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05-17-2008, 11:27 AM
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Totality Not Perfection --Osho The very idea of perfectionism drives people crazy. The perfectionist is bound to be a neurotic, he cannot enjoy life till he is perfect. And perfection as such never happens, it is not in the nature of things. Totality is possible, perfection is not possible. There is a tremendous difference between perfection and totality. Perfection is a goal somewhere in the future, totality is an experience herenow. Totality is not a goal, it is a style of life. If you can get into any act with your whole heart, you are total. Totality brings wholeness and totality brings health and totality brings sanity. The perfectionist completely forgets about totality. He has some idea how he should be, and obviously time will be needed to reach that idea. It can't happen now -- tomorrow, day after tomorrow, this life, maybe next life ... so life has to be postponed. But if you have an idea what you want to be in the future, today you will live very partially because your main concern becomes the future. Your eyes become focused on the future, you lose contact with the real and the present -- and the tomorrow will be born out of the real with which you are not in contact. The tomorrow will come out of today, and today was unlived. The English word devil is very beautiful. If you read it backwards it becomes lived. That which is lived becomes divine, and that which is not lived becomes devil. Only the lived is transformed into godliness; the unlived turns poisonous. Today you postpone, and whatsoever remains unlived in you will hang around you like a weight. If you had lived it you would have been free of it. --Osho
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05-18-2008, 07:19 AM
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Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart Being vulnerable doesn't have to be threatening. Just have the courage to be sincere, open and honest. This opens the door to deeper communication all around. It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want in life. Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us. These secrets are what make us sick or fearful. Speaking truth helps you get clarity on your real heart directives.
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05-19-2008, 02:20 AM
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Internal and external are ultimately one. When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently. Love and compassion arise, and they affect the world. Eckhart Tolle - World - Love - Spiritual - Thinking - Fear - Compassion
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05-20-2008, 09:31 AM
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Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined. Deepak Chopra - Life - Thinking - Planning
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05-20-2008, 07:55 PM
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I like to say..."I make my plans...then my Higher Power just laughs at them!" It is never what I think..I shortchange myself with negativism so often... It is usually so much better than I ever would have dreamed.... Thanks Indie!
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05-21-2008, 03:38 AM
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Thanks, Annie, for this reminder. 
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05-21-2008, 06:23 AM
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
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05-22-2008, 06:41 AM
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SMILE By Craig Nicholson Writer, inspirational speaker, pilot and the author of wholesomebalance.com Smile, Awhile. Why not? Forgot? Give yourself a moment's rest. Smiling helps us be our best. Not allowing outside things, To get us down, or clip our wings. For we are children of the One, So don't deprive yourself true fun For in it's spirit we can be Victors for eternity.
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05-23-2008, 06:20 AM
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Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart Being vulnerable doesn't have to be threatening. Just have the courage to be sincere, open and honest. This opens the door to deeper communication all around. It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want in life. Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us. These secrets are what make us sick or fearful. Speaking truth helps you get clarity on your real heart directives.
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05-23-2008, 06:40 PM
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indie, i remember to this day... the first time i truely became vulnerable, was the day that i became me! and you know who that was with? our miracal, trish... i always thank her for that!
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05-25-2008, 06:33 AM
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How wonderful Pattee Trish touched so many hearts and she is still doing so. TO BELIEVE... By Author Unknown To believe is to know that every day is a new beginning. It is to trust that miracles happen, and dreams really do come true. To believe is to see angels dancing among the clouds, To know the wonder of a stardust sky and the wisdom of the man in the moon. To believe is to know the value of a nurturing heart, The innocence of a child's eyes and the beauty of an aging hand, for it is through their teachings we learn to love. To believe is to find the strength and courage that lies within us, When it is time to pick up the pieces and begin again. To believe is to know we are not alone, That life is a gift and this is our time to cherish it. To believe is to know that wonderful surprises are just waiting to happen, And all our hopes and dreams are within reach. If only we believe.
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05-26-2008, 07:03 AM
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I love this hymn The text of Sebastian Temple's hymn, also known as "Prayer of St. Francis": Make me a channel of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me bring your love. Where there is injury, your pardon, Lord. And where there's doubt, true faith in you. Make me a channel of your peace. Where there's despair in life, let me bring hope. Where there is darkness, only light. And where there's sadness, ever joy. Oh, Master grant that I may never seek So much to be consoled as to console, To be understood as to understand, To be loved, as to love with all my soul. Make me a channel of your peace. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, In giving to all men that we receive, And in dying that we are born to eternal life.
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05-26-2008, 05:18 PM
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I love that too, Annie.
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05-27-2008, 11:09 AM
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FAITH Author Unknown Doubt sees the obstacles Faith sees the way Doubt sees the darkest night Faith sees the day Doubt dreads to take a step Faith soars on high. Doubt questions 'who believes?' Faith answers, 'I.'
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05-28-2008, 04:38 AM
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Galileo Galilei All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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