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2009
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Forgiving for our own sake…
The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good. – Catherine Ponder Yesterday I mentioned that you can light the candle of love (to remove fear) inside your…
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The antidote to fear…
Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want. – Gerald Jampolsky The emotions of fear and love, cannot at…
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Ultimate safety…
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening. – Gertrude Stein Life is dangerous, physically, psychologically and in so many other ways. If we…
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Valuable thoughts…
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. – John Locke There are indeed thoughts that just ‘drop’…
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Questions to ask…
It is better to know some of the questions rather than to know all the answers. – James Thurber This is another bit of amazing advice! When we’re lost does it not help to ask…
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True empathy…
Empathy is full presence to what’s alive in the other person at this moment. – John Cunningham This is about the best advice I’ve come across when it comes to building better…
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All we need is love…
The general thing to remember is that politicians need love. – Dick Simpson So do we. Everyone needs love and needs to be appreciated. We live our entire lives seeking love…
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The creative act…
The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality overcomes everything. – George Lois What is creativity? Creativity comes from an original thought and takes the shape of…
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Your sacred duty…
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. – George Macdonald What keeps you from just being…
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Just sit
Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits. – Satchel Paige We’re busy bodies. What does that do to our mental and physical health? What impact does it have on our…
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Are you, what you do?
If you are what you do, when you don’t you aren’t. – William Byron Where does your primary identity come from? If you’re like most folks alive on the planet today your answer will…
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They are not the thing itself…
For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited. …
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A Great Wind bears you!
Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky. – Ojibway saying When ever you’re sad, feel the blues and otherwise don’t…
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Creative solitude
One of the greatest necessities is to discover creative solitude. – Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg provides the secret to all that we truly crave. To connect with our inner…
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Seeing with new eyes!
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust Most of us have this constant urge to do something else, to be…
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Want roses? Plant rose trees!
It will never rain roses: When we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. – George Eliot We reap what we sow. We must be clear about our intentions, our desires and our…
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How’s your inner life?
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office. – Henry David Thoreau The modern day equivalent to the Post Office is email, the…
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Labor Day!
The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it. – John Ruskin What do thee work for? What are thy becoming? The United States celebrate…
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Living a quality day…
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful…
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Are you a rat?
The problem with winning the rat race is you’re still a rat. – Lily Tomlin We are all like rats aren’t we? We go milling about, with our nose to the ground (and grind), just like…
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Do nothing!
It is because artists do not practice, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to worship reverently the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its…
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Pursue your dreams!
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney Let’s dream. Let’s dream the most outrageous dream, create and go crazy. Then, ditch all your…
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How you think matters…
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. – William Shakespeare A big root of all unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life is our judgmental way of looking…
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Extinguish fear with love…
Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop – Usman B. Asif Our biggest inhibitor is fear. When fear is present love cannot exist. When love doesn’t exist our connection to ‘that…
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The Here and Now…
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss…
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Opportunities abound!
I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dropped it carelessly, Ah! I didn’t know I held opportunity. – Hazel Lee…
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Expand your horizons with faith…
Belief is always limiting and binding; faith is expanding and releasing. Belief fixates, faith liberates. – The Urantia Papers Watch it when you espouse any belief about your…
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Goodness equals happiness…
Personal happiness arises from personal goodness. Only when you are an internally good man or woman can you be a carefree man or woman. – Vernon Howard The root of all happiness…
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Who’s running the show?
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show. – Leonard Cohen There’s a greater intelligence, there’s a source from which all things, concepts, values, life and…
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A life of adventure
If you want guarantees in life, then you don’t want life. You want rehearsals for a script that’s already been written. – Neale Donald Walsch We live fearful lives. We’re fearful…
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Your inner voice
Everyone has an inner voice; you just have to listen to it and trust it in order to be led by it. I did that, and it gave me the ability to live a life that’s true to who I am. …
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You are important to God
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning. – Nikki Giovanni God is the master poet who writes profusely and with abandon. It is up to us to…
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Where art thou headed?
If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going. – Professor Irwin Corey What general direction are you headed with regard to your physical, mental and spiritual…
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If someone irritates you!
If some one irritates you, causes feelings of resentment, you should sympathetically seek to discern his viewpoint, his reasons for such objectionable conduct. If once you…
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This above all!
This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. – William Shakespeare This quote more than most sums…
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Do some, Be some…
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for things we did not do that is inconsolable. – Sydney J. Harris Some other regrets come from ways we couldn’t…
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Find the seed!
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Oliver Wendell Holmes You are like a seed. A seed comes with all that it needs to…
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Follow your bliss…
Follow your bliss. – Joseph Campbell The words are very precise, Joseph doesn’t say follow your desires or follow your happiness and certainly doesn’t ask us to follow our lusts.…
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Think good endings instead
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger. – F.L. Lucan The truth in this statement can be verified by checking against your own…
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Discovering new lands…
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andre Gide It’s that comfort zone again, that keeps drawing us down and forces…