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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.

Bill Crawford

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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Coal Fire Hot
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
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
Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the ‘other’ as both dangerous and important!
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Important Resentment Revenge
Meaning isn’t something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.
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Chance Choices Meaning
There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Hate Important Two
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
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.
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Art Better Future Persons Reflection
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
To spank or not to spank isn’t the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?
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Kids Quality Teaching
It’s not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
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Determined Feels Simply
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

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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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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