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Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.

Bill Crawford

When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What’s important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.
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Decision Faced Important
Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the ‘other’ as both dangerous and important!
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Important Resentment Revenge
Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
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Creating Meaningful Past
To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.
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Burning Light Needs
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.
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Enlightening Reflection World
There are only three things we ‘have to’ do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!
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Choices Three World
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you’re after.
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Goal Love Meaningful
Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn’t there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?
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Adults Children Taken
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
Worry, shame, and fear can’t be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
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Energy Shame Spurs Worry
The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
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Belief Validity Willingness
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
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Constantly Mean Mind Past

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