“Whoever puts the truth first will never lose anything except for what was
never real in the first place”
ACIM (A Course In Miracles)
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Having You
Am I giving up myself in order to have you?
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Roxa Hammock Cafe, Santa Cruz
Self Respect
Quote AA Bill Wilson
The value of earning our own self-respect.
Confused
“Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation”.
Edward R. Murrow
American Broadcast Journalist & War Correspondent
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Uncondition
Did we ever stop to realize that it’s impossible to feel unconditional love for any single person until we can feel it for every single person?
After all, what differentiates them, except conditions?
Post courtesy of A Note From The Universe (TUT)
Art-MEC
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Borrowed Life
“The false self is a borrowed life”.
Donald Winnicott
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Apology
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The art of apology – is a correction of question. In the “both/and” world, the question is when to apologize. In the “either/or” world, the question is whether to apologize. Which world am I living in when I apologize? The one in which I ingratiate myself to make myself feel better, to appease my people-pleasing addiction, to manipulate the human dynamic with the use of apology; or the world I prefer, the one in which my question takes into account both/all humans involved when I offer my apology?
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Mistakes
“It has been a long trip,” said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; “but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn’t made so many mistakes. I’m afraid it’s all my fault.”
“You must never feel badly about making mistakes,” explained Reason quietly, “as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
With Thanks to AM for The Phantom Tollbooth
Three Types of People
There are only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say “what happened”.
Ann Landers
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Choose Hope Over Worry
“Hope is not aimless positive thinking that grins when everyone else is grieving. It’s a confident expectation that there are answers.”
Don Miller, Editor, Santa Cruz Sentinel
By the laws of nature we know that the vast majority of caterpillars entering into the depth of the cocoon emerge in beauty. There is an answer in the darkness.
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