Monthly Archives: April 2014

Quotes - 2014

What Are Life’s Real Attainments?

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Reason, wisdom, and faith are man’s highest human attainments.  – The Urantia Papers, (103:9.6)

life achievements

These attainments have nothing to do with career, business or fame, at least directly; instead they involve those aspects of life that we will carry with us even beyond this life!

life quotient

These 3 areas cover the major aspects of life:

  • Reason: Is about developing our mind and intellect. Reason guides us regarding the things of this world. A well developed intellect is essential for any kind of worldly achievement. Reason is about IQ.
  • Wisdom: Wisdom is all about finding truth, dealing with others and relationships. And thus is a crucial quality to have, it’s about Emotional Quotient or EQ!
  • Faith: Opens the door to everything else that’s essential to our lives. It’s the path to a life of religion; knowing God or Universal Mind, it leads to the very source of everything. Faith is eventually about LQ, Love Quotient, because the real fruit of ‘true religion’ is the blossoming of a pure love, from within and for the benefit of others.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM smart, wise and faithful!

Recommendation: The Urantia Papers

The Urantia Book: Indexed Version with free Audio Book on DVD (Can only be played on a computer with a DVD drive.)Kindle Paperwhite, 6

Quotes - 2014, Stillness

What’s Wrong With Our Thoughts?

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Consider how much more you suffer from your anger and grief than from the very things for which you are angry and grieved.  – Marcus Aurelius

suffer

We worry and grieve about a lot of things, even on a daily basis. Actually we’re experts at it! Why do we suffer so much?

thoughts

Our incessant thoughts and our inability to step away from their manufacturing process is the big culprit here. Let’s mull over that…

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM giving a pause to my thought creation engine!

Recommendation: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Meditations (Penguin Classics)Kindle Paperwhite, 6

Quotes - 2014

Who Is Wise?

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He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise. – Lao-tzu

self first

Knowledge is key, it’s often said. To be effective in our relationships with others it does make sense that we know self better, first…

how?

What does it mean to know self? It can mean several things and at several levels:

  1. Know our hidden motives and agendas. Are we conscious of why we do what we do?
  2. Know what keeps us going; Know our deepest values; what’s most important to us. What makes us happy/sad?
  3. Know how others perceive us and how we impact their lives.
  4. Know our place in this universe.

It’s not a small undertaking; which is why we have an entire life to explore the universe that’s inside us and is us! Bon Voyage!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM starting my inner journey!

Recommendation: Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness by Jon Kabat-zinn

Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness Kindle Paperwhite, 6

Quotes - 2014

Don’t Worry, Be Happy!

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.  – Oscar Wilde

highest duty

By being happy we sow ‘enormous’ benefits upon the world! Being happy; knowing how to be happy and knowing how to keep others happy is certainly one of our highest duties. When we’re happy we give others permission to be happy as well. We transmit higher vibrations to everyone around. The physical space, the people and others touched by these people, all feel the reverberations of the happiness that we exude and transmit.

be happy

We can be truly happy only if we’re comfortable in our own skin, live a fulfilling life with big goals and with integrity. Happiness is also a product of living in the moment, trusting that all works out for the best in good time. Happiness is the result of good thinking and of appreciating beauty. How can we be happy, now? What are we grateful for?

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM happy!

Recommendation: Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude

Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude: How to Find, Build and Keep a YES! Attitude for a Lifetime of SUCCESSKindle Paperwhite, 6

Quotes - 2014

How To Play!

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The world is but a canvas to the imagination.  – Henry David Thoreau

play!

So is our life, a canvas. As is everyone else’s life. And the experiences created by the population of a country and the entire world. Think about the responsibility we own; responsibility for our own life, responsibility for and in partnership with family and towards the rest of the planet. As we think, as we imagine, as we design and execute, so we reap. Some of our small and inconsequential thoughts may result in the most amazing consequences. And some of our grandest ambitions might be for naught.

fearful?

There is nothing to fear though; all is well as we play and enjoy this life that we’ve been given. The whole world is a playground, a canvas indeed! Let’s go out, play and splash some color around!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM playing without fear!

Recommendation: The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity [10th Anniversary Edition]Kindle Paperwhite, 6

Quotes - 2014

How To Be Grateful

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Bless, now, what shows up, and embrace it with gratitude. This is the beginning of the rest of your life. – Neale Donald Walsch

not happy?

How’s the mood? Feeling happy, sad, depressed, indifferent? It’s good to know where we’re at before we can change anything.

now

However we might feel, no matter what has occurred, we can choose to direct our thoughts in a different direction. We are children creators of our Creator parent and are more powerful than we’ll ever know!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM starting afresh!

Recommendation: Meditations from Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsch

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Quotes - 2014, Stillness

Using A Hammer?

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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.  – Abraham Harold Maslow

hammer?

How often do we use a hammer to solve just about every problem?

We do this by:

  • Being set in our own ways
  • By only looking at people and issues with past-colored glasses
  • By thinking we already know the answer
  • By thinking of a response when another is still talking
  • By not sitting and just being, trying to jump in to fix a situation or problem
  • Through our habitual thinking patterns

hypnotized

When will we snap out of this hypnotic way of being? When we do then the sunlight appears more alive, the air more fragrant; we connect with the other person and Life itself at a deeper level.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM awake and alive!

Recommendation: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual EnlightenmentKindle Paperwhite, 6