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.
BILL CRAWFORDTrue ‘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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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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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.
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Meaning isn’t something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.
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Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
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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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People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
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When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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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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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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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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To change any aspect of our life we must be willing to change our mind… Unfortunately, that is the one thing most people are the least willing to do.
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There are only three things we ‘have to’ do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!
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