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2016
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How To Control Our Monkey Mind
Like the undeveloped mind, the metaphorical monkey is always in motion, jumping from one attempt at self-satisfaction to another, from one thought to another. – Mark Epstein the…
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Why Know Myself?
Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others. …
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What Determines Our Happiness?
Your happiness is determined by how you allocate your attention. – Paul Dolan our happiness Where do we spend our thoughts? Do we have control over them? affirmations Today I AM…
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How To Stay Mindful…
Today I will live in the moment, unless the moment is unpleasant, in which case I will eat a cookie! – Cookie Monster mindful Staying mindful is desirable but not easy! Read the…
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Why Goodness Matters…
May we hear only good with our ears and see only good with our eyes. – Rig Veda be good To be good we must focus on goodness. When we’re ‘good’, we’re at peace, we’re ok with…
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What’s The Source?
If you hand a man a lemon and tell him that its sourness lies outside the lemon he will think you are joking. Yet with a perfectly straight face that same man will tell you that…
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Where’s True North?
A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. – Lee Segall true north? How do we decide what’s right or wrong? On what basis do we make…
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How To Be A Master!
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly. – Richard Bach a butterfly! We are all butterflies in the making. We are diamonds in the rough.…
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How Do We View Life?
There’s no blessing that can’t be a disaster, and no disaster that can’t be a blessing. – Richard Bach a blessing Generally after a terrible event occurs we have to wait a real…
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Why I Must Move…
As moves the part, so moves the whole. – The Urantia Papers (12:7.11) up to me Like it or not it’s up to me. It’s up to me if the world becomes a better place to live and it’s up…
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What Do We Need Most?
There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner…
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Why Is It Up To Me?
The beauty does not live out there; the beauty’s in my eyes. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie up to me Because how we perceive anything in life, is entirely up to us. We see and…
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How To Find Untold Happiness!
Q: How do you find love, health, abundance, and enlightenment? A: Stop searching and start seeing what’s been there all along. – Mike Dooley it’s here! When we recognize and…
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Are We Listening?
The Eternal Lord has been singing this divine song from time immemorial in the hearts of millions.– Baba Lokenath the eternal song The divine sings, mostly imperceptiviley, and…
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Why Awaken?
the door is wide and open, don’t go back to sleep – Rumi (the untold story) eternal joy We’re strangers in our own home. We’re so near the nectar yet we either don’t look for it…
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How To Be Eternal…
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. – Henry David Thoreau eternal joy Once we decide, we have in our ability, to fully…
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How To Move On…
The fastest way to get to a new-and-improved situation is to make peace with your current situation. – Abraham make peace To escape to or move to another situation from a current…
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Why We Are Already Blessed…
God is not partial. All His children have His total Love, and all His gifts are freely given to everyone alike. – A Course in Miracles (ACIM) we have it all We have it all…
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Why Be You?
You are creation’s first and last chance to be you. Just as you are today. That’s all you have to be. You really lucked out. – Mike Dooley you Only you can be you. Rejoice!!…
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Why Act First?
Don’t wait for those feelings of excitement, confidence, and clarity, before you take action. Take action first, without them, and they will follow. – Mike Dooley act now The…
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How To Erase Fear!
Fear always goes away once two things are realized: First, you’re a spiritual being. Second, nothing can ever be lost or taken from a spiritual being that cannot be recreated; not…
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Why The Time Is Now!
Now! Go! Stake your claim! Hold out your hands. Move, get ready, give thanks. Imagine, and let go. Act, and have faith. Persist. Do what you can, when you can, all you can.…
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How To Pray…
May suffering ones be suffering free And the fear struck fearless be. May the grieving shed all grief And the sick find health relief. – Zen Chant prayer May all suffering end.…
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How To Be Selfish…
If you’re not selfish enough to want to feel good, then you can’t connect with the energy that is your Source which does always feel good. – Abraham feel good It must be ok for us…
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What’s Most Important?
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. – Morrie Schwartz love We all seek happiness and fulfillment. That may come via worldly…
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Our Greatest Obligation?
There are so many things to enjoy ourselves here on earth and our life is so short that suffering is a loss of time. We have, for example, snow in winter to enjoy with; flowers in…
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Do We Matter?
Nobody lives a small life. No one is forgotten by the universe. All of us can greatly brighten the world. – Laura Lynne Jackson yes We do matter. In fact we’re probably living a…
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Who Are We Doing It For?
Never forget you give but to yourself. – A Course in Miracles (ACIM) self The great Self has distributed itself into us. We live thinking that we’re separate. We live an illusory…
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How Dare We?
How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book! – Vivekananda god in a book? It’s a prime example of chutzpah. We think God is…
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What’s God Saying?
Behold, I stand at the doors of men’s hearts and knock, and if any man will open to me, I will come in – The Urantia Papers (166:3.7) god’s message God’s waiting to be let into…
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Can You Imagine?
Can you imagine the joy, the peace, the complete sense of satisfaction? The harmony, the love, and stitches of laughter? Good, because nothing else shapes mountains, people, and…
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How And Why To Flow…
How can a man’s life keep its course if he will not let it flow? Those who flow as life flows know They need no other force: They feel no wear, they feel no tear, They need no…
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Why Have a Purpose?
Let a man have but an aim, a purpose, and opportunities to attain his end shall start forth like buds at the kiss of spring. – John Lancaster Spalding purposes We are creators and…
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Why Be Gentle?
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend’s forehead. – Chinese Proverb be gentle We can only be gentle with others if we’re feeling gentle inside us. affirmations…
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Why Quiet The Mind?
The memory of God comes to the quiet mind. – A Course in Miracles (ACIM) a still mind As we become still and quiet our mind we increasingly connect to the divine wellspring inside…
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Why Have We Forgotten To Breathe?
He who breathes deepest lives most. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning forgotten to breathe We’ve forgotten to breathe. We will notice that generally we only use one third (1/3) of our…
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How To Experience Joy!
happiness and joy comes to you when it moves through you. There is no other pathway – and that’s the miracle. – Neale Donald Walsch the miracle The miracle of joy finds us when we…
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What Do We Have?
It is impossible not to have, but it is possible not to know you have. – A Course in Miracles (ACIM) we do have We have a lot more than we can ever imagine. God travels with us…
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Why Follow The Heart?
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. – Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford…
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Why Be Optimistic?
In a world of infinite possibilities, it is irresponsible to be pessimistic. – unknown possibilities Sometimes, many times, the way things happen, blows our mind away. Many things…