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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 Crawford

Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
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Awareness Expectations Keys
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
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
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
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
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
When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
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Ideas People Wish
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you’re right, you’re still left feeling indignant.
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Feelings Problems Righteous
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
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
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
In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.
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Enlightening Reflection World
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
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
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace

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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