Is it possible thatwe ‘hate’ politics because we have forgotten its specifi c and limitednature, its overwhelming value, and also its innate fragility? Could it bethat our expectations are so high that politics appears almost destinedto disappoint? Democratic politics cannot make ‘every sad heart glad’, as Crick argued, nor did it ever promise to do so. But not alwaysgetting what you want, an awareness that public governance is oftenslow and bureaucratic, a frustration that some decisions are hard tounderstand or have to be made in secret, disbelief and anger at the selfinterestedbehaviour of a small number of politicians, and an acceptancethat some people will always take out more from the system thanthey put in–these are the prices you pay for living in a democracy. Matthew Flinders
Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.
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Criss Jami
When you tune into your soul essence and are in harmony with the Supreme, you are tapped into your superpowers.
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Sharon Kirstin
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
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Stephen Richards
When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.
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Stephen Richards
The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.
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Stephen Richards
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This is the secret of happiness that you have been looking for: If you are moving in the direction of your identified desires, you're happy in this moment. If you're moving in opposition to your identified desires, you are unhappy in this moment.
The universe is not punishing you or blessing you. The universe is simply responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting.
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Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with the greater variety of information that is coming forward than you did. They deliberately are coming forth into this environment where there is more to contemplate. This generation gap that you are talking about,...
The universe does not know whether the vibration that you're offering is because of something you're observing or something you're remembering or something that you are imagining. It just receives the vibration and answers it with things that match it.
