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Worthy Resolution #8 for 2016…

Unless we are very, very careful, we doom each other by holding onto images of one another based on preconceptions that are in turn based on indifference to what is other than ourselves.Anne Truitt

understand, not judge

We live amidst our own thoughts. Most of these thoughts are old, especially regarding how we view the other. Let’s see others with an eye on their magnificence and potential.

affirmations

Today I AM thinking fresh thoughts about who others really are, not as I perceive them from my past…

Recommendation: Art of Being by Erich Fromm

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Worthy Resolution #7 for 2016…

…love is an art, just as living is an art; if we want to learn how to love we must proceed in the same way we have to proceed if we want to learn any other art…Erich Fromm

the art of loving

We must master the art of loving. According to Fromm it is an art. Something we need to learn and practice. And slowly get better at. Let’s start our practice in earnest!

affirmations

Today I AM learning how to love, everything and everyone, slowly but steadily!

Recommendation: Art of Being by Erich Fromm

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What Life Is Made Up Of…

For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.Kahlil Gibran

little things

Life is made up of moments. The little things matter more than anything else. We can truly be ‘refreshed’ if we stay in the moment and arrive fully wherever we are…

affirmations

Today I AM here, in the Now, fully present and with it. I AM refreshed!

Recommendation: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

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What Do We Really Want?

The only way to get what you really want is to know what you really want. The only way to know what you really want is to know yourself. The only way to know yourself is to be yourself. And the only way to be yourself is to listen to your heart!Mike Dooley

the heart

The heart is where our soul is. It’s where our essence lives. When we operate from that center we can be more certain about where to go. How can we get closer to who we truly are?

affirmations

Today I AM my heart. My heart inhabits my whole body. I AM guided and led as I grow more peaceful!

Recommendation: Notes from the Universe by Mike Dooley

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Worthy Resolution #6 for 2016…

Perfectionism is our most compulsive way of keeping ourselves small, a kind of psychoemotional contortionism that gives the illusion of reaching for greatness while constricting us into increasingly suffocating smallness.Ursula K. Le Guin

perfectionism?

“Refuse to play the perfectionism game”. Let’s not use our apparent desire to be perfect to become an excuse to not do anything challenging or worthwhile. Let’s not say, I’ll do this when … such and such thing happens. We’re only fooling self.

affirmations

Today I AM coming face-to-face with the excuses I generate so that I don’t have to do something.

Recommendation: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

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Worthy Resolution #5 for 2016…

Do nothing with nobody all alone by yourself.Bertrand Russell

do nothing

It’s ok to be by ourselves. Let’s get more used to who we really are. When others aren’t present, we can be more of ourselves. That’s valuable. We should seek such ‘monotony’ more often!

affirmations

Today I AM cool to be just by myself. I like me. I can now grow more peaceful.

Recommendation: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

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