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Sources of Inspiration – El Morya Beyond the Heart’s Thread There Is Nothing – El Morya Owner of My Emotions – Unknown Author A Day As Any Other One – Unknown Author If You Never… – René Trosero Love Yourself to Love Others – Unknown Author Experiencing the Meeting with Divinity – Kabir, Hindu poet Qualities and Obstacles to Happiness – Torkom Saraydarian And God Said… – Unknown Author Your Attitude in Life – Unknown Author Faith – Unknown Author To Change Myself to Change the World – Sufi Bayazid If We Could Change, What Would We Feel? – Unknown Author Ten Advises from Master Jesus – Unknown Author What I Have Learned From Life – Unknown Author What Is the I AM? – Marcos Hugo Cárdenas–Mancilla False Jewels – Kuthumi The Seven Precepts of the Light Servers – Unknown Author The Three Plenitudes – Unknown Author Know When to Speak and When to Keep Quiet – Unknown Author How Essential Is Spiritual Truth – Charles A. Lindbergh

The Greatness of God Is… – Charles A. Lindbergh If You Love Your Child… – Unknown Author The Tators – Unknown Author Bad Desires – Gloria Otero-Gutiérrez How God Teaches – Pablo Coelho The Aphorisms of Taniguchi – Masaharu Taniguchi Useful Verbs – Unknown Author Friendship – Torkom Saraydarian Treat Me With Purity! – Amira Scarpero No One Ever Makes It Alone – Unknown Author Ramakrishna‘s Personal Experience – Ramakrishna To Truth Is Arrived By True Intuition – Víctor Novoa The Four Agreements of the Toltec Wisdom – Unknown Author Enlightenment – Swami Beyondanada How to Spoil a Child – Unknown Author Jefferson’s Ten Rules – Compiled by Thomas Jefferson Funny Phrases – Unknown Authors This Is To Have Success – Ralph Waldo Emerson Walk With the Master – Jesus Sananda through Angela New Year Resolution– Unknown Author People Come into Your Life for a Reason, a Season or a Lifetime– Unknown Author

Unless said otherwise, alltranslationswere made by Luis Prada. To Truth It is Arrived By Sheer Intuition.

Sources of Inspiration
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MasterEl Morya,from the Book Pearls of Light ("Perlas de Luz"),Volume II,Centro Lusitano de Unificación Cultural, http://www.centrolusitano.org
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In true silence is the force to use.  In true Peace, the impetus.  In darkness, Light.  Do not search in the illusory realms that which Is!

The essence of your task is in some place…where only can be arrived by silence, by peace, and by the magnetic force of Love, a tranquil and serene Love, but intense, positive, irresistible.

In the midst of the arduous task, it is possible to repair forces.

The more energy you give, the more you will receive, to serve more.

The more you abandon yourself, the more you will find yourself.

Here is the ultimate tonic, all else should come from your silent Master Within…
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What Is the I AM?
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Marcos Hugo Cárdenas-Mancilla
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The powerful verb I AM, more than a simple verb is God alive, alive within me, in those surrounding me and in all the world.

I AM is the purest MANIFESTATION of the divine on earth, it is the will of God acting through us.
I AM is the eternal and indestructible LIFE, the "universe" is the clearest manifestation of life.
I AM is LOVE, He created us loving us, expecting that we discover and utilize this fountain that cures all.
I AM is TRUTH, the presence that reigns in our lives and comes up afloat from any depth of lies.
I AMis INTELLIGENCE,the energy that moves among us and is in everything that surrounds us.
I AMis UNITY, we are made in the image and after the likeness of God, we are a part of Him.
I AMis SPIRIT, it is the magical presence we all possess, we are eternal spirits.
I AMis PRINCIPLE, the perfect harmony.
I AMis our DAILY LIVING, what surrounds us, what we are.

I understand this and I accept it.
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Beyond the Heart’s Thread There Is Nothing
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El Morya, Heart, 1932
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The consequences of the beginning of the Greatest Battle react primarily upon the heart of mankind. The affirmation of the heart is especially needed now; otherwise the ignorant heart will not be able to withstand the hurricane of the confusion of the elements.  Therefore, think of the heart as the basic principle, which connects you with the distant worlds.  It must be realized what actually burdens the heart most of all.  Not special events burden the heart so much as the succession of small specks of daily dust.

This is very necessary to remember, because great events can even give a special influx of psychic energy.  But Armageddon does not consist only of great events, on the contrary, a multitude of small actions receive their evaluation, and to this shower of small currents it is necessary for the poor heart to become accustomed.  I say poor because in essence it already knows the great fiery spheres, yet in the meantime it must be shattered against the rocks of Earth.

Thus, hold firmly; beyond the heart’s thread there is nothing.
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False Jewels
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Kuthumi, from the Book "Seeds and Pearls" ("Semillas y Perlas"), Vol. I, from Centro Lusitano de Unificación Cultural,http://www.centrolusitano.org.Original in Spanish, translation.
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Your hands are securing a basket of coins that tomorrow will cease to circulate.  Such are the values, conceptions and pretensions of the old order that our Lord Maitreya comes to reform. Those are the treasures, possessions and conquests of the old world that powerful convulsions will devastate shortly. What are their use in that case? If you do not lack Faith in these truths we have spoken to you about, why are not your hands free to reach out the abundance of the true treasures —the sapphires, amethysts, eternal diamonds—-that are in the teachings, before you?

 Brothers, do not cling to the things of the old world.  Briefly you will see —if not already—that they are worth nothing.
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Owner of My Emotions
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Unknown Author.  Original in Spanish, translation.
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If I feel depressed, I will sing.
If I feel sad, I will laugh.
If I feel sick, I will intensify my work.
If I feel afraid, I will launch myself forward.
If I feel inferior, I will don new clothes.
If I feel insecure, I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty, I will think in future wealth.
If I feel incompetent, I will remember past successes.
If I feel insignificant, I will remember my goals.

Definitely,today I will be owner of my emotions.
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The Seven Precepts of the Light Servers
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Unknown Author.  Original in Spanish, translation.
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1. To make of your life an example of conduct worth imitating.
2. To seek by all means to know, understand and obey the Laws of the Universe.
3. To search for the self knowledge of who you are, where did you come from, why are you here, which is your mission on Earth and where are you going.
4. To recognize your own limits and to look for surpassing them.
5. To be at Peace with your own consciousness and to transmit that Peace to your fellow beings.
6. To withdraw your mind and heart barriers, to be opened to the High and to donate yourself as an efficient instrument of your own I AM.
7. To be LOVE, WISDOM and POWER in constant harmony and balance.
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A Day As Any Other One
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Unknown Author.  Original in Spanish, translation.
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And so after waiting for so long, a day as any other one I decided to succeed, I decided to not wait for the opportunities but to look for them by myself, I decided to see each problem as the opportunity to find a solution, I decided to see each desert as the opportunity to find an oasis, I decided to see each night as a mystery to solve, I decided to see each day as a new opportunity to be happy.  That day I discovered that my only rival was not more than my own weaknesses, and that in these ones is the only and best way to excel ourselves, that day I let fear of losing and started to fear not winning, I discovered that I was not the best and that perhaps never was, I stop caring about who wins or loses, now I only care to know I am better that yesterday.

 I learned that the difficult is not to arrive at the top, but to never stop climbing.  I learned that the best triumph I can have is to have the right of calling somebody "Friend".  I discovered that love is more important than a simple state of falling in love, "love is a philosophy of life".  That day I left being a reflection of my scarce past triumphs and I started to be my own tenuous light of this present, I learned that serves nothing to be light if you are not going to illumine the path for others.  That day I decided to change so many things, that day I learned that dreams are only to become reality, since that day I do not sleep to rest, now I simple sleep to dream.
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The Three Plenitudes
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Unknown Author.  Original in Spanish, translation.
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There are three kinds of plenitudes:

The plenitude of the glass, it retains and does not give
The plenitude of the canal, it gives and does not retain
The plenitude of the source, it creates, retains and gives

There are many glass-men:  They are people dedicated to store virtues or science, who read everything, collect titles, know what can be known, but believe finished their task when they have concluded their storage: they neither share wisdom nor happiness.  They have, but do not share.  They are magnificent, but magnificently sterile.  They are simple servers of their own selfishness.

There are also canal-men: It is the people who waste themselves in words, who pass their lives doing and doing things.  They suffer the neurosis of the action, and have to make many things and all in a rush, they believe to be serving everyone else, but their service is, sometimes, a wave of calming their soul’s itchiness.  They give and then, after giving, they feel empty.

How difficult it is, instead, to find source-men, people who give from what they have made a substance of their souls, who share as the flames, lighting the neighbor’s without diminishing theirs, because they recreate all they live and share all what they have recreated.  They give without hesitation, they water without dwindling, they offer their water without becoming dry.  Christ should have been one like this.  We, perhaps, would do a lot by being one of those threads that fall dripping from up high the great mountain of Life…
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If You Never…
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René Trosero
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If you never break a bunch of grapes in the press house,you’ll never have a glass of wine on the table.
If you never risk to lose,you’ll never give yourself the opportunity to win.
If you never confront the pain of parting,you’ll never know the happiness of returning.
If you never suffer dying in the sowing,you’ll never enjoy be reborn in the harvest.
If you never suffer the pain of your guilt,you’ll never savor the relief of forgiveness.
If you never mill the grains of your wheat,you’ll never know the taste of bread.
If you never face the fear of letting go the way you are,you’ll never discover the happiness of being as you can be.
If you never are willing to die for a just cause,you’ll never know why you live for.
If you never confront your pain, and stop laughing to cry instead,you’ll never know the joy of stop crying to laugh.
If you never risk crossing the river,you’ll never know what waits on the other bank.
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Know When to Speak and When to Keep Quiet
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Unknown Author.  Original in Spanish, translation.
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TO SPEAK appropriately, is a success.
TO SPEAK in front of the enemy, is civism.
TO SPEAK before injustice, is courage.
TO SPEAK to rectify, is a duty.
TO SPEAK to defend, is compassion.
TO SPEAK before pain, is to console
TO SPEAK to help others, is charity.
TO SPEAK with sincerity, is rectitude.
TO SPEAK of yourself, is vanity.
TO SPEAK restituting fame, is uprightness.
TO SPEAK clarifying gossips, is stupidity.
TO SPEAK spreading false ones, is about consciousness.
TO SPEAK of defects, is to hurt.
TO SPEAK when should be quiet, is nonsense.
TO SPEAK just to speak, is foolishness.

TO KEEP QUIET when they accuse, is heroism.
TO KEEP QUIET when they insult, is love.
TO KEEP QUIET on the own pains, is sacrifice.
TO KEEP QUIET about yourself, is humility.
TO KEEP QUIET about human miseries, is charity.
TO KEEP QUIET on time, is prudence.
TO KEEP QUIET in sorrow, is penitence.
TO KEEP QUIET not uttering useless words, is virtue.
TO KEEP QUIET when they hurt, is sanctity.
TO KEEP QUIET to defend, is nobility.
TO KEEP QUIET before other’s defects, is benevolence.
TO KEEP QUIET when required to speak, is cowardice.

We should learn first TO KEEP QUIET to be able TO SPEAK afterwards, but always with success and skill, because if TO SPEAK is silver, TO KEEP QUIET is gold.
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Love Yourself to Love Others
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Unknown Author.  Original in Spanish, translation.
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When you are well with yourself you can only be well with others.  When you manage your loneliness you can only manage a relationship.

You need to value yourself to value other, love yourself to love other, respect yourself to respect other, and accept yourself to accept other, since nobody gives what does not have within.

No relationship gives you the peace you do not create within.

No relationship will offer you the happiness you do not build.

You will be able to be happy with another person only when you be able to tell him/her: "I do not need you to be happy."

You will be able to love by only being independent to the point of not needing to manipulate nor drive the ones you say you love them.

To be happy will only be possible when two happy people join to share their happiness, not to make happy one another.

To love you need a humble self-sufficiency, self-esteem and the practice of a responsible freedom.

To pretend other people make us happy and fill all our expectations is a narcissist fantasy that only brings frustrations.

So, love yourself a lot, and the day you may say to the other:  "without you I live fine," that day you will be more prepared to live as a couple.

TO GIVE IS TO LOVE
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How Essential Is Spiritual Truth
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Charles A. Lindbergh(1902-1974), aviation pioneer.  From his book: "Of Flight and Life."
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To me, in youth, science was more important than either man or God.  I worshipped science.  I was awed by its knowledge.  Its advantages had surpassed man’s wildest dreams.  In its learning seemed to lie the key to all mysteries of life.

It took many years for me to discover that science, with all its brilliance, lights only a middle chapter of creation.  I saw the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve, and which I thought as permanent as the earth itself.

Now I realize that to survive, one must look beyond the speed and power of aircraft, beyond the material strength of science.  And, though God cannot be seen as tangibly as I had demanded as a child, His Presence can be sensed en every sight and act and incident. Now I know that when man loses this sense, he misses the true skies; the brotherhood of men; the joy of wife and children.  He loses the Infinite strength without which no people can survive, the element which war cannot defeat or peace corrupt.

Now I understand that spiritual truth is more essential to a nation than the mortar in its cities’ walls.  For when the actions of a people are unguided by these truths, it is only a matter of time before the walls themselves collapse.

The most urgent mission of our time is to understand these truths, and to apply them to our way of modern life.  We must draw strength from the almost forgotten virtues of simplicity, humility, contemplation, prayer.  It requires a dedication beyond science, beyond self, but the rewards are great and it is our only hope!
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Experiencing the Meeting with Divinity
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Reflection of Hindu poetKabir as told byPaulo Coelho.  Original in Spanish, translation.
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From the Hindu poet Kabir (1440-1518):

“There is no more but water in the sacred pools and rivers.  That I know since I swam in both places.  None of the gods, not even the carved in precious wood and marble, can say a single word.  That I know, since I beseeched them.  The sacred books of Orient and Occident are no more than loose words.  That I know, since I studied their covers, and I already read them.

“However, if you experience the meeting with Divinity, all start to make sense: the waters turn back to express the sacred, the gods answer, the words reveal.  But that only happens when you experience Divinity.  In that case, these and others are only but many of the important things that other generations wanted to leave us and did not know how to explain them to us.”
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The Greatness of God Is…
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Unknown Author.  Original in Spanish, translation.
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The Greatness of God is…
                                                       More sky that man can see,
                                                       More seas that he can navigate,
                                                       More sun that he can see,
                                                       More stars than those he can measure
                                                       More breath that he can breathe,
                                                       More yield that he can produce,
                                                       More Grace that he can comprehend.
                                                       More Love that he can know.

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Qualities and Obstacles to Happiness
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TorkomSaraydarian.Original in Spanish, translation.
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The seven qualities of happiness:

1. Happiness is regenerating energy.
2. Happiness is purifying energy.
3. Happiness disperses clouds of the mental, emotional and physical atmosphere.
4. The teaching of eternal wisdom offers happiness to people because it keeps away what we are afraid ofin regular life, in this the passing objects of pleasure are attached.
5. Happiness expands your energy field.
6. The energy of happiness makes things evolve.
7. Happiness is an ardent energy.

Spirit is resurrection.  The body may be crucified, but not the spirit.

 Obstacles of Happiness:

1. Separateness hinders happiness.
2. Vanity counteracts happiness because vanity consists of working to construct, within, a false personal image.
3. Ego opposes happiness.
4. Presumption hinders the flow of happiness and joy.
5. Hypocrisy is the worst enemy of happiness.
6. Revenge, greed, hate, fear, anger and jealousy are all enemies of happiness.
7. There are five physical enemies that undermines our happiness: contamination, corruption, wrong action, harmful action and destructive action.

Health increases your happiness.  If you are not healthy, you lose happiness.  Dynamism and enthusiasm increase your happiness.  For example, if you are doing dishes with hate and anger, and you have malice, your happiness evaporates.  But if you are working with enthusiasm, you increase your happiness.
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If You Love Your Child…
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If you love your child…
        Answer him, do not inform him.
        Protect him, do not cover him.
        Help him, do not replace him.
        Keep him warm, do not cover him.
        Love him, do not worship him.
        Give him company, do not carry him.
        Show him danger, do not frighten him.
        Incorporate him, do not isolate him.
        Encourage his hopes in him, do not disenchant him.
        Do not demand him to be the best, ask him to be good and give him your example.
        Do not lavish him, surround him with love.
        Do not teach him to be, be yourself as you want him to be.
        Do not dedicate your life to him, live all together.
        Remember that your child does not listen to you, he watches you.
        And finally, when the canary cage is broken, do not buy another cage, teach him to live without door.
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And God Said…
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And God said…
            If nobody loves you, my happiness is to love you.
           If you cry, I AM desiring to console you.
            If you are weak, I ‘ll give you strength and happiness.
           If nobody needs you, I look for you.
           If you are useless, I cannot disregard you.
           If you are empty, my tenderness will fill you to the brim.
           If you have fear, I carry you in my arms.
           If you want to walk, I will go with you.
           If you call me, I will always come.
           I you get lost, I do not sleep ’til I find you.
           If you are tired, I AM your rest.
           If you sin, I AM your pardon.
           If you speak, address me by you.
           If you ask me, I AM gift for you.
           If you need me, I tell you: I AM here within you.
           If you resist, I do not want you to do anything by force.
           If you are in darkness, I AM lamp for your steps.
           If you are hungry, I AM your bread of life for you.
           If you are faithful, I AM faithful with you.
           If you want to talk, I always listen to you.
           If you look at me, you’ll see the truth in your heart.
           If you’re in prison, I’m going to visit you and set you free.
           If you go away, I don’t want you to keep appearances.
           If you think I AM your rival, I don’t want to be above you.
           If you all want to see my face, look at a flower, a fountain, a child…
           If you are excluded, I AM your affiliated.
           If everybody forgets you, my entrails tremble remembering you.
           If you don’t have anybody, you have me.
           If you are silent, my word will inhabit your heart.

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The Tators
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 Some people never wanted to help or to participate in anything; they prefer to look at how others act.  These are the SPEC – Tators.

 Others never offer themselves a hand, but are very skillful at criticizing those who act.  They are called COMMEN – Tators.

 Then there are the authoritarians who like to giver orders and to say to others what they have to do, without ever "getting their hands dirty."  These are the DIC – Tators.

 Some like to sow discord instigating and provoking distrust and criticism in others.  For them everything is either too hot or too cold, too late or too early.  These are the AGI – Tators.

 There are also the ones who wanted to do something, but cannot ever fulfill their commitments or do them at last moment.  They are the DUBI – Tators.

 Others even place themselves on a stage and show an image of themselves that does not correspond to their true personality.  They are the IMI – Tators.

 And in short there are those who look at others with affection and keep their word when committing themselves.  They are always willing to interrupt their activities when dealing with lending a hand to others.  These are as the sun in our lives.  We call them the Good Tators.

 If you know Good Tators, send them this message of encouragement.
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Your Attitude in Life
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Unknown Author.  Original in Spanish, translation.
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The problem is not if life is easy or difficult, but in how we react before obstacles.  If one day a door closes before you, the solution is not by breaking your head banging against it, but to ask yourself if there will be, beside it or in the same direction, some other door through which you can pass.

In life sometimes you have to accept emergency exits, though they force you to make a little meandering.  Procure, at the same time, to have two or three illusions light up always; thus, if one is extinguished, you still have others from which to continue living.

Always distinguish between you ideals and the ways of fulfilling them.  Those are untouchables, these ones, not.  If someone places obstacles to your ideal, ask yourself if he opposes your ideal or the way of fulfilling it.  And do not see problems in changing the form of looking for it, as long as you continue searching for the same ideal.

Learn in life to be persistent and tenacious with a stubborn head. Do not cede to your ideas nor your convictions, but do not forget that a truth can be said a thousand ways and it is not worthwhile to suffer for certain ways of expression.

And when a wave stronger than you comes, stoop over, let it pass, wait… and then continue swimming.  Attempt to convert yourself to the best you can ever be.  Many have fear of achieving their potential because they’re afraid of finding a closed door.  This is not a correct attitude.  You should develop yourself to the best possible.  Even the smallest person has the greatest potential if he (or she) utilizes all within himself (or herself.)
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Bad Desires
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Gloria Otero–Gutiérrez
Excerpt from the Book "Faith" ("Fe"), Editorial Orión, Mexico.  Original in Spanish, translation
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We put obstacles to fulfill our desires when we lose sight of the real point of desire.
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Faith
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Unknown Author.  Original in Spanish, translation.
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Each one is saved by his faith, if he lives in conformity with it.

Faith is like a light.  It is not lit to see it but to see what it illumines.

If you want to show me your faith, do not tell me how many truths you believe; show me how you live.

When you profess your faith in God and do not believe in man, ask yourself what your God thinks about man.

Do not accuse the believer because he does not live consequently with his faith, but before ask yourself how far are you consequent with your atheism.

You do not convert into a believer when you change the way of thinking, but when you change your way of living.

Any light shines surrounded by darkness.  Any faith shines surrounded by doubts.

When you believe in God, you walk in the night and with the light of a lamp someone else carries in his hand.

The light of the faith never illumines all the road, but each day’s journey. If you want it illumine you tomorrow, walk today.

All are more atheist than we believe and more believers than what we think.

When you stop believing in God, you start to venerate many idols.

If you are sure of your faith, you will let others believe what they want.  Insecurity does not tolerate what is different.

You cannot have the same faith by reciting the same creed and practicing the same rites. Look around you and observe life!

If in some terrain each person’s liberty and originality must be respected, it is in their way of relating with God.

THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD, but each believer sees him with his eyes and in his own way.

I think atheists do not reject God, but only the caricatures of God shown to him by believers.

A faith that does not enter in crisis, remains infantile.
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How God Teaches
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Pablo Coelho, from the book: "Light Warrior" ("El Guerreo de la Luz")
Original in Spanish, translation.
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God…
Usessolitude, to teach cohabitation.
Usesanger to show the infinite value of peace.
Usesboredom to stress the importance of adventure and abandonment.
Usessilence to teach about the responsibility of words.
Usestiredness so that the value of awakening can be understood.
Usesdisease to stress the blessing of health.
Usesfire to teach about water.
Usesearth to comprehend the value of air.
Usesdeath to shown the importance of life.
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To Change Myself to Change the World
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Sufi Bayazid
Original in Spanish, translation.
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Sufi Bayazid says about himself:

As a youth I was a revolutionary and my prayer consisted of saying to God: "Lord, give me strength to change the world".

As I was becoming an adult I realized that half my life I had passed without being able to change a single soul, I transformed my prayer and started to say: "Lord, give me grace to transform all who come in contact with me.  Even though they be my family and friends only.  With that, I’m satisfied".

Now that I am an old man and have my days counted, I have started to comprehend how stupid I have been… My only prayer is as follows: "Lord, give the grace to change myself". If I had prayed this way from the beginning, I wouldn’t have wasted my life.

The key is: To change myself, to change the world!!!
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The Aphorisms of Taniguchi
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Masaharu Taniguchi
Taken from a Spanish text, translation.
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Wise is who is able to do simple and natural things…
Divine love is the human being’s true love…
To live truthfully is to live "the now"…
A radiant smile illumines the soul as the light of the Sun illumines the Earth…
Don’t be low-spirited with failures…
God is the force that fills to the brim all the Universe…
Love without expecting a reward…
Who believes the Truth and puts it into practice, overcomes…
Love before you desire to be loved…
The human being grows and improves when enjoys true freedom…
What you desire is in your interior…
The feeling of gratitude is the only force capable of creating a perfect world…
God manifests where there is a feeling of gratitude…
There is no better than the words of praise…
Praising the qualities, the defects disappear…
To think is to create…
For the human being there is no death…
Every new day is the beginning of a new life…
There is only light, darkness does not exist…
Be born daily…
Only overcome who does not hang on others…
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If We Could Change, What Would We Feel?
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Unknown Author.  Original in Spanish, translation.
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If we could change…

lie by truth,
receiving by giving,
hate by pardon,
doubt by faith,
envy by acceptance,
intolerance by patience,
hardness by flexibility,
fear by courage,
desisting by persevering,
extra words by prudence,
pride by humility,
mockery by piety,
resignation by progress,
idleness by work,
dreams by their fulfillment,
excessive ambition by honor…

…if we could change this we would feel closer than ever to the presence of God in our lives.
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Useful Verbs
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Unknown Author.  Original in Spanish, translation.
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                                                                                   Assist and understand,
                                                                                   Understand and elevate;
                                                                                   Elevate and help;
                                                                                   Help and console;
                                                                                   Console and edify;
                                                                                   Edify and sustain;
                                                                                   Sustain and fortify;
                                                                                   Fortify and vivify;
                                                                                   Vivify and serve;
                                                                                   Serve and forgive;
                                                                                   Forgive and love;
                                                                                   Love and give;
                                                                                   Give and forget.

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Ten Advises from Master Jesus
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Master Jesus Sananda
Original in Spanish, translation.

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Do not waste the energies of each day:

1    On discussions.
2    On apologies.
3    On wailing of any type.
4    On futile justifications which, from all angles, are unnecessary.
5    On imposition of your viewpoints that only exteriorize your personality.
6    On rectifying somebody else’s errors.
7    On believing that you are placed in superior planes.
8    On anointing yourselves with privileges.
9    On binding yourselves in circles that want to take you against your Light.
10   On the energization and sustenance of resentments.
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Friendship
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Torkom Saraydarian
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World disciples have a responsibility: to increase friendship in all the planet, through their life examples and through their creative expressions, their plans, their wisdom and their actions.

When you create a friend, you work in favor of your evolution, your prosperity, your health.  The higher creativity flourishes in the joyous friendship and in an atmosphere of love and respect  When you create a friend, you create unity, success, health, happiness and strength.

Nations and individuals waste too much time, money and energy not just to create enemies but also to perpetuate animosity.  This leads over time to confrontation, suffering, pain and the possible destruction of both sides.  This is what happened in many places on the Earth in several epochs.  Once the fire of animosity is lit there will be enough winds of hatred that spread across all nations or even across the world.

It is now time to dedicate to construct friendship.  A sage said once: The trip is long; let’s be friends in this long journey.  Friendship is beauty in growth.  Each achievement in friendship is our spiritual victory.  Man can make the destiny of his life come true by only weaving the wreath of friendship."
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What I Have Learned From Life
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Forgive and forget, and your life will be simpler.
Carry on your life in peace, and you’ll never lose the war.
It’s not necessary to obtain the highest grades in the university, so long as be able to obtain an honor distinction in life.
If life were not sprinkled with storms, rainbow would not be possible.
Maybe death does not mean to close the eyes but to open them.
The measure of your house has nothing to do with the size of your home.
Not because the night be dark, there will not be a star that illumines it.
The smile of a child carries impressed God’s signature.
He who does not live to serve, is not useful to live.
Love is to say without speaking, see without looking, feel without touching and be without being.
People is beautiful if you love them.
God is the most difficult of all questions and the simplest of all answers.
Vision is knowing to see without eyes.
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Treat Me With Purity
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Amira Scarpero.  Original in Spanish, translation.
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Donotcatalogue me,I am not an object.
Donotlabel me,I am not merchandize.
Donotjudge me, I am not your accused.
Donotaccuse me, you are not my prosecutor.
Donotcondemn me, you’re not my judge.
Do not frame me, I am not mirror nor picture.
Do not defineme, I am a mystery.
Do not minimize me,I am more complex than what you believe.
Do not divulge me,I am not a product nor a thing.
Do not vulgarize me,I am someone very special.
Do not aim at me,I am not a shooting target.
Do not idolize me,I am not an idol.
Do not slander me,I have a right to the truth of the facts.
Do not defame me,I have the right to be who I am.
Do not scheme me,I am freer than you imagine.
Do not believe too much in me,I am fallible.
Do not doubt always of me,I am more truth than error.

Always remember that:
I am people like you.  I am human like you.  I am limited like you.  I am a son (daughter) of God as you are.  Treat me as people and as brethren and you’ll be for me that which you were not able to see in my person: ¡A true friend!
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NoOne Ever Makes It Alone
The Story Behind the Picture of the "Praying Hands"
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Back in the 15th century, in a tiny village near Nuremberg, there lived a family ofeighteen children.

Eighteen!  In order merely to keep food on the table for this mob, the father and head of thehousehold, a goldsmith by profession, worked almost eighteen hours a day at his trade and anyother paying chore he could find in the neighborhood.  Despite their seemingly hopelesscondition, two of Albrecht Durer the Elder’s children had a dream.  They both wanted to pursuetheir talent for art, but they knew fully well that their father would never be financiallyable to send either of them to Nuremberg to study at the Academy.

After many long discussions at night in their crowded bed, the two boys finally worked out apact.  They would toss a coin.  The loser would go down into the nearby mines and, with hisearnings, support his brother while he attended the academy.  Then, when that brother who wonthe toss completed his studies, in four years, he would support the other brother at the academy,either with sales of his artwork or, if necessary, also, by laboring in the mines.

They tossed a coin on a Sunday morning after church.  Albrecht Durer won the toss and went offto Nuremberg.  Albert went down into the dangerous mines and, for the next four years, financedhis brother, whose work at the academy was almost an immediate sensation.

Albrecht’s etchings, his woodcuts, and his oils were far better than those of his professors, andby the time he graduated, he was beginning to earn considerable fees for his commissioned works.

When the young artist returned to his village, the Durer family held a festive dinner on the lawnto celebrate Albrecht’s triumphant homecoming.

After a long and memorable meal, punctuated with music and laughter, Albretch rose from hishonored position at the head of the table to drink a toast to his beloved brother for the years ofsacrifice that had enabled Albrecht to fulfill his ambition.  His    closing words were, "And now,Albert, blessed brother of mine, now it is your turn.  Now you can go to Nuremberg to pursue your dream, and I will take care of you".

All heads turned in eager expectation to the far end of the table where Albert sat, tears streaming down his face, shaking his lowered head from side to side while he sobbed and repeated, over and over, "No..no…no…no…."  Finally, Albert rose and wiped the tears from his cheeks.  He glanced down the long table at the faces he loved, and then, holding his hands close to his right cheek, he said softly, "No, brother.  I cannot go to Nuremberg.  It is too late for me. Look…look what four years in the mines have done to my hands!  The bones in every finger have been  smashed at least once, and lately I have been suffering from arthritis so badly in my right hand that I cannot even hold a glass to return your toast, much less make delicate lines on parchment or canvas with a pen or a brush.  No, brother…for me it is too late."

More than 450 years have passed.  By now, Albrecht Durer’s hundreds of masterful portraits, pen and silver-point sketches, watercolors, charcoals, woodcuts, and copper engravings hang in every great museum in the world, but the odds are great that you, like most people, are familiar with only one of Albrecht Durer’s works.  More than merely being familiar with it, you very well may have a reproduction hanging in your home or office.  One day, to pay homage to Albert for all that he had sacrificed, Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) painstakingly drew his brother’s abused hands with palms together and thin fingers stretched skyward.

He called his powerful drawing simply "Hands," but the entire world almost immediately opened their hearts to his great masterpiece and renamed his tribute of love, "The Praying Hands."  The next time you see a copy of that touching creation, take a second look.  Let it be your reminder, if you still need one, that NO ONE —NO ONE, EVER MAKES IT ALONE!
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Ramakrishna’s Personal Experience
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Ramakrishna’s personal experience was, "As hunger and thirst arise spontaneously, so does longing for God.  It is simply a matter of time.  Yearning for God cannot arise until one has to some extent satisfied the desires of social existence or has seen through them and been freed from them.  The constant quest for egocentric pleasure not only defrauds you of your birthright, but mere pleasure seeking inevitably produces suffering for yourself and others."
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To Truth Is Arrived By True Intuition
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Víctor Novoa.  Original in Spanish, translation.
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In the finite and conditioned world in which man exists there are only relative truths into which we must look for the best support they can afford.  At all times there have been initiates that came to the possession of the absolute truth and who, however, were not given the rights but to teach relative truths.

Nobody in our race can communicate to somebody the total and definite truth because each individual must find it by himself and in himself.  Each soul must receive the Supreme Light by itself in accordance to its capacity and not by mediation of someone else.  The most elevated of Adepts can only reveal to others, of the Universal Truth, that part susceptible to be assimilated by the Soul.  The higher our consciousness be, the more we can be impregnated by it.  To get closer to Truth first should there be love for Truth, for Truth itself, for without this there is not possible to arrive at any knowledge.

Whatever the religion or philosophy embraced be, if we do not have a certain high and spiritual condition of the Soul by means of which man can unify himself with the Universal Soul, only relative truth can be obtained in this world.

The unconditional adherence to Truth is the creed of the Initiate and to render cult to all truth is his ritual.  All the wayfarers of mysticism are linked among themselves by a unique aspiration: the search for Truth wherever it resides, being themselves able to use that "True Intuition".  Only thus can we arrive at the ultimate and direct perception of Truth.
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The Four Agreements of the Toltec Wisdom
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Unknown Author.  Original in Spanish, translation.
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1.- Do not suppose
Do not suppose anything.  If you have a doubt, clear it.  If you are suspicious, ask.  To suppose or to assume makes you invent incredible stories that only poison your soul and have no foundation.

2.- Honor your words
What comes out of your mouth is what you are.  If you do not honor your words, you are not honoring yourself; if you do not honor yourself, you do not love yourself.  To honor your words is to honor yourself, it is being coherent with what you think and with what you do.  You are authentic.  And you make yourself respected before others and before yourself.

3.-Always do the best you are able to
If you always do the best you are able to, never will you be able to recriminate anything to yourself or to repent of anything.

4.- Do not take ANYTHING personal
Nor even the worst offense.  Neither the worst slight.  Nor the most serious injury.

According to the Toltec tradition by putting into practice these four agreements your life can always change as long as you become impeccable with that.  In the extent that somebody wants to hurt you in that measure that someone hurts himself or herself.  But the problem is his or hers, not yours.
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Enlightenment
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Swami Beyondanada
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1. Life is like photography. Use the negative to develop.

2. Be a fundamentalist. Make sure the fun always comes before the mental.

3. As we go through life thinking heavy thoughts, thought particles tend to get caught between the ears causing truth decay —so be sure to use mental floss twice a day.

4. If we want world peace, we must let go of our attachments and truly live like nomads.  I no mad at you.  You no mad at me. That way there’ll be nomad-ness on the planet. And peace begins with each of us. A little peace here, a little peace there, pretty soon all the peaces will fit together to make one big peace everywhere.

5. Great earth changes have been predicted for the future, so , if you’re looking to avoid earthquakes, my advice is simple. When you find a fault, just don’t dwell on it.

6. There’s no need to change the world. All we have to do is toilet train the world and we’ll never have to change it again.

7. If you’re looking to find the key to the universe, I have some bad news and some good news.  The bad news is —there is no key to the universe.  The good news is —it has been left unlocked.

8. Finally, everything I have told you is channeled.  That way, if you don’t like it, it’s not my fault. And remember, enlightenment is not a bureaucracy.  So we don’t have to go through channels.
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How to Spoil a Child
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Start by giving your child, all along his childhood, all he want; that way he will grow with the false idea that the whole world must serve him.
When he learns bad words, be pleased with the "joke"; that way he will believe that it is "very funny" and you encourage him to learn more bad words that in a few years will get you crazy.
Never give him spiritual education; wait until your child turn 21 so he may "decide by himself".
Avoid the use of the words "evil" or "sin"; you could create in him a "guilt" complex.
Pick up after him all he keeps throwing around: books, shoes, clothes; so that he "learns pretty well" to leave all responsibility on others.
Let him read comics, cheap novels, pornography and anything that falls in his hands; that way his brain, full of filthiness, will be developed without "prejudices".
Have plenty of "meetings" at night and quarrels with your spouse in the presence of your children; so these ones won’t feel the "terrible shock" when divorce or separation of their parents come after.
Give him all the money he ask for and fulfill his whims; deny them could create in him a "frustration" complex.
Be always on his side against neighbors, teachers and, as the case may be, the police; all these people have an "ill will" against your child.
Never worry about giving him a good example, and when somebody look for you and you don’t want to be interrupted, ask him to say that "you’re not there", so that since little he learns to "get out of trouble”.

After following these instructions, get ready for a life "of easiness"; you deserve it. And when"your child" be a criminal, be sure to exclaim: "What sin have I committed, Oh My God, to deserve this?"
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Jefferson’s Ten Rules
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List of Ten Rules of Comportment Compiled By A Man of Habit and Discipline, Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father of the American Nation, USA.
It is a list any of us be well advised to heed.
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Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
Never spend money before you have earned it.
Never buy what you don’t want because it is cheap.
Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
We seldom repent of having eaten too little.
Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
How much pain the evils cost us that never happened.
Take things always by the smooth handle.
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred.
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Funny Phrases
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Unknown Authors

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If a man speaks in the forest and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
Hello, my name is Utter, Utter Chaos.
AM stands for "Ain’t Moving."
Dain bramaged.
Lefties do it right.
I got smarts.
I never make mistakes.  I thought I did once, but I was mistaken.
I eat three servings of vegetables per day:  Ketchup. Ketchup, Ketchup.
I have no idea what I am doing out of bed.
I have my faults, but being wrong ain’t one of them.
I can’t remember what I forgot to forget.
Don’t do what I do, but do do what I don’t do.
Clothes make the man.  Correction:  Power tools make the man.
Doesn’t expecting the unexpected make the unexpected the expected?
Είναι όλα Ελληνικά για μένα (It’s all Greek to me.)
I’ve stopped listening, why haven’t you stopped talking?
Growing OLD is Mandatory.  Growing UP is Optional.
The cat meows:  Where are we going, and why am I in this hand basket?
Selective listener.
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This Is To Have Success
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To laugh often and much.
To win the respect of intelligent people and the love and affection of children.
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends.
To appreciate beauty.
To find the best in others.
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition.
To know even one life has breathed easier because you lived.
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Walk With the Master
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Jesus Sananda through Angela
29th October, 2005, http://insights2.org/SecondComing/Sananda10.html
“I am Lord Sananda, glorious and free, as you shall soon be.”
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I will walk with you
And I will talk with you
And I will tell you I am your own,
And the joys we share
As we tarry there
None other will ever know.

What does it mean to walk with the Master?
Will you put on the sandals and walk in the dust?
Or will you bend down and pick up a child,
And give it tender loving care?

What does it mean that you will walk with me?
Does it mean that we will sail the seas?
Or does it mean that you will speak out
Against greed, and corruption and hate?

What does it mean that you will walk with me?
Does it mean that you will celebrate at an altar?
Or does it mean that you will allow me
To fill your mind and heart with the truth?

What does it mean that you will walk with me?
Does it mean that we will dine together in style?
Or does it mean that we will feed the hungry
And care for the sick?

I am coming to earth soon,
And will walk with you soon.
Will you be ready to accompany me?
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New Year Resolutions
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As we start the new year, tips for an Exceptional, Superb & Powerful Life! Happy New Year!
1.) Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. And while you walk, smile. It is the ultimate antidepressant.
2.) Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. Buy a lock if you have to.
3.) Buy a Tivo (DVR), tape your late night shows and get more sleep.
4.) When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement, ‘My purpose is to________ today.’
5.) Live with the 3 E’s — Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
6.) Watch more movies, play more games and read more books than you did last year.
7.) Always pray and make time to exercise.
8.) Spend more time with people over the age of 70 and under the age of Six.
9.) Dream more while you are awake.
10.) Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less foods that are manufactured in plants.
11.) Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries, wild Alaskan salmon, broccoli, almonds & walnuts.
12.) Try to make at least three people smile each day.
13.) Clear your clutter from your house, your car, your desk and let new and flowing energy into your life.
14.) Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead, invest your energy in the positive present moment.
15.) Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class …….but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
16.) Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge card.
17.) Smile and laugh more. It will keep the energy vampires away.
18.) Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
19.) Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
20.) Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
21.) You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
22.) Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.
23.) Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
24.) Ladies – Go on and burn those ‘special’ scented candles, use the 600 thread count sheets, the good china and wear our fancy lingerie now. Stop waiting for a special occasion. Everyday is special.
25.) No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
26.) Frame every so-called disaster with these words: ‘In five years, will this matter?’
27.) Forgive everyone for everything.
28.) What other people think of you is none of your business.
29.) Time heals almost everything. Give time, time!
30.) However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
31.) Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch with them.
32.) Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
33.) Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need. God provides, remember?!
34.) The best is yet to come (in Heaven.)
35.) No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
36.) Do the right thing!
37.) Call your family often.
38.) Each night before you go to bed complete the following statements: ‘I am thankful for __________.’ Today I accomplished _________.
39.) Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.
40.) Enjoy the ride. Remember that this is not Disney World and you certainly don’t want a fast pass. You only have one ride through life so make the most of it and enjoy the ride.
LIVE, LOVE, LAUGH. LIFE’S A GIFT … UNWRAP IT! Have a Blessed day.
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People Come into Your Life for a Reason, a Season or a Lifetime
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People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.  When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for those people.

When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed.  They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are.  They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away.  Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.  What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.

Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.

LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.

Thank you for being a part of my life, whether you were a reason, a season or a lifetime.
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