How do you handle emotions? What do you feel about how you feel? When you know your style of feeling and reacting, you will know areas that you are weak in and strong in. You can use your best skills when the need calls upon you. You will be much …
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“We can’t afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.” — Denis Waitley All over our site, we talk about how self-awareness brings empowerment. We’re always encouraging you to notice and release old habitual patterns and …
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“Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.” — Kin Hubbard Being a good conversationalist can make a big difference in how much we enjoy people. The more easily we can talk with others, the more rich life …
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“Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.” — Mark Twain And this custom can be very frustrating: Having insights and learnings in life and not remembering them. Being unclear about where we are going and how to get …
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“Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.” — Dan Millman Deep down inside, what are you most afraid of? Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson have identified 9 basic fears that shape our personalities: 1. Fear of being …
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“Right human relations is the only true peace.” — Alice A. Bailey “All of life is relationship,” said Swami Rama. We find our greatest meaning and rewards in relationships. At the same time, they also bring us our greatest frustration, anger and grief. Clearly, we have lots to learn about …
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“The key is to not resist or rebel against emotions or to try to get around them by devising all sorts of tricks; but to accept them directly, as they are.” — Takahisa Kora When I’m hit with emotional turbulence, my first (and unconscious) response is to resist it. I …
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“Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.” ~Anthony de Mello The Tibetan teacher, Chögyam Trungpa, warned of the trap of spiritual materialism. He said we must be diligent to spot the ego’s use of the spiritual journey to further its own ends. I may think it’s spiritual to …
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