Category Archives: Quotes – 2010

Quotes - 2010

In Your Hands

Unhappiness is the realization that you don’t know how to save yourself. Happiness is the realization that you do know how to save yourself.  – Vernon Howard

loss of control

This is an amazing quote, why? Because it underscores exactly why we feel unhappy. We feel depressed when we think, at some level, often at a deep subconscious level, that things are hopeless for us. Next time you feel sad, check into yourself and try to trace your thoughts back to how it started…

up to us

Turns out that when we feel in control and know that all is well, we feel happy. Vernon was a true mystic, I’ve loved reading his books (I first read the book below about 30 years ago) and highly recommend them. Our happiness is directly linked to our ability to master our thoughts and to discern truth. We must know what needs to be fixed, that will then lead to ways to address that apparent problem.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM my own master.

Recommendation: The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power by Vernon Howard

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Quotes - 2010

What Is Prayer?

Prayer is not a technique of escape from conflict but rather a stimulus to growth in the very face of conflict.  – The Urantia Papers

what is prayer?

Apparently God is listening for our motivation and intent rather than the content of our prayers. For God the experience of being together via prayer is an end in itself. It’s much like a human child and its parent. The parent in this case already knows the child’s deepest desires and simply wants to be with the child during the conversation (or monologue!)…

a growth technique

Prayer has many benefits, here’s a couple that I understand:

  • A way to have a one-on-one conversation with the Creator.
  • A way to know ourselves. When we talk to or pray to God, we reveal to our self, what’s most important. If we pay attention, prayer becomes a growth technique. We understand our values better.
  • The highest prayer is one for higher values, understanding and growth.

What do you pray for?

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM my prayer.

Recommendation: The Urantia Papers

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Quotes - 2010

An Eternal Voyage

…death is only the beginning of an endless career of adventure, an everlasting life of anticipation, an eternal voyage of discovery.  – The Urantia Papers

where next?

Do you think about what’ll happen to you after your body gives up? There’s really 3 possibilities I think:

  1. Nothing happens, we just die.
  2. We live on in ‘heaven’ or ‘hell’.
  3. We’re born repeatedly on earth until we attain a certain state.

The Urantia Papers offer a variation around option #2. There’s no heaven (or hell) to be found immediately after death, life goes on, a life filled with reunions, learning, growth and increasing awareness of reality… more on this here and especially here.

what changes?

So if you were eternally ‘safe’ …

  • How would you live daily?
  • What would you do?
  • How would you be?

Daily Affirmation: Today and tomorrow I AM!

Recommendation: The Urantia Papers

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Quotes - 2010

Love To Do …

To discover, there must be no fear of not surviving.  – Krishnamurti

discovery

Krishnamurti talks about how one might discover what one loves to do…

To find out what you love to do demands a great deal of intelligence; because, if you are afraid of not being able to earn a livelihood, or of not fitting into this rotten society, then you will never find out. But, if you are not frightened, if you refuse to be pushed into the groove of tradition by your parents, by your teachers, by the superficial demands of society, then there is a possibility of discovering what it is you really love to do.

being fearless

To make such a journey we must be fearless. Then we can truly discover what we love to do, who we are and what will fulfill us. Why does fear stymie our efforts? How can we erase fear? How can we be free?

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM fearless.

Recommendation: The Essential Laws of Fearless Living by Guy Finley

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Gita, Quotes - 2010

Liberating Action

3.9 The world is in the bonds of action, unless the action is consecration. Let thy actions then be pure, free from the bonds of desire. – The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 3)

action can bind

We undertake all action to satisfy ourselves at some level. The desire to achieve, to gain, to own and towards pleasure is selfish. Even when we help or serve others it satisfies an inner need. Any such action, according to The Gita is binding, it’s done for gain, it keeps the cycle that starts with desire leading into action, going endlessly.

pure action

Pure action is when we do things that must be done, need to be done, is good for most, and are not attached to its outcome. It’s action where the outcome is submitted and left to God instead… We act in good faith and we move on, unperturbed by the result.

Daily Affirmation: Today I devote all action to God.

Recommendation: The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics) by Juan Mascaro

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Quotes - 2010

What Else?

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.  – Roger von Oech

self-hypnosis

We go about hypnotized. We’re lost in our thoughts, we even forget we breathe and seldom do we watch where are our feet tread. Consequently we cannot take full advantage of our life situation.

think differently

We must live in the moment; when we do that we can be fully awake and alive! Our power of observation becomes keener, we notice more and can make grander connections. We become more aware of people and the subtle messages they send. We can be more creative with things and relationships. Life is then truly fulfilling and adventurous!!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM fully engaged.

Recommendation: A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative by Roger von Oech

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Quotes - 2010

Living With Honor

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. – Socrates 

be our pretensions

Love this quote because it’s not asking us to not be what we pretend to be, but it asks us to consider being what we pretend to be! That would be honorable indeed because we would then be true to our core.

true inside out

So let’s examine our day, our thoughts and our beliefs. What do we pretend to be? Do we pretend to be a good listener to our spouse and kids? Then let’s start listening. Do we pretend to be a conscientious worker, then let’s lose that pretense and make it real. Do we pretend to be devout and religious? Let’s connect with God directly and live by spiritual principles… Find the pretense and make it real!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM real.

Recommendation: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Gandhi

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