“When you can see no light at the end of the tunnel, light your own candle and let your light illuminate the world, like the radiance from a window at midnight.”

“When you can see no light at the end of the tunnel, light your own candle and let your light illuminate the world, like the radiance from a window at midnight.” That’s a metaphor, BTW

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Author: craig lock

www.craiglockbooks.com www.creativekiwis.com About the Author Craig has a 'passion' for writing books that tell stories about people doing positive things in this often so hard, sometimes unkind world, occasionally cruel, yet always amazing world - true stories that leave the reader feeling uplifted, empowered and hopefully even inspired. Craig Lock loves to encourage and empower people to be the best they can possibly be, and to create what they want in life. Craig has learnt plenty from the "school of life" (still "battered and bruised") and also from a few "hard knocks on the head". He is an extensive world traveller (on a "shoestring budget") and failed professional emigrater who has spent most of his life’s savings on airfares. He is still sliding down the razor blade of life on the beautiful undiscovered island that is New Zealand, somewhere near the bottom (rude!) of the world near Antarctica. There he talks to the 60 million sheep! Craig has been involved in the corporate world (life assurance) for "many moons". However, through a rather strange (and unique) set of circumstances and finding himself in a small town near the bottom of the world ...and with nothing else to do, he started writing. That was five years ago. Five published books later and having written another twenty manuscripts (now 300 + on widely differing subjects - well what else is there to do here?)... this is where Craig is in the "journey/adventure" that is life. Craig has run a run a successful creative writing course (not teaching sheep!) at the local Polytechnic. He was the author of (as far as we know) the first creative writing course on the internet. He has many varied interests and passions and is particularly interested in the field of psychology – studying the human mind and what makes different people "tick-tock grandfather clock". He is fascinated by the "overlap between psychology and the dimension of spirituality". One of his missions in life is helping people make the most of their hidden potential and so finding their niche in life... so that they are happy. Craig’s various books probably tell more about his rather "eventful" life best (no one could believe it!). He writes books with serious messages and themes, then as a contrast "rather crazy, wacky stuff"…to keep him sane here. As an ‘anonymouse’ person wrote: "All of us are born mad; some of us remain so." Well nothing else much happens in quiet provincial New Zealand, other than headlines like "Golf Ball Thrown at Policeman" and "Beach Toilet Closed for Season.". True! from http://www.selfgrowth.com/experts/craig_lock.html For Craig’s books see AMAZON at http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4 ... but rather GO to www.creativekiwis.com All proceeds go to the needy and underprivileged… and a charity (most worthy-Bill and I) “When the writer is no more , the value of your purchase will soar! “ www.craigsquotes.wordpress.com “Together, one mind, one life (one small step at a time), let’s see how many people (and lives) we can encourage, impact, empower, enrich, uplift and perhaps even inspire to reach their fullest potentials…and strive for and perhaps one sunny day even achieve their wildest dreams.” PPS Don’t worry about the world ending today… as it’s already tomorrow in scenic and tranquil ‘little’ New Zealand

2 thoughts on ““When you can see no light at the end of the tunnel, light your own candle and let your light illuminate the world, like the radiance from a window at midnight.””

  1. THNX for the likes/follows/links/reblogs, etc

    It’s by/through God’s Grace (infinite) + a “bit of effort” on my part too) that I am able to reach all you good people…readers and followers “out there”# after about 360 of my blogs (created over 15 + years with “heart and soul”) were deleted, as well as being “banned” by “Automatic Trust and Security”… when all I was trying to do was trying to reach, uplift, encourage and give hope to as many people as possible ??

    Then in the ‘fullness of time’ we can see which ultimately triumphs (and persists #): The power of imagination and creativity… or the “delete button”??’…
    unless I’m “deleted, cancelled and banned”(totally)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCtouot15cA Still # #

    THNX for the likes/follows/links/reblogs, etc

    The past is history, the present is a gift and the future is a mystery”
    -the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu
    Leonardo da Vinci once said: “Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

    http://www.facebook.com/craig.lock.31 +http://www.craigsquotes + http://www.lifeisgodsnovel (blogs deleted)

    “Passion is the fire in our bellies that drives us towards success”
    from writingandformula1 + writencreate (blogs deleted)
    Still
    ‘Driven (krazy) to uplift, encourage and perhaps even inspire’

    “I make art through writing (and words are my tools)… as I paint (very messily) on the canvas of life.”
    craigsquotes blog (deleted)

    “It not as important to succeed as to persist”

    “The Greatest Race: Living by (with) faith, hope and love is the highest podium any person can reach, God’s podium that anyone stand on.”
    – c
    http://www.beyondthezonespirit.wordpress.com +
    racetothechequeredflag + writingandformula1 and ALL the rest (blogs deleted)

    Enjoy my thoughts and writings + Judy C too
    “totally unmusical” (+ impulsive) c
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtteRD5bBNQ #

    One blog simply leading to the next…you never know where it will take you….(and hopefully they don’t get deleted…again)!!
    Then who knews where I’ll end up!!??

    Each day, when I wake up, I have absolutely no idea of how…or where the day will go. I just realised my days are determined and lead down paths from the feedback by my readers and followers around the world, like you.

    And that is the reason I write and share… which gives me joy (great)

    So #

    THNX for the likes/follows/links/reblogs, etc

    the world’s fo(u)rth worst writer”

    “Information and Inspiration Distributor, Incorrigible Encourager and People-builder” “ Well my family and friends say (continually) that I’m “safest” just writing and sharing

    “I cant do much about all the suffering in the world..BUT…”

    “I can’t do much about the suffering in the world, but…”

    “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 the something that I can do.”
    -Edward Hale
    from https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SbC0rTam2J3ZR3bg11V1d2zt2RUzuhma-ALts2fLOSg/edit +
    http://www.upliftencourageandinspire.wordpress.com

    The past is history, the present is a gift and the future is a mystery”
    -the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu
    https://youtu.be/QDYfEBY9NM4?si=Xx4m40STxFq2PxeO

    “Be bold and unseen forces come to ones aid”
    craigsquotes (DELETED together with ALL my quotes)

    (Olivia Let me be there)

    “Totally unmusical + impulsive” c

    “Information and Inspiration Distributor, Incorrigible Encourager and People-builder” Well my family and friends say (continually) that I’m “safest” just writing and sharing

    https://youtu.be/96aAx0kxVSA #

    THNX for the likes/follows/links/reblogs, etc

    “Passion is the fire in our bellies that drives us towards success”
    from writingandformula1 + writencreate (blogs deleted)
    Still
    ‘Driven (krazy) to uplift, encourage and perhaps even inspire’

    “I make art through writing (and words are my tools)… as I paint (very messily) on the canvas of life.”
    craigsquotes blog (deleted)

    “The past is history, the present is a gift and the future is a mystery”
    -the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu

    https://creativekiwis.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/always-be-on-the-lookout-for-the-presence-of-wonder-2/ +www.craigsbooks.wordpress.com

    “Life is queer with its twists and turns”

    “Life is one amazing journey of learning, exploring, testing (limits??), trying, growing, discovering and dreaming”

    -c
    SHARE, INFORM, IMPACT, UPLIFT, IGNITE, ENCOURAGE and (perhaps even) INSPIRE #

    “Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.”

    ‘Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.’

    • Erica Jong

    “Our talents are our gift(s) from God, but it’s what we do with them that are our gift TO God.”
    http://www.beyondthespirit.wordpress.com

    Enjoy and be happy

    https://craigsbooks.wordpress.com/2023/12/30/if-i-can-put-a-smile-on-one-persons-face/ #

    ‘The world needs more joyful moments (occasions)’
    http://www.facebook.com/craig.lock.31

    Thanks for the like/follow, etc

    Your Pen Can Move Mountains’
    ‘Many words and actions(tiny) by many people can even move mountains’

    Funny where/the way one tiny step takes/leads one/us!…

    “When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
    – Leonardo da Vinci

    To my “cyber-friends/pals” around the world….
    Thanks for the follow/link/like/reblog and/or kind thought(s)
    Hi everyone
    I do really appreciate your liking, linking to and/or following this blog (and “writing in”), so “thanks to YOU all for the thanx” (in thought)

    Racing with destiny
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckXR3clJsRY

    Thanks, Belinda (+ Whitney)
    Shared by “totally unmusical + impulsive” c
    “Information and Inspiration Distributer, Incorrigible Encourager and People-builder” *

    …”of chaos” (in the “real world”, so I’m constantly told)- see

    enjoy
    Pss
    Don’t worry about the world ending today
    it’s already tomorrow in scenic and tranquil ‘little’ New Zealand
    PPS
    Best wishes from the First City to see the light
    Thanks for the follow(s) and/or the likes ..
    Hi
    If you want to follow me, go to
    (to find one or two of interest…perhaps)

    http://www.craigsblogs.wordpress.comhttp://www.craigsbooks.wordpress.com

    Each day, when I wake up, I have absolutely no idea of how…or where the day will go. I just realised my days are determined and lead down paths from the feedback by my readers and followers around the world, like you. So thanks for the input.
    All your comments and feedback encourage (greatly), uplift and even inspire me to follow “this road less travelled”.
    I love my days “interacting with you’ guys and gals’ these days)”

    …”of chaos” (in the “real world”, so I’m constantly told)

    “waking up early-bird sleepy-head” c
    “the world’s fourth worst writer”
    Still
    “Driven to uplift, encourage and (perhaps even) inspire”

    Together, one mind, one life (one small step at a time), let’s see how many people (and lives) we can encourage, impact, empower, enrich, uplift and perhaps even inspire to reach their fullest potentials ¦and strive for and perhaps one sunny day even achieve their wildest dreams.
    .

    PP (and NB)
    Share, encourage, uplift and help spread hope, love and light

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    Thanks for the follow/link/like/reblog and/or kind thought(s)

    (but if you are following me, my close friends say it would be far more entertaining with a video-camera*!)

    * By the way, do they still make them in today’s ever-faster changing world..or is it all done with mobile phones?

    “total non-techno” c (who doesn’t possess a mobile phone, after a rather eventful’ experience some years back, whilst trying to walk and talk at the same time )

    Men…Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em!

    Thanks for the follow/link/like/reblog/comment and/or kind thought(s))

    Hi

    CAN’T KEEP UP…BUT THANKS FOR THE “THANX”

    I’ve had many many hundreds of thousands (“zillions”) of comments on my various other WordPress blogs at https://craigsblogs.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/craigs-list-of-blogs-updated-sept-2011/ in recent years …true!) …a few of my blogs went “balistically viral” a few years back.

    Obsessive or WHAT! Am really pleased you are enjoying my writings, as the reason I write is to share. However I am unable to keep up with the comments and was spending entire days just on replies on my various blog pages.

    Though I’m rather “driven”, I still get really, really fatigued (there’s a few books there). so sorry can’t reply individually to all you good people scattered around the planet, but DO try to read as many as possible daily (and even moderate a few when I get a “mo”), I got swamped with comments on my various blogs, so have had to close them off on all of my blogs, except for one or two of particular interest to me –

    Some of my other  blogs on in this area NOT deleted by  (after quite a “battle” via correspondence) # in this area are at

    http://www.headbraininjury.wordpress.com

    http://www.traumaticbraininjurytbi.wordpress.com

    https://livingwithheadinjury.wordpress.com/

    http://www.livingwithheadbraininjury.wordpress.com

    https://thenurseanewbook.wordpress.com 

    and

    https://anoneextraordinarylife.wordpress.com/

    # Ones in the area of brain/head injury + http://www.headinjurytbi.wordpress.com (which was also deleted)

    That’s yet another story (rather “devastating”)…but we pick ourselves up – once again…and move ahead one small step forward at a time “rather groggily”)! 

    #

    Sorry and hope you can understand.

    * “Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

    ~ Franz Kafka

    I do really appreciate your liking, linking to and/or following this blog (and “writing in”), so “thanks for the thanx”

    “As we live and move and have our being, so from this vision, we create heaven in our own lives… and perhaps even heaven on earth.” – craig (as inspired by Acts 17:28 and the words of Felicia Searcy)

    “Aim at the earth and you may not get off the ground.a “Aim at the stars and you may reach the moon.” “Aim at heaven and you’ll have earth thrown in… and you may even hit the stars.” – craig (as inspired by the famous quote by CS Lewis – 24th May 2012)

    “When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” – Leonardo da Vinci

    When (or if ever) you arrive in heaven, let faith, hope and love be the wings that carried you there.”

    – as adapted from the inspiring words of Jonathan Edwards, former minister in New England, Massachusetts

    “The Greatest Race: Living by (with) faith, hope and love is the highest podium any person can reach, God’s podium that anyone stand on.” – c

    “Having pursued the goals, the dreams set before us and run the race with persistence and endurance, after giving it all. Then one day standing on the summit of life, breathing in the pure sweet oxygen of achievement, totally satisfied in running the greatest race, the race of life one that ANYONE can run and win.”

    from my blogs racetothechequeredflag + godandformula1 (deleted along with All those on my various “passions”)

    “If a man is called to be a street-sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” – Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

    PPS Instead of trying to reply to each one of you, I’ll just keep on writing

    “If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster.”

    The various books* that Craig “felt inspired to write” are available at

    http://www.creativekiwis.com/

    All proceeds go to needy and underprivileged children – MINE!

    “When the writer is no more , the value of your purchase will soar! ”

    Don’t worry about the world ending today… as it’s already tomorrow in scenic and tranquil ‘little’ New Zealand

    PPS

    “I wish you well on a rainy day I wish you rainbows to brighten your day To feel your quiet moments with a special kind of warmth to remind you that happiness can happen when you least expect it.

    I wish you rainbows to make you laugh and smile to show you the simple beauty of life and to give you the magic of dreams come true.

    I wish you rainbows I wish you well.”

    – Larry S. Chengges

    ”Since I can never see your face, And never shake you by the hand, I send my soul through time and space To greet you. You will understand.”

    – James Elroy Flecker (1884-19

    SHARE, INFORM, IMPACT, UPLIFT, IGNITE, ENCOURAGE and (perhaps even) INSPIRE

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