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Thought for the day....... "The important thing is to look honestly at what your need to control is designed to protect you from and whether it actually supports your well being." Susan Campbell, PhD
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Thought for the day....... "The ability to see yourself as a temporary expression of intention and to see yourself in all of humanity is a characteristic of the holy relationship. It's the ability to celebrate and honor in all others, the place where we're all one. ...establish a holy relationship with your Source, the world community, your neighbors, acquaintances, family, the animal kingdom, our planet, and yourself." Wayne Dyer
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Thought for the day....... "Quantum physics shows us the universe as a dynamic web of connection." Robert Moss
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Thought for the day....... "What is it that caused your great-grandmother on her meeting with your great-grandfather to recognize him as her future mate and the future father of her children? You can call it a mystery, but it is a mystery that does not imply doubt. We can presume she felt something definite. She felt affinity." Robert Aitken (1734-1802)
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From my daughter's (really sick with LD/cos for 3 years) college essay:
Eleanor Roosevelt once said, ``The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.''
My daughter goes on to say: "This quote has inspired me greatly. I believe that experiences people go through make them who they are. Live life to the fullest and enjoy every minute of it. Even when life gets you down you have to find the good in it and always think positively. I am always optimistic and I never give up. You can't fear the future you just have to live day by day and embrace each experience."
And that's just the beginning. She's gone through so much and is still going through hell. Yet, she can still embrace the positive and look to the future. I am so incredibly proud of her.
God bless our children. They're the ones who will change everything in the years to come.
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Thought for the day....... "Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family." Abraham Maslow
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Thought for the day....... "It's the heart afraid of dying, that never learns to dance; It's the dream afraid of waking, that never takes the chance; It's the one who won't be taken, who cannot seem to give; And the soul afraid of dying, that never learns to live." Bette Midler
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Thought for the day....... "As you identify less and less with the 'me', you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything. Do you know why? Because you are no longer afraid of being hurt or not liked. You no longer desire to impress anyone. Can you imagine the relief when you don't have to impress anybody anymore? Oh, what a relief. Happiness at last!" Anthony de Mello
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Thought for the day....... "Remember that nothing has to change in the world for us to transform our own life experience." Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
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Thought for the day....... "It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference." Bear Bryant
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Thought for the day....... "United be your purpose, harmonious be your feelings, collected be your mind, in the same way as all the various aspects of the universe exist together in togetherness, wholeness." Rik Samhita, 10.194.4
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Thought for the day....... "Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it." Sylvia Boorstein
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Thought for the day....... "Mindfulness is a habit, it's something the more one does, the more likely one is to be in that mode with less and less effort.....it's a skill that can be learned. It's accessing something we already have. Mindfulness isn't difficult. What's difficult is to remember to be mindful." John Teasdale
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Thought for the day....... ``The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.'' Julia Cameron
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Thought for the day....... "The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds." R.D. Laing
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Slight variation today, in Medical Questions, in the thread about Pam Weintraub's article about Dr Jones' history and the difficult politics he's had to deal with -
Sizzled: Printing this out and leaving it here where the cretins in Connecticut, going after Dr Jones, can see:
"There are none so blind as those who will not see...."
Hi Lightfoot - thx for printing these day after day -
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Thought for the day....... "So, mindfulness will not conflict with any beliefs or traditions - religious or for that matter scientific - nor is it trying to sell you anything, especially not a new belief system or ideology. It is simply a practical way to be more in touch with the fullness of your being through a systematic process of self-observation, self-inquiry, and mindful action. There is nothing cold, analytical, or unfeeling about it. The overall tenor of mindfulness is gentle, appreciative, and nurturing. Another way to think of it would be 'heartfulness'.'' Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are
Robin.....enjoy, my pleasure. I find the collection and posting of quotes to be uplifting.
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Thought for the day....... ``I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.'' Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "Don't ponder: You don't need to figure everything out. Discursive thinking won't free you from the trap. In meditation, the mind is purified naturally by mindfulness, by wordless bare attention. Habitual deliberation is not necessary to eliminate those things that are keeping you in bondage. All that is necessary is a clear, non-conceptual perception of what they are and how they work. That alone is sufficient to dissolve them. Concepts and reasoning just get in the way. Don't think. See." Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English
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Thought for the day....... ``The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers." Thich Nhat Hanh
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Thought for the day....... "Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer." Barbara De Angelis
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Thought for the day....... "Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state." Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Thought for the day....... "The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves." Eric Hoffer
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Thought for the day....... "People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater." Ellen Langer
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Thought for the day....... "Try reminding yourself from time to time: 'This is it'. See if there is anything at all that it cannot be applied to. Remind yourself that acceptance of the present moment has nothing to do with resignation in the face of what is happening. It simply means a clear acknowledgment that 'what is happening is happening'." Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are
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Thought for the day....... "The art of living in this ``predicament'' is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past and the known on the other. It consists in being completely sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive." Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity
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Thought for the day....... "Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end." Jerry Seinfield
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Thought for the day....... "Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat." Ben Hecht
Happy Valentines Day!!
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Thought for the day....... "To be present here is to be rooted in yourself, in being. It's to feel that subtle sense of aliveness. There's absolutely nothing to work out in your mind; it's too simple." Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise - you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like changing clothes. Consequently, at that point you will be able to maintain your calmness of mind." Dalai Lama
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Thought for the day....... "Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way." Blackfoot Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?" Joan Halifax
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Thought for the day....... "It is like this....If you start really paying attention to your own thought process, you'll notice that the thoughts themselves don't go on continuously.....Most of us habitually fill these spaces with more thoughts as fast as we can....Try to look at the natural spaces between your thoughts. Learn what it feels like to stop generating more and more stuff for your brain to chew on. Now see if you can do that for longer and longer periods. A couple of seconds is fine. Voila!" Brad Warner (Author, Musician and Zen Monk)
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Thought for the day....... ``When the mind ceases its busy activity, all good and noble qualities blossom. There is peace and purity of heart. . . . When the darkness of ignorance is dispelled, the inner light shines brightly. Mental distractions and distress cease - just as the ocean becomes calm when the wind stops churning up the water. In stillness, only infinite consciousness shines.'' The Yoga Vasishtha
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Thought for the day....... "The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong." Carl Jung
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Thought for the day....... "If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing." W. Edwards Deming
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Thought for the day....... "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." Naguib Mahfouz
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Thought for the day....... "The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science." Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Thought for the day....... ``The one who asks questions doesn't lose his way." African Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "When the answer cannot be put into words, neither can the question be put into words. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be framed at all, it is also possible to answer it." Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
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Thought for the day....... ``One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.'' Lewis Carroll
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Thought for the day....... " Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice." William Jennings Bryon
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Thought for the day....... "He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end." Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Thought for the day....... "One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility." Eleanor Roosevelt
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Thought for the day....... "The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that . . . Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing." John Lennon
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Thought for the day....... "The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them." Richard Bach
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Thought for the day....... "It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear, on the contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning." Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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Thought for the day....... "If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees." Hal Borland
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Thought for the day....... "I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in." George Washington Carver
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