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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.

Bill Crawford

Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
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
Worry, shame, and fear can’t be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
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Energy Shame Spurs Worry
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
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
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.
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Determination Long Self
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
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
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
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
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
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term

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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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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