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People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.

Bill Crawford

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
Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.
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Important Issues Quality
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
Diversity, or the state of being different, isn’t the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.
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Diversity Organization Team
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
True ‘magic’ is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one’s experience. Maybe we could all use a little ‘Harry Potter’ in our lives.
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Magic Potters Use
Freedom isn’t about having permission to do whatever we want… it’s about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
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Our Lives Permission Want
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
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
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.
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Order Pain Painful Past Serve
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

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