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2010
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Who’s The Boss?
Compel your lower nature to obey your higher nature – The Urantia Papers the higher and the lower The lower nature is that which frets, worries, fears, feels less than, is…
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Daily Adventure
Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life — facing new challenges, seizing new…
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How To Find Peace
4.16 What is work? I will teach thee the truth of pure work, and this truth shall make thee free. 4.18 The man who in his work finds silence, and who sees that silence is work…
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The Best Prayer
I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. – Mexican Proverb the best prayer? Just today I was chatting with a friend about what a prayer…
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How To Be Brilliant!
Don’t put on airs. Conceit and pretense don’t win people’s hearts; the facade soon crumbles. Be yourself. – Daisaku Ikeda our airs At some level we all exhibit who we’re not.…
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A Secret To Happiness…
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. – Rochefoucauld we hide We hide behind a façade that’s manufactured by us…
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The Ego
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. – Chuang Tzu we love…
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God Is Here Now!
4.8 For the salvation of those who are good, for the destruction of evil in men, for the fulfillment of the kingdom of righteousness, I come to this world in the ages that pass. …
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Thank You!
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. – Meister Eckhart On Thanksgiving Vacation this week, see you Monday November 29th! Daily…
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Need To Understand
You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding. – Guy Finley using sheer will How many times have we tried, through the force of will power…
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Suffering Is Optional…
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. – Zen Proverb emotional pain This quote references emotional pain. The kind of pain we feel when someone rejects us, abuses us, is nasty…
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Are You a Realist?
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. – William Arthur Ward pessimist or optimist? How do you view the world?…
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Expecting Abundance
Once, when we were discussing a world peace project with my teacher, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, somebody asked him, ‘Where is all the money going to come from?’ And he replied without…
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How To Rise Above…
3.42 greater than the senses is the mind. Greater than the mind is Buddhi, reason; and greater than reason is He – the Spirit in man and in all. 3.43 Know Him therefore who is…
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All In Our Mind
All my life I’ve watched people waiting for someone else to make them happy. The way I got it figured, the only one who can make you happy is you. – Aaron Martinson who or what…
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From The Force!
A Jedi’s strength flows from the Force. – Master Yoda from the force It all proceeds from ‘The Force’. The Force is the center and origin of all creation. We come from it, as do…
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Connect & Ascend
Even when the air currents are ascending, no bird can soar except by outstretched wings. – The Urantia Papers connect to the currents Physical and spiritual currents are astir…
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Our Precious Life
This lifetime will never come again; it is precious and irreplaceable. – Daisaku Ikeda one life This lifetime is all we have. All we have is now. How can we best live, today?…
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God’s Will
3.31 Those who ever follow my doctrine and who have faith, and have a good will, find through pure work their freedom. – The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 3) god’s way There’s a better…
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Authoring Our Self…
You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. – Irene Kassorla we’re responsible We can’t allow…
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What is Success?
Mercy is denied to the successful, for they are incapable of knowing the very beauty of life which is love. – J Krishnamurti what does this mean!? At first this quote is…
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Signs For Life
All things are filled of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another. – Plotinus. – Plotinus there if we notice If we believe that life isn’t random and…
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Being Original
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi. – Alan Alda being childlike Originality and creativity come from a playful mode of…
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Selfless Action
3.25 Even as the unwise work selfishly in the bondage of selfish works, let the wise man work unselfishly for the good of all the world. 3.30 Offer to me all thy works and rest…
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Terra Firma!
I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra. – George S. Kaufman firma How do we find stability amidst constant change? How do we feel good during turmoil? How can we…
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Our Natural Essence
Your natural essence is right every time, but will speak only in the absence of fixed beliefs. – Vernon Howard our essence Our core is inhabited by a creative and eternal…
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Speak To God
True, you do well to pray when harassed, but you should also be mindful to speak as a son to your Father even when all goes well with your soul. – Jesus, The Urantia Papers pray…
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The Role Models
Don’t worry that your children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. – Robert Fulghum us not them It’s true isn’t it, we’re ever complaining that others…
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Peace In Action
3.17 But the man who has found the joy of the Spirit and in the Spirit has satisfaction, who in the Spirit has found his peace, that man is beyond the law of action. – The…
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In Your Hands
Unhappiness is the realization that you don’t know how to save yourself. Happiness is the realization that you do know how to save yourself. – Vernon Howard loss of control This…
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What Is Prayer?
Prayer is not a technique of escape from conflict but rather a stimulus to growth in the very face of conflict. – The Urantia Papers what is prayer? Apparently God is listening…
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An Eternal Voyage
death is only the beginning of an endless career of adventure, an everlasting life of anticipation, an eternal voyage of discovery. – The Urantia Papers where next? Do you think…
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Love To Do …
To discover, there must be no fear of not surviving. – Krishnamurti discovery Krishnamurti talks about how one might discover what one loves to do To find out what you love to do…
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Liberating Action
3.9 The world is in the bonds of action, unless the action is consecration. Let thy actions then be pure, free from the bonds of desire. – The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 3) action can…
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What Else?
Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be. – Roger von Oech self-hypnosis We go about hypnotized. We’re lost in our thoughts…
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Living With Honor
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. – Socrates be our pretensions Love this quote because it’s not asking us to not be what we…
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Towards Selflessness
Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christlike, for His heart was meek and always thought…
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Being It, Living It…
Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness. – Mother Teresa being it What will happen, if…
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Action!
3.8 Action is greater than inaction, perform therefore thy task in life. – The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 3) action We must act. Contemplation, meditation and day-dreaming is all…
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Which Wolf?
Which wolf will win? The one you feed. – Cherokee Wisdom the story of the 2 wolves I came across this story again lately, you’ve probably read it before: A Cherokee elder was…