The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.
BILL CRAWFORDHow do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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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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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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The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
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To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
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Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series ‘on purpose’ ?
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A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.
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Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.
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The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life’s transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.
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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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Change isn’t always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.
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Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) – It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.
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Meaning isn’t something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.
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Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.
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Nothing is meaningless it’s how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.
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Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.
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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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The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident … Hitler was afraid.
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Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
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Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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To influence others, we must know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it.
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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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