Category Archives: Quotes – 2009

Quotes - 2009

What’s the cost?

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There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. – John F. Kennedy

What’s the cost of your inaction today? How long will you stay in your comfort zone, essentially fooling yourself?

Time for some self-examination and truth telling!

Here are some ways in which we might be selling ourselves short:

  1. Not expressing love because we feel shy or lazy.
  2. Not saying yes to an opportunity because we’re afraid.
  3. Saying yes to too much work because work is our comfort zone!
  4. Being lazy about our health because the opposite is hard work.

So you see our ‘comfort zone’ comes in many varieties, let’s be aware of them, and assert our will, for what is truly good for us.

Recommendation: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

Quotes - 2009

How are you disabled?

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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. – BF Skinner

Society provides many benefits but it hobbles us more than we think.

How are you conditioned by your circumstances? How were you conditioned by your culture growing up? How is your world-view shaped?

These are important questions to ask ourselves so that we know what subtle assumptions shape us, our beliefs and therefore our happiness and relationships. This is yet another way in which we live our lives hypnotized, skimming the surface of life, not really knowing what we miss!

Wake up to the real you, reclaim your heritage via correct thinking and awareness!

Recommendation: Awakening of Intelligence – J Krishnamurti

Quotes - 2009

Love and Forgive…

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The Father in heaven loves his children, and therefore should you learn to love one another; the Father in heaven forgives you your sins; therefore should you learn to forgive one another. – Jesus, The Urantia Book

 

That’s all there is to it!

Love because we all deserve it, and who to give it, except us to others? When we love, we can’t help but feel that emotion ourselves, we thus end up loving our own selves, makes for a better personality and better health!

Forgive because that truly opens us to receive inspiration from God. Otherwise we’re lost in our thoughts about how we were wronged! Ends up causing poorer health!

So the recipe for happiness and good health is Love and Forgive!

Recommendation: Love: What Life Is All About

Meditation Tips, Quotes - 2009

I AM, available…

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I will speak to you if you listen. I will come to you if you will invite Me. I will show you then that I have always been there. All ways. – Neale Donald Walsch

The creator, the universal creative essence, indwells us. That presence is available. We don’t know it because we haven’t paid attention.

When you get that flash of inspiration or that kind thought for someone else, that’s God talking to you. If you practice listening you’ll be amazed at how integrated God is into our lives!

He has always been present, and in ‘all ways’ has he made his presence felt, if we but listen and pay attention.

A technique developed by Carl Jung called Active Imagination can help you connect! And of course meditation or stillness helps!

Recommendation: God Is Closer Than You Think

Quotes - 2009

Life is good!

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When such as I cast out remorse

So great a sweetness flows into the breast

We must laugh and we must sing,

We are blest by everything,

Everything we look upon is blest. – William Butler Yeats

It’s mostly up to us, how we see our selves, our surroundings and life itself. As we see, so we project, as we project, our life is created.

You are the architect of you life, don’t take this responsibility too lightly. And never blame others or circumstances. Ask yourself first, how should I react, what can I do…?

When we see life as holy, ourselves as holy, we bless everything as life itself blesses us!! Yay!!

Recommendation: Dancing with Life

Quotes - 2009

How much can you handle?

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I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much. – Mother Teresa

How much can we handle? For some the flood of adversity is relentless and never seems to recede. For others things seem to sail smoothly, at least on the surface. Life isn’t a bed of roses, that’s for sure…

So how can we cope?

One way is to not conjure up a scary future. Stay in the moment, handle what’s on our plate for today, tomorrow will take care of itself.

Another is to have a deep and abiding faith in the goodness of God (Universe), and that all will work out for the best, for everyone.

Come to think of it, for us to be truly present to the day we must have faith that tomorrow will be just fine. Faith must come first and then the ability to stay in the moment!

Recommendation: The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power

Quotes - 2009

Follow your bliss!

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If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. – Joseph Campbell

When you follow your bliss, you are in a joyous state yourself. In that state it’s easy to connect with the life-blood of the Universe and your Life Purpose! When you’re in the zone (or flow) life starts to happen in a synchronistic fashion.

That’s when you know that you’re on to something! Latch on to it and pursue your bliss to a fun, fulfilling and very meaningful life!

Recommendation: Notes from the Universe by Mike Dooley