Your Perceived Self

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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

Wake Up To Who You Are

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Slow down and everything that you are chasing will come around and catch you.  John de Paula

When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.  Miguel Ruiz

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.  Pema Chodron

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.  Alan Watts

We shouldn’t let another define our sense of self and worth, for this places us into the role of the lesser or the victim.  When we play that role, then obviously we will attract or sustain relationships that will mutually fulfill that role.  Patsie Smith

Flow With Life’s Possibilities

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The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.  Eckhart Tolle

If you’re going to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.  Joel Osteen

Conditions don’t have to be right.  You have to be right.  Joel Osteen

On the other side of this difficulty is a new level of my destiny.  Joel Osteen

When a situation arises involving agonizing pain, use that situation as a stepping stone to transcend it, to go beyond.  Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma)

No moment at the top lasts forever and tough descents are required if you are going to make another beautiful climb.  Tony Zipple

The only way to get from one place to the next is to put one foot in front of the other, whether it is on the way up or the way down.  Tony Zipple.

I am a river flowing with possibility and life.  asha bandele