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Who do you trust?
The presence of fear is a sure sign that you are trusting in your own strength. – A Course in Miracles (ACIM) We all feel fear. Where does it come from? It arises from a reliance…
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Born to succeed!
Men are born to succeed, not to fail. – Henry David Thoreau You are already a success, just look around you, inside you, and at the life you’ve already created. Let your…
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Time to soar!
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. – Helen Keller How often do we detect a desire to go do something big or worthwhile, and how quickly do we shoot…
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The First Relationship
Your first relationship must be with yourself. – Neale Donald Walsch We must be peaceful first, we must be comfortable in our own skin first, we must know self first, before we…
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The Comfort Zone!
In the heating and air conditioning trade, the point on the thermostat in which neither heating nor cooling must operate – around 72 degrees – is called “The Comfort Zone.” It’s…
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Experience the sun!
If you want a place in the sun, you must leave the shade of the family tree. – Osage Saying We make subtle agreements with ourselves about everything in life, here are some…
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Discover what’s beyond…
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself. – Alan Alda…
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Security and opportunity…
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. – General Douglas Macarthur Ultimate security, of the spiritual kind, can be had. Material security just isn’t…
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Banish doubts…
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. – Shakespeare Once we get used to watching where our thoughts spring from next steps can…
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Take back your life
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. – Michael Pritchard Which is why we want to keep most fear at an arm’s length! The more negatives we develop, the more…
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Arise out of fear!
To him who is in fear, everything rustles. – Sophocles How many fears are you harboring in your life? How many of these fears are actually conscious ones? How many lie deeper…
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Live like a butterfly…
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. – Charles Dickens It comes back to the heart. Your heart first, then someone else’s…
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A unified self leads to happiness
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Gandhi True harmony can only come from a self that’s unified. Such a self is calm…
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Embrace fear…
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. – Bertrand Russell Fear is our constant nemesis. How…
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A mind open in wonder!
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. – Gerry Spence And that’s what all belief does, it closes our mind to something greater and richer. Don’t…
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Do you have the blues?
Nobody can teach you to sing the blues, you have to feel the blues. – Ernestine Anderson Well hopefully you don’t because Spring has sprung in the Pacific Northwest, the air…
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Quit now!
Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there. – David Zucker It’s not as much what others tell us but what we tell our own selves, without…
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A loving thought…
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. – George MacDonald Everyday…
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Where do we put our effort?
In the choice between changing one’s mind and proving there’s no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. – John Kenneth Galbraith We make our opinions a part of our very…
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Yoda speaks!
Do or do not. There is no try. – Yoda This quote reminds of another popular one, saw it just today on a truck, on my way home: If not us, who? If not now, when? That sums it up.…
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Do it anyway!
Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done and why. Then do it. – Robert Heinlein When you are calm, collected and purpose driven, ideas will spring from the…
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The true joy in life…
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being…
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Do you know what you want?
Ours is a world where people don’t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. – Don Marquis Do we ever pause to consider what it is we’re doing and to what…
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Let your heart take you over…
Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too. – Lawrence Bixby It’s all in our…
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How do you self-sabotage?
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. – Sally Kempton We have an internal saboteur, a gremlin, who keeps rearing its ugly head, several times a day…
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Who are you true to?
There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then…
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Acceptance and expectations…
Your happiness grows in direct proportion to your acceptance and in inverse proportion to your expectations. – Michael J. Fox Wow isn’t that true? As we accept life as it is, flow…
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Lasting happiness…
Being sensitive and responsive to human need creates genuine and lasting happiness, while such kindly attitudes safeguard the soul from the destructive influences of anger, hate…
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Need madness…
You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else – he never dares cut the rope and be free. – Zorba The Greek Why are we so timid when it comes to…
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What is success to you?
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison What is success for you? It’s very important to know what…
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Do some, Be some…
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for things we did not do that is inconsolable. – Sydney J. Harris Our other regrets come from ways we couldn’t…
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Passion, Obsession and Joy!
To achieve your goal, your life may sound like a perfume counter – full of Passion and Obsession, leading to Joy. – John-Roger McWilliams What is your goal in life? Passion and…
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Positive ‘thunking’?
I was going to buy a copy of ‘The Power of Positive Thinking’, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do? – Ronnie Shakes 🙂 Well why is all this positive thinking…
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Nothing more precious…
Nothing is worth more than this day. – Goethe How often do we forget, that we don’t have all eternity (at least here and now!). We start thinking each day is just like another…
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All events are blessings…
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us…
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A peace beyond understanding
The quieter you become, the more you can hear. – Ram Dass True silence can do wonders. True silence is that of the mind not that of the audible kind. As we become more still, we…
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Blessed in so many ways
Turn your attention to the many ways in which you are blessed in your life; think of these things with sincerity, and you will discover an endless stream of blessings that come to…
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We do not know enough to be pessimistic!
If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know…
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Joy happens when…
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. – Marianne Williamson First acknowledge all that’s good and great about what you have…
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No peace without forgiveness
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. …