Notes & Quotes
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”-
Look at a globe and tell me which direction is up!
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“We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.” ~ Marianne Williamson
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All You Need Is Love
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
There's nothing you can do that can't be done. Nothing you can sing that can't be sung. Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game It's easy. There's nothing you can make that can't be made. No one you can save that can't be saved. Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be in time It's easy. All you need is love, all you need is love, All you need is love, love, love is all you need. Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love. All you need is love, all you need is love, All you need is love, love, love is all you need. There's nothing you can know that isn't known. Nothing you can see that isn't shown. Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be. It's easy. All you need is love, all you need is love, All you need is love, love, love is all you need. All you need is love (all together now) All you need is love (everybody) All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
~~The Beatles
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Let Us Have Faith
(1940)
by Helen Keller
(1880 – 1968)
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
To keep our faces toward change and
behave like free spirits
in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
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“All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?” ~~ Buddha
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“And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”-Anais Nin
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It’s not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
~~Marianne Williamson
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Be as you wish to seem.~~Socrates
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“We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us.” ~~Charlotte Joko Beck
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Who you are is God’s gift to you; who you become is your gift to God.
~~Unknown
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When we let the mind wander, we attain the world. When we bring the mind under our control, we attain God. This is why the sages say that the mind is the source of both bondage and liberation. ~~Muktananda
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It would not quite be accurate to call meditation a “doing.” It is more accurately described as a “being.” When we understand that “This is it,” it allows us to let go of the past and the future and wake up to what we are now, in this moment.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Wherever You Go There You Are
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Prove All Things to Yourself and Hold on to that which is Good.
~Daniel Ferrera
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“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.” – Richard Wright
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If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
Abigail Van Buren
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Find peace and joy in the present moment and you will flow peacefully and joyfully into the future! ~~ me
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Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are. ~~Rachel Naomi Remen
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“Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers “Grow, grow”.
~The Talmud
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Beyond the ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. ~~ Rumi
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.~~Gloria Steinem
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Be just, be kind, care, share, give, take, love, laugh, cry, feel the pain, and dance in the time of joy. — Rabbi Albert M. Lewis
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Be yourself. The people who mind don’t matter. And the people who matter don’t mind ~~ Dr. Seuss
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“You see, the problem in life isn’t receiving answers. The problem is in identifying your current questions. Once you get the questions right, the answers always come. - James Redfield
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People throughout the world are just now beginning to learn that our thoughts create our experiences. Your parents probably didn’t know this so they couldn’t possibly teach it to you. They taught you how to look at life in the way that their parents taught them. So nobody is wrong. However, it’s time for all of us to wake up and begin to consciously create our lives in a way that pleases and supports us. You can do it. I can do it. We all can do it—we just need to learn how.
~~Louise Hay
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“Be happy for this moment is your life”
~ Omar Khayyam
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One often meets one’s destiny on the road taken to avoid it
~French proverb
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“As one develops self-awareness and self-regulation, he or she tends to have fewer emotional reactions and more genuine feelings” – Coach U, The CoachU Personal and Corporate Coach Training Handbook
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“I haven’t got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out”
~~David Sedaris 
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“The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some
super-human accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but
it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.” “It is
finding your true nature beyond name and form. The inability to feel
this connectedness gives rise to the illusion of separation, from
yourself and from the world around you. You then perceive yourself,
consciously or unconsciously, as an isolated fragment. Fear arises, and
conflict within and without becomes the norm.”
- Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
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Old: There is no place like home.
New: (as given by spirit guides to Diane Stankiewicz during Reiki session)
There is no home and there is no place… there is only space.
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When I dare to be Powerful, to use my Strength
in the service of my Vision,
Then it becomes less and less important,
whether I am afraid
-Audre Lorde
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“To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.”– “William James
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Hard work is not the path to Well- Being. Feeling good is the path to Well-Being. You don’t create through action; you create through vibration. And then, your vibration calls action from you.
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“I always believed that writing ads is the 2nd most profitable form of writing. The first is ransom notes…” – Philip Dusenberry
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Excerpted from a workshop in Washington, DC on Saturday, May 7th, 2005
All Is Well
Abraham & Hicks
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“Leap and the net will appear”
~Zen Saying
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Expectation indicates the juncture between where you are and where you want to be… Where you want to be, is your desire, and where you are, is your Set-point or habit of thought. And somewhere, in there, is what we would call expectation. Expectation, whether it is wanted or unwanted, is a powerful point of attraction… Your expectation is always what you believe. But the word expectation does imply more what you are wanting than what you are not wanting. It is a more positive word than it is a negative word, but of course, you could expect negatively—and whatever you expect, you will get!
Excerpted from a workshop in Orlando, FL on Saturday, December 20th, 2003
Our Love,
Jerry and Esther
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View all problems as challenges. Look upon negativities that arise as opportunities to learn and to grow. Don’t run from them, condemn yourself, or bury your burden in saintly silence. You have a problem? Great. More grist for the mill. Rejoice, dive in, and investigate.
-Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, “Mindfulness in Plain English”
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You can never have a happy ending at the end of an unhappy journey; it just doesn’t work out that way. The way you’re feeling, along the way, is the way you’re continuing to pre-pave your journey, and it’s the way it’s going to continue to turn out until you do something about the way you are feeling.
Excerpted from a workshop in West Los Angeles, CA on Saturday, August 6th, 2005
All Is Well
Abraham & Hicks
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People must realize that even with all these comforts, all this money and a GNP that increases every year, they are still not happy. They need to understand that the real culprits are our unceasing desires. Our wants have no end.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama, “Imagine All the People”
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“A man who doesn’t believe in miracles, isn’t realistic”
- David Ben-Gurion
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I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso
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There is no condition that you cannot modify into something more, any more than there is any painting that you can paint and not like and just paint over it again. There are many limiting thoughts in the human environment that make it feel like it is not so, as you have these incurable illnesses, or these unchangeable conditions. But we say, they are only “unchangeable” because you believe that they are
Excerpted from a workshop in San Antonio, TX on Saturday, April 21st, 2001
All Is Well
Abraham & Hicks
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You cannot find someone, even if they deserve it, as your enemy and stay Connected with who you are at the same time, because your Source will not take sides like that. No one can stay connected to Source Energy, and push hard against someone else. There are these battles that are fought in the name of “God”, and all of these prayers that say, “God is on our side,” and we say, god is not on your side, nor is god on the side of those who fight against you. god does not take those sides.
All Is Well
Abraham & Hicks
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Achieving Success Is My Natural Birthright.
You are meant to succeed, and failure should feel bad to you. Life is supposed to go well for you—and when it does not, there is something wrong. But what is wrong is not something that is outside of you over which you have no control. What is wrong is within you—and you do have control. And taking control is not difficult to do once you understand the basis of who-you-are and the basics of the Law of Attraction and the value of your personal Emotional Guidance System.
All Is Well
Abraham & Hicks
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In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and place and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present
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Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don’t want.
Excerpted from a workshop in Asheville, NC on Saturday, September 5th, 1998
All Is Well
Abraham and Hicks
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Enlightenment means literally aligning to the Energy of my Source. And genius is only about focusing. Law of Attraction takes care of everything else. Physical humans often want to make enlightenment about finding some process and moving through the process that has been pre-described. But true enlightenment is moving to the rhythm of the internal inspiration that is coming in response to the individual desire. Enlightenment is about allowing my connection to the Source that is me for the fulfillment of the things that I have individually defined here in my time/space reality. That’s as good as it gets!
Excerpted from a workshop in Boulder, CO on Saturday, June 7th, 2003
All Is Well
Abraham & Hicks
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A young Palestinian man was found in Israel, he had a bomb strapped to him, and when it detonated, it didn’t detonate properly and he was wounded. But he did not get the triumphant results that he was seeking, he did not blow himself up and the people that were around him. And so he was captured. And when the newsman was asking him, why did you do this? He said, they killed my friend and I wanted to die. In other words, it was that simple: “They killed my friend and I wanted to die.” We think that those pure and simple words speak to this (Middle East Crisis) more clearly than all other words that have been spoken. It is that feeling that you’ve done this to me, so I’ll do this to you, then you’ll do this to me, and then I’ll do this to you. And what happens in that is, it just gets bigger and bigger, and bigger. And no one ever wins. There is no triumph that ever comes from any of that.
Excerpted from a workshop in Albany, NY on Thursday, October 4th, 2001
All Is Well
Abraham & Hicks
...And to this I say: Stop the madness! No one can win this game,
forgiveness must start somewhere! Let it start with me!
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It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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The buffer of time gives you the opportunity to get it right before it manifests, to take pleasure from the vision and from the molding it into place… Can you imagine if everything was manifesting instantly? You would manifest this, and then you would manifest it away. And then you’d manifest that, and then… It would be a difficult thing if you were instantly manifesting every whim or every misaligned thought. It’s so much better that you have this buffer of time where you can feel it into perfection before it manifests into your experience.
Excerpted from a workshop in Ashland, OR on Tuesday, May 16th, 2000
All Is Well
Abraham & Hicks
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“Never doubt that a few committed individuals can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has”
Margaret Mead~~~~~~~
There is nothing that you can do that is worse for yourself, than to do something that you believe is inappropriate. And so, get clear and happy about whichever choice you make. Because it is your contradiction that causes the majority of the contradiction in vibration.
Excerpted from a workshop in Los Angeles, CA on Sunday, July 25th, 1999
Our Love,
Jerry and Esther
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Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God
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You’re never satisfied. That’s what life is, it’s just this ongoing, neverending vacation adventure, you see. You can’t get it wrong and you never get it done—and we recommend that you have as much fun as you can along the way.
Excerpted from a workshop in San Antonio, TX on Saturday, November 13th, 2004
All Is Well
Abraham-Hicks
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It is critical to serve others, to contribute actively to others’ well-being. I often tell practitioners that they should adopt the following principle: regarding one’s own personal needs, there should be as little involvement or obligation as possible. But regarding service to others, there should be as many possible involvements and obligations as possible. This should be the ideal of a spiritual person.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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” Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.” – Og Mandino
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You can “dance” with the illusions of time and space, choosing your “steps” based upon things and events as they now are, or you can dance with your dreams, choosing your “steps” based upon things and events as they will be.
And I bet you can guess which steps will perpetuate today’s illusions, and which ones will change everything…
In some small way, dance with your dreams daily.
The Universe
tut.com
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Never face reality unless your reality is just the way you want it to be.
Excerpted from a workshop in San Antonio,TX on Saturday, May 17th, 1997
All Is Well
Abraham-Hicks
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Most people have a hard time delegating, or even wanting to delegate, because you have been justifying your existence through your hard work, and you equate success with struggle; you equate results with struggle. And so, you sort of wear your struggle like a badge of honor. And all of that is opposite of allowing the Well-being. The only thing that ever matters in success or achievement is your achieving the things that you want to achieve. So if you are setting standards and you’re feeling uncomfortable about the standards that you’ve set, tweak the standards back a little bit. Ratchet it back a notch. Give yourself a break. Give yourself the benefit of the doubt. Lighten up. Be easier. Go slower. Take it easy. Have more fun. Love yourself more. Laugh more. Appreciate more. All is well. You can’t get it wrong. You never get it done.
Excerpted from a workshop in San Antonio, TX on Saturday, April 20th, 2002
All Is Well
Abraham-Hicks
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Milk every moment for all the pleasure you can get from it. When you say, “It is my dominant intent to look for things that feel good today. No matter where I’m going, no matter what I’m doing, no matter who I’m doing it with, it is my dominant intent to look for what I’m wanting to see, to look for things that feel good,” and the more you develop the habit of that kind of vibration — the more the Universe understands that that’s who you are! And so, the more you have access only to those kinds of things!
Excerpted from a workshop in Albuquerque, NM on Sunday, May 9th, 1999
All Is Well
Abraham-Hicks
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There is nothing that you can do that is worse for yourself, than to do something that you believe is inappropriate. And so, get clear and happy about whichever choice you make. Because it is your contradiction that causes the majority of the contradiction in vibration.
Excerpted from a workshop in Los Angeles, CA on Sunday, July 25th, 1999
Our Love,
Jerry and Esther
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When desirous of a life change, or any kind of a change, it’s wiser to start from a place like: “I am who I am today, where I am today, because this was my choice and it has served me well. However, it no longer serves me, my choices have changed, and I give thanks for the amazing changes that now sweep through my amazing life.”
Rather than, “I don’t know how I got here. I hate this. I must be sabotaging my own progress. I just won’t accept things as they are any more. I’m desperate for a change. By this time next year my life will totally rock!”
OK?? You don’t even have to remember the choices that led you to the day, but by understanding you made them, the kingdom, the power, and the glory knowingly become yours.
Chic-a-boom,
The Universe
www.tut.com
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Every time you want something and achieve vibrational harmony with it and allow it to come to you, you not only gain the satisfaction of having accomplished your desire — you also gain a whole new perspective from which to desire.
Excerpted from a workshop in San Francisco, CA on Sunday, March 2nd, 1997
All Is Well
Abraham-Hicks
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An act of meditation is actually an act of faith–of faith in your spirit, in your own potential. Faith is the basis of meditation. Not of faith in something outside you–a metaphysical buddha, an unattainable ideal, or someone else’s words. The faith is in yourself, in your own “buddha-nature.” You too can be a buddha, an awakened being that lives and responds in a wise, creative, and compassionate way.
-Martine Batchelor, “Meditation for Life”
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The Universe does not know if the vibration you are offering is because of what you are imagining, or because of what you are observing. In either case, it is responding. Emotion is your guidance or your response to your vibration. Your emotion does not create. Emotion is your indicator of what you are already creating. As you think, you vibrate. And it is your vibrational offering that equals your point of attraction. So, what you are thinking and what is coming back to you is always a vibrational match. The emotion (your Guidance System) is telling you what’s coming
Excerpted from a workshop in North Los Angeles, CA on Tuesday, March 7th, 2000
All Is Well
Abraham-Hicks
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You have your hand on the switch. You are the allower or the resister. And your emotions tell you which you’re doing right now. It’s easy once you understand the formula: When you feel good, you’re allowing good. When you don’t feel good, you are not allowing good. We didn’t say, when you feel good you are allowing good, and when you feel bad you are allowing bad (although it may translate into your experience in that way). There is only a Source of Well-being–which you are allowing or not.
Excerpted from a workshop in Ashland, OR on Saturday, July 20th, 2002
All Is Well
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First, as a child, it seems like the entire world is there for you and you rush to drink from its every cup, sometimes wondering to yourself how anything could ever be more fun.
Then, as you grow older, if you’re observant, you realize much of what you enjoy was made possible by the contributions, work, and labor of those who came before you, and you’re taken aback, disappointed even , because with maturity you can now see cracks in the façades, imperfections in the details, and 10,000 ways it could have all been done better.
At which point, folks typically choose one of two paths: Spend a lifetime lamenting how far from perfect things are. Or, to one degree or another, roll up their sleeves and pitch in.
And should they choose the latter with gusto, they will come to know, to the core of their sacred being, that the differences they might make in the world cannot be made by another. And then they will discover the answer to their often-wondered childhood question…. That the most fun one can have in time and space comes from making such a difference, and that the joy derived from serving is 10,000 times that of being served.
At your service -
The Universe
www.tut.com
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Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do. Most adults have the advantage of education over children, but what is the use of an education if they show a big smile while hiding negative feelings deep inside? Children don’t usually act in such a manner. If they feel angry with someone, they express it, and then it is finished. They can still play with that person the following day.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama, “Imagine All The People”
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I believe there is an important distinction to be made between religion and spirituality.
Religion I take to be concerned with belief in the claims to salvation of one faith tradition or another–an aspect of which is acceptance of some form of meta-physical or philosophical reality, including perhaps an idea of heaven or hell. Connected with this are religious teachings or dogma, ritual, prayers and so on.
Spirituality I take to be concerned with those qualities of the human spirit–such as love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, a sense of responsibility,a sense of harmony, which bring happiness to both self and others.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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Before you begin meditation take several slow, deep breaths. Hold your body erect, allowing your breathing to become normal again. Many thoughts will crowd into your mind, ignore them, letting them go. If they persist be aware of them with the awareness, which does not think. In other words, think non-thinking.
-Zen Master Dogen, “Fukanzazengi”
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“Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.”
~ Max Ehrmann
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Reduce your workload by 30% and increase your fun load by 30% and you will increase your revenues by 100%. And you will increase your productivity by 10,000%. (If there could be such a percentage.) More fun, less struggle — more results on all fronts.
Excerpted from a workshop in Salt Lake City, UT on Saturday, September 9th, 2000
All Is Well
Abraham-Hicks
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“If you practice Zen meditation for long periods of time,
you may be criticized by friends and relatives who feel
you are shutting them out. Ignore these people.”
~~From Zen Judaism
By David M. Bader
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
Abigail Van Buren
