"Gratitude is the key that opens up the gateway of your heart that allows the untapped and inspiring potential of love to radiate out and cleanse your mind of any clouding uncertainties that could block you from living your most amazing and extraordinary life and dream. When you are grateful for what you have you get more to be grateful for. You life is fulfilled to the degree of your gratitude. If they had only 24 hours to live you would say thank you I love you to those who have contributed to your life the most. Gratitude heals, inspires and vitalizes amazing action." - John Demartini

Examine all the possibilities.
What would you set as your goals if . . .? What would you do if you had the money, if you had the education, if you had the training, if you had the contacts, if you had the support base? What would you do if you had the marketing system, if you had the right people on your team? What would you do if you had the time, if you had the plant, if you had the equipment? What would you do if you knew it could not fail?
There are far more possibilities than you think. Examine them.

"You’ve got to be crazy! It’s too late to be sane, too late. You’ve got to go full tilt bozo... ‘Cause you’re only given a little spark of madness... and if you lose that, you’re nothing" - Robin Williams

I’ve learned another thing: I can do anything I think I can. . . but I can’t do anything alone. I’ve taught this, preached it, written it, and tried it, and it’s true. I always need someone to support me! Don’t try to handle your dreams alone. It won’t work. Winning starts with beginning, and beginning starts with a single action.
Do something great with a great idea. Whatever it is that you should be doing—a concept for self-improvement, a dream, a goal, or a commitment to Jesus Christ—I want you to do it. Decide that this is going to be the day you’re going to do something about it! Life today is nothing more than a collection of results of the choices you have made. And I would now add this sentence: Today’s decisions are tomorrow’s realities. Plan your future because you have to live in it. That means that you must be mature enough to change your mind. Show me a person who never changes his mind, and I’ll show you a very immature, childish, stubborn person. To really succeed in life, all you have to do is (1) get started! and (2) never quit.

"But to keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older. Because when you’re younger, you do have that thing that you were talking about where the mouth goes dry. I mean you have reactions, and you do fall in love." - Leonard Cohen

It was an exciting idea. But again I had absolutely no money. But to play the possibility thinking game, you have to assume that you won’t win if you don’t begin. There’s no hope of winning if you don’t decide to play the game.

Anthem by Leonard Cohen

The birds they sang
At the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don't dwell on what has passed away
Or what is yet to be

Ah, the wars they will be fought again
The holy dove, she will be caught again
Bought and sold, and bought again
The dove is never free

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in

We asked for signs
The signs were sent
The birth betrayed
The marriage spent
Yeah, and the widowhood
Of every government
Signs for all to see

I can't run no more
With that lawless crowd
While the killers in high places
Say their prayers out loud
But they've summoned, they've summoned up
A thundercloud
They're going to hear from me

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in

You can add up the parts
But you won't have the sum
You can strike up the march
There is no drum
Every heart, every heart
To love will come
But like a refugee

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in

That's how the light gets in
That's how the light gets in

Every problem has a limited life span.
Every mountain has a peak. Every valley has its low point. Life has its ups and downs, its peaks and its valleys. No one is up all the time, nor are the down all the time. Problems do end. They do go away. They are all resolved in time.
This principle is evident when you look carefully at history, for the history of humanity is a study in peaks and valleys. Humanity peaks at times when societies rise from decadence to a highly sophisticated state of civilization. Eventually, however, most cultures allow decay to set it. Rather than rooting out the negative influences, the human institutions adjust to the downward movement. The decline continues and accelerates until it reaches a low ebb at which point it begins the long, slow ascent once more.
History teaches us that every problem has a life span. No problem is permanent. Do you have problems? They will pass; they will not last. Your problem will not live forever, but you will! Storms always give way to the sun. Winter always thaws into springtime. Your storm will pass. Your winter will thaw. Your problem will be resolved.

"There is another element in winning victory, and that is the element of belief. "Believe you can, and you can." Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already. One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do." -

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"Well, “home” is the one. It’s God. When I went into psychedelics, I had an experience where I felt everything being stripped away from my self. I was in my heart, my spiritual heart. All I could say was: “I’m home. I’m home. I’m home inside.”

Then, when I went to India, my guru looked at me with unconditional love. And I remember that as: “I’m home. I’m home. I’m home.”

We all spend so much time living in this outer world, then we encounter things that force us into our inner world. The inner world is what I consider to be home.

In “walking each other home,” I’m talking about how we as individuals—individual persons or individual countries with all of the separation that we experience—through moving toward inner consciousness, can become one. That’s a shift in consciousness. If we can find a way to walk each other home, we could reach a point where there is no more conflict between egos and nations." - Ram Dass

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"Give yourself permission to do something extraordinary and amazing on planet earth. Acknowledge that you have and can do whatever it takes. You would not be given true and inspiring dream without the potential to fulfill it. Listen to the wisdom of your heart and then use the sound reason of your mind to strategize and plan out the life you truly desire and deserve. It does not matter what you have been through, nor does it matter what you are going through, what matters is that you have a dream and that you are willing to whatever it takes to fulfill it. When the why is big your “hows” will take care of themselves. Compare yourself not to others, but only to the vision you hold within your heart. Dedicate your life to a cause greater than yourself and watch you get beyond yourself. The very thing that someone told you that you would never be able to do may just be the very thing you are destined to do." - Dr John Demartini

Why aren't children taught definiteness of purpose in the public schools?

For the reason that there is no definite plan or purpose behind any of the school curricula! Children are sent to school to make credits and to learn how to memorize, not to learn what they want of life.