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Quotes - 2009

Our human journey…

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We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. – Stephen Covey

Our quest, then, ought to be, to discover this spiritual life that we all have but often neglect. There’s a force inside us, a living, that desires to be uncovered and latched on to. Once we discover it and ride on its coattails, we can be like the carefree birds, that live daily and then die, but never ever worry about life.

We go on, forever that is. Let’s discover what this grand drama is all about, find our part, play it, to our best ability, live life as its meant to be lived!

Recommendation: On Life after Death by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

On Life after Death, revised

Quotes - 2009

Direct your thoughts…

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Always  direct your thoughts to those truths that will give you confidence, hope, joy, love, thanksgiving, and turn away your mind from those that inspire you with fear, sadness, depression. – Bertrand Wilbertforce

You are thine own master. Your whole life flows from your thoughts and what you do with those thoughts. Remember your primary role in your own life and its execution.

It all starts with your thoughts.

Know whence they originate; under what circumstances; what you do with them; how they might control you; become conscious of your thoughts and enable control over how each day and the rest of your life turns out!

Recommendation:  The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Personal Workbook

Quotes - 2009

Seize the day!

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Seize the day! – Horace

Don’t make this another humdrum day, seize it instead, by the horns that too!

  1. Do one thing you’ve been meaning to do for some time
  2. Make a vacation plan
  3. Think about your next job
  4. Exercise
  5. Meditate
  6. Kiss all those you love
  7. Call someone you haven’t talked to
  8. Smile
  9. Be thankful for what you have
  10. Smell that rose

Be the dynamic, full of life, happy, joyful, creative person that you already are, rejoice, life is good!

Recommendation: The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture

Quotes - 2009

Access to the divine…

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Human things must be known in order to be loved, but divine things must be loved in order to be known. – The Urantia Papers, (102:1.1)

This quote holds a great secret for those who think that God is personal and can be known.

Don’t wait for God to reveal herself.

Through faith, know that God exists, is in very close proximity (in your heart), and through that same faith start building a relationship with this very God.

Therein lies the key to knowing and connecting with God. Try it; you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Recommendation: God Is Closer Than You Think

God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

Quotes - 2009

Do you use a hammer?

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

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

When will we snap out of this hypnotic way of being?

When we do then the sunlight appears more alive, the air more fragrant, feel what the other person is truly feeling and connect with that which is.

Recommendation: The Power of Now

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Quotes - 2009

Your life, a canvas…

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

So is our life. So is everyone else’s life. As is the collective created by the population of a country and the entire world.

Think about the responsibility you own; responsibility for your own life, responsibility for and in partnership with family and a huge responsibility to 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 might result in the most amazing consequences. And some of our grandest ambitions might be for naught.

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

Recommendation: DARE TO BE HAPPY

DARE TO BE HAPPY: Ten Golden Commandments for a Joy-Filled Life!

Quotes - 2009

Your high duty!

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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. – Robert Louis Stevenson

I’d say that 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 our highest duties.

But it must begin with you! When you’re happy you give others permission to be happy as well. You transmit higher vibrations to everyone around you. The physical space, the people and others touched by these people, all feel the reverberations of the happiness that you exude and transmit.

You can be truly happy only if you’re comfortable in your 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 you be happy, now? What are you grateful for?

Recommendation: Living the Science of Mind

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