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I am prepared to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
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Sir Winston Churchill
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You become a spiritual teacher the moment you meet someone in Stillness.
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Eckhart Tolle
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The world can only change from within.
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Eckhart Tolle
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We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us. It’s in everyone, and, as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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Anonymous
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For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us ...
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St. Paul-Romans 12:4-6
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius
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Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.
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Anonymous
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
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Leo Buscaglia
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The girl with dark hair was coming towards him across the field. With what seemed a single movement she tore off her clothes and flung them disdainfully aside. Her body was white and smooth, but it aroused no desire in him, indeed he barely looked at it. What overwhelmed him in that instant was admiration for the gesture with which she had thrown her clothes aside. With all its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought.
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George Orwell-1984
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His disciples asked, 'When will you become revealed to us and when shall we see you?' Jesus answered, 'When you disrobe without being ashamed and take up your garments and place them under your feet like little children and tread on them, then will you see the son of the Living One, and you will not be afraid.'
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The Gnostic Gospel of St. Thomas
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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Walt Disney
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'On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined!' is my motto, whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfine.
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Mark Twain
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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Anonymous
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We must become the change we want to see in the world.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
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Kahlil Gibran
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The one who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the one doing it.
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Chinese Proverb
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Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
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Emily Post
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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
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Anonymous
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Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
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Joseph Conrad
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You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing
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Marie Carmichael Stopes
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Beauty isn’t in things, it’s in your soul.
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St. Theresa of Lisieux
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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
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Abigail Van Buren
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God, grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
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St. Francis of Assisi
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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Albert Einstein
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Because God created it, the human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve intact its splendor and its beauty. The human body is not in itself shameful. Immodesty is present only when nakedness plays a negative role with regard to the value of the person.
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Pope John Paul II
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The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
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Albert Einstein
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
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George Washington
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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
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Hugh Elliott
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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e., the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly. Things, people, or conditions that you thought you needed for your happiness now come to you with no struggle or effort on your part, and you are free to enjoy them – while they last. All those things, of course, will still pass away, cycles will come and go, but with dependency gone there is no fear of loss anymore. Life flows with ease.
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Eckhart Tolle
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You don't have time to read. But you do have time to restrain your arrogance; you have time to rise above pleasure and pain; to be superior to love of fame; and not to be annoyed by foolish and ungrateful people, but even to care for them.
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Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (to self)
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Place faith and trust in the love of God, which is all forgiving, and understand that condemnation and fear of judgment stem from the ego. Like the sun, the love of God shines equally on all.
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David Hawkins
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Avoid negative depictions of God such as jealous, angry, destructive, partial, favouring, vengeful, insecure, vulnerable or contractual. Trust in the love, mercy, infinite wisdom and compassion of Divinity, which sees through all human error, limitation, and frailty.
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David Hawkins
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If we want to be loved, the way to get it is to love. It is not only the very best method, but it is the only method. To receive love we must love because what we give out must come back. If I love you, I feel wonderful. If you love me, you feel wonderful. It’s the one who loves who feels great. So wanting to be loved is getting into a direction that can never be satisfied. Happiness is when I am loving! The happy one is the one loving, the one giving. We can always maintain an attitude of love.
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Lester Levenson
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Loving is a way of relating to the world which is forgiving, nurturing and supportive. Love does not proceed from the mind; love emanates from the heart. It has the capacity to lift others and accomplish great feats because of its purity of motive. Reason deals only with particulars, whereas love deals with wholes. Love focuses on the goodness of life in all its expressions and augments that which is positive. It dissolves negativity by recontextualizing it rather than by attacking it.
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David Hawkins
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Constantly regard the universe as a single living being, having one substance and one soul; observe how all creation relates to the cosmic consciousness of this one living being. Observe too how everything moves with its impulse, working together to create all events, continuously spinning its delicate thread in the amazing complexity of its web.
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Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius
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Forego opinionation, the judgment of right versus wrong, the vanity of being ‘right’ and the trap of righteousness. Seek to understand rather than to condemn. Apply these principles to one’s view of oneself as well as of others.
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David Hawkins
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Choose to be easygoing, benign, forgiving, compassionate and unconditionally loving towards all life in all its expressions without exception, including oneself. Focus on unselfish service and the giving of love, consideration, and respect to all creatures. Avoid negativity and the desire for worldliness and its greed for pleasure and possessions.
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David Hawkins
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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the Peace of God.
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Foundation for Inner Peace
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Observe the resistance within yourself. Observe the attachment to your pain. Be very alert. Observe the peculiar pleasure you derive from being unhappy. Observe the compulsion to talk or think about it. The resistance will cease if you make it conscious.
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Eckhart Tolle
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The ego believes that in your resistance lies your strength, whereas in truth resistance cuts you off from Being, the only place of true power. Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence and power. In surrender, you no longer need ego defenses and false masks. You become very simple, very real.
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Eckhart Tolle
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When you realize that neither your happiness nor your sense of self depends on the outcome, there is freedom from fear. You don’t seek permanency where it can’t be found: in the world of form, gain and loss, birth and death. You don’t demand that situations, conditions, places or people should make you happy, and then suffer when they don’t live up to your expectations. Everything is honoured, but nothing matters.
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Eckhart Tolle
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First you stop judging yourself, and then you stop judging your partner. The greatest catalyst for change in a relationship is complete acceptance of your partner as her or she is, without needing to judge or change them in any way. That immediately takes you beyond ego. All mind games and all addictive clinging are then over.
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Eckhart Tolle
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Relinquish all judgment. Judgment is either to confuse someone’s unconscious behaviour with who they are or to project your own unconsciousness onto another and mistake that for who they are.
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Eckhart Tolle
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Enlightened people are not special as persons. Without a false self to uphold, defend, and feed, they are more simple, more ordinary than the ordinary man or woman.
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Eckhart Tolle
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Can't we give ourselves one more chance? Why can't we give love that one more chance? Why can't we give love? Cause love's such an old fashioned word and love dares you to care for
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Anonymous
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My love said never question your will at all. In the end you've got to go. Look before you leap, and don't you hesitate at all. Sooner or later each conclusion will decide the lonely heart. It will excite. It will delight. It will give a better start. Don’t deceive your free will at all -- just receive it.
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Yes-Owner of a Lonely Heart
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Carrying closer, go gently. Holding doors will open every way. Time will heal your fear, balance the thoughts that release within you. After all, your soul will still surrender. After all, don't doubt your part. Be ready to be loved.
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Yes-To Be Over
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It's the beginning of a new love inside. You've got the way to make it all happen. Could be an ever opening flower.
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Anonymous
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Like water the sage must wait for the moment to arise and be right. Water never fights; it flows around without harm.
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Tao Te Ching
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People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centred. Forgive them anyway! If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
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Anonymous
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The terrain is everything, the bacteria nothing.
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Louis Pasteur (on his deathbed)
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That which stands in the way, IS the way.
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Anonymous
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Everything is honoured, but nothing matters.
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Eckhart Tolle
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I’ve been waiting for so long to come here now and sing this song. This is a song to all my friends. They take the challenge to their hearts: Challenging preconceived ideas, saying goodbye to long standing fears. Don’t crack up! Bend your brain! See both sides! Throw off your mental chains!
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Anonymous
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Never give up.
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Anonymous
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I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.
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Anonymous
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Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.
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Modern Hippocratic Oath
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Can anybody love anyone so much that they will never fear, never worry, never be sad? The answer is they cannot love this much, nobody can. This is why I don’t mind you doubting. And maybe love is letting people be just what they want to be. The door always must be left unlocked. To love when circumstance may lead someone away from you, and not to spend the time just doubting.
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Howard Jones-What Is Love?
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Future dreams we have to realize! A thousand skeptic hands won’t keep us from the things we plan unless we’re clinging to the things we prize. And do you feel scared? I do! But I won’t stop and falter. Treating today as though it was the last, the final show. Get to sixty and feel no regret. It may take a little time, a lonely path, an uphill climb. Success or failure will not alter it.
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Anonymous
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I am the entire human race compacted together. There is no ingredient of the race that I do not possess in either a small or large way. When it is small, as compared to the same ingredient in somebody else, there is still enough of it for all the purposes of examination. I have found no one who possesses a quality which I do not possess. The shades of difference between other people and me serve to make variety and prevent monotony, but that is all; broadly speaking, we are all alike.
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Mark Twain (Autobiography)
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Morning has broken, like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird.
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Anonymous
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Rainy day people always seem to know when it's time to call. Rainy day people always seem to know when you're feeling blue. Rainy day people don't talk, they just listen till they've heard it all. Rainy day people don't mind if you cry a tear or two. Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above. Rainy day people all know how it hangs on a piece of mind. Rainy day lovers don't hide love inside -- they just pass it on.
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Gordon Lightfoot-Rainy Day People
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It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.
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Oriah Mountain Dreamer
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In order for something to stick to you, YOU have to be sticky!
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Anonymous
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Past hurts cause all false perceptions of duality.
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Anonymous
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The glass is completely full.
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Anonymous
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Our 'class' or 'classiness' is determined by our good judgment, or the appropriate and beneficial use of our personal power. Our 'character' shows in how we respond when things 'go wrong' in our own and others' lives.
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Anonymous
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The manner of effecting a task is more important than the result of the task. The manner of speech is more important than the content of such speech. How things are done is more important than what is done. How one addresses others is more important than what one says.
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Traditional Punjabi Teachings
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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want thinking they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
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Margaret Young-The Artist's Way
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Opportunity only knocks on doors that it knows are already open to IT!
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Ziggy (Tom Wilson)
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A wallet lost in Sweden more than 40 years ago has been returned to its owner - with her cash still in it. Gulli Wihlborg was 18 when she dropped it while cycling in the town of Trelleborg in the summer of 1963. It arrived at her home of 25 years in the city of Malmo with a handwritten note, saying, "Dear Gulli, never give up hope. Here is the wallet you dropped on Ostersjogatan (a street) many years ago. Greetings from Trelleborg."
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Metro News (Toronto)
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Your fullest attention is one of the greatest gifts that you can ever give to another person.
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Anonymous
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You must learn that you cannot be loved by all people. You can be the finest apple in the world -- ripe, juicy, sweet, succulent and offer yourself to all. But you must remember that there are people who do not like apples.
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Anonymous
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If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong. Of if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view. Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly. Or yet if I fail to act in the manner of your design or action, let me be. I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you.
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David Keirsey & Marilyn Bates
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When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief or bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing -- that is the friend who cares.
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Henri J.M. Nouwen-Out of Solitude
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Lord, make me an instrument of your health. Where there is sickness, let me bring cure;
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Anonymous
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A self-actualized person is accepting of oneself and others; spontaneous; other-centred and not self-centred; in need of privacy; independent; resistant to conformity; transcendant of the environment; identified with the human race as a whole; connected to spirituality. A self-actualized person has
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Anonymous
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Many people mistake enthusiasm for fanaticism. Fanaticism is an exclusive passion based upon one opinion; enthusiasm connects to the universal harmony; it is love of beauty, the elevation of the soul, the pleasure of devotion, all united in the same sentiment that has grandeur and calm.
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Madame de Stael
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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for the deliverance from fear. It is the storm within that endangers him, not the storm without.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We don't see things as they are... We see things as we are.
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Anais Nin
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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
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Anonymous
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Accept whatever happens to you, woven into the pattern of your destiny, for what could better suit your needs?
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Teachings of Marcus Aurelius
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Hatred can never cease by hatred. Hatred can only cease by love. This is an eternal law. We are encouraged to practice sending metta to those with whom we are struggling. Metta is love without attachment, without a desire to possess.
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Anonymous
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May all beings be well, safe and peaceful.
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Anonymous
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Be Still and Know that I Am God.
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Psalms 46:10
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Everyone can take the time to smile and say "hello" or "good morning" to people who they pass by on the street. This remains true even if other people do not reciprocate this kind gesture.
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Anonymous
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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you... There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it.
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Frederick Buechner
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The first evidence of the presence of God is an awakening curiosity in spiritual matters. That is the crack in the ego's dam. When the person begins to practice spiritual goals or pursue spiritual information, the Presence is already taking hold of one's life. If the dsire arises to surrender all obstalces to love and to God, then God is already present in the form of willingness. When one reaches devotion, there is already quite an advanced Presence dissolving the ego and illuminating the way.
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David Hawkins
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Humility is a constant awareness that we don't really know anything for certain; it is for the best if we remain open to various possible perspectives -- even paradigms -- on the Truth, while still walking confidently on our Path. With the gift of humility, we can freely change our approach to a situation or say "I guess I was wrong about that" without inner resistance, shame or self-drudgery.
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Anonymous
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I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.
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Anonymous
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Making love is especially for when you truly and deeply care about someone so much that you can't possibly express it in words.
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Anonymous
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I know that I don’t know anything. That’s why I know more than you do.
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Socrates
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There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
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The Matrix
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Imagine a cave in which prisoners are chained. All they can see are shadows thrown on a wall in front of them. All they know about life are these shadows. After a long time stuck in the cave, they would come to think that these shadows were the ultimate reality. If one of them were freed and allowed to emerge into the daylight, she would see things as they really are, and realize how limited her vision had been in the cave. Yet to the other cave dwellers she would seem to be the fool, not they.
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Plato's Cave Metaphor
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I don't mind what happens.
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Krishnamurti's Secret
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You see everything. You see every part. You see all my light and you love my dark. You dig everything of which I'm ashamed. There's not anything to which you can't relate, and you're still here. What I resist persists and speaks louder than I know. What I resist you love no matter how low or high I go.
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Alanis Morissette-Everything
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Less is more.
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Anonymous
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It is better to live one's life inspirationally rather than strategically. This means to gracefully wait for and then naturally flow into an opportunity that arises spontaneously, rather than seeking to capture or otherwise control this moment.
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Anonymous
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You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning.
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Margaret Thatcher
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Couples caught kissing on Moscow's underground rail system could be fined under new regulations being considered by city authorities to raise levels of public morality. The kissing ban could even extend to a husband embracing his wife, Stolichnaya Vechernyaya Gazeta said. Fines for breaking the rules would range from 300 to 500 rubles ($10 to $17). And if the kissing couples didn't have the money, the paper reported, police could hold them at the precinct house until somebody paid.
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Associated Press (Nov. 2003)
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Forget palm reading! A blind German psychic claims to be able to read people's futures by feeling their naked buttocks. Ulf Buck, 40, claims that people's backsides have lines like those on the palm of the hand. Buck, who lives in the northern village of Meldorf, says that even amateurs can make a broad-brush assessment of personality. "An apple-shaped, muscular bottom indicates a charismatic, dynamic and creative personality. A pear shape suggests someone very steadfast and down-to-earth."
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Reuters (2002)
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The Cologne-based GEZ television license fee agency apologized yesterday for sending angry letters demanding payment from an 8th century saint and threatening the saint with "legal action" and a fine. Father Karl Terhorst, who received the letters at the Roman Catholic Church in Ramsdorf, east of Cologne, informed the GEZ that St. Walburga was born in 710 in England and was made a saint in 880.
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Reuters (2003)
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Love means knowing 'the other' -- in its essence -- as your Self.
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Eckhart Tolle
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According to a number of spiritual and religious traditions, God is both loving and silent. If speaking was possible, God might say something like this: "I'm going to love you to bits. All parts of you. Everyone. Always. No matter what. And what's more, even if you don't want me to, you can't stop me from loving you!" God would then let out a hearty chuckle and enjoy a playful ear-to- |