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Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the ‘other’ as both dangerous and important!

Bill Crawford

There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Hate Important Two
When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.
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Care Giving Quality
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
To influence others, we must know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it.
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Influence Knows Others People
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
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
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
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
There are two ways to look at most problems… ‘Oh Crap!’ or, ‘Good Information!,’ and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future.
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Choices Giving Two
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
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
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
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
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful

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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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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