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Love is your job description – no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you’re supposed to do in a situation, here’s a good rule of thumb: always do what leads to greater love.

Marci Shimoff

Practice experiencing your feelings directly and completely by observing them as they move through your mind and body and then letting them go.
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Body Direction Experience Feeling Let Go Practice
So, in life we have a one question final exam – and it’s not the kind of exam you can cram for at the very end. One of the main reasons we’re alive is to expand our capacity to love.
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Capacity Expand Kind Life Love Main Ourselves Question Reason
Like your weight set-point, which keeps the scale hovering around the same number, your happiness set-point will remain the same unless you make a concerted effort to change it.
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Change Effort Number Scale Weight Yourself
When people are deeply happy they bring a sense of purpose with them wherever they go, whatever circumstances they are in. So if they’re changing the oil in the car, they bring a sense of joyful purpose even to that.
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Change Circumstance Deep Happiness People Purpose
When you’re happy for no reason, you’re unconditionally happy. It’s not that your life always looks perfect – it’s just that however it looks, you’ll still be happy.
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Happiness Life Perfection Reason Yourself
When we’re feeling fully alive, we’re able to fully feel love. This doorway also relates to feeling our feelings fully. Not suppressing our feelings of anger, sadness or grief but allowing them to be felt. What’s amazing is that when those feelings are felt, they actually dissolve into love.
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Alive Amazing Feeling Grief Love Relate Sadness
I’ve come to see that I have two choices in how I approach change: I can either resist change or be open to what’s ahead and feel the peace that “all is well in the universe.” When I lean into the latter, I feel excited about the future.
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Approach Change Choice Future Myself Resistance See
Go for the sense of inner joy, of inner peace, of inner vision first and then all the other things from the outside appear.
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Appearance Happiness Joy
I’ve found the best thing to do is to really be loving, kind, forgiving and compassionate with yourself. There are some wonderful practices for that which I talk about in Love For No Reason.
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Finding Kind Love Talk Wonderful
If you think about the times in life when you’ve been the most deeply fulfilled, they’re the times that you’ve felt love. Whether it’s watching a sunset, spending time with a pet or being with a partner with whom you feel an intensely deep connection.
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Anand Thakur
It is support that sustains us on the journey we’ve started.
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Journey Start Support
Once you begin to understand and truly master your thoughts and feelings, that’s when you see how you create your own reality.
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Beginning Creation Reality Understand
So if you have over-indulged during the holidays, for example, please don’t beat yourself up, but rather have compassion and forgiveness and perhaps, even try the Ho’oponono technique.
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Compassionate Forgiveness Indulge Technique Try
When you forgive, you heal your own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It’s like spring cleaning for your heart.
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Angry Cleaning Forgiveness Healing Heart Yourself
Gratitude is absolutely the way to bring more into your life.
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Gratitude Life Way Yourself
But I couldn’t. Was nowhere near ready for a committed relationship, and it wouldn’t be fair. I needed time – to become the right man for a woman like you.
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Commitment Relationship Right Woman Yourself

Love is your job description – no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you’re supposed to do in a situation, here’s a good rule of thumb: always do what leads to greater love.

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Love is your job description – no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you’re supposed to do in a situation, here’s a good rule of thumb: always do what leads to greater love.

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