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2018
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What Are You Then?
You are not your mind. – Eckhart Tolle thoughts We spend our entire waking life in our minds, thinking and manufacturing thoughts. Our thoughts give us our identity. Our thoughts…
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Why We Don’t Need a Future!
The ego needs the future because the idea of a better future is how the ego justifies rejecting the present moment. – Gina Lake now The Ego is our thinking mind. And it loves to…
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What is Grace and How to Receive it…
Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn’t have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen.…
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Why Let Go and Let God?
If you try to hang on to your life you will lose it. – Jesus of Nazareth let god We live selfish lives. And therefore are destined to suffer endlessly. To have eternal life, we…
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How To Be In ‘Grace’…
The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people – Chogyam Trungpa daily practice The spiritual…
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Why Loving Is King!
Rest in His love, and protect your love by loving. – ACIM love only Only love and loving matter. It’s our sure connection to God. The only way to be safe in this world. It’s the…
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Why Center Ourselves?
Anywhere is the center of the world. – Black Elk centering To find our way, to know ourselves, to live with purpose and to be genuinely fulfilled we must be centered on ourselves.…
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How To Make Lasting Relationships…
Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in the others. – Marian Wright Edelman true listening True listening happens when…
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How To Gain Wisdom…
The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin. – Ralph Waldo Emerson wisdom Where is intuition…
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Who Art Thou?
What’s the gap between two thoughts? You are – that, I Am Meditation practices often advise us to stay in the gap between two thoughts. This is great advice indeed. But what is…
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Why ‘Shit Happens’…
I’m glad the damned horse fell on me. It made me lie still in one place – Andre Dubus shit happens When shit happens, it’s Life offering us a gift. It’s our opportunity to become…
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How To Process Fear…
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them. – Alfred Hitchcock afraid Whether we admit it or not we’re afraid. We’re afraid of many things including death, or…
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What’s The Present Moment?
There are no present moment thoughts. All thoughts are about the past and future, even ones about now. – Sandy Newbigging isn’t The present moment is. But it isn’t to us when…
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How To Escape Hell…
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. – Dante, Divine Comedy this is it We experience what could be hell when we suffer. What can we do to escape? Sometimes it takes the ‘dark…
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What Do We Wait For?
You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. – Steve Jobs left naked Here Steve’s talking about everything in Life being very temporary, to the point that…
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Why Haggle With God?
God is trying to sell you something But you don’t want to buy. That is what your suffering is: Your fantastic haggling, Your manic screaming over price. – Hafez the end of…
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When Will We Stop Running?
You can’t get away from yourself by going to a boozebar. – Elbert Hubbard can’t hide Whenever we distract ourselves we’re running away from self. Distractions include booze, food…
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Why Fear Isn’t Real…
Can anything of God not be for all and always? Love is incapable of any exceptions. – ACIM the real Anything that’s temporary is not ultimately real. Everything around us, our…
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Do This One Thing To Enjoy A Wonderful Life!
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. – Colette just do it All we have to do is fully appreciate and show gratitude for what we already are and have.…
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What Is It That We Want Most? ’Tis Peace…
There can be no peace if you believe you need something before you can be at peace. – Gina Lake peace We are all ultimately seeking peace, even if we call it by other names such…
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How To Help Each Other…
Character defects are not where we’re bad but where we’re wounded. – Marianne Williamson love deeply What we see as deeply flawed people are simply emotionally wounded brothers…
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Black, White or Truth?
The only thing in life that is black or white are those colors. – Gina Lake yes, no? The main reason we have strife in the world is because everyone thinks they’re right. We as…
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What Story Will We Paint Today?
You don’t see others the way they are. You see them the way you are. The painter is inseparable from the painting. – Scott Kiloby painting relationships We paint others with the…
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What Do We Experience Daily?
People experience their thoughts about life more than they experience real life. – Gina Lake thoughts? Are we living our entire life in and via thoughts? If so we’re missing out…
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Who’s Our Guardian Angel?
I am the bird that flutters against your window in the morning, and your closest friend I can never forget you. I know all that you were meant to be. – Rolf Jacobsen angels Angels…
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Happiness, Where Art Thou?
Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads. – Nikolaus Lenau where? We have it, actually we are it. Don’t believe me? Get out of your head, remove…
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What’s The Ultimate Destination?
My destination is no longer a place but, rather, a new way of seeing. – Marcel Proust see afresh We’re lost in endless fulfillment of our desires. They may lead nowhere. We’re…
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Want To Be Mindful? Then Breathe Consciously…
Bringing awareness to our breathing, we remind ourselves to be here now. – Jon Kabat-Zinn here now Our breath deeply connects us to our body, which connects to us. When we think…
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When Will Happiness Come?
If I can’t be happy here and now then I won’t be happy there and then. – re-mind Happiness isn’t a function of a future event or place. It’s a condition of being. I can be happy…
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Want To Awaken? Then Look Inside…
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. – Carl Jung rat race If you’ve understood why…
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Want To Be Happier? Live Simply…
In a small house God has his corner, in a big house he has to stand in the hall. – Swedish Proverb simple living Simple living makes us happier. Having too much is an intellectual…
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Want Peace? Let The Ego Go…
When the Ego goes peace remains. There’s room for only one. – oneness As the ego is let go our true nature emerges. We’re naturally peaceful just under the chatter of our minds.…
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What Would Love Do? Just Love…
To get upset at someone for not meeting your expectations is to point the finger and say, I’m angry at you for not knowing how to be happier, be at peace and experience love. It’s…
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Wondering Who You Are? You Are Not The ‘I’…
You are not the storm, you’re the eye of the storm. – you are that Don’t identify with the storm in your life or in your mind. Where you look from is the eye, you are that. Be…
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Looking For God? Look No Further…
When you really look for me, you will see me instantly – you will find me in the tiniest house of time. – Kabir closer still The sense of aliveness, the beingness we experience…
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Searching For God? He’s Here…
Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. – Kabir he’s here God is behind any pair of eyes we gaze into. He’s the neighbor next door. She’s our…
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#NoPhoneSunday, anyone?
#NoPhoneSunday, hey why not!? connect with humans! Join me for #NoPhoneSunday. It just means that whenever possible or when you can do it, on any Sunday, refrain from using your…
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Confused? Just Love What Is…
Loving what is – Byron Katie love what is What is, cannot be any other way. By accepting and loving what is, we can be at peace and capable of taking the appropriate next step
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Feeling Afraid? Then Lose The Ego…
The false self (aka the ego) thrives by not ever wanting to lose. – find self Our scared and alone self never wants to lose anything that it ‘gains’. We don’t want to lose our…
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Feeling Lost? Find Yourself Thusly…
It is when you are really living in the present that you are living – Brenda Ueland beingness When there’s just now, there’s really nothing else going on in our minds. The mind is…