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Inspiration and Optimism
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A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.
- Alan Cohen |
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A good relationship is not the reward for your suffering, but the natural result of what you learned from it.
- Alan Cohen |
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A good relationship is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true. Everything good is true, and relationships are an avenue to celebrate how good it can get.
- Alan Cohen |
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A great relationship is not something that happens to you. It is something you choose.
- Alan Cohen |
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A guru is someone who sits by the bank of a river selling bottles of river water. Inferior gurus point you to the bottles. Superior gurus point you to the river.
- Alan Cohen |
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A happy ending is always possible if you are willing to keep the story moving to get there.
- Alan Cohen |
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A little bit of relaxation goes a long way. How easy are you willing to let it be?
- Alan Cohen |
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A mother teaches her child with love and patience until the child learns. Be a mother and teach your mind to have positive thoughts and to let go of worries. Then when your mind needs peace, it will obey you.
- Brahma Kumaris |
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A possibility thinker notices a problem just long enough to get excited about the solution.
- Alan Cohen |
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A true healer does not energize the problem, but proceeds directly to the solution.
- Alan Cohen |
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A true healer rejoices in getting clients out of therapy rather than keeping them in it.
- Alan Cohen |
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Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness.
- Alan Cohen |
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Accept change as a gift, and keep moving from good to better to best.
- Alan Cohen |
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Act as if you are worthy to have what you want, and the universe will prove you correct.
- Alan Cohen |
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After you have made your commitment to say no to what no longer serves you, you will probably be invited to demonstrate that you really mean it.
- Alan Cohen |
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Agreement is powerful, and creates the reality you experience. Take care what you agree on, with whom, and why.
- Alan Cohen |
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All limits exist only in the mind, and it is only in the mind that they can be overcome.
- Alan Cohen |
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All relationships ultimately reveal the truth about themselves.
- Alan Cohen |
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All that is good belongs to you. Release anything unlike love.
- Alan Cohen |
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All you need to know abides at the core of your being. Look there for it before you search outside.
- Alan Cohen |
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And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
- Kahlil Gibran |
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Anything good for you brings out the best in you and does not force you to make believe you are something you are not.
- Alan Cohen |
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Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
- Alan Cohen |
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Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
- Alan Cohen |
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As you develop spiritual confidence, the answers to your important decisions reveal themselves.
- Alan Cohen |
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Ask for peace first, and you will clearly see your next step.
- Alan Cohen |
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Asking for help is an affirmation that you believe in yourself, you recognize an answer is available, and you are open to receive it.
- Alan Cohen |
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Be a dynamo of irrepressible joy.
- Babaji |
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Because God is real, the more real you are, the more you are like God.
- Alan Cohen |
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Before you can find someone, you must be someone. Before you can be someone, you must know you are someone.
- Alan Cohen |
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Beware of people who are well-adjusted. Passionate maladjustment is a surer sign of mental health.
- Alan Cohen |
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Bless the good that befalls others. No one else’s good can take away from yours; the success of another is your own. The more you rejoice in the happiness of others, the more you rejoice in your own.
- Alan Cohen |
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Choose a doctor who will find something right with you.
- Alan Cohen |
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Clever people find ways to shine right where they are.
- Alan Cohen |
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Comparison and competition are meaningless to an awakened soul. The only goal of importance is your connection to your inner spirit and your willingness to live from it.
- Alan Cohen |
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Disillusionment means the illusion is over and you are closer to truth.
- Alan Cohen |
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Do not try to predict or manipulate the avenue through which your good will come. Be true to your dream, and the universe will show up to support you in amazing ways.
- Alan Cohen |
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Do not wait until all the conditions are perfect for you to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.
- Alan Cohen |
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Do what is healing to your spirit, and without effort you will bring the world healing in return.
- Alan Cohen |
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Don’t talk yourself out of following your heart. Talk yourself into it.
- Alan Cohen |
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Don’t use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future. Don’t work for a living. Create for a life.
- Alan Cohen |
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Either do it with a whole heart, or don’t do it.
- Alan Cohen |
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Energy and happiness have little to do with what is going on around you, and a lot to do with what is going on inside you.
- Alan Cohen |
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Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.
- Alan Cohen |
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Evaluate every act by whether it brings you greater life, or deadens you.
- Alan Cohen |
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Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside ourselves, and we begin to look within. There we discover that the gold we sought, we already are.
- Alan Cohen |
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Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.
- Alan Cohen |
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Every day, every moment, you are building your consciousness. You are trying many different experiences on for size, and with each one you learn more about who you are, what you want, and how to create your life by choice.
- Alan Cohen |
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Every experience empowers you twice: First when you enter into it with a whole heart, and again when you leave it with a whole heart.
- Alan Cohen |
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Everyone is living in their own reality, continuously finding evidence to prove what they want to believe.
- Alan Cohen |
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Everyone who lives outside you, lives inside you.
- Alan Cohen |
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Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
- Alan Cohen |
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Everything you buy, think, say, and do is a statement of what you believe you are worth.
- Alan Cohen |
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Everything you have ever done – every moment, every experience, every relationship – has brought you to this moment. You are perched on the leading edge of your life.
- Alan Cohen |
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Fascination is fertilizer. Whatever you place your attention on grows.
- Alan Cohen |
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Fear has many reasons not to love; love has one reason not to fear: It alone is real.
- Alan Cohen |
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Feelings of love, joy, passion, exhilaration, fun, interest..... are indications of your vibrational match to Well-being.
- Abraham-Hicks |
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Find the gift behind the challenge and it will become your friend.
- Alan Cohen |
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Give up your identity as a seeker, and become a finder. Then everything you ever sought will find you.
- Alan Cohen |
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Give yourself what you are aching to receive from others. Give yourself what you seek from others, and you free them along with yourself.
- Alan Cohen |
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Grand adventures await those who are willing to turn the corner.
- Chinese Proverb |
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Gratitude is indeed like a gearshift that can move our mental mechanism from obsession to peacefulness, from stuckness to creativity, from fear to love. The ability to relax and be mindfully present in the moment comes naturally when we are grateful.
- Joan Borysenko. Ph.D. |
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Gratitude is not the result of things that happen to us: it is an attitude we cultivate by practice. The more we are thankful for, the more we will find to be thankful for.
- Alan Cohen |
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Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.
- Alan Cohen |
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Happiness is natural. Everything else represents a compromise.
- Alan Cohen |
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Health, success, and great relationships are not too good to be true. They are good enough to be true.
- Alan Cohen |
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Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach |
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If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.
- Alan Cohen |
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If you can’t be generous with money, be generous with love.
- Alan Cohen |
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If you do not like the reality you have been living in, choose one that you would prefer and live in that as if it is already so.
- Alan Cohen |
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If you don’t know what to do, wait until you know. Ask the universe to make your answer clear, and it will.
- Alan Cohen |
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If you don’t love it, you can’t afford it.
- Alan Cohen |
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If you feel bottled up, depressed, or self involved, find someone to love. Love and limits cannot live in the same heart.
- Alan Cohen |
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If you forget your vision, everything else you do has little meaning and is ineffective. When you remember your purpose, you have a beacon to illuminate your path, and all that you do derives meaning and power from your intention.
- Alan Cohen |
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If you knew you were already whole and complete, you would not need to do things to make you feel complete.
- Alan Cohen |
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If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.
- Author Unknown |
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If you sense there must be more, there is more.
- Alan Cohen |
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If you want to boost your income, boost your passion.
- Alan Cohen |
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If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.
- Alan Cohen |
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If your heart is broken, let it be broken open.
- Alan Cohen |
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If “love” makes you crazy, it is not love. True love drives you absolutely sane.
- Alan Cohen |
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In the Divine Design there is no limitation, only health, wealth, love and perfect self-expression.
- Florence Scovel Shinn |
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It is wise to protect yourself from pain. Just be sure you don’t protect yourself from love.
- Alan Cohen |
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It will happen the moment you are ready. Are you ready?
- Alan Cohen |
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It’s more fun to watch people enjoying themselves than to try to force them to do what you think they should do.
- Alan Cohen |
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Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you what.
- Alan Cohen |
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Just as you can choose between possible futures, you can choose between possible pasts. Your past is not a fixed reality; it is what you choose by focus and interpretation. Interpret your past in favor of love, and it will become only a blessing.
- Alan Cohen |
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Just because a marriage (or anything) ends, doesn’t mean it failed. If you loved, learned, and grew, and you would not make the same mistakes again, the experience was a huge success.
- Alan Cohen |
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you will not see the shadows.
- Helen Keller |
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Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.
- Alan Cohen |
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Let it be easy. Struggle is not required.
- Alan Cohen |
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Let your life be that of the rose; in silence, it speaks the language of fragrance.
- Babaji |
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Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose in harmony with it, you are fulfilling your purpose in living.
- Alan Cohen |
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Life is lived from inside out or not at all.
- Alan Cohen |
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Life offers healing and simply awaits our cooperation.
- Alan Cohen |
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Life’s ability to give is limited only by your willingness to receive.
- Alan Cohen |
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Live your spirit’s dreams, not your mind’s.
- Alan Cohen |
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Look well to the growing edge. All around us worlds are dying and new worlds are being born; all around us life is dying and life is being born. The fruit ripens on the tree, the roots are silently at work in the darkness of the earth against a time when there shall be new leaves, fresh blossoms, green fruit. Such is the growing edge..
- Howard Washington Thurman |
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Love asks not for analysis, just appreciation.
- Alan Cohen |
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Make people your business, and people will make your business.
- Alan Cohen |
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Maybe there’s a good reason you want it.
- Alan Cohen |
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Miracles do not deny universal law. They fulfill it.
- Alan Cohen |
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Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety, - all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it.
- Beecher |
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Money is your friend. Your body is your friend. Life is your friend.
- Alan Cohen |
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Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
- Abraham Lincoln |
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Never accept boredom as a fact of life. It is a fact of death. Since your nature is life, boredom does not befit you and should never be tolerated.
- Alan Cohen |
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No external condition is required for healing. What creates healing is your belief, your desire, your willingness, your openness, your readiness. The moment you are ready and willing, healing must come.
- Alan Cohen |
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No matter what has happened, let today be new.
- Alan Cohen |
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Nothing is outside of your ability to use for transformation and awakening.
- Alan Cohen |
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Observe the direct connection between practicing trust and serendipitous events that follow.
- Alan Cohen |
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One regret, dear world, that I am determined not to have.. When I am lying on my death bed is that I did not kiss you enough!
- Hafiz |
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Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
- Byron Katie |
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Revisit your past only to recognize how far you have come.
- Alan Cohen |
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Somehow I have to play my role in life as a gifted, beautiful, happy, well-adjusted person.
- Ashleigh Brilliant |
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The common meaning of gratitude is to be thankful for benefits received. While this is important, I feel that the energy of gratitude is one of the most powerful attracting forces in the universe. A heart filled with Thanksgiving, even when appearances tell us that we are mired in scarcity, conflict, and affliction, moves us to a higher frequency in consciousness – and we soon witness reality shining through the illusion.
- John Randolph Price |
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The Importance of a Smile: A SMILE costs nothing, but gives much. It enriches those who receive, without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he can get along without it, and none is so poor but that he can be made rich by it. A smile creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in business, and is the countersign of friendship. It brings rest to the weary, cheer to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and is nature's best antidote for trouble. Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give.
- Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch |
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The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.
- Mahatma Gandhi |
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The same Source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through.
- Alan Cohen |
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The world is crazily in love with you, wildly and innocently in love. Even now, thousands of secret helpers are conspiring to turn you into the beautiful curiosity you were born to be.
- Rob Brezsny |
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There are no lost opportunities in Divine Mind, as one door shuts another door is opened.
- Florence Scovel Shinn |
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There is a magic cottage inside each of us.
- SARK |
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Think of chaos as dancing raspberries, imagine grief as the outbreath of beauty or the gesture of fish. Swim for the other side. Wage peace.
- Judyth Hill |
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This deliciousness spilling everywhere, the roar of invisible oceans and the world gone all wavy.
- Jalaluddin Rumi |
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Transcendental Gratitude, however, goes beyond social conventions. Instead of feeling grateful to someone, we feel grateful for them - for God or Spirit working through them. We begin to feel grateful for everyone and everything that arises in our lives. The feeling uplifts us, embraces us, and helps us uplift and embrace others in the recognition that we are, ultimately, in this together.
- Dan Millman |
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Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
- Goethe |
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When I tune into my beautiful self, I get happiness. Everything in the universe belongs to me.
- Dick Gregory |
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When the voice and vision on the inside become more profound and clear than the opinions on the outside, then you have mastered your life
- A Quote from "The Secret" |
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You are doing better than you think you are.
- Alan Cohen |
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You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, and trusting.
- Alan Cohen |
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You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
- Alan Cohen |
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