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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

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
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.
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Meaningful Skills 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.
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Art Better Future Persons Reflection
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
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
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
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
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
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
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form 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
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
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term

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