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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.

Bill Crawford

Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
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
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
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
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
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
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
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
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
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Miserable People Unhappy Want
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
Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives… but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can ‘color’ (change) how we see our present and future.
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Color Events Past
We can’t always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!
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Choose Feels Ironically
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
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind

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