The number 8 in numerology is the number for new beginnings. I picked 8 quotes from Ernest Holmes that are life changing. If you take these quotes to heart and really meditate on them. I believe you will resurrect something new that’s always been within you. I chose these quotes because they point us inward. They teach us that we have more than just hope. We have power. They also teach us that in order for us to unlock our power we need to take full responsibility for our life’s experiences. You heard me right, we are not victims over here. This teaching is not something that’s easy to swallow as many may believe. This teaching asks us to dig deeper into our inner being and boldly star at our good, our bad, and our ugly. To acknowledge that we are flawed and that because we are flawed we are not exempt from experiencing flawed experiences. We are asked to transform our flaws into greater expressions of grace.
If you’re ready to grow into your new beginning, please allow me to introduce you to some quotes that will help you do just that.
#1 “Never limit your view of life by any past experience.” …
I like this quote because it reiterates the truth of reality. We are not our past, we are who we believe ourselves to be. If you don’t want to repeat the old, you have to be bold enough to live from your new identity.
#2 True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven.
Put some respect on your visions. Imagine what would happen if you took your thoughts about your future seriously. Just think about how much spiritual gasoline you are pouring on your thoughts if you believed that they were actually “fire from heaven.”
#3 Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
This quote gets us straight. I like the way Joe Vitale says it, ” The meaning that give an event is the belief that attracted it.”
We are constantly attracting to ourselves events that mirror our beliefs about the past. It’s up to us to become revisionists of our past so that we are not held in shackles to our history. If we are going to make history, we must be willing to forget our history.
#4 Does this thing I wish to do express more life, more happiness, more peace to myself, and at the same time harm no one? If it does, it is right. It is not selfish.
I believe these simple questions are apart of the secret to finding your purpose in life. If you’re struggling with knowing what you’re here to do. Just choose something that’s noble and get started on a path. Life is like running in a trail. You can find yourself running on multiple trails to get to one destination. There’s more than one way to get to one destination.
#5 “I live in the faith that there is a Presence and Power greater than I am that nurtures and supports me in ways I could not even imagine. I know that this Presence is All knowing and All Power and is Always right where I am.”
Isn’t it good to know that this Presence that is better known as God, supports us in ways that we can’t even imagine. What’s even better is knowing that even when things are not going our way. If we can remember that we are always being divinely guided and nurtured, we can manifest miracles even in the darkest of times.
This belief is actually the secret. That’s why Paul in the Bible said, ” For we know that all things work together for the good of them that love the Lord”. If we are always attracting what we believe. Having the belief that no matter the circumstance is, things are working for us and not against us. It would force the Universe to work things out in our favor at the end of the day.
#6 Meditation
I KNOW there is a Power for Good which is responding to me and bringing into my experience everything that is necessary to my unfoldment, to my happiness, to my peace, to my health, and to my success. I know there is a Power for Good that enables me to help others and to bless the whole world.
So I say quietly to myself: There is one Life, that Life is God, that Life is perfect, that Life is my life now. It is flowing through me, circulating in me. I am one with Its rhythm. My heart beats with the pulsation of the Universe, in serenity, in peace, and in joy. My whole physical being is animated by the Divine Spirit, and if there is anything in it that does not belong, it is cast out because there is One Perfect Life in me now.
And I say to myself: I am daily guided so that I shall know what to do under every circumstance, in every situation. Divine Intelligence guides me in love, in joy, and in complete self-expression. Desiring that the Law of Good alone shall control me, I bless and prosper everything I am doing; I multiply every activity; I accept and expect happiness and complete success.
Realizing that I am one with all people, I affirm that there is a silent Power flowing through me and them, which blesses and heals and prospers, makes happy and glad their pathway.
And realizing that the world is made up of people like myself, I bless the world and affirm that it shall come under the Divine government of Good, under the Divine providence of Love, and under the Divine leadership of the Supreme Intelligence. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
I don’t need to say much about this one. I suggest that you say this over and over. Try and memorize these words of fire, and watch your life catch on fire and blaze a new path.
#7 The more power one gives to his thought–the more completely he believes that his thought has power–the more power will it have.
This quote reinforces how powerful we are and how we are not victims in this wonderful thing called life. We can choose to focus on life-giving thoughts, or we can choose to focus on life depleting thoughts. Either way, we are the one’s that give them power. That means that we are the one’s that’s actually holding the power in our lives.
#8 Jesus was not the great exception; he was the great example.
There’s a passage in the Bible where Jesus walks by a fig tree that was not producing figs. He cursed the tree to wither at the root. His disciples saw this and didn’t think much of it. The next day, they came pass that same fig tree and noticed that the tree withered. In amazement, they told Jesus that his curse had worked. He told them the now famous a nd often quoted scripture, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you”
I’m not writing this to mess with your beliefs. I’m writing this to invite you to stretch them a bit. If Jesus told his disciples that they could do what he did, in fact, he said that with enough faith, they could do greater works. Why can’t you and I believe that what he actually taught is that he was not the great exemption, but rather he was the great example?
I believe that there is more out there for us to have, do, and become. I believe that we have to be willing to stretch our thinking to the point of discomfort. We have to be willing to go in spiritual hiding for a while. We have to get away from our normal and wholeheartedly embrace the new normal that’s trying to emerge within us. If we are willing to endure the discomfort of spiritual change, we can eat the fruit from the garden of new beginnings.
Jesus Curses a Fig Tree and Clears the Temple Courts
12 The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. 13 Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. 14 Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard him say it.
15 On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves, 16 and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. 17 And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’[a]? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’[b]”
18 The chief priests and the teachers of the law heard this and began looking for a way to kill him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.
19 When evening came, Jesus and his disciples[c] went out of the city.
20 In the morning, as they went along, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots. 21 Peter remembered and said to Jesus, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered!”
22 “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. 23 “Truly[d] I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. 24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. 25 And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.”
Mark 11:12-25 NIV
