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RE: Inspiring quotes - 7/20/2008 1:19:01 PM   
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Status: online 		Replace the words "I have to" with "I choose to" and notice the difference in how you feel

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 7/21/2008 4:23:42 AM   
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I have to keep reminding me of this, too!

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 7/21/2008 5:35:02 AM   
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RE: Inspiring quotes - 7/21/2008 5:36:29 AM   
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Status: online 		"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment"
- Marcus Aurelius wrote this almost 2000 years ago

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 7/21/2008 5:38:24 AM   
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RE: Inspiring quotes - 8/26/2008 3:44:52 PM   
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Status: online 		Someone said: "We educate children from the neck up." How right that is! The heart is seldom included.
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I received this one today and particularly liked it. 


Courage
One of the highest forms of courage is the ability to face my own negativity without feeling guilty or bad about myself, and then take responsibility for changing it. To begin this process, I first make contact with my deepesst spiritual core. Reflecting on the things I care about mostly gives me a glimpse of my innate goodness. Building on this, God will, if I let Him, gently reveal in me a caring and compassionate nature that can even be described as divine. The courage to let go of unwanted thoughts and feelings will develop when I accept that my higher, divine self is not separate from me, but lies at the very heart of who I am.


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RE: Inspiring quotes - 8/27/2008 4:39:43 PM   
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Replace the words "I have to" with "I choose to" and notice the difference in how you feel

Dear Jude, As I was clicking to open this thread, the above popped up and your three quotes from 7/21; which are very powerful. When I read "Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. " I thought about you and your trip, how concerned you were and what a gift it was for you, and the quote became--"Not only is another JUDE possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." . It is so true that it takes so very much courage to face and reflect on our own negativity. Your method for doing so I am sure makes it much easier. Now, if only I would do the same --reflecting on that deep spiritual core in others; perhaps I would be much less critical. Thank you for sharing these quotes. Hugs from Imee and li'l bits. All of them now have a new cousin without a name. She will be given to Paul's wife.

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 8/28/2008 7:13:22 AM   
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Status: online 		This quote is from one of my recent favourite authors, Pierre Pradavand, who wrote the book "The Gentle Art of Blessing."
It came in this morning's post via the 'Cygnus Review' and he is describing his long search for truth.

"During all those years of questioning, doubting and wandering, one truth stood out, unwavering, unshaken (albeit at moments very dimmed) by the relentless tornadoes of questions, doubts, human mockery, death, hunger, famine and a thousand other gaunt spectres. And that truth was love. Love which I discovered to be the only reality in the universe and is at the same time its own cause, means and end.
  For years in Africa I saw children rummage in my garbage can. The 'why such injustice?' very quickly became. 'is my love deep and fervent enough to dedicate my whole life to building a world where the economy is motivated by service and cooperation rather than profit, greed and competition?'
  In a world which appears plagued by ever-increasing uncertainty by the hollow chameleon of consumerism, where both prophets of despair and sanity speak of the world's possible annihilation, in such a world, the highest form of the courage to think for oneself may well be the courage to love despite all appearances - to love more intelligently, more compassionately and finally - yes, more joyfully."


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RE: Inspiring quotes - 8/28/2008 7:18:20 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thank you, Jude.  There is nothing to add to this. Only: AMEN!

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 8/28/2008 8:10:18 AM   
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RE: Inspiring quotes - 9/10/2008 5:08:19 AM   
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RE: Inspiring quotes - 9/10/2008 10:15:31 AM   
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Status: offline 		Dear Jude,
I do hope there are some bookkeepers in heaven!
I agree, however, that there isn´t an accounts department where all our deeds are registered as "good" or "bad"! Richard Rohr´s meditation for today is very much to the point:
"...our lives are useable for God. We need not be effective, but only transparent and vulnerable.God takes it all from there, and there is not much point in comparing who is better, right, higher or lower, or supposedly saved. We are all partial images slowly coming into focus, to the degree we allow and filter the Light and Love of God."
If this isn´t good news...
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RE: Inspiring quotes - 9/10/2008 11:23:03 AM   
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Status: online 		Juliana, I LOVE that!!

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 9/10/2008 12:25:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		Juliana, this is a wonderful quote! Thank you!

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 9/13/2008 5:10:20 PM   
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Status: online 		I really needed this one today ! My mind running wild wondering what's wrong with me. Jude
 
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RE: Inspiring quotes - 9/13/2008 10:13:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		Jude, this one is right on the mark! If I think of all the time wasted worrying about things that never happen! The head knows this but ......

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 9/14/2008 12:44:22 AM   
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Status: offline 		Juliana, what a beautiful thought and thanks for that. 

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 10/1/2008 10:33:03 AM   
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Status: online 		Don't know if this one is inspiring, but it made me laugh.

"You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind".

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 10/1/2008 11:22:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		How true, Jude! Down to earth advice! Thinking about all the things we have to do doesn't get them done. I am always reminded of this, when I look at the kitchen full of dirty dishes after having guests in for dinner. The only way to get the dishes washed is to start!

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 10/1/2008 5:34:36 PM   
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Status: online 		Edda, that made me chuckle! I have this problem every day as my Son makes enough dirty dishes and pans for an army and takes it for granted that Mum will do them.

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