What Inspires You When Nothing Else Can?
Mar 21
Photo by Bethan Phillips
Here’s a quick question that could provide some revelatory and life-changing answers:
What inspires you when nothing else can?
It might be a certain passage in your favorite book, a verse from your religious text, something a loved one once said that stuck – or a timeless scene from a movie, like when Will Smith tells his son to always go for his dreams in Pursuit of Happyness.
It could also be a place you go, a song you listen to or a type of meditation you do.
I’m on the search to collect these powerfully inspiring passages, pieces… poems and places… and turn them into brief 1 MIN inspiring videos that Angela and I will start publishing to provide free nuggets of inspiration that you can count on when times are rough.
It seemed like a good idea to select inspiring things that have already proven their weight in gold to YOU. So please post the passage, lyrics, place, etc. in the comments, or send it to contact@jaimemintun.com.
Please also include a brief story about what it did for you.
Also please attribute your inspirational selection to whomever created it.
If we select your passage and/or story to feature in one of our videos, we will give our gratitude to you in the video. So yeah, you’ll be immortalized as well as inspired!!
We truly appreciate your help in this.
Also feel free to let us know what kind of inspiration you’d like to see in these 1 MIN videos… on a certain topic, for a certain purpose (like every time you don’t get a call back as an actor… or for getting through the breakup blues).
Thanks so much!
So don’t forget to post below, right now (we know something’s popped in your head!)…
Tell us what inspires you when nothing else can!
Comment below or email us at contact@jaimemintun.com
This is not for everyone, but it works for me. Behind my farm, there are 1000 acres of open land and at the top, there is an inspiring view of the Rogue River and Mount Mcloughlin in the distance. I never see anyone up there, so I run barefoot and butt naked from my house to the top of the mountain. I stand on top with my arms spread, drinking in the view and feeling expansive. I carry a pair of shorts in case I come across of troupe of Girl Scouts or something. By the time I am back home, I always feel inspired and connected. If the whole naked thing is too much for you, just try the barefoot part. Direct contact with the earth is very grounding.
Live by being true to yourself, is my favorite. Anita Moorjani quoted that in her book “Dying to be Me”. very inspiritational.
Maria
Personalized Messages from the Universe, by Mike Dooley. Like this one that I made more inclusive by using [Beloveds], instead of my name.
“[Beloveds], sometimes, in hindsight, it may seem that your prior kindnesses were for naught, and that in the end, they were too high a price to pay for the pains you’ve endured.
That is, of course, until you get a little further into the future, when the pendulum has been allowed its full swing, and all the seeds you’ve sown have begun blooming in more gardens than you ever knew existed.”
~ The Universe
“[Beloveds], kindness always returns.”
Genius, Jana! I can’t believe I didn’t think of that. I start each day with my personalized Note From the Universe and they feed me like little else ever has. What a marvelous idea to use them in these videos. Thank you! We will share our gratitude for your brilliance in the first video we do that uses a TUT note.
The poem below has always hit a cord for me…
I asked God for strength, that I might achieve.
I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey…
I asked for health, that I might do great things.
I was given infirmity, that I might do better things…
I asked for riches, that I might be happy.
I was given poverty, that I might be wise…
I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men.
I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God…
I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life.
I was given life, that I might enjoy all things…
I got nothing I asked for – but everything I had hoped for;
Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered.
I am, among men, most richly blessed!
— Attributed to an unknown Confederate soldier
Thank you Tom! I love this… we will definitely use it. Let me know if you’d like us to give our gratitude to you in the video we create by full name or just your first name (you can email us at contact@jaimemintun.com to let us know!). Beautiful poem.
The funny thing is I do not agree with the author’s philosophies or actions most of the time but these words always make me feel better…
“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, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. You’re 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
Yes, this one has been referenced and done so often, though it is also one of my favorite passages, we were going to pass on doing it in a video. However I guess it’s been done over and over for a REASON, right?! We will include it Warren. Thank you!
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
Illusions by Richard Bach
There are so many words of wisdom that inspire me in challenging times, it’s hard to choose just one!
But one very brief nugget of wisdom that I seem to return to over and over is from Louise Hay: “The point of power is always in the present moment.”
So succinct, and so true. Because whatever happened yesterday, last year, 10 years ago or 10 minutes ago is in the past, and the point of power is in the present moment — a very powerful and affirming thought.
YOU INSPIRE ME JAIME!
for sure
love you gal, alot.
xo, Laura
Facundo Carbal, the Argentine singer and songwriter, once wrote “Está permitido que te caigas, pero no que te quedes en el suelo.” Translated, it’s okay to fall, but not to stay on the floor. This always motivates me to try something because even if I fail, I will have learned from it. It’s similar to “if you’re going to fall, fall forward.” Permission granted!
A quote that caused an awakening moment for me and set my life in a new direction of spiritual growth was one by Anais Nin: “And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
I am more than ready to blossom in my fullest, most authentic and beautiful sense. And I am….slowly.
The other piece of visual and audio inpiration I turn to frequently is a ted talk clip. It is about 12 minutes long, but is so moving and gorgeous that it stirs me from my hearts deepest truths. To have gratitude for the smallest things can make such a magnificent and significant impact on the unfolding of our lives. I practice small bits of gratitude every day and when feeling low, watch this video and my entire vibration changes. The sun begins to shine for me from the inside out. I am so, so grateful for Louie Schwartzberg for creating this and reminding us to open our eyes and REmember how amazing life truly is.
Thank you for allowing me to share.
OH…I forgot to include the link to the TED talk I mentioned. Here is it:
http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxSF-Louie-Schwartzberg-Grati
Thank you for linking it! I’ll take a look. Your description of how this video has touched you is quite touching in and of itself!
What you are worthy of no one can take it.
What you are unworthy of can not be added.
The Bhagavad Gita (Song of the Soul), one of the oldest spritual texts in the world is a source of unending comfort and inspiration to me (as well as to many luminaries, such as Henry David Thoreau and Albert Einstein). I’m also a fan of Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘If,’ which ends with:
“If you can fill the unforgiving minute
with sixty seconds worth of distance run
yours is the world, and everything in it,
and, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.”
I am doing a deep study of the Bhagavad Gita right now, and reading through “Bhagavad Gita As It Is” at the moment. I will keep an eye out for particular passages to include in videos. Thank you! I’m finding that many of the places I continually go for inspiration are invisible to me when I try to think of what others find inspiring. So glad to hear that many of you find solace and spirit in the same places I do.
People. I find it fairly easy to connect with [almost] everyone on some level, by way of the fact that we are all human beings. It’s a common denominator. We’re all exactly the same, and yet entirely different at the same time. Yes, people let me down. And sometimes I let them down, too. We’re all so variable, and I choose to see no one as “better” than another. We are simply different. Are we not all striving for the same things, in a sense? Love, survival, acceptance, and happiness to name a few of these things. Perhaps that’s why inspiration is not lacking in my world. Everywhere I go lies the opportunity to connect with someone. And people are inspiring! Thank you for providing this space to share, Jaime. See, a reason to connect! ♥
Woohooo! Amber, I love it!!