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The ego lives by comparisons...
The ego cannot survive without judgment.
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Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
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The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
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In your brother is The Light.
See him as sinless,
and there can be no fear in you.
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Would you rather be right or happy?
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Every loving thought is true.
Everything else is an appeal for healing and help,
regardless of the form it takes.
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There are many answers you have received
but have not yet heard.
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Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
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When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
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You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
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Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
My happiness depends on me.
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Seek not outside yourself.
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Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Principal Causes of Our Suffering
are Our Expectations and Our Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is impossible to begin to learn
that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
We have to stop and be humble enough to understand
that there is something called mystery.
- Paulo Coelho
The higher the sun rises, the less shadow it casts;
even so, the greater is the goodness, the less it covets praise;
yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
- Lao Tzu
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
Misery nourishes your ego -
that's why you see so many miserable people in the world.
The basic, central point is the ego.
- Osho
The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
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The man who is awakened, lives in such a way
that he leaves no footprints.
- Osho quoting The Buddha
INTENT:
We hold the power to make things happen
through our intent -
to the extent that we use our intention
with compassion and without ego.
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"Pride" is one of those really crazy words,
and such a double-edged sword -
Self-Worth on one edge, and Ego on the other.
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Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
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"Pride" is such a double-edged sword -
Self-Worth on one edge and Ego on the other.
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If you have to have it, it's ego.
If you have to not have it, it's ego.
Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need
and release what you don't.
- Alan Cohen
Pride comes in two flavors -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self denial is an indulgence to the ego.
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During life, none of us is 100% open to Spirit -
we have too much ego to do that.
Only at death do we give up our ego and completely open to Spirit.
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The good news is that you aren't
as important as you thought you were.
Relax. The weight of the world
is not on your shoulders.
Take a day off.
Go for a long silent walk in the woods.
The world will still be there tomorrow -
as good and as bad as ever.
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Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.
- Henry Van Dyke
Looking at a sunset, just for a second
you forget your separateness:
you are the sunset.
That is the moment when you feel the beauty of it.
But the moment you say that it is a beautiful sunset,
you are no longer feeling it;
you have come back to your separate,
enclosed entity of the ego.
Now the mind is speaking.
- Osho
The soul loves to meditate,
for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy.
If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation,
remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego;
it doesn't belong to the soul.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Each of us is of infinite value,
and each of us has the ability to make
a profound difference in the lives we touch.
We leave our most profoundly positive impact
on those around us by the nature of our lives
and the example we set -
not by how busy we are,
or how important we believe we are.
Setting an example of being loving, relaxed and joyful,
regardless of external circumstances,
is a great legacy for our family and for the world.
Self importance - ego - is not a path to happiness.
Focusing one's whole life on responsibilities,
without taking time for self-renewal and play,
abandons the joy and the true value of life.
I want my tombstone to read, "Inspired others,"
rather than, "Never missed a day at the office."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A life rooted deeply lives and grows in memory.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who lives in harmony with himself
lives in harmony with the universe.
- Marcus Aurelius
Lives based on having are less free
than lives based on doing or being.
- E.Y. Harburg
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who made the rule that life has to be so serious?
One would think that "life is serious" had been engraved
upon stone tablets to judge from how most lives are lived.
Get a life, smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat - dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
Most of us spend our lives as if
we have another one in the bank.
- Ben Irwin
If we want to direct our lives,
we must take control of our consistent actions.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives,
but what we do consistently.
- Anthony Robbins
A life, deeply rooted, lives and grows in memory.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
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