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Meaning isn’t something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.

Bill Crawford

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
There are two ways to look at most problems… ‘Oh Crap!’ or, ‘Good Information!,’ and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future.
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Choices Giving Two
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
Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.
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Important Issues Quality
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
To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the ‘sponsoring thought’ that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.
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Causes Interpretation Thinking
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
One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.
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Guilt Keys Successful
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
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
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
When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What’s important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.
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Decision Faced Important
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
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) – It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.
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Brain Change Chemical Fall Sleep

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