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It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.Shannon L. Alder
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Original sin and conscious awareness of human fallibility is the perpetual agent of transformation in human affairs. Humankind’s behavior is pathological; it is an admixture of instinct and reason, kindness and cruelty, immorality and seeking redemption.Kilroy J. Oldster
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They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor.Shannon L. Alder
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To experience what isn't, love what is.Eric Michael Leventhal
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Enlightenment — whether defined as spiritual awakening, liberation, or other form of illumination and attentiveness — requires inner transformation brokered by study of our limitations and application of a welcoming spirit of conscious appreciation. Self-knowledge commences by looking for the sacred light of awareness essential to spawn profound change in a person’s character.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Self-healing requires tremendous action, a willingness to go beyond the normative to discover something transcending.Kilroy J. Oldster
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What would happen if you gave yourself permission to do somethingyou’ve never done before? There’s only one way to find out.Gina Greenlee
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Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which was already there.Tom Althouse
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There is beauty all around us, and the light finds us when we realize, we are all part of that beauty and worth the cherishing. If we despise any, we journey to despise ourselves. See all as beautiful, even if they choose to see themselves through you, as being less than so. We have the power to see for each, and be the reflection of what they may yet see.Tom Althouse
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No matter how busy we may believe we are, we have the wonderful opportunity presently of investing time with loved ones. For those are the great investments we will be glad we made, when time begins to slow and the ability to tend turns tender.Tom Althouse
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Courage injures the strong ones who have no wisdom, but it motivates the brave ones, to always win.Auliq Ice
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Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.Tom Althouse
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To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the true winner, outside the confines of its defining.Tom Althouse
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Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.Tom Althouse
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More and more obstacles seem to be other people's issues that form in the way of a hand to block one, to take notice of them? Sometimes noticing ahead of time, and taking the time to notice them, makes the hand part of an arm that embraces you. The obstacles become bridges for both to cross over, even if in opposite directions.Tom Althouse
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Our most intense joy comes not from personal feats, but from helping other persons achieve their goals. We become suppler human beings when we find true joy in witnessing other people’s successes and unabashedly share in their joyful accomplishments.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Reading, writing, and personal introspection will not protect us from hardship and suffering, but they might introduce us to critical thinking and expose us to what is good in humankind and beautiful in the world that we share with all of nature. Contemplative thought, especially that supplemented with reading literature and attempting to write our own replies to the echoing voices of writers whom preceded us provide us with the potentiality for change, the possibility of personal illumination that enables us to experience a heighted quality of life.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Unlike his compatriots - many of whom were still, in their mid-twenties, adolescent posturers, doomed to futility - he had an engaging earnestness about him. Unlike them, he realized his incompleteness as a person and strove to overcome that. One of the ways in which he did that was by reading. He didn't read much, or too widely, but attentively, looking for instruction, hints for self-improvement, and he read serious books. .Pankaj Mishra
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Trust yourself and try not to get lured off course by conflicting opinions that don't seem to sit right with you.Auliq Ice
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Writing is mental exercise and the preeminent method to train the mind to achieve a desirable state of mental quietude. Meditative writing, a single pointed concentration of mental activity, induces an altered state of consciousness. Writing is studious rumination, a means to converse with our personal muse. Writing entails a period of forced solitude that enables us to meet and conduct a searching conversation with our authentic self. This contemplative dialogue with our true self is transformational. Writing is not a mere act but a journey of the mind into heretofore-unknown frontiers of the self.Kilroy J. Oldster
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If you're stuck in a puddle, it means there's higher ground all around you, you just have to step onto it.Emilyann Girdner
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Don’t try to change the world; just change yourself. Why? Because the whole world is only relative to the eyes that are looking at it. Your world actually only exists for as long as you exist and with the death of you, includes the death of your world. Therefore, if there is no peace in your heart; you will find no peace in this world, if there is no happiness in your life; you will find no happiness anywhere around you, if you have no love in your heart; you will not find love anywhere and if you do not fly around freely inside your own soul like a bird with perfectly formed wings; then there will never be any freedom for you regardless if you are on a mountaintop removed from all attachments to all of mankind! Even the mountaintop cannot give you freedom if it is not already flying around there inside your own soul! So I say, change yourself. Not the world.C. Joybell C.
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With or without our knowledge, we are all alchemists.Eric Michael Leventhal
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Each of us encounters many diverse experiences that make us grow and transform, but we seek to return to our roots, which is quietude.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Fate demands that we continue suffering, until we willingly seek out and discover the sacred path of righteousness. Until we surrender to the sameness of life, we are unable to experience the absolute ground zero of reality. Only by surrendering our desires, by readjusting our consciousness to a state undefined, unbound, and unmotivated by passion and desire, will we experience life transformed.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Every 'no' is a 'yes' to something.Eric Michael Leventhal
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A feistiness of spirit girds us in the most treacherous of moments. A metamorphosis of spirit often occurs after a person conscientiously surveys the resultant outcome of surviving a momentous ordeal and they transfigure personal heartache into a magnanimous manner of living in a just and righteous manner.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Sooner or later on this journey, every traveller faces the same question: Are you a human intending to be a god, or a god pretending to be human?Eric Michael Leventhal
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A mature person reaps joy in the commonplace acts of living, appreciates the serenity of just being, while balancing the responsibilities that come naturally about when deeply immersed in family and community affairs. Directing their attention outward, assisting other people in their troubled times, while denying themselves the indulgence of self-absorption frees a person’s bidding mind from a jumble of discordant thoughts, wants, and unholy bequests.Kilroy J. Oldster
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The most important journey you will take in your life will usually be the one of self transformation. Often, this is the scariest because it requires the greatest changes, in your life.Shannon L. Alder
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The ego resists change. False pride is an impediment to change.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Storytellers have as profound a purpose as any who are charged to guide and transform human lives. I knew it as an ancient discipline and vocation to which everyone is called.Nancy Mellon
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Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.Bernie S. Siegel
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A person whom is unhappy with life realizes that their construction of a self-image is incompatible with their earthly reality. An unhappy person must alter their internal or external world; otherwise, their sadness, sorrow, grief, and misery will remain unabated. Misery and desperation can lead to change, but only if a person is willing to learn, explore, and try.Kilroy J. Oldster