Category Archives: Quotes – 2013

Quotes - 2013

Why Self-Knowledge Is Key…

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Who but you knows your inner state, so who but you can change it?  – Vernon Howard

what we are

Only we can be our own masters. To be so, we must know self. Knowing self means we understand our proclivities, our insecurities and fears, our longings, our self-deception plus more! It’s a journey that must be undertaken…

awareness

Life calls us to be our own masters by throwing challenges at us. Each life situation has multiple lessons built into it. We’re on this planet to grow as children of God. Life isn’t conspiring against us; it’s providing a perfect school for our growth so that we can be masters of self!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM striving to know self!

Recommendation: The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power by Vernon Howard

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Quotes - 2013

Why The Future Sucks!

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The present moment is a living rainbow. – Guy Finley

the future

The future sucks because it never delivers on its promises. It suckers us into believing that something most amazing will eventually happen and that it will be the thing we’ve always wanted. Inevitably we’re left wanting and desperate at the very doorsteps of this tyrant we call the future…

the present moment

Now, on the other hand, is beautiful. The most precious gifts are bestowed to us in the present moment. But we scarcely pay attention. This time that’s upon us is beautiful beyond comparison. It really is like the rainbow in all its colorful splendor rising from one end of infinity and descending into the other. Let’s pay more attention to it.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM loving Now more than the Future!

Recommendation: The Essential Laws of Fearless Living by Guy Finley

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Quotes - 2013

How To Transform Our Lives…

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Love, what is. – Namaste Now!

all good

There’s a much larger purpose that’s unfolding. It’s unfolding in our lives and all around us. If we can catch this undercurrent it’ll pull us along. We’ll be happier and more fulfilled. It knows how to take best advantage of everything that’s happening. Even our saddest and most traumatic events will become more understandable in good time. It really is all good. Let’s embrace what is. It’s the path to the future we all want…

love it

The way to peace and wisdom is to love it all. This doesn’t mean we understand everything that’s happening to us. It just means that we accept that it’s all good and for a greater purpose. We accept in faith that God has this all figured out and that we should let go. We comprehend that Love is the real currency of Life. And decide to become shining examples of this love, to self and to others.

Ref: By Love, For Love and To Love and http://namastenow.com/how-not-to-be-irritated/

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM an embodiment of living love…

Recommendation: Love: What Life Is All About by Leo F. Buscaglia

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Quotes - 2013

How Not To Be Irritated…

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We’re agitated when we resist what is. – Namaste Now!

agitation

When things don’t happen the way we want them to happen we become irritated. It’s the assertion of our will or ego that causes this irritation. Let’s examine when and why we get agitated. What didn’t happen or isn’t happening that’s causing us to be irritable? Dispassionate awareness of that situation will tend to calm us down…

allowing

The way to peace and wisdom is to let Life be what it is. This doesn’t mean we don’t plan or act to design our future. It just means that when we’ve done our best, we let the chips fall where they will, and be ok with that. There’s incalculable intelligence behind what’s going on, let’s not underestimate it!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM consciously letting go…

Recommendation: Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There by Sylvia Boorstein

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Quotes - 2013

What’s The TGIF Syndrome?

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Why wait for the weekend to have fun? – Loesje

the tgif syndrome!

We all suffer from it. We wait for the weekend to enjoy our lives. It’s much like the next think we want to buy or the next relationship we think will make us happy. We wait for the weekend and often dread going back to ‘work’! What is it about work that makes it so drab? Or is it us?

today

About half of our waking hours during any week are at work. Which means half of our lives is spent on our jobs. If our job isn’t fun, then we’re wasting half of our life! There has to be a way to find the perfect job (hard not impossible) or figure out a way to enjoy and enhance our current livelihood! How can we remedy this appalling situation? When will we begin?

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM enjoying my job!

Recommendation: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

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Quotes - 2013

What’s The Best Advice?

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Be truthful, gentle and fearless.  – Mahatma Gandhi

life

Life has a way of fulfilling all our needs. When we trust it, it delivers. From something apparently minor like the quote for today’s blog to something ‘big’ like a relationship, Life delivers it all! It will deliver it if we’re patient and don’t rely excessively on self to figure it all out!

truth

Life gushes through us when we embody Truth. Truth is the doorway to an effortless collaboration with divinity on a daily basis. To live truth we must be fearless. Who can harm us? We’re the children of the ‘Most Highs’. We have nothing or no one to fear! Gentleness enables us to listen. When we listen for the truth we can be fearless…

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM truth personified!

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

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Quotes - 2013, Stillness

How To Stay Awake!

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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. – Henry David Thoreau

slumbering

We slumber, and do so collectively. We have mechanical thoughts, robotic likes and dislikes, we’ve mostly made up our minds and are barely aware of the present moment. We move about in a hypnotic daze.

awake!

We must awaken. Awaken to the richness of the current moment. To the opportunities that show up if we only pay attention. To possibilities that lie dormant unless we open up to them. We must recognize that we’re sleeping before we can awaken!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM projecting my full attention into NOW!

Recommendation: Arriving at Your Own Door by Jon Kabat-Zinn

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