Quotes and Poetry

"Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul stronger than it was before."
-James Bucklam

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
-Jim Ryan

"You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.”
-Unknown Author

“The best vision is insight.”
-Malcolm S. Forbes
“The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
-Marcel Proust

“My goal is simple.”
-Stephen Hawking

“Whether you think you can or whether you think you cant - you are right.”
-Henry Ford

"Its easy to make a buck. Its a lot tougher to make a difference."
-Tom Brokaw.

"Grief is a sign of our humanity. It is the tax we pay on our attachments."
-Thomas Lynch

"First say to yourself what you would be...and do what you have to do."
-Epictetus

Whenever we are faced with a tremendous loss in our lives—the accumulated grief of our entire lifetime rises to the surface. 

We need to let out our grief and make room for the NEW!

Greatness is in every one of us, it is up to us to pull it out of ourselves.  We already have it in us, and with the guidance and support of a good counsellor, you can let it out and let it shine!

Sometimes we must just chuck stuff that is in our lives.  That is letting go of the bad, and moving forward with good things.

Things happen—its how we deal with it that matters.

The most difficult thing to do in this life, is often the right thing to do.

One of the greatest parts of letting go is finding the meaning to your suffering.

Life is really very simple—we get back what we put out.

We need to build loving, strong and respectful relationships in order to be whole.  This is the way we are made and wired.

“Second guessing your intuition is self-sabotage.” 
-Unknown

“If you are going to seek revenge, you had better dig two graves.” 
-Chinese Proverb.

Always there is a Spiritual answer to every sort of problem.

"Nothing in life is to be feared: it is only to be understood.  Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
-Marie Curie

Feelings are neither good nor bad, they just are.

Being “with” my feelings rather than running away from them leads to change.

"Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free".
-John 8:32

"Letting go is the way to serenity, grief is the path."
-John W. James

"What lies behind us,and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
-Ralf Waldo Emerson

"To know how to suggest is the art of teaching."
-Henri Amiel

"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops."
-Henry Brooks Adams

"There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live."
-James Truslow Adam




IT'S OKAY

Taking responsibility means never blaming yourself for anything you are being, having or feeling.

You, no one else, creates what goes on in your head.  Until you realize that, you will never be in control of your own life.

Taking responsibility means not blaming yourself.  Anything that takes away your power of your pleasure, makes you a victim.

-Anonymous

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SING YOUR SOUL

Sings the soul of he who knows his own heart,
Who knows his own dreams.
He who dreams
His soul sings.

We gather leaves and branches that have fallen from growing trees.
We only pick the dandelions.
We don't run anymore
Let our spirits soar.

As children we didn't think, therefore we didn't spoil,
We didn't analyze.
We just were and we were just.
Our feelings we did trust.

As we age, we grow shorter and shorter,
Our arms don't reach for the sky.
The stars are less and less bright,
If we gaze at all into the night.

And all that happens inbetween is there to prepare you
For yet another preparation.
Looking back we can see the trails,
The wake of where our ship sails.

-Keirsten Provost

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BUDDING

A flower yet to be budding.
There may be enough rain,
Enough sunshine,
Enough Enough.
But the bud is closed-it is
Not able to push out---to be.
I am sorry for its struggle.
The ground was not rich in nutrients
The soil was hard.
The sand was washed away.
The roots are not secure.
This flower, this soul
Didn't have the blessing of being
Grounded.
It waves precariously in the wind.
Ready to up root at any circumstance.
It doesn't know who he is.
He is waiting-not trusting the
Experience.
Blossom dear bud-push-
Give birth to yourself.

-Keirsten Provost

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WATERFALL

Before the waterfall tumbled
It didn't know what lay ahead.
The violence, the chaos, the actual
"fall" that must 
Have been a surprise.
An abrupt assault, a jolt.

Then as I watch the water "settle" after the fall it gradually
Calms and stills.

The process is of blissfully going along
unawares of the pending fall.
The Fall.

Then the quiet calming and continuing
journey. Survival and moving on.
Of knowing the art of picking
oneself up again.
The surprise is not knowing
of the surprises.

Not knowing of the chaos
and shattering and spilling
That there will always be still waters.
Be still. Be calm.
But know that there will be falls
And we will again pick ourselves up again.

-Keirsten Provost  


IT'S TIME

To put away my sadness,
To open up to the world again.
The only teardrops I’ve cried have been for myself and everyone else

And for your struggle and for all the dreams that are sent
To somewhere else, or weren’t possible at all.

Stay wake!  Stop falling asleep.
Open my eyes and look. 
Open my eyes and see.
The world is right here right now and I Am falling asleep.

It is so easy to fall into a land of not knowing. To close my eyes to all that is real and true.

To look the other way.
To toss the only reality I know
Into somewhere I’ve never been.
I hang on to all these things,
And nowhere else is there a tiny bit of solitude. Except despair.

That is not the place I wish to stay. Or visit. But I am here and it is now. So that I had better wake up and stay awake.

For life is passing by
Whether I am in it or not.

-Keirsten Provost

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ALMOST

We almost but never quite.
We go a little way and then we slow down.
And then we stop.And then we try again.

Round and round the circle goes
To get off the track takes much power.
Power from within to get without.
And without may be the key.

It unlocks the mystery of the mystery.
The key is in our hand
We know it is.
So if we have the answer why do we not
Just unlock ourselves, our greater selves.

Our fear is real to us
That is to be conquered
Not once but every time.
Every time we hold back and not believe.
Believe in things we don’t believe, Naturally.

The road is ahead and the path is clear,
Why do we not clearly go ahead.
Why do we wish to know what we are to do,
And see the path and not move.

-Keirsten Provost

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LEAD ME

The angels shine their Light
On my darkness.
They show me my wounds.
They help me find salve,
They tend and they hear me.

Open wide my gates to God.
Be open and vulnerable,
Be ready and willing
To let God in
To save me from my self.

Great is the Way
The Way of Light.
Cobblestones are leading
Me down a path to
Where I know not.
The Light leads me down
The path of Peace I know.

-Keirsten Provost

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LOVE

"Love is the only answer.
There is only one question.
When we learn that
love is all that matters
and everything else is
from fear,
we can lose our anxieties,
our prejudices, our anger,
low self-worth
and our despair."

- Keirsten Provost


 



LIGHT

Behind the places hidden by the
Rock
Is Light.
Particles float, dance more with air.
Sunlight sparkles through the tiny dots of
Significance.
There the unseen is seen.
The Light shines on our
Nothingness
To become
Somethingness.
So, therefore with shiny light, we are
Seen.
We dance, we are moving, we are alive.
Our power source is
Love.

-Keirsten Provost

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Firstly, we must "Let Go"
and then we need to "Move On"

Letting Go... is the releasing of old hurts from the past.  Most of us have been "wounded" in our lives, much of it beyond our control. 

We need to get rid of "some of the junk" inside of us which may have festered or hurt us for some time.  Then we need to grieve those losses and hurts.

In the cleansing process we are ready to Move On, Move Forward and create the life we want to live, with a joy that is truly lasting.

-Keirsten Provost



inspirations
Master Practitioner in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy,
Registered Professional Counsellor