Quotes - 2014, Stillness

What’s Wrong With Our Thoughts?

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Consider how much more you suffer from your anger and grief than from the very things for which you are angry and grieved.  – Marcus Aurelius

suffer

We worry and grieve about a lot of things, even on a daily basis. Actually we’re experts at it! Why do we suffer so much?

thoughts

Our incessant thoughts and our inability to step away from their manufacturing process is the big culprit here. Let’s mull over that…

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM giving a pause to my thought creation engine!

Recommendation: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

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Who Is Wise?

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He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise. – Lao-tzu

self first

Knowledge is key, it’s often said. To be effective in our relationships with others it does make sense that we know self better, first…

how?

What does it mean to know self? It can mean several things and at several levels:

  1. Know our hidden motives and agendas. Are we conscious of why we do what we do?
  2. Know what keeps us going; Know our deepest values; what’s most important to us. What makes us happy/sad?
  3. Know how others perceive us and how we impact their lives.
  4. Know our place in this universe.

It’s not a small undertaking; which is why we have an entire life to explore the universe that’s inside us and is us! Bon Voyage!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM starting my inner journey!

Recommendation: Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness by Jon Kabat-zinn

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Don’t Worry, Be Happy!

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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.  – Oscar Wilde

highest duty

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 of our highest duties. When we’re happy we give others permission to be happy as well. We transmit higher vibrations to everyone around. The physical space, the people and others touched by these people, all feel the reverberations of the happiness that we exude and transmit.

be happy

We can be truly happy only if we’re comfortable in our 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 we be happy, now? What are we grateful for?

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM happy!

Recommendation: Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude

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How To Play!

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

play!

So is our life, a canvas. As is everyone else’s life. And the experiences created by the population of a country and the entire world. Think about the responsibility we own; responsibility for our own life, responsibility for and in partnership with family and towards 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 may result in the most amazing consequences. And some of our grandest ambitions might be for naught.

fearful?

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

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM playing without fear!

Recommendation: The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

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How To Be Grateful

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Bless, now, what shows up, and embrace it with gratitude. This is the beginning of the rest of your life. – Neale Donald Walsch

not happy?

How’s the mood? Feeling happy, sad, depressed, indifferent? It’s good to know where we’re at before we can change anything.

now

However we might feel, no matter what has occurred, we can choose to direct our thoughts in a different direction. We are children creators of our Creator parent and are more powerful than we’ll ever know!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM starting afresh!

Recommendation: Meditations from Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsch

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Quotes - 2014, Stillness

Using A Hammer?

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

hammer?

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

hypnotized

When will we snap out of this hypnotic way of being? When we do then the sunlight appears more alive, the air more fragrant; we connect with the other person and Life itself at a deeper level.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM awake and alive!

Recommendation: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

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Getting Bored?

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Seize the day!  – Horace

humdrum?

Don’t make this another humdrum day, seize it by the horns instead! Let’s do one thing today that’s been sitting and waiting on our To-Do list!

  • Make a vacation plan
  • Think about your next job
  • Exercise
  • Meditate
  • Kiss all those we love
  • Call someone we haven’t talked to in a while
  • Smile
  • Be thankful for what we have
  • Smell that rose

seize it!

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

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM seizing the moment!

Recommendation: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

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Be, Here, Now…