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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
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Wilfred Arlan Peterson
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Life is suffering
Love is the desire to see unnecessary suffering ameliorated
Truth is the handmaiden of love
Dialogue is the pathway to truth
Humility is recognition of personal insufficiency and the willingness to learn
To learn is to die voluntarily and be born again, in great ways and small
So speech must be untrammeled
So that dialogue can take place
So that we can all humbly learn
So that truth can serve love
So that suffering can be ameliorated
So that we can all stumble forward to the Kingdom of God
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Jordan B. Peterson
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Along your pathway of life you will observe that you are not the only traveler. There are others who need your help. There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save.
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Thomas S. Monson
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I said, but I have to go, there are so many places calling my name.
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Nikki Rowe
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If we feel affected by the dreariness of the mad scramble, we have to stand back, take a break and override the droning humdrum of the treadmill; and let the exaltation of the day decide; and follow inspiring pathways to the true heartbeat of our life. ("Mutatis mutandi")
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Erik Pevernagie
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It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future...
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Wilferd Peterson
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It's not the law of religion nor the principles of morality that define our highways and pathways to God; only by the Grace of God are we led and drawn, to God. It is His grace that conquers a multitude of flaws and in that grace, there is only favor. Favor is not achieved; favor is received.
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C. JoyBell C.
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The Universe is the creation of the mind. Universe exists inside the mind as the flower exists inside the seed.
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Amit Ray (OM Sutra: The Pathway to Enlightenment)
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Intuition means exactly what it sounds like, in-tuition! An inner tutor or teaching and learning mechanism that takes us forward daily. It is a resource that, where recognized, has infinite potential.
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Sylvia Clare (Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life (Pathways, 6))
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Open your thoughts to the probability that you are more intuitive than you realize
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Sylvia Clare (Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life (Pathways, 6))
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Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act spontaneously, without needing to know why. The why question leads to indecision, anxiety, caution and self-limitation. There are all responses which originate in fear-based emotions.
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Sylvia Clare (Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life (Pathways, 6))
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Through systematic meditation one can awaken the third eye and touch the cosmic awareness. Sushumna nadi is the subtle pathway in the spinal cord which passes through the main psychic centers. The awakening of these centers means a gradual expansion of awareness, until it reaches the cosmic awareness. Each center has its own beauty and gracefulness. Through generations of ignorance and unconsciousness, this channel of awareness becomes obscured and hidden. Meditation is to become aware about this internal life energy. Meditation is the procedure to rearrange, harmonize, activate, and integrate the individual life energy with the cosmic life energy.
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Amit Ray (Meditation: Insights and Inspirations)
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Pray for "all men." We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.
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E.M. Bounds
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We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that Heβll do more than we expect.
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Mary E. DeMuth (Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus)
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Inspiring others is the pathway to your own discoveries
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Robin Craig Clark (Voyager: The Art of Pure Awareness)
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An experienced Witch takes magickal action based on inspiration, NOT desperation.
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Dacha Avelin (Old World Witchcraft: Pathway To Effective Magick)
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May you find the strength and resolve today, to allow a deeper sense of healing to begin.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Healing After Loss: 123 channeled affirmations and quotes to inspire self-healing daily (The Soulful Pathway, #7))
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Let the pain & suffering of all that appears to be lost, be soothed, healed & comforted.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Healing After Loss: 123 channeled affirmations and quotes to inspire self-healing daily (The Soulful Pathway, #7))
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The heart of a yogi should always bear good-will and thoughts that benefit others.
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Amit Ray (OM Sutra: The Pathway to Enlightenment)
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Change your focus,
give power to the positive
and starve the negative.
We reduce our inner wisdom
to think with logic that's been
instilled in us whilst expecting
miraculous results. Retrain the core
issue and the pathway will build itself.
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Nikki Rowe
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I urge you to sit with yourself for 5 minutes and pour your heart out, ask yourself the serious questions ~ not the day to day duties we get caught up in. I can assure you, the 5 minutes spent reflecting on the life you have lived and how much more you're yet to achieve will spark something in you that we all forgot we have.
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Nikki Rowe
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It's not our mission to change or direct another person's path. There is no wrong way or right way. We each have our own life journey and our mission is to just become a LIGHT that enlightens other people's pathways.
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Jan Mckingley Hilado
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Intuition represents a concept which is made up from lots of ideas and assumptions, not all of which will be common to everyone.
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Sylvia Clare (Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life (Pathways, 6))
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Life's adversity strengthens us to embrace - lifeβs true purpose and destiny.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Christmas: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to positively inspire you at Christmas (The Soulful Pathway, #8))
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May you can continue unhindered, by inviting immense clarity, prosperity and purpose - into your life.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Christmas: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to positively inspire you at Christmas (The Soulful Pathway, #8))
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Our light shall burn the pathway to the stars
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Mladen ΔorΔeviΔ (SvetioniΔar - Vesnici oluje (UtoΔiΕ‘te #1))
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Formal learning is like riding a bus: the driver decides where the bus is going; the passengers are along for the ride. Informal learning is like riding a bike: the rider chooses the destination, the speed, and the route.
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Jay Cross (Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways That Inspire Innovation and Performance)
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Intuition is an essential part of the whole experience of living. Although it will not help predict the future or how people will behave, using intuition as a guide makes life more rewarding. It helps you follow what seems to be the right path, even when social convention or common sense appears to tell differently
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Sylvia Clare (Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life (Pathways, 6))
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Let us acknowledge the magnitude of Motherhood, by simply honoring all mothersβ past & present.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway To Motherhood: Soulfully Empowering Your Life's Journey & Purpose As a Mother Through Positive Inspiration (The Soulful Pathway, #5))
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Life is unfolding by each step you take - but, it is fulfilled by every choice you make.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Christmas: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to positively inspire you at Christmas (The Soulful Pathway, #8))
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You did the best you could with the knowledge you had in that moment. Itβs easier to look back at an event and see a better choice or pathway because we already learned from our experience. Hindsight happens after the lesson, so we canβt condemn ourselves for not knowing the lesson before we learned it.
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Emily Maroutian (The Book of Relief: Passages and Exercises to Relieve Negative Emotion and Create More Ease in The Body)
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It isn't enough to pick a pathβyou must go down it. By doing so, you see things you couldn't possibly see when you started out; you may not like what you see, some of it may be confusing, but at least you will have, as we like to say, "explored the neighborhood." The key point here is that even if you decide you're in the wrong place, there is still time to head toward the right place.
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Ed Catmull (Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration)
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The panic attacks have been a part of Zinniaβs life for almost six months. They allow no pathway back to the innocent complacency with which she once made sense of the world around her. With every new attack more of her identity crumbles. Every day the panic rubs something else out that has been achieved with application, sometimes with inspiration.
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Glenn Haybittle (The Memory Tree)
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Let strength and wisdom carry you forward beyond the limited horizons β you may have once envisioned.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway To Quotes: 100 channeled quotes and affirmations to positively inspire you daily (The Soulful Pathway, #4))
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As a Father, I willingly nurture & protect the Soul's of all those - I love.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Fatherhood: Soulfully Empowering Your Life's Journey & Purpose as a Father Through Positive Inspiration)
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Great inspiration makes great scientists.
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A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (Reignited: Scientific Pathways to a Better Future)
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Honor your joy today, whilst it replenishes and strengthens you - in the company of your Soul.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Christmas: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to positively inspire you at Christmas (The Soulful Pathway, #8))
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Your empowerment remains Soulfully supported from within.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway To Empowerment: Soulfully Empowering You to Overcome Life's Challenges & to Achieve Your Goals (The Soulful Pathway, #6))
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A second chance is a direct pathway to a grateful heart and an astonished mind.
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Holly Elissa Bruno (The Comfort of Little Things: An Educator's Guide to Second Chances)
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On this day of love, embrace the freedom, to not just give love - but to receive it, too.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Love: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to attract true love into your life (The Soulful Pathway, #3))
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Dreams aren't only an illusion to put you into a subconsciously pleasurable state of mind for the time being, but also a pathway to gain complete contentment.
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Mehek Bassi
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You are always going to meet disturbances outside yourself, it's the experience of living ~
There will be dark days and there will be days of laughter and somewhere in between you'll create a healthy balance within yourself and call it a life.
We can't stop the storm, but we can learn to watch it pass.
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Nikki Rowe
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When we are unable to change an event that has already been written in the stars, we are always presented the opportunity to surrender to the heart and find a new pathway to peace. Understanding Divine Reason allows us to honor Godβs Divine Plan.
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Molly Friedenfeld
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May the pathways that have taken you along the road to loss, guide you along the road to healing.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Healing After Loss: 123 channeled affirmations and quotes to inspire self-healing daily (The Soulful Pathway, #7))
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Never fear Love's absence in your life, because it already exists within you, in great abundance.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Love: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to attract true love into your life (The Soulful Pathway, #3))
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May all you affirm and believe be given the opportunity to manifest - day by day.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway To Affirmations: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes, to positively inspire you daily (The Soulful Pathway, #2))
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The pathway to our deepest desires lies in honoring the profound truth that we wield the power to sculpt our reality through our perceptual choices.
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T.L. Workman (From Student to Teacher: A Journey of Transformation and Manifestation)
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Christmas, so joyfully celebrated within our hearts and within the hearts of countless others.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Christmas: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to positively inspire you at Christmas (The Soulful Pathway, #8))
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Summon your inner courage to ensure you strive unhindered - toward your chosen goals.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Christmas: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to positively inspire you at Christmas (The Soulful Pathway, #8))
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Through joy, the Soul finds its greatest - physical expression.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Christmas: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to positively inspire you at Christmas (The Soulful Pathway, #8))
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Today, may you be filled with an immense sense of inner peace, unity, joy & happiness.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Christmas: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to positively inspire you at Christmas (The Soulful Pathway, #8))
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Do not just envisage your own hopes, dreams β but, have the courage to strive toward them.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway To Empowerment: Soulfully Empowering You to Overcome Life's Challenges & to Achieve Your Goals (The Soulful Pathway, #6))
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It is within your loving and welcoming arms that a new generation will arrive & be greeted.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway To Motherhood: Soulfully Empowering Your Life's Journey & Purpose As a Mother Through Positive Inspiration (The Soulful Pathway, #5))
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Your inner understanding of Love - can be extended beyond all you have ever known, before.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Love: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to attract true love into your life (The Soulful Pathway, #3))
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When we become an expert in our trauma history and know how we self-victimize and drop into denial, we have an opportunity to create a new reality with a new neural pathway in our brain.
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Kenny Weiss (Your Journey To Success: How to Accept the Answers You Discover Along the Way)
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I own my past, it hasn't been grande'
But it's had some pretty great moments.
I own my movements of now, it isn't what I've dreamt, but I'm closer than I was before.
I own my future, it is going to test me,
But I trust I have the strength to pull through.
Life isn't what happens to us, but what we choose to become.
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Nikki Rowe
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Yes I believe a man will compliment my life oneday, but what's the rush.. I mean everyone's searching so passionately for something to fill the void and I don't want any part in that, I'm happy finding my own way untill I get swept of my feet.
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Nikki Rowe
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For some young artists, it can take a bit of time to discover which tools (which medium, or genre, or career pathway) will truly suit them best. For me, although many different art forms attract me, the tools that I find most natural and comfortable are language and oil paint; I've also learned that as someone with a limited number of spoons it's best to keep my toolbox clean and simple. My husband, by contrast, thrives with a toolbox absolutely crowded to bursting, working with language, voice, musical instruments, puppets, masks animated on a theater stage, computer and video imagery, and half a dozen other things besides, no one of these tools more important than the others, and all somehow working together. For other artists, the tools at hand might be needles and thread; or a jeweller's torch; or a rack of cooking spices; or the time to shape a young child's day....
To me, it's all art, inside the studio and out. At least it is if we approach our lives that way.
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Terri Windling
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You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way. The pathway to enlightenment and transformation and liberation is the heart not the mind.
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Rasheed Ogunlaru
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During the crash and burn, I began to burn from cranial crown to flat sole, for meaning and understanding. Every concept, psychological perceptions with hardened pathways, everything that registered as inherited from the communal was starting to dissolve into meaninglessness. The foundational tenets, the pre-established belief systems, instilled sustenance systems tended by both family and extended communal began to dissolve, first as trivial, and then as untenable to my being without validation from me. If my life was worth anything, I choose to live the best life for me.
So I entered what I call The Blank State.
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Dew Platt (Failure&solitude)
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Nurture the Power & Wisdom of your Own Inner Strengths, with Good Intent.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway To Empowerment: Soulfully Empowering You to Overcome Life's Challenges & to Achieve Your Goals (The Soulful Pathway, #6))
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When I am encouraged, I never see obstacles in my way, only exciting challenges.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Love: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to attract true love into your life (The Soulful Pathway, #3))
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Let the voices of all mothers be heard, as we come to honor the gift of Motherhood.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway To Motherhood: Soulfully Empowering Your Life's Journey & Purpose As a Mother Through Positive Inspiration (The Soulful Pathway, #5))
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When we fail, we learn, we grow and we mature. It opens our eyes to new pathways toward reaching our goals and connecting the dots where we hadn't before.
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Elaine Turner
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Peace is not only the purpose of life; it is also the pathway of life
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Debasish Mridha
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Perseverance is the steady pathway toward prevailing.
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Tom Althouse (The Frowny Face Cow)
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Even in the midst of lifeβs adversity, struggle or strife; Loveβs enduring presence remains steadfast.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Love: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to attract true love into your life (The Soulful Pathway, #3))
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Help me to understand, what my grief has prevented me from seeing - within.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Healing After Loss: 123 channeled affirmations and quotes to inspire self-healing daily (The Soulful Pathway, #7))
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Embrace the true essence of Christmas - by embracing the gift and essence of life, itself.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Christmas: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to positively inspire you at Christmas (The Soulful Pathway, #8))
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Let your children uplift your burdens and allow your role as a mother - to flourish and grow.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway To Motherhood: Soulfully Empowering Your Life's Journey & Purpose As a Mother Through Positive Inspiration (The Soulful Pathway, #5))
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Your inner joy will journey alongside you - supported within the company of your Soul.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Christmas: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to positively inspire you at Christmas (The Soulful Pathway, #8))
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Your joy ensures your life experiences, always serve to support you - along lifeβs chosen path.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Christmas: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to positively inspire you at Christmas (The Soulful Pathway, #8))
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The Soul's knowledge, which pertains only to you - should be acted upon today and put to good use.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Christmas: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to positively inspire you at Christmas (The Soulful Pathway, #8))
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This Christmas may you courageously venture - toward each new and unfolding horizon.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Christmas: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to positively inspire you at Christmas (The Soulful Pathway, #8))
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Honor the freedom to celebrate Christmas, not alone - but, in the company of all those you love, too.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Christmas: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to positively inspire you at Christmas (The Soulful Pathway, #8))
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The Soul's secrets from within - help unlock the secrets of all that exists, without.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Christmas: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to positively inspire you at Christmas (The Soulful Pathway, #8))
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Let me share my loving care upon those who are not my children β yet, willing to see me as their Father.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Fatherhood: Soulfully Empowering Your Life's Journey & Purpose as a Father Through Positive Inspiration)
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Your loss, serves as a stark reminder that, although I feel so aloneβI am not alone.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Healing After Loss: 123 channeled affirmations and quotes to inspire self-healing daily (The Soulful Pathway, #7))
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Embrace the notion of venturing beyond your own limits.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway To Quotes: 100 channeled quotes and affirmations to positively inspire you daily)
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Motherhood unwittingly molds us into all we are now, or are - destined to be.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway To Motherhood: Soulfully Empowering Your Life's Journey & Purpose As a Mother Through Positive Inspiration (The Soulful Pathway, #5))
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May you find solace & be comforted by loveβs inner warmth, and glow.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway to Love: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to attract true love into your life (The Soulful Pathway, #3))
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Affirm your life's destiny & purpose to ensure - both are graciously fulfilled.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway To Affirmations: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes, to positively inspire you daily (The Soulful Pathway, #2))
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Be Inspired not just within your heart & mind - but, also within your Soul.
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Eleesha (The Soulful Pathway To Inspiration: 100 channeled inspirations and affirmations to positively inspire you daily (The Soulful Pathway, #1))
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Awareness is the pathway to limitless likelihoods. Thus, you live life from a perception without mind restrictions.
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Steve Leasock (Love Will Show You the Way: Choosing the Path of Least Resistance)
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I suppose you could say these images present a glimpse of the world around me during the last 5 years as well as moments in time for the creatures and nature sharing the same space as me.
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Noel Marie Fletcher (Pathways in Time: Photo Journeys)
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dream. But these kinds of inspiration Lydgate regarded as rather vulgar and vinous compared with the imagination that reveals subtle actions inaccessible by any sort of lens, but tracked in that outer darkness through long pathways of necessary sequence by the inward light which is the last refinement of Energy, capable of bathing even the ethereal atoms in its ideally illuminated space.
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George Eliot (Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life)
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There're many ways to inspire others but the goal is the same. The pathways are different and must be; because we're diverse. The destination must be the same; to inspire them, so they too can inspire others.
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Val Uchendu
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An essential virtue is humility. β¦ The principle of humility and prayer leads one to feel a need of divine guidance. Self-reliance is a virtue, but with it should go a consciousness of the need of superior helpβa consciousness that as you walk firmly in the pathway of duty, there is a possibility of your making a misstep; and with that consciousness is a prayer, a pleading that God will inspire you to avoid that false step
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David O. McKay
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five suggestions that can work to open mathematics tasks and increase their potential for learning: Open up the task so that there are multiple methods, pathways, and representations. Include inquiry opportunities. Ask the problem before teaching the method. Add a visual component and ask students how they see the mathematics. Extend the task to make it lower floor and higher ceiling. Ask students to convince and reason; be skeptical.
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Jo Boaler (Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students' Potential through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching (Mindset Mathematics))
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Translation will open up entire realms of possibilities, unforeseen pathways that will newly guide and inspire the writerβs work, and possibly even transform it. For to translate is to look into a mirror and see someone other than oneself.
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Jhumpa Lahiri (Translating Myself and Others)
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Leaving the age of materialism and duality behind us, we now seek to become Masters of the Spiritual Kingdom ~ moving into the penthouse of ourselves, the crown chakra, as it were. Herein lays all our joy, our progress and our discovery of our superior and limitless Divine powers. By loosening identification with the sense world, we begin to access the greater causal gifts and realms.
I believe we must always learn to use our power of choice ~ to develop Spiritual authority, and come out of victim consciousness. It is important to encourage the setting of strong goals (focusing around fulfillment of pure heartβs desires). When the will is highly focused, the reader become receptive to the Higher Way and technologies of God I wish to impart.
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Linda De Coff (Bridge of the Gods: A Handbook for Ascending Humanity The Golden Pathway to your Highest God Self!)
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Many men have been praised as vividly imaginative on the strength of their profuseness in indifferent drawing or cheap narration:βreports of very poor talk going on in distant orbs; or portraits of Lucifer coming down on his bad errands as a large ugly man with bat's wings and spurts of phosphorescence; or exaggerations of wantonness that seem to reflect life in a diseased dream. But these kinds of inspirations Lydgate regarded as rather vulgar and vinous compared with the imagination that reveals subtle actions inaccessible by any sort of lens, but tracked in that outer darkness through long pathways of necessary sequence by the inward light which is the last refinement of Energy, capable of bathing even the ethereal atoms in its ideally illuminated space.
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George Eliot (Middlemarch)
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This scroll, five hundred years old and more, had been inspired by her favorite, the great Wang Wei, master of landscape art, who had painted the scenes from his own home, where he lived for thirty years before he died. Now behind the palace walls on this winterβs day, where she could see only sky and falling snow, Tzu His gazed upon the green landscapes of continuing spring. One landscape melted into another as slowly she unrolled the scroll, so that she might dwell upon every detail of tree and brook and distant hillside. So did she, in imagination, pass beyond the high walls which enclosed her, and she traveled through a delectable country, beside flowing brooks and spreading lakes, and following the ever-flowing river she crossed over wooden bridges and climbed the stony pathways upon a high mountainside and thence looked down a gorge to see a torrent fed by still higher springs, and breaking into waterfalls as it traveled toward the plains. Down from the mountain again she came, past small villages nestling in pine forests and into the warmer valleys among bamboo groves, and she paused in a poetβs pavilion, and so reached at last the shore where the river lost itself in a bay. There among the reeds a fishermanβs boat rose and fell upon the rising tide. Here the river ended, its horizon the open sea and the misted mountains of infinity. This scroll, Lady Miao had once told her, was the artistβs picture of the human soul, passing through the pleasantest scenes of earth to the last view of the unknown future, far beyond.
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Pearl S. Buck (Imperial Woman)
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Perhaps as this hostile world oppresses us and tries to lead us away from Godβs holy ways, He sends angels on missions of mercy to open our eyes to pathways of holiness. What better way can angels minister to those who are to βinherit salvationβ than to facilitate this very thing? (An Angel's View, pp. 69-70).
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Michael O'Neal
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Pick any time of the day or night and somewhere, everywhere, stories are being told. They overlap and flow across one another, the pull away again just as waves do upon a shore. It is this knack that stories have of rubbing up against one another that makes the world an interesting place, a place of greater possibility than it would be if we told our tales alone.
This is impossible, of course. Make no mistake, everyone's stories touches someone else's. And every brush of one life tale upon another, be it ever so gentle, creates something new: a pathway that wasn't there before. The possibility to create a new tale.
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Cameron Dokey (Winter's Child)
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God has not promised skies always blue, flower-strewn pathways all our lives through; God has not promised sun without rain, joy without sorrow, peace without pain. But God has promised strength for the day, rest for the labor, light for the way, Grace for the trials, help from above, unfailing sympathy, undying love.
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Annie Johnson Flint (Poems of Inspiration and Hope)
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Walker-thinkers have found various ways to accommodate the gifts that their walking brings. Caught paperless on his walks in the Czech enclaves of Iowa, maestro DvoΕΓ‘k scribbles the string quartets that visited his brain on his starched white shirt cuffs (so the legend goes). More proactively, Thomas Hobbes fashioned a walking stick for himself with an inkwell attached, and modern poet Mary Oliver leaves pencils in the trees along her usual pathways, in case a poem descends during her rambles.
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Lyanda Lynn Haupt (Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness)
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In life, youβll have moments of uncertainty when youβre just donβt know what to do or what to choose. Youβll be confused and unsure. Those moments are rare opportunities of possibility. Most of the time, we know what we will decide before itβs even presented to us. Weβre so sure of what we want or donβt want that we rarely sit in the openness of possibility. But in the moments when weβre uncertain, in the moments of confusion, anything is possible. Instead of letting that paralyze you, let it inspire you and open you up to a new pathway. It just might be exactly what you need right now.
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Emily Maroutian (The Book of Relief: Passages and Exercises to Relieve Negative Emotion and Create More Ease in The Body)
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While most of us go through life feeling that we are the thinker of our thoughts and the experiencer of our experience, from the perspective of science we know that this is a distorted view. There is no discrete self or ego lurking like a minotaur in the labyrinth of the brain. There is no region of cortex or pathway of neural processing that occupies a privileged position with respect to our personhood. There is no unchanging βcenter of narrative gravityβ (to use Daniel Dennettβs phrase). In subjective terms, however, there seems to be one β to most of us, most of the time.
Our contemplative traditions (Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, etc.) also suggest, to varying degrees and with greater or lesser precision, that we live in the grip of a cognitive illusion. But the alternative to our captivity is almost always viewed through the lens of religious dogma. A Christian will recite the Lordβs Prayer continuously over a weekend, experience a profound sense of clarity and peace, and judge this mental state to be fully corroborative of the doctrine of Christianity; A Hindu will spend an evening singing devotional songs to Krishna, feel suddenly free of his conventional sense of self, and conclude that his chosen deity has showered him with grace; a Sufi will spend hours whirling in circles, pierce the veil of thought for a time, and believe that he has established a direct connection to Allah.
The universality of these phenomena refutes the sectarian claims of any one religion. And, given that contemplatives generally present their experiences of self-transcendence as inseparable from their associated theology, mythology, and metaphysics, it is no surprise that scientists and nonbelievers tend to view their reports as the product of disordered minds, or as exaggerated accounts of far more common mental states β like scientific awe, aesthetic enjoyment, artistic inspiration, etc.
Our religions are clearly false, even if certain classically religious experiences are worth having. If we want to actually understand the mind, and overcome some of the most dangerous and enduring sources of conflict in our world, we must begin thinking about the full spectrum of human experience in the context of science.
But we must first realize that we are lost in thought.
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Sam Harris
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Just like rain, let it all flow incessantly until the sky clears out.
Sometimes a part of me asks how is it that the ones who love the most, dearly, tenderly giving their all, find their hollow end meeting with scars that they never deserved. How is it that sometimes Life turns cold for those who sprinkle the most amount of sunshine, the hand that wipes other's pain how is that parched with betrayals and misunderstandings. But I guess it is about life lessons, how a soul grows through it all, as if the soul walks across the pyre of fire to know and eventually become its own mettle. Through it all the heart becomes more open and the mind more understanding, a unique strength of peace walks inside the very fire that rages the soul. Patience flows in through perseverance and the ashes mould in the teardrop of resilience to wear the smile of kindness.
I have realised that when the worst happens to us, the soul is confronted with two choices, either to become bitter with repeating the question why or to become better with understanding the way how to walk ahead. Eventually it boils down to two simple emotions, love and hate, astonishingly born out of the same part of our mind and heart. It is a selection of either vengeance or forgiveness, not an easy choice to make especially when we are at our most vulnerable self. Whatever we choose becomes our reality, as if we get soaked in it, and somehow Time runs by. And when years pass by and we look back and see the path, and reflect on our choice we understand the meaning of both the choices, to some they take the shape of peace and to some they take the shape of agony, but looking closely we can see that the agony is the pathway leading to peace, forgiveness is the destination, sooner or later we all reach that space to find it in us to forgive, some in years while some in lifetimes. And perhaps, that is why we all undergo all that happens to us, chained in our Karma.
So even when Life seems unfair, give it your all. Love with all your soul and no matter what comes by, don't stop walking along this shore of Time, because no matter how long it takes, you will find your Home. And when Life puts up a question as to why some who broke your soul find pleasure so easy, remind yourself the difference between pleasure and peace and don't forget to acknowledge the fact that perhaps you have paid your Karmic debt in full while theirs might just be beginning.
So break if you must, but remind yourself about the gift of Life and Love every passing moment that breathes like a dream in an illusion of Time. Let your Faith walk hand in hand with you as you tread softly towards your destination, because no matter the years or the lifetimes, someday the sky shall be clear for the rainbow of your soul to smile in the Justice of Him, who knows all, sees all, feels all and does all.
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Debatrayee Banerjee