Posts Tagged ‘Regain Self-Control’

Feel like Giving Up? Keep Moving Toward Your Dreams

Friday, October 14th, 2011

“What you still need to know is this: before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one ‘dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.’”

“Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.”

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, page 132.

Feelings Teach Us About Ourselves And Our World

Monday, August 29th, 2011

“By going along with feelings,
you unify,
your emotional,
mental,
and bodily states.

When you try to fight
or deny them,
you divorce yourself
from the reality of your being.”

Jane Roberts, The Nature of Personal Reality

“That which oppresses me,
is it my soul
trying to come
out in the open,
or the soul of the world
knocking at my heart
for its entrance?

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotes from A Guide for the Advanced Soul.

Setting Goals and Accomplishing Them

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

“We can accomplish a great deal in life, if we can discipline ourselves to do one thing at a time, to do it wholeheartedly, and not to worry distractedly about all the things we’d like to accomplish, or wish we had accomplished in the past.”  page 101

“…In basic ways, every human being is like a house divided against itself. One part of our nature affirms life. Another part, disagreeing, rejects it. Doubt, fear, and worry intervene to block even our best intentions.” page 101

“If we direct the mind wisely, instead of letting it rule us, we can transform failure itself into victory…” page 105

“Concentration means exerting oneself in a single direction, and not – as most people do all the time, whether consciously or unconsciously – working against oneself. To the extent that we work on the conscious mind, the task is more or less clear cut. To the extent, however, that we must work on the subconscious to resolve those aspects of our nature which work against our active resolutions, we must reconcile ourselves to a more difficult, though still possible, task. In fact, we must come to grips with the fact that we are, at times, in the throes of an inner war.”

“A strong affirmation of will has the power to impose obedience on the subconscious. The important thing is to address the subconscious, and not merely to pretend that all is well in the ranks. The will must act like a general.” page 112

“For the nature of the subconscious is to be solution-oriented. To tune into that aspect of your nature which, ultimately, can truly command your destiny – don’t dwell on the problems you face. Don’t, on the other hand, ignore your problems. But exert your will in full expectation that a solution to every problem can be found.”  page 118

“At all times, therefore, be solution-oriented!” page 119

”Energy generates magnetism. The stronger the flow of energy, the greater the magnetism. It is magnetism, finally, that attracts to us all that we receive in life.” page 119

Thank-you to J. Donald Walters for Money Magnetism! These few quotes are merely a sample of the riches found in his book. Reading this powerful book helped me and can help you to increase your own magnetism in life.

Having Trouble With Relationships?

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

“The people we are in relationship with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors reflecting their beliefs.

So relationship is one of the most powerful tools for growth…if we look honestly at our relationships we can see so much about how we have created them.”   Shakti Gawain, Creative Visualization

“Our time out of relationship is just as important as our time in it. Indeed, it may be said that, when we are alone, we are preparing to be in relationship and, when we are in relationship, we are preparing to be alone. Hopefully, we begin to learn the lesson of our last relationship before we go into a new one. Then we can experience new challenges and grow in new ways.”  Paul Ferrini, Creating A Spiritual Relationship, page 119.

“Coming to completion in relationship is an internal task, not an interactive one. We do the best we can to separate in a dignified and loving way and to support each other in pursuing our new lives. That makes it easier for us to come to completion. But completion itself depends on our willingness to use relationship to move into greater appreciation of and fidelity to who we are and what we need. Then, we don’t betray ourselves in the next relationship.” Paul Ferrini, Creating A Spiritual Relationship, page 120.

“The more clear we get about who we are and what we want in a relationship, the easier it will be for us to be honest with others. That honesty will prevent us from getting involved in relationships with people who are unwilling to respect our experience or to work consciously with the unconscious material that inevitably comes up in a relationship.”  Paul Ferrini, Creating A Spiritual Relationship, page 120.

Finding Good

Friday, October 8th, 2010

Photo taken by LuAnn Hamon

“The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A loving person lives in a loving world
A hostile person lives in a hostile world.
Everyone you meet is your mirror.”
Ken Keyes, JR., Handbook to Higher Consciousness

Life Struggles?

Friday, October 1st, 2010

“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success; we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do, and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”  Samuel Smiles

“You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want or a grief. But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.”  Kahlil Gibran

“As a progressive and evolving being. Man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him it passes away to other circumstances.” James Allen, As A Man Thinketh.

The Power Of The Mind

Sunday, September 19th, 2010

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” Robertson Davies, quoted in the Wordswoth Dictionary of Quote

“A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.” Seneca, Thyestes

“As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.” Martin Luther King, speech August 16, 1967

“Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.” Hans Margolius, quoted in A Toolbox For Humanity.

“The Empires of the future are the empires of the mind.” Winston Churchhill, speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943

“To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.” Henry Ford, Theosophist Magazine, February, 1930

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.” John Milton, Paradise Lost.

“Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.” Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820.

“The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.”  -Joseph Conrad

Acceptance Improves Your Life

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

“But you can significantly reduce the amount of negative judging that you do, and this is a kind of forgiveness that will help to improve the quality of your life dramatically. The first thing to remember about judgments is that they do not alter anything or anyone in the universe. Just because you dislike someone or react negatively toward some behavior does not change the person or the behavior you are judging. I remind you again to keep in mind that when you judge another, you do not define that person, you define yourself. Your judgments only say something about you. They describe your likes and dislikes. They do not define the person being judged. That person is being defined by his or her own thoughts and actions. Once you recognize this, you begin replacing your inclination to judge with acceptance, and this is forgiveness in action.”

“When you accept others, you no longer experience the hurt that goes with judging them. When someone acts in a way you find disagreeable, understand that your hurt, anger, fear, or any strong emotion is how you have chosen to process that person’s behavior. If you are unable or unwilling to notice that emotion and subsequently let go of it, then it is your self that is in need of the attention. That person’s behavior has collided with something unfinished or unacknowledged in your life. Distress at the person’s behavior is your way of avoiding something inside of you. A fine distincion, perhaps, but a very significant one.”

Wayne W. Dyer, You’ll See It When You Believe It, page 276.

Going Home

Monday, July 12th, 2010

“…To do this requires one to have a radical trust in God at work in his life or her life. As we embrace this trust, we find that the very force that shook our world and caused it to collapse around us – the force that we first resisted, then gradually accepted, and now align with – was the force that brought us home to our true Self. We are reminded of the man who said, “I prayed to God when the foundations of my life were being shaken…only to find that it was God that was shaking them!”

“So we begin to trust the ’shakings,’ and we no longer resist the force the crumbles the structure of our life. What we once called a tragedy, we now see as an opportunity for greater freedom, wisdom, and power – not to be feared, but actually welcomed.”

Robert Brumet, Finding Yourself in Transition, Using Life’s Changes for Spiritual Awakening, page 150.

Change Your Thoughts and Change Your Life

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

“To accept the innate godlike power of our Spiritual Self is very frightening to the ego mind, and we will often fight for the viewpoint that various things are impossible and that our powers are limited. Such power is actually the opposite of the ego, which feels its boundary to be of the body. But remember that our ego has no power beyond that which we give it, and in the moments we come to this full realization, then the ego will cease to exist, or at least for that moment will loose its primary place in our thoughts. By recognizing our own potential divinity, we will loose nothing but our mistaken sense of littleness, the feeling of being out of control of our lives, and our fears and suffering in relationships.”  Henry Grayson, PH.D, Mindful Loving, page 85.

“The connection between our thoughts and our lives is inseparable. The degree to which our thoughts are out of control is the degree to which our lives and our relationships feel out of control. Just as we can easily understand that an athlete or musician cannot perform well if his thoughts are out of control-that is, not focused-so it is true in every arena of our lives. A person with angry thoughts is likely to be an angry person. A person who houses fear thoughts is likely to be a frightened person; and, as we saw above, this often attracts like a powerful force field what he is afraid of into his life. A person with a disorganized mind is likely to be disorganized in his life. A person with hopeless, judgmental, guilty, or powerless thoughts is likely to be depressed. And on it goes, all affecting how our relationships progress.”  Henry Grayson, PH.D., Mindful Loving, page 85.

“What we need to experience, and what we can experience, is a saner and gentler state of mind. This experience is not found in something outside of us…We must work with our minds, with our abilities, in order to have peaceful, rich minds.”  Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, Transforming Mental Afflictions and Other Selected Teachings.