Quotes - 2013, Stillness

What’s Our Purpose?

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Living in the present is a desire of the soul. It is to realize that we are here for a reason and with a purpose. – From Spirit

a tryst

Our soul lives firmly in the present. When we (our ego-self) also arrive at the present moment we have a great opportunity at hand. We now have a tryst with divinity…

purpose

Everything is happening for a grand purpose. It’s our job to discover our own. The best way to do that is to stay in the current moment and be guided by the gentle leading of our soul…

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM being led…

Recommendation: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

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How To Know Why We’re Unhappy…

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Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.  – Jack Kornfield

self

What do we tell ourselves? What’s the story we repeat? Are we masters of our own thoughts? Do we take care of our physical and mental self?

others

What do we say about others behind their backs? What do we do for others? Do we know now why we’re happy or not?

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM happy and I know why!

Recommendation: Meditation for Beginners by Jack Kornfield

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How To Be A Designer!

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Only those who give over all desire to reject can know that their own rejection is impossible.  – A Course in Miracles (ACIM)

designers

Mind is the laboratory and thoughts the instruments we use to create our life. Once we know how much our thinking impacts our life we realize the importance of designing our thoughts! Let’s be artists and paint beautiful thoughts for us and everyone else…

boomerang

How do we view life? How do we approach and judge people? The way we show up is how life shows up for us. The way we judge others (the energies we unleash), we are judged too, in other words ‘what goes around comes around’. Our judgmental thoughts follow the trajectory that we’ve triggered which is why we must design even our judgments!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM a thought designer!

Recommendation: : A Course in Miracles by Dr. Helen Schucman

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Where’s Our Attention?

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Everyone is responsible for the thoughts they think and the things that they choose as their objects of attention.  – Abraham

our attention

It matters where we put our attention. Can we be masters and guide our minds appropriately? It really is up to us.

creation

We are creators. Our creation comes from our attention, our thoughts and consequently our actions. Let’s be bold and create something beautiful in our lives. What’s stopping us?

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM a bold creator!

Recommendation: The Law of Attraction by Esther Hicks

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Who’s Calling The Shots?

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Compel your lower nature to obey your higher nature...  – The Urantia Papers

hi or lo?

The lower nature is that which frets, worries, fears, feels less than, is jealous, always wants more and never satiated.

The higher nature is that which loves, is kind, serves, is confident, has faith, is peaceful, thoughtful, deliberate, motivated, and has a higher purpose.

who’s the boss?

We are and can be victims of genetics and generational, racial and national thought patterns. It can be tough to fight these built-in inertial forces. Because we are will creatures, it’s our prerogative and should be our life-goal to grow and design our life. Which is why we have a mind that’s really under our control. If such is not the case then how can we assert control? Who’s the boss?

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM the boss!

Recommendation: The Urantia Papers

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What Are We Afraid Of?

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We yearn for a moment’s peace and quiet, only to turn on the radio, make a phone call, or run an errand as soon as an opportunity for solitude presents itself.  – Ronnie Polaneczky

afraid to die?

We fill our life with motion. Incessantly. Why?

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ponder

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I think it’s because we’re running away from ourselves. We do need action in life, just not constant action. At some level we’re afraid of facing our deep, apparently lonely, self. We feel more alive when we’re moving. Life is movement. When we’re still and without interaction; at a very deep level, we fear our mortality…

pause

Let’s pause; focus on our breathing. Slowly, find self calming down. Our mind will want to race, let it, don’t attach any attention to it or to its production, which are thoughts.

Once we start getting used to being still, at rest, a peace will start to descend, actually emerge from within. Then we will know that we’ve never been alone.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM pausing…

Recommendation: Moments in Between: The Art of the Quiet Mind

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How To Be Happy Today!

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. – Fredrich Koenig

happy thanksgiving 2013!

It’s Thanksgiving time in the United States on Thursday November 28th. Such a great reminder for us all to be supremely grateful for all that’s lovely in our lives! We are thankful God for life as we’re living it, help us be of value to others…

happiness journal

It’s been proven that gratitude leads to happiness. In this one study Dr. Robert Emmons showed “that individuals that wrote down what they were grateful for on a weekly basis were 25% happier, more optimistic about the future, felt better about their lives, and exercised 1.5 hours more per week than those who didn’t record their gratitude.”

Another study at Hofstra found that “among teens, gratitude resulted in higher grades, more life satisfaction, better social integration and less envy and depression.”

Being grateful results in:

  1. * Being healthier
  2. * Better relationships with everyone around us
  3. * More satisfaction at work

It’s a total Win-Win-Win situation every way we look at it!!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM thankful and happy!

Recommendation: Even Happier: A Gratitude Journal… by Tal Ben-Shahar

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Be, Here, Now…