Quotes by Prince

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Ancient Seeker

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Maybe I’m just too demanding

Maybe I’m just like my father, too bold

Maybe you’re just like my mother

She’s never satisfied

Why do we scream at each other

This is what it sounds like

When doves cry

A strong spirit transcends rules.

Time is a mind constraint. It’s not real.

The gatekeepers must change.

If you set your mind free, maybe you’ll understand.

The most important thing is to be true to yourself.

I’m not a woman. I’m not a man. I am something that you’ll never understand.

Yeah, everybody’s got a bomb. We could all die any day. But before I let that happen, I’ll dance my life away.

There are no accidents. And if there are, it’s up to us to look at them as something else. And that bravery is what creates new flowers.

Your Perceived Self

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Ancient Seeker

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As we clearly sense and name our experience, we can notice what brings it about and how we can respond to it more fully and skillfully. Jack Kornfield

Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering. Don Miguel Ruiz

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her. Lao Tzu

I believe I am in Hell; therefore, I am. Arthur Rimbaud

Love Yourself First

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Ancient Seeker

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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. Lucille Ball

Layer by layer, I removed all I thought I was, all I thought I had to be, and in the moment I was left standing naked and vulnerable without identities and labels, I remembered . . . I AM THAT I AM. Lenita Vangellis

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself. Rita Mae Brown

Live your dreams, not because of what it will prove or get you, but because that is all you want to do. People’s opinions don’t matter. Shannon L. Alder

It is not that Spirit produces or heals or corrects matter or the physical universe, but that we rise higher in consciousness to where there is less matter and, therefore, less discord, inharmony, disease, or lack. Joel Goldsmith

Those who wish to sing always find a song. Swedish Proverb

The Infinite Way by Joel Goldsmith

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Ancient Seeker

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It is our turning within that brings forth the answer already established. Our listening attitude makes us receptive to the presence and the power within us.

It may at first appear difficult to achieve the state of consciousness wherein the laws of our inner being come into tangible expression. We will achieve it, however, in proportion to our ability to relax mentally, to gain an inner calm and peace, and therein quietly contemplate the revelations which come to us from within.

As the realization of our dominion dawns in thought, more assurance, confidence, and certainty become evident. We become a new being, and the world reflects back to us our own higher attitude toward it.

We can take possession of our affairs only as we consciously realize that they are the effect of our own consciousness, the image and likeness of our own being, the manifestation or expression of our divine Self.

That which we seem to be seeking is ever-present within us, and already manifested, and we need to know this truth. All good already is, and is forever manifested. The recognition of this truth is answered prayer.

Change Self

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Ancient Seeker

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge. Eckhart Tolle

You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness. Eckhart Tolle

Awareness is the greatest agent for change. Eckhart Tolle

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Lao Tzu

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. Barack Obama

Think New, Be New

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Ancient Seeker

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If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different so that you can feel good. You would free yourself of all of that cumbersome impossibility of needing to control the world, or control your mate, or control your child. You are the only one who creates your reality, for no one else can think for you. No one else can do it. It is only you. Every bit of it is you. Esther Hicks

You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be. Marianne Williamson

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal. Elbert Hubbard

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you. Robert Anton Wilson

Live and allow others to live. Hurt no one. Life is dear to all living beings. Mahavira

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too. Voltaire

By judging others, we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Your Meaning, Your Consciousness, Your Empowerment

Posted on March 15, 2016 by Ancient Seeker

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To know the meaning you had to go through the experience and even then the meaning changed before your eyes. Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune

[A]s we come more into touch with our own ancient . . . consciousness of living as a situation to be experienced and interacted with, we learn more and more to cherish our feelings, and to respect those hidden sources of our power from where true knowledge and, therefore, lasting action comes. Sister Outsider: Essays & Speeches by Audre Lorde

It is not the anger . . . that will destroy us but our refusals to stand still, to listen to its rhythms, to learn within it, to move beyond the manner of presentation to the substance, to tap that anger as an important source of empowerment. Sister Outsider: Essays & Speeches by Audre Lorde

One can never simply receive a bit of information nakedly. The process of perception is vitally bound up with the process of inner re-creation, in which one utilizes whatever forms are available in individual psychic existence. Robert Jay Lifton

The probe agony lifted Teg to a new level of ability. Crisis had tipped him over into another dimension of human possibilities. Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune

It is a man’s reaction to things that determines their ability to exercise power over him. Howard Thurman

No to Drama

Posted on March 4, 2016 by Ancient Seeker

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Whatever we choose to focus on is what we will see manifested in our lives. Joel Osteen

Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it. Brandi L. Bates

So many people prefer to live in drama because it’s comfortable. It’s like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship. It’s actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect. Ellen DeGeneres

You can’t be in the middle of picking yourself up and pick somebody else up at the same time. Alyssa Mayer

Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen. Corin Nemec

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Steve Jobs.

They Live in You

Posted on February 17, 2016 by Ancient Seeker

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There’s no mountain too great

Hear these words and have faith

Have faith

They live in you

They live in me

They’re watching over

Everything we see

In every creature

In every star

Into the water

Into the truth

In your reflection

They live in you

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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Edmund Burke

In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges. James E. Faust

I was born by myself, but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother, and my ancestors. So, I am really never alone. My identity is through that line. Ziggy Marley

Maybe I’m just too demanding

Maybe I’m just like my father, too bold

Maybe you’re just like my mother

She’s never satisfied

Why do we scream at each other

This is what it sounds like

When doves cry

There’s no mountain too great

Hear these words and have faith

Have faith

They live in you

They live in me

They’re watching over

Everything we see

In every creature

In every star

Into the water

Into the truth

In your reflection

They live in you

Baggage of lack and limitation

Sacrifice, giving, giving, giving

And not receiving

Suffering

Being the bridge that is supposed to insure my entry into the Promised Land

Judgment

Above all else – judgment

Determining what is good and what is bad

What is right and what is wrong

What is white and what is black

No, you cannot come with me

All of you must stay behind

The new horizon invites me

One Mind

One Power

One Universal Source

Lavish, unfailing abundance

Infinite prosperity

Unconditional love

Wisdom to see beyond appearances

Understanding and compassion

Peace

Happiness

Joy

Not Heaven

Here on Earth

Right here

Right now

Being in the world, but not of it

Feeling the pain, but not becoming painful

Separating the expression from the existence

Awareness

Knowledge

The ability to see what is readily apparent

If I will only be open and receptive

Recognizing the reality that is me

Unfettered, uninhibited, unconditional

Free