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I]t doesn't matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don't know who you are, or if you've forgotten or misplaced her, then you'll always feel as if you don't belong. Anywhere. (xiii)
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self-knowledge
self-awareness
life
love
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yourself
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The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers
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if you want your life to come together, you have to start treating yourself better.
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Never forget that all you have is all you need.
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Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun.
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You only live once--but if you work it right, once is enough. --JOE E. LEWIS
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Remember, no matter what life throws at us, we can always bake a cake!
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. --MELODY BEATTIE
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The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as startling as cold water being thrown in our face. How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we're really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?
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You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life.
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gratitude
change
thanks
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When I looked at my life's ledger I realized I was a very rich woman. What I was experiencing was merely a temporary cash-flow problem. Finally, I came to an inner awareness that my personal net worth couldn't possibly be determined by the size of my checking account balance. Neither can yours.
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The key to loving how you live is in knowing what it is you truly love.
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Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We've got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we've chosen.
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Each life experience leaves a layer of memory like a deposit of sediment: things we've loved and moments of contentment we've cherished that when recalled, reveal glimmers of our true selves.
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If it's not authentically you, live without it.
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Has this ever happened to you? You are washing your face, and suddenly you do not recognize the woman staring back at you. "Who is this?" you ask the mirror on the wall. No reply. She looks vaguely familiar but bears little resemblance to the woman you were expecting to see there. Psychologists call this phenomenon a "displacement of self," and it usually occurs during times of great stress (which for many of us is an everyday occurrence)."
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I've got a good feeling that this coming year is going to be your best yet. Heaven knows you deserve it.
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Sometimes a person has to go back, really back--to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them--before they can go forward. --PAULE MARSHALL
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Your heart will always tell you what's working and what's not.
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Take another look at your life. Give thanks. Accept your circumstances. Give thanks. Count your blessings. Give thanks. Show up for each day's meditation. Be willing to give the basic tools a fair chance. They can help you find your way.
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St. Francis of Assisi explains the creative process this way: the woman who works with her hands only is a laborer; the woman who works with her hands and her head is a craftswoman; the woman who works with her hands, her head, and her heart is an artist.
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Whether you realize it or not, you have lived many lives, and each one has left an indelible mark on your soul.
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We can stop waiting for life to become perfect and start working with what we've got to make it as satisfying as we can. We can accept, bless, give thanks, and get going. Today, we can begin to call forth the riches from our everyday life. Today we can move from lack to abundance.
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Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.
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take a risk a day--one small or bold stroke that makes you feel great once you have done it.
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There is no companion so companionable as Solitude," Thoreau reminds me as I carry a hot cup of tea back to bed."
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Trust that through the balm of simplicity your frazzled and weary soul can discover the place where you ought to be. Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us.
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When we realize gratefully that we can live by our own lights if we access the Power. Ask for it. Claim it. Today.
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We should only strive to be first-rate versions of ourselves. And our best is always good enough.
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simple abundance, 1: an inner journey; 2: a spiritual and practical course in creative living; 3: a tapestry of contentment
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I was learning to differentiate between my needs and my wants and this powerful lesson had to be mastered before I could move forward.
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One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you," Merle Shain reassures us, "and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless."
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Let go of limiting illusions that have held you back from knowing that just to be alive is a grand thing.
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Invite Divine Order into your life today and a more serene tomorrow will unfold.
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start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress.
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February arrives cold, wet and gray, her gifts disguised for only the most discerning spirits to see. Gentle is our path. Gratitude is the thread we weave into the fabric of our daily lives this month, giving thanks for our simply abundant lives and asking for the gift of one thing more: grateful hearts.
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Sidetracked women, who scatter their energies to the four winds, never achieve serenity. (Nervous breakdowns, to be sure, but not serenity.) It's as simple as that.
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So it is with the concerto of our lives. Individual notes must be learned and played and practiced before we achieve harmony. And above all, we must learn how to pause.
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Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them. --RUSSELL H. CONWELL
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Today, be willing to believe that a companion Spirit is leading you every step of the way, and knows the next step.
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A sobering thought: what if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? --JANE WAGNER
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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line," Lucille Ball advised. "You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. --ANAIS NIN
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Cooking is one of best ways for your authentic self to remind your conscious self that you are an artist.
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