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2009
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Thank you God!
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive. – Ralph Waldo Emerson The Beauty Around Us The beauty and…
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Creation comes from imagination…
Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions. – Albert Einstein Did he say that? Albert Einstein was a very interesting guy. And he lived the power of thoughts.…
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Flow or Take Off?
Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and…
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Master of the Universe
Happy is the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed. – Virgil The Cause of Things…
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Love me, now!
Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it. – Swedish Proverb When you’re irritated Or angry at someone, it’s often because they’re being irritable and…
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Command your life!
Don’t be at the mercy of events, command your thoughts instead and command the events in turn. – mp At the Mercy of Events Something great happens and we feel elated and happy…
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The purpose of life…
The purpose of life is a life of purpose. – Robert Byrne A Life of Purpose Simple isn’t it? Why do we still feel so unfulfilled and even scared about life? How should we define or…
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Life is an adventure!
Life is either a great adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller How is life for you? Helen’s is a beautiful thought because life cannot be meaningful, fulfilling or fun unless it’s an…
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Open thy self…
Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature. – Henry David Thoreau Open up to the Universe! To enjoy daily life we must get out of our mind that’s constantly…
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The gift that you are…
Everyone is gifted – but some people never open their package – Unknown What do you hide? And why? You bring gifts that no one else does. Why do you let that light not shine? What…
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Peace comes when…
Peace comes from feelings of satisfaction when working with joy, living with hope, loving with abandonment. – Arnold Hutschnecker What do we seek? Ultimately we all want to feel…
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Thou art dust…
Remember that thou are dust, and unto dust thou shall return. – An Ash Wednesday Liturgy What are you? Who are you really? Just your body? Your mind? Your soul? What is your soul?…
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An Effective You!
YOU must be effective first . – www.effectiveyou.com Effective You Launches! The central premise for this blog is that you must be effective first. You must come first. Then…
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Living right…
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living. – David Starr Jordan Right Living: Right Living can mean so many things. Are you living…
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Exhale, inhale, repeat….
Our breath is the bridge from our body to our mind. – Thich Nhat Hanh Become more self-aware: If all you did is watch and become aware of your breathing, one or more times daily…
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We create our own unhappiness…
Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed. – The Bhagavad Gita We create it: All these three negativities skew our thoughts. All 3 are a result of our thoughts. We create the…
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The bell tolls for thee…
Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. – John Donne John Donne wrote this in the 17th century probably referring to the church bells that tolled during a…
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God’s thoughts for us…
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are…
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Creativity through flexibility…
Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it. – Brian Tracy We must know where we want to go. With our selves, family, our work and even our being.…
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Thinking straight…
One cannot think crooked and walk straight. – Anonymous How do we set our inside right? That has to be the first order of business, in the business of life. I believe it must…
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Seize the moment
When you do nothing you’re doing something. – Linda Kaplan Thaler & Robin Koval When you sit on your tush and do nothing, you’re sitting and doing nothing. That’s the choice…
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Forgiveness a gift…
Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. – Suzanne Somers Forgiveness enables deep healing to occur inside you. It’s a healing that makes the mind sane and the body healthier.…
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Be patient…
Be patient. Be wise in your counsel and eloquent in your lives. – The Urantia Papers What does it mean to be patient? To me it means being patient first with yourself. Don’t have…
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Go within…
If you aren’t used to going within, you will need to be patient with yourself – Barbara De Angelis Patience will be necessary because you will lack self-knowledge. In other words…
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A child of God…
Difficulties may challenge mediocrity and defeat the fearful, but they only stimulate the true children of the Most Highs. – The Urantia Papers, (48:7.7) You are a child of God, a…
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Be silly…
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. – Ludwig Wittgenstein Being silly is all about being playful. Play leads to creativity. Creativity occurs…
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Unlock the path…
Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the "right stuff" to turn our dreams into reality. – James Womack Commitment is the key to getting the…
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Our human journey…
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. – Stephen Covey Our quest, then, ought to be, to discover this spiritual life that we…
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Direct your thoughts…
Always direct your thoughts to those truths that will give you confidence, hope, joy, love, thanksgiving, and turn away your mind from those that inspire you with fear, sadness…
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Seize the day!
Seize the day! – Horace Don’t make this another humdrum day, seize it instead, by the horns that too! Do one thing you’ve been meaning to do for some time Make a vacation plan…
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Access to the divine…
Human things must be known in order to be loved, but divine things must be loved in order to be known. – The Urantia Papers, (102:1.1) This quote holds a great secret for those…
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Do you use a hammer?
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. – Abraham Harold Maslow How often do we use a hammer; to solve just about every problem? We do this by: Being…
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Your life, a canvas…
The world is but a canvas to the imagination. – Henry David Thoreau So is our life. So is everyone else’s life. As is the collective created by the population of a country and the…
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Your high duty!
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. – Robert Louis Stevenson I’d say that by being happy we…
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Who is wise?
He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise. – Lao-tzu Knowledge is key, it’s often said. Seems to me that even before we can understand and know others; be…
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Highest attainments…
Reason, wisdom, and faith are man’s highest human attainments. The Urantia Papers, (103:9.6) These attainments have nothing to do with career, business or fame, at least directly…
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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 We pretend so many things. We portray, often, a different person than we truly are, to…
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The greatest power!
The greatest power is often simple patience. – E. Joseph Cossman Patience can and does go a long way. Peer into your mind and you’ll find many areas, habits, goals and desires…
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Your choice!
You can choose to be a person who has resulted simply from what has happened, or from what you’ve chosen to be and do about what has happened. – Neale Donald Walsch It’s really up…
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Gratitude is the key!
Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. – Oprah Winfrey Fear and love cannot…