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Making Time For The Important Stuff!
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of. – Bruce Lee what next? So far on this journey we’ve covered the following topics: How Do I Fix It? Be Zen…
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How To Become More Aware
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. – Billie Jean King awareness Continuing from yesterday’s post, What Needs To Change…
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What Needs To Change?
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. – Og Mandino what? Be~Zen~Do is the overall change methodology that I’m…
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Be Zen Do!
I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. – Chuang-Tzu change From last…
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How Do I Fix It?
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. – John Bunyan why? Here’s the amazing thing We know how to fix…
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Why History Repeats Itself…
Our difficulty is to make the mind revolve slowly so that each thought-feeling can be followed and understood. What is deeply and thoroughly understood will not repeat itself. …
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How To Escape Hell…
May those whose hell it is to hate and hurt be turned into lovers bringing flowers. – Shantideva hell It’s hell when We have no control over the negativity of our thoughts We…
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What Is True Success?
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than…
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Why There’s No Need To Worry!
If you pray, why worry? If you worry, why pray? – St. Padre Pio worry? Set an hourly timer and ask the following questions of self: What was my dominant thought the last hour?…
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Why You’ve Been Chosen!
To be born is to be chosen. No one is here by accident. – John O’Donohue chosen Sometimes we might think ‘Hey we didn’t ask to be born, so how come we have to go through all…
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How To Create What We Want…
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of. – Dr. Geri Weitzman create We must always create that which we want to be a part of. We’ve done it in our lives already.…
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Where Does Creativity Come From?
It is only when the mind is still and empty, when it is not creating a problem, in that alert passivity there is creation. – Krishnamurti stillness There’s a gap, a quietness…
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What Makes Us Come Alive?
Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. – Howard Thurman ask In some ways the Universe is like a computer. It…
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What Is Meditation?
So meditation is a process of freeing the mind from systems, and of giving attention without either being absorbed or making an effort to concentrate. – Krishnamurti conditioning…
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How To Live A Full Life…
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. – Marcus Aurelius tackling life These two principles are…
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How To Waste Life!
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever . Mahatma Gandhi worry worry worry Why do…
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False Evidence Appearing Real (F.E.A.R)
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. – Mary Manin Morrissey fear If we watch our thoughts, especially how they initiate and where they…
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Don’t Just Sit There!!
Don’t just do something, sit there. – Bumper Sticker do something That we must be doing something, constantly, is firmly ingrained in our collective consciousness. And not just…
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Believe We Can Win And We Do!
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. – Richard Bach believe to win Our expectations and our beliefs about life, in a very large way, determine how life…
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The Zen Of Now…
One moon shows in every pool; in every pool, the one moon. – A Zen Forest: Zen Sayings zen perspective A zen perspective allows us to inhabit the current moment. Just reading the…
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Questions We Must Ask…
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? – bing blog series I found a bunch of thought-provoking questions on the web today and I thought that they would make a…
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The Essence Of Being Present!
So much of modern life is a feverish anticipation of future activity and excitement. We have to learn to step back from this into the freedom and possibility of the present. – Fr.…
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Why We Must Stop, Drop & Roll!
Learn to pause or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you. – Doug King fire! We are people on the go! We wake up in a hurry, go to school/work in a hurry. We do this while…
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How To Get Our Point Across…
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. – Socrates telling doesn’t work! How many times do we argue, tell, inform, convince and even shout but no matter what…
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How Can Life Be An Exciting Adventure?
We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it’s all about. …
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What To Do Now?
Time is life. It is irreversible and irreplaceable. To waste your time is to waste your life, but to master your time is to master your life and make the most of it. – Alan Lakein…
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The Goal Of Ages…
8.7 Think of me therefore at all times; remember thou me and fight. And with mind and reason on me, thou shalt in truth come to me. 8.14 Those who in the devotion of Yoga rest all…
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Why We Must Let Go…
People are so used to having their own way, they get distressed when something higher than themselves tries to have its way with them. And that, by the way, is what Truth, Reality…
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Why We Can’t Be Broken
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. – Ernest Hemingway broken? After the devastating Tsunami in Nippon we’re all feeling a sense of…
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What Silence Leads To…
6.30 And when he sees me in all and he sees all in me, then I never leave him and he never leaves me. 6.31 He who in this oneness of love, loves me in whatever he sees, wherever…
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How To Walk The Talk …
We all have to start with ourselves. It is time to walk the talk. Take the journey of making very difficult decisions. Start removing things from your life that are not filling…
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How Will You Know What You Want?
Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do. – Kathleen Winsor doing We all…
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How Love Is Born …
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. – Morrie Schwartz receive first Last week I had shared the above quote with you; wanted…
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How We Bloom…
No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos. – D.H. Lawrence to what end? Yes we are…
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Reaching Freedom
5.27/28 When the sage of silence closes the doors of his soul and, resting his inner gaze between the eyebrows, keeps peaceful and even the ebbing and flowing of breath; and with…
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What Is Sin?
5.17 Their thoughts on Him and one with Him, they abide in Him, and He is the end of their journey. And they reach the land of never-returning, because their wisdom has made them…
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What’s The Greatest Wealth?
Contentment is the greatest wealth. – The Urantia Papers wealth How do we define success for ourselves? What is true wealth? How much is enough? What do we truly ‘need’? What do…
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What Is Meditation?
Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It’s a way of entering into the quiet that’s already there—buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.…
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Need To Understand
You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding. – Guy Finley using sheer will How many times have we tried, through the force of will power…
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Suffering Is Optional…
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. – Zen Proverb emotional pain This quote references emotional pain. The kind of pain we feel when someone rejects us, abuses us, is nasty…