Opportunity...

“We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.”

-- Margaret Mead

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

-- Francis Bacon

"What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing."

-- Maxwell Maltz

We don’t change overnight. Personal growth requires dogged  persistence. 

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Struggling with a decision?

"You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind."

-- Dale Carnegie

My anxiety level spiked the other day as I wrestled with whether to choose option A or option B. I was so afraid of making the wrong choice!

And then I remembered, with deep gratitude, Susan Jeffers’ sage advice: There are no wrong decisions! Whatever we might choose in life will bring valuable experiences if we are open to receive them.

“Lighten up! Whatever happens as a result of your decision, you’ll handle it!”

-- Susan Jeffers

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Commitments to serve...

“Our deepest need is for the joy that comes with …knowing we are of genuine use to others.”

-- Eknath Easwaran

Holding an intention to be in service shapes our overall attitude towards life in many ways. For example, it brings a greater sensitivity and awareness of others, a commitment to harmlessness, a willingness to put others’ needs before our own and a desire to be in harmony with all.

An attitude of service also involves a willingness to be served when we truly need support.

"… there is no such thing as just existing. Everything is in service to everything else. Existence is giving and receiving. A stone gives and receives no less than a saint."

-- Jacob Needleman

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Distinguish personality desires from soul needs...

"Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself." -- Julio Cortazar We indulge ourselves when we seek to meet our longings through desires of the personality. We indulge ourselves when we buy more clothes to make us happy, when we eat another snack to ease the hunger, when we have an affair to feel powerful or loveable. Any pleasure we get, if we get any at all, is shallow and short- lived. The only lasting satisfaction can come from meeting the deep spiritual needs of the soul. We discover what we are really after in life when we identify the spiritual qualities and needs that lie behind our desires for material pleasures. "But life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self." -- Betty Friedan

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Transformation...

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

-- William Faulkner

Longing for a miracle that will transform your life? Miracles happen, and if we don’t want that magic to disappear on us, we need to learn from each epiphany -- to integrate it, apply it, and build on it so we can permanently shift to a new level of being.

The real key to fulfillment lies in ONGOING transformation: building our awareness of daily opportunities to change our perceptions and raise our consciousness. Life is about dissolving the old and creating anew. The more we open to accepting and learning from every life experience, the more our lives transform.

"Enlightenment must come little by little -- otherwise it would overwhelm."

-- Idries Shah

Who are you, REALLY? To truly know yourself, you need to explore your subconscious mind.Can you do that????

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Honesty...

"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What level of honesty are you living now?

How honest are you with strangers, institutions and businesses, acquaintances, friends, family, spouse?

How honest are you with yourself?

"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."

-- Walter Anderson

Access your own inner wisdom by tapping into your subconscious and intuition. Release stress, blocks and negative emotions, and spark imagination and greater vision...

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Self-deception...

"The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self."

-- Phillip James Bailey

Are you hiding in some way from your own inner light?

I wouldn’t dream of stealing things but I do steal from my own potential. I can be a master at rationalizing, at justifying why it’s not the right time to do something challenging. My arguments seem valid but deep down, I know they’re excuses.

"The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth."

-- Robert Half

"When we know deep down that we’re acting with integrity despite impulses to do otherwise, we feel gates of higher energy and inspiration open inside of us."

-- Dan Millman

Know Yourself – An adventure in self discovery!! Become aware of your subconscious limitations, your character strengths, weaknesses and potentials, your life challenges, gifts, talents, and your deepest desires and aspirations...

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Remember...

"Never forget what you need to remember."

-- Garrett Bartley

What do you want to remember from this past week?

Reflect on your experience over the last 7 days. What was memorable about it? Write a short summary.

If you are not learning and moving forward, you are unconsciously entrenching older patterns more deeply. You are actually going backwards. So take a few minutes each week to reflect on what matters most in your life.

"Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and the council chamber of thought."

-- Basile

Discover the empowerment that comes with focus!!

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What is soul consciousness?

"You are a holistic being with both non dualistic energy and the energy of the physical plane as a part of your being at your disposal."

-- Wayne Dyer

Andrew Schneider helps us understand our human experience of being soul. He says, "Soul consciousness arises when we stand facing in opposite directions at the same time - toward eternity and toward time, toward infinity and toward space, toward unity and toward complexity. We stand in that dualism without being dualistic, for in consciousness we can accommodate the opposites. We do this by identifying with both. This identification results in the experience of being an individual while at the same time being the whole, and finding no contradiction in this experience."

"Give your difference, welcome my difference, unify all difference in the larger whole -- such is the law of growth. The unifying of difference is the eternal process of life -- the creative synthesis, the highest act of creation."

-- M. P. Follett

Journey through the traps of ego into a life of meaning, purpose, joy and service. Embark on your own soul journey... 

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A perfect Tuesday,courtesy DB!!!

It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

 

No person was ever honoured for what he received Honor has been the reward for what he gave

Time is our valuable asset,yet we tend to waste it, Kill it and spend itrather than Invest it

Opportunities are like sunrises if you wait too long, you miss them

Just because something is difficult, does not mean we should not try But it only means that we should try harder.

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

 

Don't Let What You Saw Or Heard Discourage You In Life,Believe In Yourselve And Keep The Fire Burning If ONLY You believe You Are Doing The Right Thing

 

Time never waits for anyone but one can wait for someone

 

Not many people on earth know their destiny,if you know your's,you are lucky.

 

Only one will soon be past; only what's done for CHRIST will last.

 

Those who understand see themselves in all, and all, in themselves.

 

We're afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand

that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.

 

PS:  Come, let us take our fill of love : let us solace ourselves with loves.

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Security...

"Let us never confuse stability with stagnation." -- Mary Jean LeTendre "Many people think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. If money is your ONLY hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a person can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless." -- Henry Ford "One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing." -- Morris L. West "One thing we can do is make the choice to view the world in a healthy way. We can choose to see the world as safe with only moments of danger rather than seeing the world as dangerous with only moments of safety." -- Deepak Chopra "The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment." -- Henry Miller

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