When someone upsets you, instead of focusing on yourself or on the person who provoked you, mindfulness meditation teaches you to merely look directly at the emotion itself. What is this pain? Look at the pain directly, without looking at […]
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Right Now
Today might be the best chance you have to take action. The longer you wait, the more deeply embedded you get in your current lifestyle. Your habits solidify. Your beliefs harden. You get comfortable. It will never be easy, but […]
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His admission is the beginning of humility—at least the newcomer is willing to disclaim that he himself is God. That’s all the start he needs. If, following this achievement, he will relax and practice as many of the Steps as […]
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. ~ George Bernard Shaw It’s always my fault… at least it’s always my responsibility. I can ask for serenity to accept what I […]
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Why not try a diet of the right words—for you are literally eating your words. That is the value of the affirmation. You are deliberately building up a constructive idea in your consciousness. Your consciousness may be crammed and jammed […]
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