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We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.

Bill Crawford

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
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
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
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
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
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.
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Energy Giving Impact
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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Giving Opportunity Powerful
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
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you’re after.
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Goal Love Meaningful
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
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
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
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

We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.

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