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I’ve come to see that I have two choices in how I approach change: I can either resist change or be open to what’s ahead and feel the peace that “all is well in the universe.” When I lean into the latter, I feel excited about the future.

Marci Shimoff

When you’re happy for no reason, you’re unconditionally happy. It’s not that your life always looks perfect – it’s just that however it looks, you’ll still be happy.
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Happiness Life Perfection Reason Yourself
I’ve found the best thing to do is to really be loving, kind, forgiving and compassionate with yourself. There are some wonderful practices for that which I talk about in Love For No Reason.
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Finding Kind Love Talk Wonderful
But I couldn’t. Was nowhere near ready for a committed relationship, and it wouldn’t be fair. I needed time – to become the right man for a woman like you.
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Commitment Relationship Right Woman Yourself
Go for the sense of inner joy, of inner peace, of inner vision first and then all the other things from the outside appear.
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Appearance Happiness Joy
Put your attention on happiness by practicing the Happiness Habits each day.
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Attention Day Habit Happiness Practice
The second doorway has to do with vitality. It’s about feeling alive, vital, and feeling the life-force flow through us. This doorway is also known as the creativity center and it houses a great sense of aliveness in it.
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Alive Feeling Home Vitality
Practice experiencing your feelings directly and completely by observing them as they move through your mind and body and then letting them go.
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Body Direction Experience Feeling Let Go Practice
I wanted to know if we could live in that state of love, not just every so often, but as an ongoing reality. The answer is YES. There are people who are doing just that, and I wanted to share with the world how they’re consistently living in a state of love.
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Consist Known Live Love Reality Share State World
When people are deeply happy they bring a sense of purpose with them wherever they go, whatever circumstances they are in. So if they’re changing the oil in the car, they bring a sense of joyful purpose even to that.
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Change Circumstance Deep Happiness People Purpose
Like your weight set-point, which keeps the scale hovering around the same number, your happiness set-point will remain the same unless you make a concerted effort to change it.
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Change Effort Number Scale Weight Yourself
It is support that sustains us on the journey we’ve started.
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Journey Start Support
If you think about the times in life when you’ve been the most deeply fulfilled, they’re the times that you’ve felt love. Whether it’s watching a sunset, spending time with a pet or being with a partner with whom you feel an intensely deep connection.
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Love is your job description – no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you’re supposed to do in a situation, here’s a good rule of thumb: always do what leads to greater love.
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Description Greatness Job Leadership Love
The challenges we’ve had personally and globally have been the catalysts needed to let go of old ways of being that aren’t the vibration of love.
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Challenge Let Go Love Need Personal Vibration
The first doorway (or chakra) is what I call in the book, the Doorway of Safety. This doorway relates to feeling safe in life and being present in the here and now. It’s only when we are really grounded and safe that we’re able to relax and open up our hearts.
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Book Call Ground Heart Life Open Ourselves Safety
The sixth doorway is the Doorway of Vision. This relates to seeing with the eyes of love and corresponds to the energy center located in the third eye area of our forehead. When this doorway is open, we’re more able to see life through love instead of differences.
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Difference Energy Eyes Life See Vision

I’ve come to see that I have two choices in how I approach change: I can either resist change or be open to what’s ahead and feel the peace that “all is well in the universe.” When I lean into the latter, I feel excited about the future.

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I’ve come to see that I have two choices in how I approach change: I can either resist change or be open to what’s ahead and feel the peace that “all is well in the universe.” When I lean into the latter, I feel excited about the future.

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