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To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.
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Head up, heart open. To better days!
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The sky is not my limit...I am.
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T.F. Hodge (From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence)
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Donβt spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.
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T.F. Hodge (From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence)
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Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity.
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Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease.
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Never bullshit a bullshitter.
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Elevate your inside game. A negative attitude is below the horizon...a place for lonesome hearts.
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T.F. Hodge (From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence)
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Betrayal and dishonor is usually an inside job. Keep it 'sucka-free', loved one!
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Don't wish...DO! Don't try...BE! Don't think...KNOW! And above all: Bless a stranger with a small, yet powerful, random act of kindness. You feel me?
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T.F. Hodge (From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence)
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Solitude is the house of peace.
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T.F. Hodge (From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence)
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The path of peace is not a passive journey. It takes incredible strength not to open a can of 'whoop-ass', justifiably, when ones button is pushed.
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Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience.
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I think that when enough time has passed, when you've survived that which you didn't imagine you could, there's a dignity in that. Something you can own. A pride in knowing the pain made you stronger. The pain made you fight to succeed. Someday, when I'm living my dreams, I'm going to think of all the things that broke my heart and I'm going to be thankful for them. β TF
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Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity.
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T.F. Hodge (From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence)
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Love spiritually, not strategically.
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T.F. Hodge (From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence)
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The ego lusts for satisfaction. It has a prideful ferocious appetite for its version of "truth". It is the most challenging aspect to conquer; the cause for most spiritual turmoil.
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Tough love may be tough to give, but it is a necessity of life and assurance of positive growth.
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T.F. Hodge (From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence)
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To witness miracles unfold in your experience, count your blessings and be thankful. Perceived small blessings accumulate to be the most powerful.
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T.F. Hodge (From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence)
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Never let haters 'still' your flow. They can only do so with your permission.
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T.F. Hodge (From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence)
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The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth preserving, and is meaningful, nourish it and have no regrets. Ultimately, this is true living and love of self...from within.
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T.F. Hodge (From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence)
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What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say.
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T.F. Hodge (From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence)
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You cannot build a dream on a foundation of sand. To weather the test of storms, it must be cemented in the heart with uncompromising conviction.
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Fully inhale your dream and completely exhale manifestation of it.
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T.F. Hodge (From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence)
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TF-16 returned to Pearl Harbor on May 26 in good order, with one huge exception: Admiral Halsey, the sixty-year-old commander, arrived back completely exhausted and ill. After six months of intense underway operations, culminating in the fruitless 7000-mile mission across the Pacific to the Coral Sea and back, Halsey had lost twenty pounds and had contracted a serious case of dermatitis. Nimitz took one look at him and sent him straight to the Pearl Harbor hospital. The Navyβs most experienced and highly regarded carrier force commander would sit out the Battle of Midway. The ultimate sea warrior, Halsey would watch from his hospital window as the two task forces departed Pearl Harbor for Midway.
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Having beef with someone is unnecessary and avoidable. Whatever the issue, if not positive, it is an opportunity to cut the excess fat from an unhealthy dietary network. Simply excuse yourself from the table of negativity and lean forward in peace.
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One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments...is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an original state of being and awareness. This is 'dis-ease.
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T.F. Hodge (From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence)
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Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule of hard knocks. Though potential influence of either extreme is inevitable, our actions bear witness to the one we embrace.
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Life is short only if you are not living your purpose.
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T.F. Hodge (From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence)
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The Motto of Champions: If you are hurt, you can suck it up and press on. If injured, you can rebound and return bigger and better...and continue to inspire!
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What you are, and who you are should provide greater clarity about where you have been and where you are headed. Although one distinguishes spiritual from physical nature, the ultimate unification of the two is the consequence of the struggle for internal, external and eternal β peace.
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There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive illusion. Choose wisely at each fork in the road.
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Freedom is realizing you have a choice.
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T.F. Hodge (From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence)
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A King and Queen cannot support a crown with eyes looking down. Their universe expands as far as you can see.
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Do not hate the player, nor the game...rule it!
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T.F. Hodge (From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence)
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Some lean back. But those who lean forward are poised to cross the finish-line, first!
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T.F. Hodge (From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence)
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In the game of life, we all receive a set of variables and limitations in the field of play. We can either focus on the lack thereof or empower ourselves to create better realities with the pieces we play the game with.
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Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring.
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Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress.
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T.F. Hodge (From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence)
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There is bound to be turbulence in the clouds of confusion before one can view the friendly skies, and an illuminated landing strip.
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What surrounds us is what is within us.
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If you wish to transform, pretend this day until it is so.
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During moments of strife and 'dis-ease', check your flow and redirect your focus to that which is naturally good.
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Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deep...slow...breathing. Of this, the natural law of self-preservation demands.
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Do not only think about it, but feel about it, also, before taking appropriate action.
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Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.
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While fear depletes power, faith gives wings for the soulβs elevation.
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Success is not determined by the outcome. The outcome is the result of having already decided that you are successful to begin with.
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Deep within, there is something profoundly known, not consciously, but subconsciously. A quiet truth, that is not a version of something, but an original knowing. What this, absolute, truth [identity] is may be none of our businessβ¦but it is there, guiding us along the path of greater becoming; a true awareness. It is so self-sustaining that our recognition of it is not required. We are offspringβs of such a powerfully divine force β Creator of all things known and unknown.
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What are you prepared to give for your dream? If it is not everything...stop pipe dreaming.
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When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village.
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Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power.
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Huge difference between being happy at will, and chasing euphoric moments as an escape. One doesn't cost a dime, the other will tax your soul.
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This path was not that of my conscious choosing. But after persistent subconscious confrontation, I have finally embraced what is, 'souly' for me...and I am thankful, when called upon, to be able to share and give to those who seek their own way of the path.
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The energy it took to exit motherβs womb is the same force required to manifest a dream...a different kind of struggle. Push, push, push!
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If the thought inspires you, and it feels good and right...it is yours, alone, to exercise. So get right on it!
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You do not get what you wish for, unless it be known to the source of your desire.
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From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.
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Past and future is determined by what is nowβ¦right now! This is why the present is a gift; the only one that ultimately matters most.
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Making a dream into reality begins with what you have, not with what you are waiting on.
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Haters' don't hate you, they hate self and project the energy outward because there is no courage to confront internal fears. Therefore, ignore hate or else it becomes you, also.
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All matters being spiritual; man or woman can only find peace when peace is realized from within.
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The eye of judgment sees at a distance what it refuses to see in it's own reflection.
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If you have a dream, keep it. But write it down and take appropriate actions to see it manifest.
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A coward's gun is emptied when fear pulls the trigger, and hate is the ammunition of choice.
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A flirtatious soul misses the point of intimate trust relations.
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You may have the dark and cold street life, ruled by the lessor light of the moon. During this time I restore my temple, and later awake to greet the awesome radiance of the sun-star.
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When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don't trip...allowing them to fester. These are random tests of your conviction and determination. Large or small, your reaction to such intrusions is a defining moment for which no one else, but you, can mitigate.
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Fear is the lack of faith in one's ability to create powerful solutions.
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Claiming to love self, but willingly default to cheating at the first sign of trouble is nothing short of playing yourself. Your ego may feel avenged - temporarily - but your heart and soul, the true self, will suffer the long term affects of karma's justifiable sting.
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The energy you bring, positive or negative, dictates your perceptions, receptions and radiations.
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The positive vibrations of unregulated joy, peace, happiness and tranquility is freedom.
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The solution to self-pity is found in the labor of selfless giving to others.
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Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question...so break 'yo'self'!
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Live what you be, not what you see.
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Don't pound your chest when it's all good, then blame God when it's all bad.
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Ego got you thinkin' you're workin' somebody to your advantage; you're just playin' yourself.
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Kyle gave her a couple of little pats on the back to let her know that one, he wasnβt good at hugs, and two, this hug was going on far too long for a bad hugger to manage.
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It is common to represent a title, but inspiring to represent a purpose.
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Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.
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You'll never cross an emotional bridge, if you keep rushing back to the other side.
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What we possess owns us, and we absolutely own nothing.
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Perception can be one-sided or variant: "Glass half empty or half full." There usually is more than one way of perceiving. Thoroughly check your inner dialogue.
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Christ has redeemed our humanity from vanity and our time from illusion.
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Life: It is better not to wrap philosophy around such an inconceivable evolving beautiful mystery. If based on perception, alone; whatever the conclusion - it is still guessing.
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It is more substantial to represent a purpose, rather than just a title.
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Love making is much more than physical expression, it is a soulful dance of sensual wonder and euphoric amazement.
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Bling" is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pockets of those outside of ones sphere of influence...the haves' bleeding the have-nots'.
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Be better than yesterday.
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Realize clarity from calamity.
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Today is not just another ordinary day. It is an opportunity to do, or say, something that just might inspire someone to greater becoming...especially a wayward youth.
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When the word is heard consult the source, and beware the messenger.
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A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.
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Mother is her son's first god; she must teach him the most important lesson of all - how to love.
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That sassy low classy, but dress real cheap-fly-n-fancy, with a chip on her shoulder -- she's just a bitterly wounded dove, wanting to be sieged by love.
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Keep at it. Persistence does pay dividends. But there is a catch; you gotta believe it before manifestation will validate conviction as [your] truth. And sacrifice is a required path to fulfillment.
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If our sense of self, our values and our ideals, do not originate from within - but are instead largely influenced, shaped or fashioned by celebrated characters - we fall under the spells of idol worship without realizing we have 'souled out'.
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Busyβ = Out of Control βEvery time people contact me, they say, βLook, I know you must be incredibly busyΒ .Β .Β .β and I always think, βNo, Iβm not.β Because Iβm in control of my time. Iβm on top of it. βBusy,β to me, seems to imply βout of control.β Like, βOh my God, Iβm so busy. I donβt have any time for this shit!β To me, that sounds like a person whoβs got no control over their life.β TF: Lack of time is lack of priorities. If Iβm βbusy,β it is because Iβve made choices that put me in that position, so Iβve forbidden myself to reply to βHow are you?β with βBusy.β I have no right to complain. Instead, if Iβm too busy, itβs a cue to reexamine my systems and rules.
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Real loved one's aren't afraid, and will suggest to
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