A Surplice of Spirit: Serenity

About me: Melanie Surplice

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Hi! I'm the managing director of Revive Holistic Marketing. My vision is to help holistic therapists grow successful businesses; while raising the awareness of the benefits of holistic therapies in the broader community.

As a qualified holistic massage therapist, and a long-time believer in personal development, I'm fascinated by the human body and mind. We all spend much of our lives pursuing happiness, in whatever form that takes on our individual journeys.

Over the last 20 years I have read a lot of the success literature, and explored many aspects of personal development, the spiritual realm, and most recently, a broad range of complementary therapies.

I intend to use this site to pool together resources that I've found useful along the way. I hope you find it useful too, and welcome your suggestions. We're all in this thing called "life" together!

Please feel free to contact me by email with any comments or suggestions.

“Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.” - Erich Fromm

Great Books - Non Fiction

7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey
Awaken the Giant Within - Anthony Robbins
Everyday Enlightenment - Dan Millman
First Things First - Stephen Covey
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Instant Calm - Paul Wilson
Living on Purpose - Dan Millman
Principle Centred Leadership - Stephen Covey
Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki
Screw It, Let's Do It - Richard Branson
The 8th Habit - Stephen Covey
The Life You Were Born to Live - Dan Millman
The Secret - Rhonda Byrne
Think and Grow Rich - Napolean Hill
Unlimited Power - Anthony Robbins
You Can Heal Your Life - Louise Hay

Inspiration Corner

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. - Herbert Otto

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well. - Henry W. Longfellow

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. - Solomon Ibn Gabriol

Insist on yourself. Never imitate. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Invitation

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love for your dream for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon... I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain mine or your own without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy mine or your own if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful be realistic remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure yours and mine and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes.”

It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

It doesn’t interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments. - Oriah Mountain Dreamer

From "A Return to Love"

“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, fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your 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

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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

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