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Quotes - 2010

It’s a Partnership!

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Allow yourself to pray. It is not enough to want or to intend or to meditate. You must pray. You must talk. You must ask. You must believe. That is a partnership. – Gary Zukav

god is a person

The Universal Energy that created the ear, can it not hear? The Force that created emotions, cannot it not feel? The Energy that enabled us to have relationships, can it not have relationships itself?

build a partnership

If God is a person, we must talk to him. We ought to talk to him like we do with those we know intimately. We must trust that God hears and we must build a relationship. No formula, then, is necessary, just be natural.

Recommendation: Soul to Soul

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Quotes - 2010

You Never Die

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I want to go on living even after my death,
And therefore I am grateful to God
For giving this gift…
Of expressing all that is in me. – Ann Frank

you’ll be forever

That’s Eternity’s promise to you. What do you make of it? How would life change?

the goal

A corollary to living forever is that everyone around you is also precious. Imagine living, without fear… of any kind. That’s the goal. To live fearlessly, loving others, expressing the Universe in all our ways.

Recommendation: The Diary of a Young Girl

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Quotes - 2010, Stillness

The Path To Wisdom

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Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. – Lord Buddha

what’s the way forward?

It’s the path that leads to most happiness for you and those around you. That way can only be discovered through wisdom. Wisdom comes from knowing thyself. Which in turn is accelerated by meditation!

the thing to do

Is to just be. Learn how to do that via meditation or stillness. Look here.

Recommendation: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

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Articles, Quotes - 2010

Banish All Negativity

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It’s the simplest properties that will help you clear yourself of negativity … The profound power of a simple prayer. The strength of a deep breath. The gentle guidance of good music. – Jeffrey Wands

become aware of the negativity

We think incessantly and we mostly think unconsciously. Because of that proclivity we often don’t know what we’re thinking. Catch yourself starting a negative chain of thoughts. Understand where and how a negative thought popped in. Once you do that, you’re awake and in the moment. Now you’re fully equipped to take charge of your mind, just the way it ought to be!

now use what’s already around you

Notice the beauty around you, appreciate it. Start listening to your favorite music. Make a prayer for strength and power. Take full advantage of your awake, conscious state. You are now in control of your emotional well-being!

Recommendation: Choose Them Wisely: Thoughts Become Things!
by Mike Dooley

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Quotes - 2009

What’s Your Opinion?

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Don’t seek reality, just put an end to opinions. – Sheng-ts’an (Zen Monk)

what do you seek?

And how do you go about it?

stop separating

Notice how you think. You often examine one object, situation or person then compare it with something else. This constant comparison is a major cause of the constant chatter in our minds.

Recognize that, find peace.

Recommendation: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism by D.T. Suzuki

An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

Quotes - 2009

Truthful To The Core

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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. – Wilfred Peterson

with your own self first

This quote goes to the heart of truthfulness and consistency. If we watch ourselves, we’ll notice our various attitudes towards our own selves. Get to know yourself. And then notice when you’re being unkind to your self. You may do this when you don’t think you can achieve something; or when you think your body’s ugly. You judge thy own self constantly.

and then it follows

Which gives you license to judge others and be unkind to them in different ways. If you’re gentle with your self, consistency demands that you then be gentle with all others. That’s Truth in action.

Recommendation: Love Thyself: The Message from Water

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Quotes - 2009

Simplify!

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Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify, simplify! … Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose. – Henry David Thoreau

focus on detail robs energy

Our life is mostly spent on trivia, a lot of detail and not much on the essence of being. Take our daily work life as an example. We’re mostly concerned with getting through the week and getting our job done. We don’t stop to observe and to ruminate. The less we draw energy from the well inside us; the more we give away energy to the distractions without.

fortify with simplicity instead

Thoreau asks us to focus on the core. Simplify first and then dwell on the purpose of things and of beings.

  • Make life simpler.
  • Live in the moment.
  • Have fewer things.
  • Have fewer things to do.

Rediscover life by searching for the meaning, the motive and the intelligence behind all that we see happening around us and within us.

Recommendation: Walden

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