Move Into Your Potential

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Only through constantly changing can we achieve our greatest potential.  Robin Hart

It is entirely possible that behind the perceptions of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.  Albert Einstein

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.  Aristotle

If you keep moving forward, you will stumble into God’s blessings.  Joel Osteen

If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down.  Toni Morrison

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.  The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.    Thomas A. Edison

Seeds of Life

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I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go.  Neil Gaiman

Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change.  Steve Maraboli

An empowered life begins with serious personal questions about oneself. Those answers bare the seeds of success.  Steve Maraboli

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow.  You have to trust God.  Pope Francis

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever being able to do it.  Peter Pan

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.  It will not lead you astray.  Rumi

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.   Socrates

The Illusion of Fear

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The illumined walk without fear – by Grace.  Joel Goldsmith

Fear – False Evidence Appearing Real

You are in a spot that is absolutely safe, with one exception: the danger created by your own fear.  The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho

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

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

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.  African Proverb

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.  Eckhart Tolle

A New Level of My Destiny

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Went to the edge of the ledge, but I didn’t jump.  Mary J. Blige

We are made from stronger stuff than any of us knows.  The number one thing is not even just to keep going, but to trust that there’s something more.  Always.  O, The Oprah Magazine

If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through.  Chinese Proverb

While achieving your goal may not happen on your preferred timetable, it is important to have faith that time will bring success.  Trusting that achievement is not only possible, but probable will help soften your fears.    Ash Blankenship.

Strength does not come from winning.  Your struggles develop your strengths.  When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.  Mahatma Gandhi

From Joel Osteen’s Sermons

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

I am soaking up God’s goodness.

I count it all joy!

My best days are in front of me.

No weapon formed against me will ever prosper.

I remember who I am and whose I am.

The most powerful Force in the Universe is pushing back the darkness in my life.

I give God praise in all things as I move forward in joy and peace.

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

Release Stress

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Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.  Joan Borysenko

You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.  Steve Maraboli

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water.  Have the patience to wait.  Be still and allow the mud to settle.   Lao Tzu

At certain moments you need to have discipline, and in others you need to just be guided by life.  You have to balance your willpower with the capacity to relax and enjoy and go with the flow.  There is a Zen proverb that says, basically, if you want something, step aside and let this thing come to you.   Paulo Coelho.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how.  The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.  The artist never entirely knows.  We guess.  We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.  Agnes de Mille

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

Be Right With Yourself

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The illumined walk without fear – by Grace.  Joel Goldsmith

Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict.  Dorothy Thompson

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.  Henri Nouwen

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

Quotations From Thich Nhat Hanh

When we remember to speak words which are true, kind, and constructive, we nourish a beautiful flower in our hearts, and we can offer its sweet fragrance to everyone.

Breathing in, I calm my body.  Breathing out, I smile.  Dwelling in the present moment, I know this is a wonderful moment.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

You Are an Expression of God

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You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.  Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

That which you manifest is before you. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

Each person’s life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.

Throughout history humans have inflicted countless violent, cruel, and hurtful acts on each other, and continue to do so. Are they all to be condemned; are they all guilty? Or are those acts simply expressions of unconsciousness, an evolutionary stage that we are now growing out of?

Jesus’ words, “Forgive them for they do not know what they do,” also APPLY to yourself.”

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