Design Team Creations
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Journaling Prompts
Is change good?: Change is an inevitable part of life – in nature, in our circumstances, and in our thinking. Some people are better than others at managing and accepting change. How does change impact you? Are you comfortable moving with the tides and the seasons, or do you resist? What major changes inside or outside your orbit have affected you, and in what ways?
Body, Mind and Spirit: Everyone needs ways to recharge when they’re feeling down or out of energy, whether in physical, mental, emotional or spiritual terms. What do you do to renew yourself – do you spend time in nature, in prayer or meditation, by running, reading or watching your favorite movie? Do you make different choices about how to recharge depending on what you’re missing?
Cycle of Life: There are few things in life that are certain except for birth and death. How have the beginnings and endings you’ve seen impacted you? Have you had children of your own, and if so, how did that experience shift your understanding of the world? Have you lost someone you loved, quickly and unexpectedly, or after watching them fight a long illness? What lasting effect has this had on you?
Renewing the Planet: In these times, it’s become important to so many to be part of solving the problems that our planet faces. How do you contribute to that effort? Do you actively work to reduce your carbon footprint? Are you frustrated watching how things are developing, and do you worry about the kind of world that future generations will inherit?
Music
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Quotes
So as long as a person is capable of self-renewal, they are a living being. Henri Frederic Amiel
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. Wendell Berry
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. Terence
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. R. D. Laing
The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings. Rainer Maria Rilke
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order. Susan Taylor
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. Robert Louis Stevenson
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up. Pearl S. Buck
To touch a sore is to renew one's grief. TerenceWhen you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb. Denis Waitley
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. Audrey Hepburn
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new. Cato The Elder
Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. Christina Baldwin
Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. Aaron Parrish
It`s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. Ahmed Ghneim
Creativity comes from awakening and directing men`s higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the uni- verse and are appointed by Heaven. I Ching
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion. Dalai Lama
If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. Gail Sheehy
No human being ever learns to live until he has awakened to the dormant powers within him. William James
There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet. Brooke Medicine Eagle
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. Frank Herbert
It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. Adrienne Rich
He who looks outside his own heart DREAMS, he who looks inside his own heart AWAKENS. Carl Gustav Jung
Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?” Kahlil Gibran
Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear. Buddha
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream. Novalis
Rest when you`re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work. Ralph Marston
Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. Buddha
We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. Shana Alexander
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. Adam Acone
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. Adam Maida
There`s a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don`t understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don`t understand boredom. Dustin Hoffman
Links
Renew – programs for maintaining creativity, energy, and optimism
The Renewal Project and Documentary – the Religious Environmental Movement
