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Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.

Bill Crawford

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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Energy Giving Impact
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
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
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
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 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 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
One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.
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Differences Key Past
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
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
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
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
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
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Care Caring Selfish
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want

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