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Children don’t know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can accept it in their hearts.

Bill Crawford

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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Determined Meaningless Past
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
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.
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Giving People Want
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
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
Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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Accepting Change Sometimes Willingness
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
Meaning isn’t something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.
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Chance Choices Meaning
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
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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Action Forever Wise
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
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
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
When dealing with problems, seek not to “change” some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.
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Healing Path Want
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.
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Coal Fire Hot
One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.
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Guilt Keys Successful
It’s not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
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Determined Feels Simply
Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.
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Optimism People Uncertainty Worry
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
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
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
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.
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Art Better Future Persons Reflection
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you’re right, you’re still left feeling indignant.
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Feelings Problems Righteous
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.
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Perspective Running Tree

Children don’t know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can accept it in their hearts.

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