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According to most writers, groups of souls tend to reincarnate together again and again, working out their karma (debts owed to others and to the self, lessons to be learned) over the span of many lifetimes. In
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Brian L. Weiss |
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Unconditional love does not ask for anything in return. This pure love never creates dependencies or debts. It simply exists. An absolute energy, it never ends. It instantly connects lifetimes centuries apart and promises that all loved ones will be entwined throughout eternity. Witness
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Brian L. Weiss |
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Relax, Klara, you can finish your one-woman book club as soon as somebody gets home.
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Brian K. Vaughan |
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I was pretty good at picking up new languages when I was little, but it's not like I had superpowers or anything. Kids just have an easier time with words.
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language
language-learning
language-understanding
words
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Brian K. Vaughan |
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Teachers always promise that students are in a "safe place," but most of us figure out that's a lie pretty fast. My very first fire drill was all the confirmation I needed that the worst can happen anywhere, anytime."
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Brian K. Vaughan |
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So what? He's good to you and Hazel now, isn't he? Who cares if he's got history with some other broad?
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Brian K. Vaughan |
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I wanted to correct her, but if I'd learned one thing by that point in my education, it was that when anybody in these cruel worlds offers a helping hand... you shut your fucking mouth and grab it.
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Brian K. Vaughan |
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Welcome to Abortion Town!
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Brian K. Vaughan |
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Grown-Ups are usually guilty of something
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Brian K. Vaughan |
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Every relationship is an education.
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Brian K. Vaughan |
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You'll always get out of life what you put in-and you control what you put in.
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inspirational
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Brian Tracy |
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Courage is not absence of fear; it is control of fear, mastery of fear." --MARK TWAIN"
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Brian Tracy |
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Are your goals backed by burning desire or are you giving the Universe mixed signals?
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Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy |
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Your mind is designed in such a way that you cannot have an idea on the one hand without also having the ability to bring that idea into reality on the other. The very existence of an idea in your conscious mind means that you have within you and around you the capacity to turn it into reality. The only question you have to answer is, How badly do you want it?
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Brian Tracy |
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Brian Tracy |
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You perform at your highest potential only when you are focusing on the most valuable use of your time. This is the key to personal and business success. It is the central issue in personal efficiency and time management. You must always be asking yourself, What is the most valuable use of my time right now? Discipline yourself to work exclusively on the one task that, at any given time, is the answer to this question. Keep yourself on trac..
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Brian Tracy |
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The seventh key is that you must have a major definite purpose for your life. You must have one goal that, if you accomplish it, can do more to help you improve your life than any other single goal.
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Brian Tracy |
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When everything is laid out neatly and in sequence, you will feel much more like getting on with the job.
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Brian Tracy |
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the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
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Brian Tracy |
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Ideas are a mode of transportation, a vehicle that you can use to take yourself from wherever you are to wherever you want to go.
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Brian Tracy |
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What is the most important and valuable work that you do, in any field or profession? It's thinking!
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Brian Tracy |
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The great summary statement of all religions, philosophies, metaphysics, psychology, and success is this: You become what you think about most of the time. Your outer world ultimately becomes a reflection of your inner world. Your outer world of experience mirrors back to you what you think about most of the time. Whatever you think about continuously emerges in your reality.
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Brian Tracy |
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What one skill, if I developed and did it in an excellent fashion, would have the greatest positive impact on my career?
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Brian Tracy |
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To be truly happy and fulfilled, you must be working toward accomplishing something that is bigger than yourself, and that makes a difference in the life or work of others.
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Brian Tracy |
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There is more to life than just increasing its speed.
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Brian Tracy |
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You are where you are and what you are because of yourself. Everything you are today, or ever will be in the future, is up to you. Your life today is the sum total result of your choices, decisions and actions up to this point. You can create your own future by changing your behaviors. You can make new choices and decisions that are more consistent with the person you want to be and the things you want to accomplish with your life.
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Brian Tracy |
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Changing habits that are no longer consistent with your higher purposes is one of the hardest things you'll ever do, and one of the most essential to the quality of your life.
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Brian Tracy |
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A goal, however, is something distinctly different from a wish. It is clear, written, and specific. It can be quickly and easily described to another person. You can measure it, and you know when you have achieved it or not.
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Brian Tracy |
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Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.
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Brian Tracy |
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Refuse to allow a weakness or a lack of ability in any area to hold you back. Everything is learnable. And what others have learned, you can learn as well.
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Brian Tracy |
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If you don't want to worship a guy you can beat up, then I might humbly suggest you reconsider Caesar and the Greco-Roman narrative. It sounds like 'Christ and him crucified' is not for you. At least not yet.
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Brian D. McLaren |
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If a spiritual community only points back to where it has been or if it only digs in its heels where it is now, it is a dead end or a parking lot, not a way.
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Brian D. McLaren |
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That is what mature faith requires -- not pride over how much one sees and understands, but humility, the feeling that one is still a child, certain of so little, still so dependent on God and others, with so much still to learn -- including so much more to learn about humility.
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Brian D. McLaren |
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MATTHEW, MARK, AND LUKE tell the story of Jesus in ways similar to one another (which is why they're often called the synoptic gospels--with a similar optic, or viewpoint). Many details differ (and the differences are quite fascinating), but it's clear the three compositions share common sources. The Fourth Gospel tells the story quite differently. These differences might disturb people who don't understand that storytelling in the ancient ..
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Brian D. McLaren |
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But in the end you cannot serve two masters, Theos and Elohim, the god of the Greco-Roman philosophers and Caesars and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the violent god of profit proclaimed by the empire and the compassionate God of justice proclaimed by the prophets. You can try to hybridize them and compromise them for centuries, but like oil and water they eventually separate and prove incompatible. They refuse to alloy. They produce..
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Brian D. McLaren |
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Too often we put the gospel of Jesus through the strainer of consumerist-capitalism and retain only the thin broth that this modern-day Caesar lets pass through.
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Brian D. McLaren |
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Something deep in our conscience tells us that hostility is part of the problem to be overcome in the world, not the means by which problems will be overcome. Hostility is a symptom of the disease, not part of the cure.
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Brian D. McLaren |
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The romance of Creator and creation is far more wonderful and profound than anyone can ever capture in words.
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Brian D. McLaren |
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We must not define Jesus and his kingdom by fitting them within conventional understandings of kings and kingdoms. Rather, we must judge and deconstruct those conventional definitions in light of Jesus and his example.
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Brian D. McLaren |
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Our choice, it seems, is whether we will let our past and present sufferings be sufficient to soften and break us, or whether we will resist and harden ourselves so even more suffering is required.
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Brian D. McLaren |
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and somehow, the more we would face our own demons of pride, greed, and lust, the more gentle and kind we would become toward others, the less judgmental, the less harsh, the more empathetic, because we realize as never before that everyone is pitched in an invisible inner battle, and the battle isn't easy for anyone.
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Brian D. McLaren |
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We might say that whatever our God is like, whether or not our God exists, our God is still powerful because our image of God transforms us. Like an image in a mirror, our God concept reflects back to us the image of what we aspire to become. Powerful and vengeful? Kind and merciful? Dominating and in control? Relational and respectful? Like God, like believer, we might say. Our image of God, our image of ourselves, and our processes of ind..
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Brian D. McLaren |
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Perhaps all women are part faerie, for what woman can deny her faerie blood when the portals to her own land are open; when the full moon sings its insistent song; when sorrow and passion and rage pulse through her body at moon times. This is why women are the chosen ones of Faerie, part of the vibrant, fluid, emotional soul of the world...
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Brian Froud |
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I've been thinking, Christopher Robin,' said Pooh, 'which do you like best: old friends or new?' Christopher Robin thought and, after a long time, said: 'Well, I like new friends because you never quite know what they'll do next. But I like old friends, too, because, however long you've known them, you are always discovering things you didn't know before.
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Brian Sibley |