The Daily Guru

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WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET


Visualize what you want.
See it, feel it, believe in it.
Your mind is your mental workshop.
You can build anything you want in it.
The beginning of your success is in your imagination.

Make your mental blueprint
and then begin construction.
See things as you would have them be
instead of as they are.

Use your imagination to perceive your new reality
even when it's not fully materialized.
Remember, you must first clearly see a thing in your mind
before you can do it or have it.

Your imagination will show you
how to turn possibility into reality.
First think, then organize your thoughts into plans.
Then transform your thoughts into reality
by taking some positive action.

See the things you want as already yours.
Think of them as yours,
as belonging to you,
as already in your possession.
Picture yourself as having already achieved your goal.

Dreams and ideas can cross continents and oceans.
They go anywhere you can go.

What you see is what you get.

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"Dream!"

"The most pathetic person in the world is the person who has sight, but
no vision."

-- Helen Keller

What’s the big picture for your life? Always have a larger, purposeful,
even spiritually ideal picture of where you are going. Your mind needs
to have a clear and challenging vision to draw you ever upwards.

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not
reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and
follow where they lead."

-- Louisa May Alcott

"The only limits are, as always, those of vision."

-- James Broughton

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MAKING CHOICES IS YOUR GREATEST POWER


You can decide to alter the course of your life at any time.
No one can ever take that away from you.
You can do what you want to do
and be who you want to be.

Nature is constantly at work around you.
Character and destiny are her handiwork.
She gives you love and hate,
jealousy and reverence.
You have the power to choose which impulse you follow.

While your character is formed by your circumstances,
your desires can shape those circumstances.
The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own
thoughts.
It is this that puts you in a position to control your own destiny.

Your greatest power is the power to choose.


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Recognizing Abundance"

"If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself;
admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its
riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent
place."

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

Where do you now experience abundance in your life?

If you are hard-pressed to find abundance in your finances or
possessions, look to spiritual qualities. Do you experience abundance in a
special relationship? In a quiet moment in a park? In a good laugh with a
friend? The more you acknowledge abundance in your spirit, the richer
your life will become.

"Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."

-- John Petit-Senn

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IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED, TRY TRY AGAIN


Success is connected with continuous action.
It's largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
You're not finished when you're defeated,
you're only finished when you quit.

The most important quality essential to success is perseverance.
It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

You can have a fresh start any time you choose,
for "failure" is not in the falling down,
but in the staying down.
It's not over until it's over.

If you've got the courage to stick it out,
you'll attain your goal.
Winning isn't everything.
Wanting to win is everything.

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"Smile!"

"Smile, it's free therapy."

-- Doug Horton

I’ve learned that if I put a smile on my face when I’m feeling down, my
spirits will automatically lift. The body knows that a smile means
happiness.

Knowing this doesn’t mean I’m always willing to do it. Many times, I
have absolutely refused to cheer myself up. Isn’t that interesting!

It’s a clue that sometimes the ego positively enjoys being miserable.
It can be enlightening to explore the pay-offs we get from our black
moods.

"Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is
something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing
but pure misery there is never any recourse to the mention of it."

-- Samuel Johnson

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"Mind Control"

"Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it
is absolutely necessary."

-- Ray Knight

"Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as
concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity of
one-pointed attention is the essence of genius. When we have this mastery over
attention in everything we do, we have a genius for life itself:
unshakable security, clear judgment, and deep personal relationships."

-- Eknath Easwaran

"The successful man is the average man, focused."

-- Source Unknown

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IT'S A GOOD TIME TO CHANGE


Where you are in your life today,
you made an appointment to be there five years ago.
Where you'll be five years from now
will be determined by your actions today and in the future.

The first step toward getting somewhere
is to decide that you're not going to stay where you are.

Analyze your life in terms of your environment.
Are the things around you helping you toward your success
or are they holding you back?

You're a product of your environment.
So choose an environment that will best develop you toward your goals.

Your world today is a living expression
of how you're using and have used your mind.
It's something you can change at any time.

Don't remain a captive to your environment.
Don't say "If I could, I would,"
say, "If I can, I will."

You can make changes any time. Why not start today?

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"Go For Depth"

"Mastery does not come from dabbling. We have to be prepared to pay the
price. We need to have the sustained enthusiasm that motivates us to
give our best."

-- Eknath Easwaran

Our world now offers us a smorgasbord of opportunities. In the personal
growth field alone, there are myriads of books and products, all
promising relief from what ails us. It’s easy to flip quickly from one
program to another when something new captures our imagination.

If I long for change in my life, however, I need to do more than skim
the surface. I need to make time and take time to both learn new
approaches and then -- most importantly -- to apply what I’ve learned. If I
jump around to new techniques too rapidly, I won’t benefit from any of
them.

"Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts."

-- Elbert Hubbard

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CHANGE INFLUENCES YOUR PERSONAL GROWTH


Personal growth is the process of responding positively to change.
It involves risk as you step from the known to the unknown.

All your growth will depend on your activity.
Your strength and growth will come
only through continuous effort and struggle.
There will be no development without effort.

Trouble is the common denominator of living.
It's the great equalizer of life.
Your trials and your sorrows will develop you.

When good or bad fortune comes your way,
you must give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

What happens to you is not as important
as your reaction to what is happening to you.

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HEALING WITH ANGELS

By Doreen Virtue: Who are the angels? Doreen Virtue reminds us in this
wisdom flash that we are never alone. There are an infinite number of
angels, sent by God, to help us feel peace and joy.

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YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR LIFE


If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
If you want to see a change for the better,
you have to take things in your own hands.

To affect the outcome of anything,
you must control the action at the point of decision making.
You're in control of your life
to the degree that you make the decisions.

If you let others make decisions for you,
you have no control.
When you control your decisions,
you control the actions.

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"Water Wisdom"

"When flowing water ... meets with obstacles on its path, a blockage in
its journey, it pauses. It increases in volume and strength, filling up
in front of the obstacle and eventually spilling past it....

"Do not turn and run, for there is nowhere worthwhile for you to go. Do
not attempt to push ahead into the danger ... emulate the example of
the water: Pause and build up your strength until the obstacle no longer
represents a blockage."



-- from the ‘I Ching,’presented in
‘To Build the Life You Want, Create the
Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension
of Entrepreneuring’ by Marsha Sinetar

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"Create Space"

"All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside
of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest."

-- Bayazid al-Bistami

We need to create space if we desire to change and grow. Only in
emptiness can meaning, intuitive guidance and truth arise.

Give yourself space by spending time in nature, taking an hour or day
off, enjoying quiet moments for reflection. Take time to smell the
roses. Breathe in the wonder of life and its bounty. Open so your deeper
awareness and imagination can percolate through mundane thoughts and
activities. Let go of both resistance and force to allow yourself to connect
more deeply to life.

"I do only want to advise you to keep growing quietly and seriously
throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than
by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that
only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer."

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

"I am glad that so much movement happens in this stillness."

-- Richard Land


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LEADERSHIP IS ACTION NOT POSITION


All successful people became successful,
because they gave some talent or ability in the service of others.
You can contribute in some way to others,
no matter how small your talent.
You too, can become successful.

No one achieves success without being of service.

Successful people don't use others,
other people use the successful,
for above all, success is of service.

Everyone has to be someone to someone to be anyone.
Service is the essence of success.

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"What are you feeling?"

"We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of
those creative emotions from which a good life springs."

-- Bertrand Russell

Many of the qualities that bring fulfilment in life are feelings, like
love, joy, freedom and gratitude.

In our overly rational world, we tend to think about how we feel,
which, of course, is not feeling at all -- it’s thinking.

Honour your feelings and be willing to experience them. They give us
valuable feedback about what is and what is not working in our lives.
They are the signposts to meaningful inner work.

"With just a little education and practice on how to manage your
emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you
will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to
sustain it. The payoff is delicious in terms of improved quality of
life."

-- Doc Childre

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PURSUE WHAT YOU WANT AND YOU'LL GET IT


When you're sure you're on the right road to success
you don't have to plan your journey too far ahead.
Don't burden yourself with doubts and fears
as to the obstacles that may bar your progress.

You don't need to know all your answers in advance.
Just have a clear idea of the goal you want to reach.
You can only take one step at a time.

If you can muster up the courage to begin,
you'll find the courage to succeed.
It's the job you never start
that always takes the longest to finish.

Eighty percent of success is in showing up.

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"Ordinary Can Be Awesome"

"Everything in life can be nourishing. Everything can bless us, but
we've got to be there for the blessing to occur. Being present with
quality is a decision we are invited to make each day."

-- MacRina Wiederkehr

Spirit is not only found in holy places, prayer and meditation, yoga
and retreats. It is everywhere -- in your relationships, your work, your
daily chores, in nature ... if you are willing to connect deeply with
your environment.

Open to connect with something and you open to its essence, its purpose
and meaning. There are other dimensions of reality below what we
normally see and hear. Open to the mystery.

"We live in a world of theophanies. Holiness comes wrapped in the
ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of
angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb. Life wants to lead you
from crumbs to angels, but this can happen only if you are willing to
unwrap the ordinary by staying with it long enough to harvest its
treasure."

-- Macrina Wiederkehr

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DON'T SERVE TIME, MAKE TIME SERVE YOU


Time can't be managed. What can be managed
are your activities and how you spend your time.
You always have enough time if you use it wisely.

Set your priorities for goal attainment.
Always try to put first things first.
Most goals are not achieved because people put second things first.

All time management begins with planning.
In all planning you make a list and set priorities.
While you're reviewing your priorities, ask the question:
"What's the best use of my time right now ?"

Ask yourself: "What is my payoff in doing this activity ?"
"How does this fit in with my long term objectives ?"
"Is what I'm doing getting me closer to my objective?"

Make decisions and implement them.
To choose time is to save time.

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LIFE AS A DAYMAKER WF

By David Wagner: David Wagner shows how to change the world by making
someone's day. He invites and challenges us to consciously live each
moment as a great opportunity to enrich someone's life and in the process,
rediscover the richness of everyday life and find the nourishment that
all our souls long for. Just imagine the opportunity you have to
positively impact each person you meet!

Click here to get started:-

www.thedailyguru.com/flashwisdom.htm


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YOU CAN, WHEN YOU BELIEVE YOU CAN


Don't be afraid of what life has to offer you.
If you believe that life is worth living,
your belief will help create the fact.

The barrier between you and success
is not something that exists in the real world.
It's simply composed of doubts about your ability.
Your only limits to your realization of tomorrow
will be your doubts of today.

Success is a state of mind.
If you want to be successful,
start thinking of yourself as successful.

You are what you believe yourself to be.

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"What Is Soul Consciousness?"

"You are a holistic being with both nondualistic energy and the energy
of the physical plane as a part of your being at your disposal."

-- Wayne Dyer

Andrew Schneider helps us understand our human experience of being
soul. He says, "Soul consciousness arises when we stand facing in opposite
directions at the same time - toward eternity and toward time, toward
infinity and toward space, toward unity and toward complexity. We stand
in that dualism without being dualistic, for in consciousness we can
accommodate the opposites. We do this by identifying with both. This
identification results in the experience of being an individual while at
the same time being the whole, and finding no contradiction in this
experience."

"Give your difference, welcome my difference, unify all difference in
the larger whole -- such is the law of growth. The unifying of
difference is the eternal process of life -- the creative synthesis, the highest
act of creation."

-- M. P. Follett

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RICHES LIE WITHIN YOU, NOT IN YOUR MATERIAL POSSESSIONS


Wealth without enjoyment is little consolation.
Your real riches in life are riches of the head and heart.
Satisfaction comes when you appreciate what you have.

While success is getting what you want,
true happiness is wanting what you get.

It's not how much you have,
but how much you enjoy that truly matters.


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"Seek Your Limits And Beyond"

"If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other
people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously
create your own."

-- Stephen Covey

Connect with the edge, the unknown, of your experience. Allow this pull
towards unexplored territory to take you to new dimensions of yourself.
Allow life to touch you in new ways. For this is how we truly live
life. Become more alive as you grow through your consciousness barriers.
Ask questions that seek answers beyond yourself. The depth of life is
revealed as you go further into it.

Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on
one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes, mind and heart
open to nature, men, books, experience - and what he gathers serves him
at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways."

-- Hamilton Wright Mabie

"Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your
thoughts."

--Benjamin Disraeli

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YOU ARE WHAT YOU REPEATEDLY DO


First you make your habits,
and then your habits make you.
You become a slave to your constantly repeated acts.
What at first you choose, at last compels.

Your habits are either the best of servants
or the worst of masters.
Your thoughts lead you on to a purpose,
your purposes go forth in action.

Your actions form your habits.
Your habits determine your character,
and your character fixes your destiny.

Once in motion, a pattern stays in motion.

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"Self-Deception"

"The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self."

-- Phillip James Bailey

Are you hiding in some way from your own inner light?

I wouldn’t dream of stealing things but I do steal from my own
potential. I can be a master at rationalizing, at justifying why it’s not the
right time to do something challenging. My arguments seem valid but deep
down, I know they’re excuses.

"The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth."

-- Robert Half

"When we know deep down that we’re acting with integrity despite
impulses to do otherwise, we feel gates of higher energy and inspiration open
inside of us."

-- Dan Millman

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STAY REALISTIC ON THE ROAD TO SUCCESS


The truth is what it is.
It's neither good nor bad. It's simple reality.
Tailor your concepts to fit reality,
instead of trying to stuff reality into your concepts.
No matter what you believe, it won't change the facts.

If we all worked on the assumption
that what is accepted as true is really true,
there would be little hope of advancement in the world.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish
thing.

Successful people are realistic
and aren't trapped by false appearances.
See the world as it is.

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"The Power Of Silence"

"Growth takes place in a person by working at a deep inner level in a
sustained atmosphere of silence."

-- Dr. Ira Progoff

How can we hear our wise voice of intuition if we are always thinking,
talking and distracted by outer events?

If we take time daily to experience physical stillness and to direct
our attention inside, we can begin to find the peace, love, will and
wisdom that exist as our essence.

"Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to
others... And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound
through solitude."

-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It’s the place
of reflection and contemplation, and it’s the place where we can
connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way."

-- Angeles Arrien

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YOU MUST PAY THE PRICE FOR SUCCESS


Everything you want in life has a price connected to it.
There's a price to pay if you want to make things better;
a price to pay for just leaving things as they are,
a price for everything.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated.
She will give up to you the object of your struggles
only after you have paid her price.

Success cannot be coaxed or bribed.
Pay the price and it will be yours.
The universe is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere.
Fortune sells her wares, she never gives them up freely.
In some form or another, you'll pay for her favors,
or you'll go away empty handed.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance.
There is no success at bargain basement prices.

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"Honesty"

"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar,
but is a stab at the health of human society."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What level of honesty are you living now?

How honest are you with strangers, institutions and businesses,
acquaintances, friends, family, spouse?

How honest are you with yourself?

"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most
difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."

-- Walter Anderson

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YOU CANNOT WIN THE RACE UNLESS YOU RUN


You must take the first step to win any race.
The first step will take some effort and maybe some pain.
But after that, everything you have to do is real-life movement.
Once you're moving you must keep moving.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desires
and begin at once, whether you're ready or not,
to put your plan into action.

If you can get up the courage to begin,
you have the courage to succeed.
You can only fail if you fail to start.

Winning starts with beginning.
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"Distinguish Personality Desires From Soul Needs"

"Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself."

-- Julio Cortazar

We indulge ourselves when we seek to meet our longings through desires
of the personality. We indulge ourselves when we buy more clothes to
make us happy, when we eat another snack to ease the hunger, when we have
an affair to feel powerful or loveable. Any pleasure we get, if we get
any at all, is shallow and short- lived.

The only lasting satisfaction can come from meeting the deep spiritual
needs of the soul. We discover what we are really after in life when we
identify the spiritual qualities and needs that lie behind our desires
for material pleasures.

"But life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women.
There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the
self."

-- Betty Friedan

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TEACH YOUR CHILDREN

By Neale Donald Walsch: Teach your children that true happiness comes
from within; that they don't need to look outside themselves for
approval; that even failures are succeses, because they are lessons in
disguise. These are the tools they will need to be successful, happy, and
complete as children, and eventually, as grown-ups.

Click here to get started:-

www.thedailyguru.com/flashwisdom.htm



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SUCCESS IS WAITING FOR YOU


You have control over your life.
Success or failure is up to you.
You control how lucky you are.
You create your wealth with your effort.

There are no age limits on when you can transform your life.
Change is possible at any time.
It is essential if you want to grow.

The doubts you'll experience along the way are part of life.
Make a plan to attain your success and stick to it.
Your life is a marathon, not a short sprint.
Accept total responsibility for your actions
and remove "QUIT" from your vocabulary.

Decide you want success and it can be yours.
Success is always your choice.


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"You Are Bigger Than You Think"

"He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment."

-- Meister Eckhart

We are the ocean -- vast, deep, powerful and rich. Nourishing and
nurturing. Dive down into the dark stillness of being. Sense the rising and
falling of surface thoughts and emotions, sometimes gentle, sometimes
violent. Always shifting. Always in motion. Draw back and watch the
waves of your life at play. Know you are the unfathomable depths -- surface
agitations can’t disturb you. Know that you are bigger than the little
things that aggravate you.

"The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp."

-- John Berry

"It’s best not to get too excited or too depressed by the ups and downs
of life."

-- Dalai Lama



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Love life and yourself

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone
deeply gives you courage."

-- Lao Tzu

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are
afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that
life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.

We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our
imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our
ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes
for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of
people who embrace life.

"It matters not Who you love, Where you love, Why you love, When you
love, Or how you love, It matters only that you love."

-- John Lennon

"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?"

-- Frank Scully

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YOU'RE THE MASTER OF YOUR FATE


Nature is at work around you.
Character and destiny are her handiwork.
She gives you love and hate, jealousy and reverence.
You have the power to choose which impulses you will follow.

Your character is formed by your circumstances,
but your own desires can do much to shape those circumstances.
What's really ennobling in the doctrine of free will
is the conviction that you have the power
over the formation of your own character.

You can at any time decide to alter the course of your life.
No one can ever take that away from you.
You're the master or your joys and sorrows.
The greatest power you possess is the power to choose.

You're the captain of your soul.

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OPPORTUNITY LIES IN THE MIDST OF DIFFICULTY


Every problem you encounter has hidden in it
an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.
The greatest success stories were created by people
who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

You'll find that every situation,
properly perceived, offers you an opportunity.
As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it.
No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it.
You'll discover new directions
when you have an open mind and a willing hand.

Successful people didn't achieve their distinction
by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them.
They developed an opportunity that was at hand.

You must make your own opportunities if you want to be successful.
Opportunity is all around you.

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"No Need For Comparison"

"Nothing is good or bad but by comparison."

-- Thomas Fuller

We are each unique, so comparing ourselves to others serves no purpose.
Even comparing myself to how I was a while back is not usually helpful.
Typically, comparison just brings the ego a false sense of either
superiority or inferiority.

If we let go of comparison and choose instead to completely accept
where we are, we can enjoy both peace and growth.

"Do not judge and you will never be mistaken."

-- Jean Jacques Rousseau

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"Do You Love Yourself?"

"At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being
lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance."

-- Dr. Paul Tournier

How do you see yourself as unlovable?

Take a few minutes to write down why you perceive yourself to be
unlovable. Look at the list and see if you can identify where those
characterizations originated. Can you pinpoint old messages from parents,
teachers, and friends that led you to negative conclusions about yourself?
Are those messages valid today?

The beliefs we adopt as children usually don't hold when we view them
objectively as adults. Can you let them go? Can you begin to see
yourself as a unique expression of life, a genuine gift to the world?

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your
love and affection."

-- Buddha

"Limitless like the ocean are your excellent qualities."

-- Dalai Lama


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YOU CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING


You can have anything on earth that you want,
once you mentally accept the fact that you can have it.

If you want to be successful,
begin thinking of yourself as successful.
The feeling of being successful has to come first.
If you have a deep inner conviction
that you will always have all that you need,
if you actually feel prosperous, it will be so.

The only thing that stands between you
and what you want from life
is simply the will to pursue it
and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Only your mind sets your limits.