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Forgiveness a gift…
Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. – Suzanne Somers Forgiveness enables deep healing to occur inside you. It’s a healing that makes the mind sane and the body healthier.…
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Be patient…
Be patient. Be wise in your counsel and eloquent in your lives. – The Urantia Papers What does it mean to be patient? To me it means being patient first with yourself. Don’t have…
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Go within…
If you aren’t used to going within, you will need to be patient with yourself – Barbara De Angelis Patience will be necessary because you will lack self-knowledge. In other words…
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A child of God…
Difficulties may challenge mediocrity and defeat the fearful, but they only stimulate the true children of the Most Highs. – The Urantia Papers, (48:7.7) You are a child of God, a…
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Be silly…
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. – Ludwig Wittgenstein Being silly is all about being playful. Play leads to creativity. Creativity occurs…
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Unlock the path…
Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the "right stuff" to turn our dreams into reality. – James Womack Commitment is the key to getting the…
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Our human journey…
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. – Stephen Covey Our quest, then, ought to be, to discover this spiritual life that we…
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Direct your thoughts…
Always direct your thoughts to those truths that will give you confidence, hope, joy, love, thanksgiving, and turn away your mind from those that inspire you with fear, sadness…
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Seize the day!
Seize the day! – Horace Don’t make this another humdrum day, seize it instead, by the horns that too! Do one thing you’ve been meaning to do for some time Make a vacation plan…
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Access to the divine…
Human things must be known in order to be loved, but divine things must be loved in order to be known. – The Urantia Papers, (102:1.1) This quote holds a great secret for those…
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Do you use a hammer?
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…
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Your life, a canvas…
The world is but a canvas to the imagination. – Henry David Thoreau So is our life. So is everyone else’s life. As is the collective created by the population of a country and the…
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Your high duty!
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…
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Who is wise?
He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise. – Lao-tzu Knowledge is key, it’s often said. Seems to me that even before we can understand and know others; be…
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Highest attainments…
Reason, wisdom, and faith are man’s highest human attainments. The Urantia Papers, (103:9.6) These attainments have nothing to do with career, business or fame, at least directly…
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Living with honor
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…
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The greatest power!
The greatest power is often simple patience. – E. Joseph Cossman Patience can and does go a long way. Peer into your mind and you’ll find many areas, habits, goals and desires…
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Your choice!
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…
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Gratitude is the key!
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…
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Forgiving for our own sake…
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…
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The antidote to fear…
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…
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Ultimate safety…
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening. – Gertrude Stein Life is dangerous, physically, psychologically and in so many other ways. If we…
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Valuable thoughts…
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. – John Locke There are indeed thoughts that just ‘drop’…
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Questions to ask…
It is better to know some of the questions rather than to know all the answers. – James Thurber This is another bit of amazing advice! When we’re lost does it not help to ask…
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True empathy…
Empathy is full presence to what’s alive in the other person at this moment. – John Cunningham This is about the best advice I’ve come across when it comes to building better…
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All we need is love…
The general thing to remember is that politicians need love. – Dick Simpson So do we. Everyone needs love and needs to be appreciated. We live our entire lives seeking love…
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The creative act…
The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality overcomes everything. – George Lois What is creativity? Creativity comes from an original thought and takes the shape of…
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Your sacred duty…
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. – George Macdonald What keeps you from just being…
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Just sit
Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits. – Satchel Paige We’re busy bodies. What does that do to our mental and physical health? What impact does it have on our…
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Are you, what you do?
If you are what you do, when you don’t you aren’t. – William Byron Where does your primary identity come from? If you’re like most folks alive on the planet today your answer will…
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They are not the thing itself…
For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited. …
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A Great Wind bears you!
Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky. – Ojibway saying When ever you’re sad, feel the blues and otherwise don’t…
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Creative solitude
One of the greatest necessities is to discover creative solitude. – Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg provides the secret to all that we truly crave. To connect with our inner…
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Seeing with new eyes!
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust Most of us have this constant urge to do something else, to be…
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Want roses? Plant rose trees!
It will never rain roses: When we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. – George Eliot We reap what we sow. We must be clear about our intentions, our desires and our…
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How’s your inner life?
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office. – Henry David Thoreau The modern day equivalent to the Post Office is email, the…
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Labor Day!
The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it. – John Ruskin What do thee work for? What are thy becoming? The United States celebrate…
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Living a quality day…
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful…
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Are you a rat?
The problem with winning the rat race is you’re still a rat. – Lily Tomlin We are all like rats aren’t we? We go milling about, with our nose to the ground (and grind), just like…
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Do nothing!
It is because artists do not practice, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to worship reverently the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its…