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Quotes - 2009

We’re called human ‘beings’ for a reason!

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If you think your life is about doingness, you do not understand what you are about. Your soul doesn’t care what you do for a living – and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you’re being while you’re doing whatever you’re doing. – Neale Donald Walsch (Meditations from Conversations with God)

 

We pursue tasks, these tasks fulfill us and give meaning to our lives and we die while still doing stuff.

Which is all well and good because we certainly need work to be done, but did you ever wonder why we’re called human beings and not human doings 🙂 ?

There’s a beauty and sublime peace in life which can be experienced when we’re just being, because when we’re just being our mind chatter dies down, we can be in the flow and experience an equanimity which is otherwise hard to find!

 

Recommendation: The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle

Quotes - 2009

You are on the path…

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The question is not, why start off on such a path? You have already started off. You did so with the first beat of your heart. The question is: Do I wish to walk this path consciously, or unconsciously? – Neal Donald Walsch (Meditations from Conversations with God)

 

You’re on the spiritual path whether you know it or not.

  • So how can you make the most of it?
  • How can a more conscious spiritual life contribute to your happiness or life effectiveness?
  • What’s missing in your life?
  • What would you love to have more of?
  • Where-to is your life leading, ultimately?
  • When will you spend time thinking about these things?

Recommendation: Meditations from Conversations with God – Neal Donald Walsch

Quotes - 2009

How much of your life are you spending in fear?

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Few persons live up to the faith which they really have. Unreasoned fear is a master intellectual fraud practiced upon the evolving mortal soul. – The Urantia Papers

 

Why do we let our fears dominate us?

It’s because we don’t see them creeping up on us. Any time you feel depression setting or a feel uneasy, start paying attention to your thoughts. You’ll soon be able to trace that unease to an unreasonable fear you have of something or someone.

 

If you can become aware of such fearful thoughts you’re well on your way to recognizing the ‘fraud’ they’re playing in your life. Take control, you own your thoughts, you own your being, don’t let just any thought control you.

 

You have inside you a true faith that just needs some sustenance, some attention. So instead of running along with fearful thoughts, choose loving and more confidence building thoughts. You are your own master.

 

Recommendation: Gateways to Now – Eckhart Tolle

Quotes - 2009

We must want to change

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God changes not what is in people, until they change what is in themselves. – The Koran

Why is it that we always have such rich suggestions for others :)? 

Like Gandhi once said, ‘You must be the change, you want to see in the world’. We are only responsible for our own-selves. We can only change us.

As we start to do that, our world sets itself right. We’re less likely to have relationship problems. We’re happier and more fulfilled.

 

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

Quotes - 2009

Living life consciously

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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. – Henry David Thoreau

 

What does it take to be happy and to achieve what we desire?

‘Conscious endeavor’

Consciousness of what will be good for us, consciousness of who we are, what we truly want and then conscious effort towards the goals of being and doing.

 

Recommendation: Awakening of Intelligence – J Krishnamurti