Your happiness is the most significant contribution that you can make. In your reaching for happiness, you are opening a vortex which makes you an avenue for the Well-being to flow through you. And anything that is your object of attention under those conditions benefits by the infusion of your Well-being. –Abraham/Esther Hicks

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It is not what happens to us that disturbs us; it is our thought about what happens to us that disturbs us. –Epictitus

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This being human is a guest house, every morning a new arrival.A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight.The dark thought, the shame, the malice. Meet them at the door laughing and invite them in. Be grateful for whatever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. -Rumi, translation by Coleman Barks

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When you are laughing, you are enlightened. Laughter is a sign that you get the big, cosmic joke, the human comedy. You are at your most brilliant when you opt to laugh rather than get mired in the drama of life. It is by far the healthiest and sanest response to the absurdity of this physical reality, life. –Vanda

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Laughter is people realizing they’re not alone -Uncle Dirty

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A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don’t allow the happy moment because they’re so busy trying to get a happy life. – Abraham-Hicks

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You’re not worthy and you’re not unworthy. You’re nothing. –Anurag Gupta

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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decisions, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The great teachings unanimously emphasize that all the peace, wisdom, and joy in the universe are already within us; we don’t have to gain, develop, or attain them. We’re like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight. We don’t need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we really are – as soon as we quit pretending we’re small or unholy. –Unknown

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. – Eric Hoffer 

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Consider that we’re all inauthentic pretending to be authentic –Michelle Buchanon

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We all have one thing in common: We’re all nothing pretending to be something. –Inner Voice, New-Age Boy band

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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. -Albert Einstein

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I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they might be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming. –Goethe

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There are only two things: Nothing, and what you generate. –Anurag Gupta

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In the Universe, there is an immeasurable and indescribable force which those who live of the source call “intention” –and everything in the entire cosmos is attached to intention by a connecting link. Sorcerers are not only concerned with understanding and explaining this connecting link, but they are especially concerned with cleansing it of the numbing effects brought about by all of the concerns of living at ordinary levels of consciousness. -Carlos Castaneda

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Service is actually that kind of relationship in which you have a commitment to the person. Now I don’t mean to the person’s body or to the person’s personality, or to the person’s stomach. What service is about is, being committed to the other being spiritually, to who the other person is. Now the problem with that is that you are only as valuable as you can deal with the other person’s stuff, their evidence, their manifestations. Service is about knowing who the other person is and being able to tolerate giving space to their garbage. What most people do is give space to people’s quality and deal with their garbage. Actually, you should do it the other way around. Deal with who they are and give space to their garbage. Keep interacting with them as if they were God. And every time you get garbage from them, give space to the garbage and go back and interact with them as if they were God. -Werner Erhard 

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I have caught life. I have come down with life. I was a wisp of undifferentiated nothingness, and then a little peephole opened quite suddenly. Light and sound poured in. Voices began to describe me and my surroundings. Nothing they said could be appealed. They said I was a boy named Rudolph Waltz, and that was that. They said the year was 1932, and that was that. They said I was in Midland City, Ohio, and that was that. They never shut up. Year after year they piled detail upon detail. They do it still. You know what they say now? They say the year is 1982, and that I am fifty years old… Blah, blah, blah. -Kurt Vonnegut, “Dead-Eye Dick.”

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Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive. Jump into experience while you are alive! Think… and think… while you are alive. What you call “salvation” belongs to the time before death. If you don’t break our ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after? The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic just because the body is rotten – that is all fantasy. What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death. If you make love with the divine now, the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire. So plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, believe in the Great Sound! Kabir says this: When the Guest is being searched for, It is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity. –Hafiz 

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When someone gives you their attention, they are giving you a gift. We don’t always treat each other that way, but it is a gift. –Sheila Peralta

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Results in your life are consistent with the consciousness out of which you operate. –Anurag Gupta

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Ask yourself this question: “Do I want to be extraordinary?” Here are three character traits of the extraordinary person: Being willing to move off of a position where they are “right” in order to restore love and affinity to a relationship. Being generous; having an attitude of gratitude. Not because things are always so swell; because it’s where they choose to come from.  Being connected. That means noticing and dropping the agenda one has with others. The more agenda, the less connection. –Anurag Gupta

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When The Student Is Ready, the Teacher Shall Appear -Chinese Proverb

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Is that true? –Byron Katie

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Left Field Theory: If you want to have a breakthrough into a new possibility in any area of your life, here’s what you do: 1) Do absolutely everything you know to do and 2) Something happens out of left field. –David Botfeld

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If you have no idea what to do, if you’re in a fog, walk 3 steps in ANY direction! –Vanda

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Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not quite, the not at all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. -Ann Rand

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Take a second look at what appears to be someone’s good luck. You’ll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking. -David Joseph Schwartz

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face… The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it… You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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If there love and affinity is not present in every relationship you have, YOU can let go of something. –Toni Wilson

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The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them. -Albert Einstein

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In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete. – Buckminster Fuller 

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. –Ralph Waldo Emerson 

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Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive. -Harold Whitman

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So Socrates was mistaken:  It’s not the unexamined life that is not worth living; it’s the uncommitted life. There is no smaller package in the world than that of a person all wrapped up in himself.  Love is our business; if we can’t love, we’re out of business. -William Sloane Coffin

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There is nothing but wellness. -Abraham channeled by Esther Hicks

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Only in stillness do we access the field of pure potentiality, wherein all the details of our lives are orchestrated for you, where we find ourselves doing less and accomplishing more. -Deepak Chopra

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You can choose to be responsible for what you do and say to another. You can even go further and choose to be responsible for what another says or does to you. You can even go further than that and be responsible for what another says and does to another. You get to say how far out your sphere of responsibility reaches. –Werner Erhard

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The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is. – Kahlil Gibran 

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I have no idea what Kahlil Gibran is talking about.  –Vanda  

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Not that which speech illumines, but That whereby speech can illumine, know this alone to be Brahman, the Eternal, and not what people here adore. Not that which the mind thinks, but That by whereby the mind can think, know this alone to be Brahman, the Eternal, and not what people here adore. Not that which the eye sees, but That whereby the eye can see, know this alone to be Brahman, the Eternal, and not what people here adore. Not that which the ear hears, but That whereby the ear can hear, know this alone to be Brahman, the Eternal, and not what people here adore. Not that which is indrawn by breath, but That whereby breath is indrawn, know this alone to be Brahman, the Eternal, and not what people here adore .-Kena Upanishads

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If you knew who was walking with you every step of the way on this path that you have chosen, you would never experience fear or doubt again. –A Course in Miracles

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Deal with this: Either the subatomic realm responds to the mind of man or it doesn’t.  -Todd Thompson

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can’t believe impossible things. I dare say you haven’t had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. -Lewis Carroll

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Whoever sets himself up as a judge of truth is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.-Albert Einstein

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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. –Tom Robbins

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When the river is turbulent and your boat has gone awry, lift your oars. The waters will right you with grace and momentum. –Laura, Life Coach

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You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold – that is how important you are. -Eckhart Tolle

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It’s less important what you are creating than that you are creating. -Anurag Gupta

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Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you’ve never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Work as though you don’t need the money. Live as though heaven is on Earth.-Unknown

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. – Marianne Williamson

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Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. – HenryMiller

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Come, Come, Whoever You Are! Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vow a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come. –Rumi

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These images point me in the direction I wish to go; they are not the way itself. The way is a contemplative one, which simply means looking at someone or something without absorbing them into our little world of ideas and values. Contemplation means seeing what is there and refusing to hallucinate so that we see only what we want to see. We then wait to see what chooses to reveal itself (as in the Greek word for truth, aletheia, which literally means to uncover. The truth then, is that which reveals or uncovers itself). It means being attentive to whatever and whoever is there as truly other than ourselves. This is what is suggested by the word aesthetic, which strictly means seeing things in such a way that the viewer is changed by what he or she sees. Perhaps that is why artists in totalitarian countries are often locked up. They help people see a new world through their art, and that is dangerous to the existing totalitarian political system. – Alan W. Jones from “Soulmaking,The Desert Way Of Spirituality”   

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand uplifted and positive in every thought and deed. – Eileen Caddy