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Dale Carnegie, Quotes - 2013

Why Can’t We Be Happy?

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When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. – La Rochefoucauld

we’re the man

No one else is capable. Only we can manage our state of mind. We must not blame anyone or anything out there. We ought to look in the mirror and claim full responsibility for how we feel. If we want to feel good we must immerse ourselves in ‘good’ thoughts. The more we criticize others, blame them or be resentful the lower we sink.

life principles

1st Basic Technique to ‘Cultivate a Mental Attitude that will Bring You Peace and Happiness’ : Fill your mind with thoughts of peace, courage, health and hope!

In the Dale Carnegie series we’ve covered the following main ideas and techniques therein:

1) Fundamental Principles for Overcoming Worry
2) Basic Techniques in Analyzing Worry
3) Break the Worry Habit Before It Breaks You
Today we start the next topic ‘Cultivate a Mental Attitude that will Bring You Peace and Happiness’. Let’s focus a major chunk of our thinking on the True, Good and Beautiful…

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM feeding on a diet of lovely thoughts!

Recommendation: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie

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Quotes - 2013

How To Live Abundantly…

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Abundance can be had simply by consciously receiving what already has been given. – Sufi saying…

current

We’re endowed with plenty. Even a cursory examination will reveal that most of us lack nothing. Let’s accept that and ‘receive’ with gratitude our current blessings.

future

When we’re fulfilled and grateful now we ensure future abundance. This happens because we’re at a high frequency and open to receiving all that’s good for us. There must not be hesitation or confusion in our minds. There shouldn’t even be excessive certainty. An expectant and gratitude filled attitude is in order.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM overflowing with innumerable blessings!!

Recommendation: Notes from the Universe by Mike Dooley

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Quotes - 2013, Stillness

Here’s Where To Find Peace…

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The person should look for peace within and not depend on it in any other place. There are no waves in the depths of the ocean, it is still and unbroken. – Buddha

inside

We do need to set goals and achieve them. We do have to experience worldly desires and expand horizons. But never will such accomplishments provide a long term and deep satisfaction. We generate our own happiness when we achieve goals, it has to do with how we make meaning in our lives and process events. Similarly we must depend only on self to find ultimate peace and fulfillment…

stillness

It really is possible to discover and experience this expansive and calming center deep inside. It’s blissful and addictive. Once found it beckons and entices. It’s our real home. Inspiration gurgles out of this eternal wellspring. Let’s not miss out on this personal treasure.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM experiencing the peace I was born with…

Recommendation: Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tse

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Quotes - 2013

Why Be Us?

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Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.  – Mike Robbins

be yourself

We come with an essence that’s us, uniquely so, in all time and in all space. Let’s mull this eternal fact…

everyone else is taken

Let’s not waste our time and precious attention on how we compare with others; what others think of us or what we must do to please them. Instead let’s focus on what makes us beautiful, helpful to others and an attractive person from the inside out. We must get to know self first; that comes when we become increasingly more self aware; which is a product of stillness.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM uniquely me and proud of it!

Recommendation: Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken…

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Quotes - 2013

Why 2013 Can Be Our Best Year Yet!

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We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. – Edith Lovejoy Pierce

our life is up to us!

Let’s throw off the assumptions that chain our lives. Let’s be born again! Resolve to think afresh and anew. We won’t accept limitations that others place upon us. We are creative and unique beings like no other in all time and space! We will claim our uniqueness, stamp life with our signature and relish our personal impact!

each day is brand new!

Each moment we breathe is like no other before it. Each day is new. We can’t let the failures of the past hold us back. We will start designing our future life, today, NOW!

Daily Affirmation: 2013 will be my best year yet!!

Recommendation: Release Your Brilliance

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Quotes - 2012, Stillness

Why We Must Be Still…

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We yearn for a moment’s peace and quiet, only to turn on the radio, make a phone call, or run an errand as soon as an opportunity for solitude presents itself. – Ronnie Polaneczky

constant movement

We fill our life with motion. Incessantly. Why?

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ponder

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We’re running away from self. We do need action in life, just not constant action. At some level we’re afraid of facing our apparently lonely self. We feel more alive when we’re moving. Life is movement. When we’re still and without interaction we fear our mortality…

breathe instead

Let’s take pause and focus on our breathing. Slowly we’ll find ourselves calming down. The mind will want to race, let it, don’t attach attention to it or to its production, which are thoughts.

Once we start getting used to being still, at rest, a peace will start to descend, actually emerge from within. Then we will know that we’ve never been alone.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM still and know I AM not alone…

Recommendation: Moments in Between: The Art of the Quiet Mind

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Quotes - 2012

What Should We Do Next?

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The fool wonders, the wise man asks. – Benjamin Disraeli

ask & observe

We often ask ourselves; what should I do next? That’s a great step forward, we must ask first. What then? Often we keep asking and nothing seems to happen? What’s going on? Nothing seems to happen because we may be looking for a particular answer… We need to be free of any expectations, and once we’re free, we must observe!

Look for signs from the Universe. They come to us in an infinite variety of ways, through people, situations, inanimate objects etc… Observation is key!

now act…

Once we observe something that appears to be a sign lets take the action that’s called for. If we do; more signs will appear, they always do. We’re now actively on our journey of self and Universe discovery!!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM asking and acting!

Recommendation: Tao Te Ching

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