Helen Keller Quotes on Overcoming Adversity & Maintaining Positivity in the Face of Adversity:

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Helen Keller

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Helen Keller

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Helen Keller

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller


When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen Keller

The Arena of Light and Dark

"Light May Enter the Arena of Darkness, 
But Darkness Cannot Enter the Arena of Light."

Cheryl E Gordon
3/14/10

 

I wrote this and Posted it on Twitter on March 14th of this year (2010).  I also included it in my Inspirational Blog @ the link above.  It is a simple, yet powerful message and one of Hope, so I thought it fitting to add it here on this blog. 

Please Allow Me Expound:

I truly Believe that Light is more Powerful than Darkness, and that Good is More Powerful than Evil.  If you Shine a Light in a Dark Space, it will Illuminate it.   A Bright Light Shows Us the Way.

I Believe this to be True and Would Like to Share the Following Thoughts with You.  You May Accept them or Reject Them.  It is Your Choice.

I Believe that Although One May be subject to Suffering and Pain on this Earth, We Can Be Assured of Achieving & Reaching the "Eternal Healing & Loving Light" Upon Our Physical Death~ If We Believe this to be So. I Know this Because I was Able to Experience This in a brief period of "Physical Death".

In my Near Death Experience in 1983, I Was Lovingly Lead & Spiritually Pulled towards the "Wondrous Light" (others have spoken of the "Tunnel" and It is unique to each of us that have experienced it).  Because of this Experience, I have been given a Glimpse of the Brilliance the Everlasting Light, and I have no Fear of Spiritual Darkness.  My Spirit Returned to My Physical Body because my Mission on Earth had not been Accomplished.  

At that Time, I Understood that All have a Mission Chosen for this Earth, before we were Born.  We are Part of the Plan.  Our Unique Individual Mission is a Series of Life Altering Events towards the "Better Good" and "Personal Spiritual Growth".  We Do Not Remember our Purpose @ Birth, and Spend Our entire Life going through the Maize of Accomplishing this Mystery of Purpose and Spiritual Growth.  Some of Us Procrastinate, Deny it's Existence, Get Lost Along the Way, or Downright Refuse to Carry it Through.  We Know this as a feeling in our "Gut", a Tugging at our Mind, and it is left Open as Being Our Choice.  When  On our Path, We Feel it to be Right.

I "Slacked Off" quite a bit before my Near Death Experience; i.e. being quite Juvenile in My Spiritual Journey.  One Might Say This Has Been a Spiritual "Wake Up Call" for me.  Trauma Often Opens Us Up to Our Special Purpose (if it doesn't kill us first~ and then we are back to square one so to speak).  Once We Get Over the Shock and Assault, or Assault and then Shock of the Trauma, if We Try Hard and Have Faith, We can Achieve Our Wildest Dreams.  I Know this to be True, and I have been very Busy Since Then!

Components of Life and Spiritual Growth

Joy and Sorrow are Inherent Components of Life.
We Cannot Have One without Experiencing the Other;
How Can One Know Bliss without Experiencing Heartache?
To Be Able to Move from One to the Other and Learn From the Experience,
Is Spiritual Growth.

Cheryl E Gordon
3/15/10