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Quotes - 2009

Do you use a hammer?

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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. – Abraham Harold Maslow

How often do we use a hammer; to solve just about every problem?

We do this by:

  • Being set in our own ways
  • By only looking at people and issues with past-colored glasses
  • By thinking we already know the answer
  • By thinking of a response when another is still talking
  • By not sitting and just being, trying to jump in to fix a situation or problem
  • Through our habitual thinking patterns

When will we snap out of this hypnotic way of being?

When we do then the sunlight appears more alive, the air more fragrant, feel what the other person is truly feeling and connect with that which is.

Recommendation: The Power of Now

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Quotes - 2009

Your high duty!

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. – Robert Louis Stevenson

I’d say that by being happy we sow ‘enormous’ benefits upon the world! Being happy; knowing how to be happy and knowing how to keep others happy is certainly one our highest duties.

But it must begin with you! When you’re happy you give others permission to be happy as well. You transmit higher vibrations to everyone around you. The physical space, the people and others touched by these people, all feel the reverberations of the happiness that you exude and transmit.

You can be truly happy only if you’re comfortable in your own skin, live a fulfilling life with big goals and with integrity. Happiness is also a product of living in the moment, trusting that all works out for the best in good time. Happiness is the result of good thinking and of appreciating beauty.

How can you be happy, now? What are you grateful for?

Recommendation: Living the Science of Mind

Living the Science of Mind

Quotes - 2009

Living with honor

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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. – Socrates

We pretend so many things. We portray, often, a different person than we truly are, to others.

Pay attention to what it is that we try to portray to others. Are those qualities that lead to more Truth, greater Beauty and deeper Goodness?

If so then it’s incumbent upon us to truly be those qualities. Here’s an example: We’re often super nice to folks outside our home. Certainly that’s a great quality to have. Now how about we make it real so that we’re truly nice, most of the time, even with family? That would mean we won’t have to pretend any more. It would mean we’re being honest to our core and living with honor!

Recommendation: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Quotes - 2009

Your choice!

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You can choose to be a person who has resulted simply from what has happened, or from what you’ve chosen to be and do about what has happened. – Neale Donald Walsch

It’s really up to you.

How you react to life events is a decision you make! Jack Canfield shares the following formula:

E + R = O

Event plus our reaction to that event results in an outcome. The event is what it is; how we choose to be (sad, happy, indifferent etc.) and to do (shout, smile, lash out, learn…) is a choice we make every time.

Our peace is entirely up to us because we control our reaction to all external stimuli. How do you choose to react? Rather how do you choose to be?

Recommendation: Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tse

Tao Te Ching

Articles, Quotes - 2009

Gratitude is the key!

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Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. – Oprah Winfrey

Fear and love cannot co-exist, we must make place for love to replace fear. Forgiveness is the key to opening the channel of love; passing that love on to others increases your experience of love and joy.

Finally gratitude is the next step in cementing your foothold on a fulfilling life overflowing with joy and purpose!

After you’ve forgiven one and all (Forgiving for our own sake…), spend time just being thankful for everyone and everything in your life. You’ll feel the joy swell up in your being as you do that.

Life is simple; Life is good. Enjoy it!

Recommendation: Even Happier: A Gratitude Journal

Even Happier: A Gratitude Journal for Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment

Articles, Quotes - 2009, Stillness

Forgiving for our own sake…

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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 heart and gain direct access to an endless flow of love from the Universal Source. The ‘how of it’ is done by simply being in a state of forgiveness.

  • Forgive yourself: At the deepest level as well as for the trifles of life.
  • Forgive all: Forgive all those who have wronged you; even those who irritate you and especially those who you resent.

When you do that you open a spiritual channel (even a physical one) where you’re now able to receive actual love from the Divine Source. Try the following specifically:

Sit and try one of the Stillness techniques. Then connect with God (Universal Mind) via prayer. If you don’t believe in a personal God then simply sit after this stillness practice; now start forgiving. As you forgive you’ll feel a corresponding lightness in your body, especially around your heart. This, over time, will allow joy to surge inside you. You will be healed of many physical and psychological ailments.  Repeat daily.

Forgiveness opens you up to receive love, which heals, at the deepest levels. To go all the way, there’s another step, tell you about it tomorrow!

Recommendation: In Every Heartbeat

In Every Heartbeat, Lessons from "A Course in Miracles"

Articles, Quotes - 2009

The antidote to fear…

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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 any given moment be felt simultaneously. Which means one simple thing: When you feel fear, or when you want to get rid of fear you ought to somehow experience love.

How do you do that? Just like other habits that we form, living in fear or dwelling in negative thoughts can be a debilitating habit. The opposite is true too. Form the habit of being happy, positive and appreciate all that you have including your loved ones.

Love also flows freely from the fountain that is inside you, the Universal Mind or God. Tomorrow I’ll share a basic step anyone can take to start feeling that love very readily!

Recommendation: The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power by Vernon Howard

The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power