“Much of what we think of as true about ourselves is an elaborate construction of beliefs, prejudices, fears, half-truths, and so on. Beneath that debris of misinformation, there is a true, good, discoverable self. It’s not something you have to create or improve. It’s something that has always been there, but you’ve lost it. True [...]
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” … passion is the path. It is the way to self-realization. Even in earthly terms it can be fairly said that if you have a passion for nothing, you have not life at all.”
—Neale Donald Walsch “Conversations With God”
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The problem that I see all too often is that having PASSION (for anything!) is a [...]
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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
— Mark Twain
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How true that is! But I had to learn that really great people are not where one might expect them to be. Before I met my [...]
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“if you provide yourself with the experiences you seek, this significantly decreases the frantic quality many people have when pursuing the symbols of life. ‘I can’t be happy until I get …’ ‘I won’t rest until I …’ ‘My life isn’t complete until I …’ There’s not a desire or intention we can’t fulfill for [...]
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“Never think anything to be of benefit to you that makes you break your word or lose your self-respect.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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I know that those times when I have suffered the most emotional turmoil (stress) are those times when I have made choices that were the furthest from my personal integrity. These were not necessarily immoral [...]
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“Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it: men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts, we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we [...]
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