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Be realistic. Plan for a miracle. —Bhagwan Shree Rajineesh
All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another. —Debbie Ford
If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it. —Joseph Campbell
Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.
Life is a creative process and our thoughts, beliefs, assumptions, choices, actions, and words are the tools that we use to invent our experiences and our circumstances.
There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly.
We have the ability to create circumstances and opportunities in our lives by setting clear intentions and by committing to and living in alignment with these intentions.
Life consists of what a person is thinking about all day. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you alter your relationship with yourself, your external world will alter accordingly.
If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. —Rumi
Sometimes it is more important to demonstrate confidence that others will find their way than it is to try to figure out how you yourself can help them out of their dilemmas. Bottom
Just stay authentic and risk telling the truth—first to yourself and then to others, because that’s where the healing happens.
Each person has the potential for love. But potential is never realized without work.
In order to attract an extraordinary love and then preserve a relationship distinguished by respect and kindness, we must first face our fears and come to terms with our woundedness.
And while men and women may not need one another for economic survival any longer, we do need one another for nurturing and for emotional wellbeing.1 We all need to feel connected, valued, cared for, and respected.
Love requires that we give up a certain degree of autonomy and allow ourselves to become unguarded and accessible.
Loving relationships must include the ability to be vulnerable enough to depend upon someone.
I need many things from the people in my life and, hopefully, they trust me enough to need many things back from me.
Now, I understand that many of us are carrying around unhealed wounds from the past that occur in the present as neediness. We feel as though we have to hide our needs, fearing that they will engulf anyone who gets too close. Yet in our efforts not to appear inappropriately needy, many of us have tried to shut down our needs entirely.
She needs to feel treasured by her man and she needs a partner who demonstrates that he cares about her feelings. She needs someone who will anticipate her wishes and take action to fulfill them, even before she thinks to ask.
word to her. She needs him to be someone she can count on, someone who will do his best to make her feel secure.
A loving partner who encourages and inspires him will bring out the best in him.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thought. With our thoughts we make the world. —The Dhammapada
Having fear as the foundation of our work just sets us up for failure because we tend to create that which we focus on. So, it’s important that we don’t
That’s because it’s the thing you are focused on and it’s the thing that has the most energy around it. A good indication that your foundation is fear is the feeling of desperation.
“What you resist, persists.” Therefore, as
Fulfilled Like a great athlete, we must have a very clear vision of what we want to accomplish before we make a move. Vision, in preparation for an action, is as important as the action itself.
someone you can have fun with during the six-hour flight over there. —Tom Arnold
“Yes. This is for me. Thank you, God.”
Rather than being about excitement and lust, a soul mate relationship is characterized by such things as a shared life path, a sense of comfort and ease, and a genuine liking of each other. And
Love Make room for love and it always comes. Make a nest for love and it always settles. Make a home for the beloved and he will find his way there. —Marianne Williamson, A Woman’s Worth
The truth is, each gain in life represents the loss of something else.
The first act of creation is always destruction.
there is one thing to bear in mind until the truth of its words eases the heart troubled by apparent failure and loss, it is this: The new life is always greater than the old.
Realize that you are only resentful to the extent that you have given away your personal power.
If you are in full possession of your personal power, you can afford to be generous when someone else is behaving poorly. It’s only when you don’t own your power fully that it shows up as resentment.
Fear, Obligation, and Guilt”—that characterizes most “toxic tie” relationships.
anger always begs an action.
Sometimes the value of a relationship (even a miserable one) is that it provides an opportunity for you to grow and mature in ways that you might not have done otherwise.
The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
However, there is also this other love, the slow and steady kind,
You want to learn how much someone has to give by watching how they show up in life. If they are consistent, do what they say they are going to do, are sensitive and considerate toward you and others; then you can open up more.
At times the kind of perseverance required is patience. —Ralph Blum
don’t make it mean that the work you’ve done is for naught. Think of it only as a need for refinement, and acknowledge yourself for getting closer. In those disheartening and frustrating moments, remember the sage advice of Woody Allen in his movie Hannah and Her Sisters: “The heart is a very, very resilient little muscle.”
say yes, yes, yes, and yes. Remember. What is yours will come to you. —Ralph Blum
