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Things don't change, only the way you look at them. ~ Carlos Castaneda
To often we do not say what we are feeling in our hearts and we hold back our true words of love, courage and compassion that should be said. When you become courageous enough to express the Truth of how you are really feeling you set yourself free and align with the vibration of your Truth. This is when miracles, synchronicities and amazing things begin to happen. At first it might be a little rough because you are clearing out everything that isn't true for you. But it's my promise to you dear friend that once you've reached a clean slate, your Truth will set you free, your Truth will make you happy and your Truth will always provide for you. My biggest promise to you is that your Truth will deliver a life greater than you have imagined. All you have to do is let go of what is not true for you and let it in what is. ~ Jackson Kiddard
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Your own healing is the greatest message of hope for others. ~ Julia Cameron
Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Instead of fending [pain] off and hiding from it, we could open our hearts and allow ourselves to feel that pain, feel it
as something that will soften and purify us and make us far more loving and kind. ~ Pema Chodron
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. ~ Robert Fritz
How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living. ~ Albert Einstein
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. ~ Walt Disney
I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there is much to suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare. ~ Howard Arnold WalterEnlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretense. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true. ~ Adyashanti
Silence is our true teacher because it speaks the language of our soul. ~ Michael Jeffreys
When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence. ~ Gangaj
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
~ Steve Prefontaine
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people
who have come alive. ~ Howard Thurman
Notice that Awareness actually in fact is the greatest thing we could ever know, because without it we wouldn’t be able to know anything. Notice that it actually in fact is greater than any other experience we could possibly have because without it we wouldn’t be able to be aware of any experience. ~ Ben Gilberti
The most precious thing in life is the present moment, the timeless ‘now’; for this timeless ‘now’ is all there is in life. For anything to be precious in life, it has to exist in life, and the only thing that exists in life is this timeless moment – the ‘now.’ ~ Dr. Vijai Shankar
With a closed mind and heart, the light cannot enter. ~ Shelby Taylor Weaver
Open hearts always recognize each other. Open hearts do not judge the universe. When you dive into an open heart, you fall into infinity. ~Suchi Kumar
Being a seeker gives the mind something to do. Realizing there is nothing to seek and no one to seek it leaves the mind barking at the moon. ~ Michael Jeffreys
The wise man sees that ALL is impermanent and worries accordingly. ~ Michael Jeffreys
The ego does not know that life, being a mystery, cannot be answered but can only be lived! ~ Dr. Vijai Shankar
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do. ~ Byron Katie
Your nature is to keep quiet. You came from silence and you have to return to silence… you are dancing only for a little while you see… a little while you are dancing (laughs softly). ~ Papaji
When one looks at (clinical) depression, it becomes apparent that there is depression and anxiety, without "external cause ". But until this is discovered, the mind thinks it "feels " depressed and anxious, when it is really only a bodily function. The mind usurps the feeling and starts to desperately seek a cause. ~ Bill Lindley
It’s not what you are seeing… it’s WHERE you are seeing from. ~ Michael Jeffreys
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~ Rumi
Who told you to believe your thoughts? Why only another thought! ~ Michael Jeffreys
You are not any one single experience, but are the Source for ALL experiences. ~ Michael Jeffreys
We react to another's actions like they had any choice in the matter. Did YOU have any choice in the matter? -Michael Jeffreys
Without a need to constantly remain attached to ideas and beliefs, the clarity of your formless form recognizes the truth of itself -- with nothing to confirm or ever deny. ~ Matt KahnWhether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. ~ Henry Ford
The shoe that fits one person pinches another, there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. ~ Carl Jung
Not to hurt our humble brethern is our first duty to them,
but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission to be of service to them wherever they require it. ~ St. Francis of Assisi
Inspiration is being called to who-you-are; motivation is trying to make yourself go somewhere. ~ Abraham-Hicks
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ~ Winston Churchill
I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there is much to suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare. ~Howard Arnold Walter
...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee... ~ John Donne
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adversity introduces a man to himself. ~Author Unknown
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. ~Max Lerner
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. ~William Hazlitt
It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures. ~William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ~William Feather
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust
Your vision will become real only when you look into your heart.
Those who look outward dream. Those who look inward awaken. ~ Carl Jung
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. ~ John Berry
I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ~ Abraham Lincoln
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. ~ Vince Lombardi
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy
to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment,
you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals,
and values are in balance. ~ Brian Tracy
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. ~ Confucius
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. ~ Marcus Aurelius
I'm open for possibilities. I'm open for choices. I always welcome
new ideas. I'm always eager to learn. I'm never going to
close my mind from learning. ~ Cesar Millan
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust
Change your thoughts and you change your world. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination. ~ Henry David Thoreau
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. ~ Albert Einstein
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. ~ Anne Frank
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. ~ Blaise Pascal
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease. ~ Voltaire
There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~ Nelson Mandela
I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience? ~ Mother Teresa
You gotta dance like nobody's watching, dream like you will live forever, live like you're going to die tomorrow and love like it's never going to hurt. ~ Meme Grifsters
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. ~ William James
Belief creates the actual fact. ~ William James
The shoe that fits one person pinches another, there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. ~ Carl Jung
It takes a very long time to become young. ~ Pablo Picasso
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. ~ Emily Dickinson
Things don't change. You change your way of looking,
that's all. ~ Carlos Castaneda
...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee... ~ John Donne
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ~ Ralph Waldo EmersonThe turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. ~ Max Lerner
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. ~ William Hazlitt
It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures. ~ William Hazlitt
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~ Albert Einstein
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ~ William Feather
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If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. ~ Arthur C. Clarke
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ~ Helen Keller
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~ Mark Twain
Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ~ Howard Thurman
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness or ablities that I can show to any fellow creature,let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. ~ William Penn
No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. ~ Viktor Frankl
Nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so. ~ Shakespeare
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
At the end of a matter ask, "what will I learn from this to make me better?" ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. ~ Albert Einstein
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation All things share the same breath the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. ~ Chief Seattle
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people ~ Carl Jung
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling
This is not the easy way to spirituality. It is, however, a most direct and natural process. - Anais Nin
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