

From this wonderful place called heaven, where all my pain is gone,
I send a gentle breeze to whisper, "My loved ones, please go on."

The peace that I have found here goes far beyond compare
No rain, no clouds, no suffering - just LOVE from everywhere.

You need not be troubled just stay close to God in prayer.
Someday we'll be reunited. My love, His love, surrounds you always,

EVERYWHERE!

© 2005 Al Littleton and Brenda Smith

"OUR DEEPEST FEAR"


Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

Marianne Williamson

"CHOOSE LOVE"


It's impossible to hold love and fear simultaneously.

The two conditions are direct opposites and cannot occupy the same space.


Take love, for instance. Love is patient, kind, and trusting.

Fear, on the other hand, is what love is not.


Choose love and you will never be in fear

for as I have said, the two cannot exist together.


© 2011 Gayle Kirk
Channeled Spirit Writing

"YOU ARE LOVED"


You do not need me to remind you that

you are important, special, and needed.


You are important,

special,

and needed.


You do not need my recognition, reassurance or approval

to feel worthy and to know you are good enough.


You are worthy.

You are good enough.


You do not need me to tell you, "I love you,"

in order to know that you are loveable and loved.


You are loveable.

You are loved.


You do not need my comfort and reassurance

so that you may have inner peace.


Inner peace is always available to you.

It is within you,

just by choosing it.


All those things that you think you need from another,

are available

and within you

now.


All that you seek

and everything you need

is available

and within you

now.


Seek it - within.

Find it - within.

Share it - with others.


Cultivate, from within yourself,

the love, inner peace, and self-worth

that you seek from another.


Do not give away your personal power,

your self-esteem, and

your self-respect to another


in the hopes that they will reflect it back to you,

so that you may feel loveable and loved.



Do you know how important, loved, and powerful you are?



Do you know that you were born out of the Creator's love and in the Creator's image?



Unfortunately, others often cannot begin to recognize, appreciate, and return

the magnitude of your self-worth,


for others are often not even able to recognize, appreciate, honor, and love themselves.


Many have forgotten that they came from Love and, therefore, are Love.

They feel separated from the truth of who they are.



Remember, rejoice, and remind others of their magnificence.



Love yourself with all your heart.



Be gentle and speak kindly to the one who bears your name.



And, when you have healed,

let your light shine brightly.


Let your love flow freely,

so as to help uplift others to the truth of their being -


to know that they too are loveable and loved.



And then, when the love you sought from others

shines brightly from your own soul,

the love you express completely will be reflected back to you in abundance and



you will begin to heal the world.



That's how important, needed, and powerful you are!


Trust and know this to be true.


You are so special.


You are greatly loved,


and you are powerful enough to move mountains.



You are!


Believe it.



No, really,

Believe it!



And so it will then be.



All our love,

Infinite Spirit.



© 2008 Gayle Kirk
Channeled Spirit Writing

"Seeing & Sensing Energy Blocks in People & Animals"


Question for Divine Spirit from A Client:

What can I do to open myself up to see energy blocks
when I am giving Reiki and scanning a person or animal?
Sometimes I can sense them, but I would like to be able to see an energy block.


Reply from Divine Spirit Channeled through Gayle:


You do not always need to see to understand.

When you watch your television, do you know how it works?...

The clients get what they need.

You connect your frequency to that of Spirit.

You ask to be a channel of healing and the energy flows to where it is needed.



When you place your hands physically on a person or an animal,

you will feel intuitively guided or they will say,

"This part" or "Move up a bit" or "Over there I seem to have the problem."



You allow your hands and their conversation and their wiggling to all come together.

As your hands seem to return to normal from an excited, warm, cool or vibrating state,

then you can search for a new area on the body to place the hands for wholeness.



You may also find at times that you do not feel anything

and yet the person or animal that you are working on says,

"Oh, thank you so much. I feel much better for all you have done,"

and you think, "I did not do anything," and yet you did.



So, is a matter of trust and going with the flow.

You do not need to seek out the spots or interpret them or understand them

to work them out or heal them or remove them.

Just be a channel of love.


© 2006 Gayle Kirk
Voice Channeled Spirit Writing


Gayle Kirk's 1st Attempt at Light Trance Channel Writing on the Computer

11/3/05

Question for Divine Spirit from Gayle:

Who was I voice channeling last night?
Can I trust you? Are you of the Christ light?


Reply from Divine Spirit:

Don't be afraid, my dear.
This is new for all of us.
We are all still learning what is the best fit.
Do not be discouraged. Have faith, hope, and courage.


Trust as you do with the psychic and mediumship information that you get.
This too is a process of faith and trust.
Without it, you have nothing.
We mean you and your friends no harm.


Do not keep second-guessing this.
It is what it is and it is good and enough.
You are blocking it with your fear.
Relax, let go, and trust.
The process will be a whole lot easier if you do.


We mean you no harm, my dear.
This you can be sure of.
This you can trust.
Can you forgive? Be flexible.
Mistakes will happen, but we do try our very best and utmost at all times.
This you can be sure of.
You are safe and all is well.


In your book, keep trying.
Write down what you see, feel, and hear.
It is important. It will make more sense later.
For now just record your impressions.
Angels have heard your call and have sent us to be with you.
Fear not. Go in peace.


© 2005 Gayle Kirk
Channeled Spirit Writing

"TO THOSE I LOVE AND THOSE WHO LOVE ME"


When I am gone, release me, let me go.
I have so many things to see and do.

You mustn't tie yourself to me with tears.
Be happy that we had so many years.

I gave you my love. You can only guess
How much you gave to me in happiness.

I thank you for the love you've shown,
But now it's time I traveled alone.

So grieve awhile for me, if grieve you must,
Then let your grief be comforted by trust.

It's only for awhile that we must part,
So bless the memories within your heart.
I won't be far away for life goes on.

So if you need me, call and I will come.
Though you can't see or touch me, I'll be there

And if you listen with your heart, you'll hear
All my love around you soft and clear.

And then when you must come this way alone,
I'll greet you with a smile and welcome you home.

Unknown

"OUR FATHER FROM AN UNFOLDING HEART"


Our God who is everywhere

Love be thy name.

Give us this day our daily faith

And forgive us as we forgive ourselves and others.

Teach us to be strong against temptation

And to choose only love

For love is the power...the glory and the way!

Thy will be done.

Unknown


I know for sure that we don't need to be afraid of death

because we'll be greeted by something better on the other side.

And I know for sure that life is a gift to be treasured

and that we must always live it to the fullest.

Mattie Stepanek


I have one request...and that is to be remembered.

I am eternally grateful and hopefully, when I reach heaven, I will be there

to great each one of you with the love and the light that you've given me.

Erin Kramp


Slow down and enjoy life.

It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast -

you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor


I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a finger print

and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love

and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard,

and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you...

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

Oprah Winfrey

"COME"


Come.
Sit awhile.
Lean your head on my shoulder.
Allow me to support you.

Rest.
Drink from my cup.
Nourish your soul.

Relax your mind.
Restore your body.
Fill your heart.

Know that you are loved completely,
always, and
forever.

My love is everlasting.
My strength is unwavering.
My peace is all pervading.

Seek me in your darkest hour.
Pray to me when thou needest me the most,
For I am with you
always.

I am your strength,
your courage,
your respite.

I am the Knower,
the Seer,
the Way.

We are one,
you and I.

Come.

© 2011 Gayle Kirk
Channeled Spirit Writing


Joy is really the fuel of the heart that opens us up to experience everything

in a way that it allows us to leave little pieces of

light and love wherever we tread.

Oprah Winfrey


Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma--which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs
His Commencement Remarks to Stanford Graduates in 2005


There's a difference between thinking you deserve something and

knowing you are worthy of it.

Oprah Winfrey


When you live with an open heart,

unexpected, joyful things happen.

Oprah Winfrey


It's not like there's only one thing we can all do.

All of us have multiple abilities, and talents, and things that we can do and

we either utilize those God given gifts or we waste them.

It doesn't matter how old you are.

It doesn't matter where your life goes.

You're gonna get that opportunity.

That door is gonna open, so walk through it.

See what's on the other side.

You never know what's gonna be there and where it can take you.

Jill Angel


What every child wants to know is,

do your eyes light up when I enter the room?

Did you hear me and did what I say mean anything to you?

That's all they're looking for.

That's what everybody is looking for.

Toni Morrison


Success is liking yourself,

liking what you do,

and liking how you do it.

Maya Angelou


You can have a good time with anybody...

Here's the thing. 'Who do you want to go through problems with?'

That's the issue because the chances that you're gonna go through it are extremely high.

Everybody's gonna go through something.

'Who do you want to be in the trenches with?' is the question.

Niecy Nash


When you learn, teach.

When you get, give.

Maya Angelou


When someone shows themselves to you,

believe them the first time.

Maya Angelou


Your life is reflecting back to you exactly who you are, all of the time...

Sometimes you don't like the reflection.

You don't like what you see and the first place to look is inside yourself,

instead of looking out.

Oprah Winfrey


All life is about growing to be who you were most meant to be -

the best version of yourself...

You have the power...

You are not defined by your circumstances.

Oprah Winfrey


If you hold on to anger,

then it leaves a film on everything you do in life and a filter.

You can't be your true self...

I can't change what he (or she) did...

I can change how I react to it.

Aaron Bangay


We teach people how to treat us.

Phillip C. McGraw


Forgiveness is letting go of the hope

that the past could have been any different.

Oprah Winfrey


When you know better,

you do better.

Maya Angelou


You can be right or you can be happy...

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

Gerald Jampolsky


You deserve the best that life has to offer you.

You deserve the best version of yourself.

Why?

Because you're here.

Because you were born, you deserve the best life possible...



What I got was we often block our own blessings

because we don't feel inherently good enough

or smart enough

or pretty enough

or worthy enough...

You're worthy because you are born

and because you are here.

Your being here, your being alive, makes worthiness your birthright.

You alone are enough...



Nobody but you is responsible for your life.

It doesn't matter what your mama did;

it doesn't matter what your daddy didn't do.

You are responsible for your life.

You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself,

and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others...



This is what I want everybody to really get.

Your life is a reflection of the way you think...

What you believe

is what you become...

It's never too late...

You start exactly where you are...

Only you have the power

to make the changes you want in your life.



Often times, when you don't have the belief in yourself,

somebody else believing in you,

somebody else saying you can do,

it is achievable,

is enough...



I would tell you that every single person you will ever meet shares that common desire.

They want to know:

'Do you see me?

Do you hear me?

Does what I say mean anything to you?'...

Try it with your children, your husband, your wife, your boss, your friends.

Validate them.

'I see you. I hear you. And what you say matters to me'...



We are all called.

Everybody has a calling and your real job in life is to figure out what that is

and get about the business of doing it.

It lights you up

and it lets you know that you are exactly where you're supposed to be,

doing exactly what you're supposed to be doing...



I have felt the presence of God my whole life.

Even when I didn't have a name for it,

I could feel the voice bigger than myself speaking to me,

and all of us have that same voice.

Be still and know it.

You can acknowledge it or not.

You can worship it or not.

You can praise it,

you can ignore it

or you can know it.

Know it.

It's always there speaking to you

and waiting for you to hear it in every move, in every decision.

I wait and I listen.

I'm still -

I wait and listen for the guidance that's greater than my meager mind...

The only time I've ever made mistakes is when I didn't listen.



So what I know is, God is love and God is life,

and your life is always speaking to you.

First in whispers...

It's subtle, those whispers.

And if you don't pay attention to the whispers,

it gets louder and louder...

Whispers are always messages,

and if you don't hear the message,

the message turns into a problem.

And if you don't handle the problem,

the problem turns into a crisis.

And if you don't handle the crisis,

disaster.



Your life is speaking to you.

What is it saying...

Start embracing the life that is calling you

and use your life to serve the world.

Oprah Winfrey


I think there are more distractions and distortions than maybe ever

and I think the challenge is -

how do we balance,

how do we hold at bay all the voices that are forever crowding in

and hear the voice of our own soul,

our own unique soul...

I think that there is more need than ever

for all people of all ages

to have reflective time in which they listen to their own heart

and find who they are

and where they're connected.

Mark Nepo


When people can't give you what you need

then you need to be able to, for yourself,

move on

and stop living in the space where you want somebody to say,

you want somebody to do,

you want them to be

something that they can not be for you...

people can only give you what they have.

Oprah Winfrey


I do believe that's the key to joy

and it's in all the traditions -

being easily pleased.

I mean, I spent the first half of my life, not unlike most people,

trying to either find things that were special

or to find how I was special,

how to work at that

if I found and called it a gift

and how to turn things into things that would be special

and I think in the second half of my life,

it is as we talked about there,

how to find what's special in everything

because everything is special

if we slow down enough

to allow,

everything glows.

Mark Nepo


It doesn't matter how you meant what you said.

It only matters how it landed,

so you have to listen to how you are coming across.

Henry Winkler a.k.a "The Fonz"


Close to his death,

per his sister, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs'

last words were,

"Oh, wow! Oh, wow! Oh, wow!"

Can imagine what he was seeing on the Other Side that caused him to be so amazed?!!


In life we do things.

Some we wish we had never done.

Some we wish we could replay a million times in our heads,

but they all make us who we are

and in the end, they shape every detail about us.

If we were to reverse any of them,

we wouldn't be the person we are.

So just live.

Make mistakes.

Have wonderful memories,

but never second guess who you are,

where you have been,

and most importantly, where you are going.

Jamie Gominger (my niece!!)


Don't let my death

be the death of you.

MacfarLane


...it's the thrill of the idea, the possibility,

that moment when the fantastic becomes possible - just barely possible.

That's where the fun is.

James Cameron - Director, Avatar & Titanic


Doors don't just open for you.

Every once in awhile, one will open a crack

and you have to recognize that that's the moment.

They'll only open a crack for a split second

and you have to push it the rest of the way open

and you have to know that is the moment to step through.

James Cameron - Director, Avatar & Titanic


God has no religion.

Mahatma Gandhi


It's one of the things now that I've learned is:

forgiveness is the answer to everything.

It's the answer to every problem anyone has...

Some people say, "Just let it go."

You go, "I can't do that," but if someone says,

"What if you forgave them?"

Just do it!

Try this. Try and forgive them.

Say, "I forgive you," and then say,

"I forgive myself for what I did to you too (or didn't do),

but I forgive you for what you did to me and

I just want to love you."

Steven Tyler - Lead Singer of Aerosmith


Grow old along with me!

The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.

Our times are in his hand who saith, "A whole I planned, youth shows but half;

Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!

From Rabbi Ben Ezra By Robert Browning

(Beautiful! Thanks for sending this to me, honey. I love you too!)


I'm good enough.

I'm smart enough and

doggonnit, people like me!

Stuart Smalley from Saturday Night Live, Played by Al Franken


My mother told me that if you have a choice between being respected and being loved,

always take being respected because if someone respects you,

love may come,

but if they love you without respect,

it (love) will go.

Chris Christie


You live your life and you go through ups and down.

You learn and hopefully, you grow.

The growth part of it is the most exciting part for me because

when I reached the age of 50 or older, I wondered what else I was going to do with my life.

I didn't think I was going to be doing acting all my life.

I just thought life has to have more than that,

but we need to make it happen.


How am I gonna give back the things I've learned,

the worlds I've travelled,

the knowledge I've acquired,

the understanding that I have about the depth of well-being and

understanding how we can actually feel that and

so what matters to me is giving back.


So, just because you get older,

doesn't mean things stop.

It's when you stop.

It's when your wonder stops.

It's when your innovation stops.

It's when your creativity stops and you allow yourself to go asunder.


The beauty of getting older is

the surprise of what else you can do to make the world a better place

with the wisdom you've accrued over those years.

Goldie Hawn


(My Dad said to me,) "when you start feeling a little too big for your britches,

I want you to feel how small we are

and how much a part of everything we are.

I think it's really important that you remember it

so you always have your feet on the ground and

there's always a sense of reality around you."


(Goldie speaking now) Little did I know that these principles

of staying with your feet on the ground

without having extreme expectations of what you believe or

what you want to happen for you

is important to be grounded and

to stay focused on the present and

not inflate yourself

to feel that you are truly any different than anybody else because

you're not.


We all have gifts.

We all have the ability to put forth the best of ourselves in our day.

Goldie Hawn