black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life’s transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.

Bill Crawford

Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.
BILL CRAWFORD

Highest Important Purpose Sometimes
Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.
BILL CRAWFORD

Perspective Running Tree
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.
BILL CRAWFORD

Burning Light Needs
Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
BILL CRAWFORD

Awareness Expectations Keys
Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.
BILL CRAWFORD

Giving People Want
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
BILL CRAWFORD

Having Mean Though Worth
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.
BILL CRAWFORD

Order Pain Painful Past Serve
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
BILL CRAWFORD

Lives Material Mind
The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.
BILL CRAWFORD

Keys Teach Way
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
BILL CRAWFORD

Acceptance Precursor Serenity
Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives… but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can ‘color’ (change) how we see our present and future.
BILL CRAWFORD

Color Events Past
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.
BILL CRAWFORD

Our Lives Permission Want
But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.
BILL CRAWFORD

Art Better Future Persons Reflection
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
BILL CRAWFORD

Brain Children Creative
In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.
BILL CRAWFORD

Enlightening Reflection World
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!
BILL CRAWFORD

Constantly Mean Mind Past

The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life’s transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life’s transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bill Crawford Quotes