So many people don't know how to inspire themselves. Use everything that moves you: music, walking by water, flowers, photographs of the enlightened ones. Inspiration helps so deeply in overcoming laziness, summons what the Sufis call the fragrance of the Beloved into everything.

Andrew Harvey in Dialogues with a Modern Mystic by Andrew Harvey, Mark Matousek

 

To Practice This Thought:
Compile a list of sources of inspiration for you, and set aside time to use one this week.

 

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