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Quotes - 2011

How To Earn Respect…

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When we treat children with respect, they in turn learn how to respect other human beings. – Daisaku Ikeda

give respect

To earn respect we must give respect. And we must give it genuinely. When we do that the other person sees us more generously. Generosity automatically earns respect. Generous listening is the next step; it’s the icing on the cake and it’s the most giving thing any human can do.

all children

We’re all children at heart. We want to be appreciated, heard, loved and respected. If we treat everyone we meet as childlike individuals we won’t have too many relationship problems. Therefore we won’t have too many life problems. Interacting with others from a childlike perspective is about as close as it gets to a ‘silver bullet’ for all of society’s ills!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM full of childlike respect!

Recommendation: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith

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Quotes - 2011

How To Be Accepted By All

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Only those who give over all desire to reject can know that their own rejection is impossible. – A Course in Miracles (ACIM)

creators

Mind is the laboratory and thoughts the instruments we use to create aspects of our life. Once we know how much our thinking impacts our life we realize the importance of designing our thoughts! Let’s be artists and paint beautiful thoughts for us and everyone else…

goes around, comes around

How do we view life? How do we approach and judge people? The way we show up is how life shows up for us. The way we judge others (the energies we unleash), we are judged too, in other words ‘what goes around comes around’. Our judgmental thoughts follow the trajectory that we’ve triggered which is why we must design even our judgments!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM a thought designer!

Recommendation: A Course in Miracles by Dr. Helen Schucman

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Quotes - 2011

The Secret To Happiness…

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Happiness is a state of being, and comes from the inside of you. By the law of attraction you must become on the inside what you want on the outside. – Rhonda Byrne

inside first

The thought creation must come first! The feeling that would normally accompany the manifestation of that thought must appear alongside the thought. If we want strawberry ice-cream for dessert we must imagine having that ice-cream, complete with the feeling we would experience and the taste of the ice cream on our tongue, the more detail the better! Imagine the exact circumstances, the bowl, the color of the bowl, the ice-cream brand, the sweet cold aroma of fresh ice cream, the spoon used, the time of day, the exact setting etc… Because we’re fellow creators with the Creative Force the Universe is compelled to respond…

the real secret

The real secret isn’t about manifesting what we desire into our lives; even though the Law of Attraction does deliver, it’s about experiencing happiness. So the trick is to imagine the highest, which at one level is happiness. So imagine and feel the happiness and the rest shall follow.

Better still imagine happiness for the whole world! Imagine being an instrument of God that does her will on this planet. When we desire everyone’s happiness we seek the highest for everyone collectively. That then is the highest secret. Seeking God’s will for us as we become his instruments in our daily lives!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM, and we are, happy!

Recommendation: The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

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Quotes - 2011

Why We Must Be Thankful!

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. – Fredrich Koenig

happy thanksgiving 2011!

It’s Thanksgiving time in the United States on Thursday November 24th. Such a great reminder for us all to be supremely grateful for all that’s lovely in our lives! We are thankful God for life as we’re living it, help us be of value to others… 

gratitude leads to happiness!

It’s been proven that gratitude leads to happiness. In this one study Dr. Robert Emmons showed “that individuals that wrote down what they were grateful for on a weekly basis were 25% happier, more optimistic about the future, felt better about their lives, and exercised 1.5 hours more per week than those who didn’t record their gratitude.”

Another study at Hofstra found that “among teens, gratitude resulted in higher grades, more life satisfaction, better social integration and less envy and depression.”

Being grateful results in:

  1. Being healthier
  2. Better relationships with everyone around us
  3. More satisfaction at work

It’s a total Win-Win-Win situation every way we look at it!!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM grateful!

Recommendation: Even Happier: A Gratitude Journal… by Tal Ben-Shahar

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Dale Carnegie, Quotes - 2011

How To Be Welcome Anywhere!

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It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. – Alfred Adler

indifference

Most of the time we’re only interested in our own life. We ask ‘What can this person give me that I need?’, or ‘what’s in it for me in this situation?’. Because we’re either selfish or indifferent we miss out on Life’s great opportunities. An opportunity to deepen relationships, to truly understand others, to help when someone is desperate for help, or even to improve our own lives…

life principles

4th Dale Carnegie Principle: Be genuinely interested in other people.

Here’s a story written by President Roosevelt’s valet James Amos:

"My wife one time asked the President about a bobwhite. She had never seen one and he described it to her fully. Sometime later, the telephone at our cottage rang. (The Amos’ lived in a cottage on the Roosevelt estate.) My wife answered it and it was Mr. Roosevelt himself. He had called, he said, to tell her that there was a bobwhite outside her window and that if she would look out she might see it."

What a great example of showing genuine interest in another individual! And that’s the key, being genuinely and truly interested in the other individual no matter who they are or whether they can ever be useful to us. This principle is a key that’ll allow us to be welcome everywhere we go!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM genuinely interested in others!

Recommendation: How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie

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Quotes - 2011, Stillness

How To Increase Self-Respect…

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Spiritual living mightily increases true self-respect. But self-respect is not self-admiration. Self-respect is always co-ordinate with the love and service of one’s fellows. – Jesus, Urantia Papers

self-respect

This is a big topic everywhere we look. Why? Because a lot of our regular failings or shortcomings can be tied to a temporary or permanent lack of self-respect. We don’t trust our own value, we don’t think we amount to much, we know we’re not great and believe we’re not good enough. How to fix this?

spiritual service

Spiritual living comes from at least a few of the following conclusions:

  • That we were created.
  • Therefore we matter.
  • And that everyone else matters too.

That’s the theoretical part. Spiritual living becomes practical when…

  • We serve others every chance we get.
  • We think of the larger good in all our undertakings.
  • When we think selflessly.

Spiritual living builds a healthy self-respect which leads to emotional stability which equals happiness! Who will we serve today?

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM a servant of all!

Recommendation: The Urantia Papers

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Quotes - 2011, Stillness

Why We Must Jump In…

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Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot. – Sicilian Proverb

step in

The reality of the pudding can only be found in tasting it. The best way to live a conscious spiritual life (the reason for this blog) is by stepping into the river that flows eternally…

what’s stirring?

Big changes are astir. When we pay attention we’ll notice that the current stream of events are changing our planet forever. We can be bystanders or we can be active participants. Because everything springs from a spiritual underpinning, we must apply ourselves spiritually. Let’s strive to understand:

  • What is it that’s gnawing at us?
  • What are we upset about?
  • What do we need?
  • What will satisfy us?

The answers and the direction will then be forthcoming!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM stepping in!

Recommendation: Do It! Let’s Get Off Our Buts by Peter McWilliams

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