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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.

Bill Crawford

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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Adults Children Taken
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
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
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
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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Heart Land Successful
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.
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Influential Order Views
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
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.
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Keys Teach Way
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
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
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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Children Eye Heart
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.
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Awareness Expectations Keys
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 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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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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