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Some Short Instructions to Live Life.!

~ Give people more than they expect and do this with joy ~

~ Do not forget your favorite poem ~

~ Do not believe everything you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want ~

~ When you say “I love you”, mean ~

~ When you say “I’m sorry,” look the person in the eye ~

~ Be engaged at least six months before marriage ~

~ Believe in love at first sight ~

~ Never laugh at anyone’s dreams ~

~ Love deeply and passionately. It can also happen, but it is the only way to live life to the fullest ~

~ In disagreements, fight fairly. No insults ~

~ Do not judge people by their relatives. “No kidding” ~

Talk slowly but think quickly ~

~ When someone asks you a question you do not want to answer, smile and ask, “Why do you want to know?” ~

~ Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk ~

~ ~ Call your mother

~ Saying “God bless you” when someone sneezes ~

~ When you lose, do not lose the lesson ~

~ Remember the three R’s: Respect yourself, Respect others and Responsibility for all your actions ~

~ Do not let a little dispute injure a great friendship ~

~ When you realize you made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct ~

~ Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice ~

~ Marry a woman / man you love to talk. As you get older, his ability / her conversation

is as important as everyone else ~

~ Spend some ‘alone time ~

~ Open your arms to change, but do not let your values ​​~

~ Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer ~

~ Read more books and watch less television ~

~ Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you can enjoy again ~

~ Trust in God but lock your car ~

~ A loving atmosphere in your home is so important. Do everything you can to create a house in a quiet, smooth ~

~ In disagreements with loved ones, given the current situation. Do not wake the past ~

~ ~ Read between the lines

~ Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality ~

~ Be kind to the earth ~

~ Ore. There’s immeasurable power in the ~

~ Never interrupt when you are flattered ~

Mind your own business ~ ~

~ Do not trust a man / woman who does not close his / her eyes when they kiss ~

~ Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before ~

~ If you do a lot of money, put it to use helping others while you are alive. It is the satisfaction the greatest wealth ~

~ Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of luck ~

~ Learn the rules then break some ~

~ Remember that the best relationship is one where the love between two people is greater than your need for each other ~

~ Judge your success by what you had to give up to obtain ~

~ Remember that your character is your destiny ~

~ Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon

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How Defects And Disorder Can Have A Positive Change In Your Life?

We’ve all been through the failures and suffering, it can weigh differently, but for sure, we have been through it one way or another. And when the failures and suffering that happens to us, we search for meaning and reason for that to happen.

Do not be angry with you because you can not help but wonder why, because it is perfectly normal. However, the best way to experience failure and suffering is not to ask why it has to happen.

When you repeatedly to stop asking why, in the process of acceptance and the reception points of time you will begin to ask what and how. E ‘, what to do and how you do it?

I used to fear failure and suffering. And most people do. My personal reason because I did not like it when people look down on me. I have always tried to be at my best and I am unhappy when I’m not. At this point, yet I try to be my best, but the difference is that I have no fear of failure and suffering I’ve used.

If you wonder why and how, because I realized that the failure and suffering are very good. The failure and suffering are ways for me to learn and be better.

You may find it illogical but that’s how the failure and suffering should work. But it also depends on how the person will take. If you take the positive approach, which will be in failure and suffering as a learning process. However, if the opposite happens, as it is likely to be mentally incompetent, unmotivated, lost, or worse, dead. * Smile * I am a laugh of it, but it happens. Failure and suffering are often reasons for suicide.

For myself, I think, that I took of failure and suffering in a good way. This is why I write, and sharing their personal experience you learn to stand by the lack and suffering.

I went through a lot of “destroying life changing” events in life, “caused me a lot of failure and suffering. If I took the negative side, I am already dead. Many people are surprised how I was able to manage and be the person I am now. I’m lucky because I have my good friends and family around to keep me and guide me going all way through. But honestly, I realized that regardless of where people would be there for you, the only person who can help you move from failure and suffering is himself. And the best thing I’ve learned through all the losses and suffering that I have dealt with is that I have a choice on how to take what the positive or negative. It’s not as easy as they say, it’s true, especially when you are filled with feelings of anger and pain. What I did then was to seek the help of my Creator, so it will change my heart to see things as he wants me to see and it is positive.

Before I was a pessimist, I lived in an environment where people jump to conclusions and likes to see the negative things, but do not appreciate the positive effects, but look how I am now, so I guess I now believe that miracles not occur .* smile *

It was a difficult process of how I became optimistic and I was all thanks to the lack and suffering. If the failure and suffering are not coming my way, it would be different. That’s why we do not fear failure and pain, because I regard it my way, something good will come out.

Remember:

Life is a journey one way to waste your time of grief you can not change things. Instead of searching for meanings of why ruin your time on what and how you can do next.
 

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Do You Forgive Yourself?

Forgiveness Forgiveness…How to Forgive Oneself

We often talk about the importance of forgiveness and resentment release, release resentment, and make peace with what others have hurt us in the past. But what to forgive the person who unwittingly to blame more?

This person is the one you wake up and spend every moment of every day. It is the person most worthy of your love, understanding and forgiveness radical. Obviously, that person is you. Can you forgive?

As sure as you’re alive to read the words on this page, you hurt someone and you have been hurt by someone at some point in their lives. Part of his anger over it can permanently damage inside. It’s barely recognizable, unless you know what you’re looking for. Do you like the sense of wonder, freedom and invincibility fallen by the wayside, replaced by a disguised unforgiveness, fear self-doubt, anxiety, feelings of inadequacy or depression?

If you do not let them get to the last, is the time. There is nothing in the past for you, you can not change what you do. Whatever you want to do something else, let him go. You have the best you can do with what you had, you know and where you were in your life at that time.

You have complete control over how, where, on the effects of this. This is a new day. Do the best you can do. You will not always get it quite right, but that’s okay. Forgive yourself and start again.

That were not put on this earth to make everything perfect at all times in your life. In fact, life is just the opposite. The journey of life is full of unexpected twists and turns and sometimes unpleasant. Too bad and cause problems, to make bad decisions and experience the effects of other bad decisions. But you do not have to do is get stuck. Guilt serves no purpose other than to keep, then release. You live and learn. Forgive those who hurt you, and most importantly, forgive yourself.

Before proceeding with the rest of your day, I encourage you to take a long time now to repeat (5-20 times) my favorite positive affirmation of forgiveness:

I totally and unreservedly apologize to myself.

Use this daily affirmation. Tape to your mirror, your desk or dashboard of your car. Use it as a reminder to live like you’re in this for more than the past.

Your job in life is to recreate yourself and your life story every day, but how to change history if they do not move in the next chapter?

Stop reliving the past and start creating today. My friend … please fully forgive you.

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4 Light Ways to Keep Your Promises

Building trust based relationships, either professional or personal, is a really big thing. It can propel your career or your life if you can do it, and it can sink them if you can’t. I believe that one of the most important ingredients for building these kinds of relationships is keeping your promises.

When you consistently keep you promises, you essentially align what you say you will do with what you truly do, and people know that they can rely on you. This is of course, easier said than done. Here are some of they key points I discovered can help you visibly improve the rate of promises you keep.

1. Acknowledge your slip-ups in this area.

Counter-intuitively, most people often break their promises because they believe they are very good at keeping their promises. This inaccurate self-image creates a huge blind spot, which does not allow them to notice the situations when they don’t keep their promises, so they can’t really address them.

This is why a good starting point is to assume that you often break you promises, and to start consciously looking at they way you relate to other people, to notice when this is the case. As you start looking for these slipups, you will start to see them. Getting awareness about when they manifest, with whom, is the first big step in getting rid of them.

2. Think twice before you promise.

It’s funny how a lot of people have problems related to lack of self-confidence, but when in comes to making promises, they have the opposite kind: they’re over-confident in what they can do, and they promise too much. Braking promises is usually not the result of bad intent; it is the result of this.

It’s very important that you realize you have limited time, energy, skills and resources, and as much as you would like to, you probably can’t do it all. Keep this in mind every time you’re getting ready to promise something, and ask yourself: “Can I really keep this promise I want to make?” If the answer is not a definite “yes”, then don’t make that promise. Instead, promise something less, something different, or don’t promise at all.

3. Learn to say no.

One thing I’ve realized is that often, we sort of trap ourselves into promising more than we can or we want to do, because we have a problem with saying no. Someone asks us for some help, we know they have high expectations of us, and we just can’t make ourselves emotionally to betray those expectations, by saying no.

To get this handled, there is a very important mental leap you must take: to realize that you can’t and you don’t have to please everybody. When you fully embrace this idea, you feel more freedom to not live to everybody’s expectations, and to not be there for everybody. Which makes it easier for you to resist from making promises you can’t or don’t want to fulfill.

4. Make slipups meaningful for you.

When people break a promise, even if they do realize this, they often quickly forget about it and as a result, this experience does nothing to enforce their tendency to keep promises. It’s easy to keep saying one thing and doing another, when your mind thinks it’s no problem.

This is the reason why if you want to drastically increase you promise keeping rate, you need to change this thinking. You need to make slipups a visible moral mistake in your head, which you completely acknowledge, to yourself and others involved. And to do this, you make integrity and keeping your promises a top value for yourself. You decide it to be very important for you.

Keeping promises and having integrity sound like things which are easy to master. But they are actually some of the hardest people skills to master. As you consciously and systemically work at improving your promise keeping skills, you will see some impressive changes in the quality of your relationships.

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The Ways to Live Life Fullest

It’s not fine. If you want to truly live life, to really experience it, to enjoy it to the fullest, instead of barely scraping by and only living a life of existence, then you need to find ways to break free from the mold and drink from life.

What follows is just a list of ideas, obvious ones mostly that you could have thought of yourself, but that I hope are useful reminders. We all need reminders sometimes. If you find this useful, print it out, and start using it. Today.

  • Love. Perhaps the most important. Fall in love, if you aren’t already. If you have, fall in love with your partner all over again. Abandon caution and let your heart be broken. Or love family members, friends, anyone — it doesn’t have to be romantic love. Love all of humanity, one person at a time.
  • Get outside. Don’t let yourself be shut indoors. Go out when it’s raining. Walk on the beach. Hike through the woods. Swim in a freezing lake. Bask in the sun. Play sports, or walk barefoot through grass. Pay close attention to nature.
  • Savor food. Don’t just eat your food, but really enjoy it. Feel the texture, the bursts of flavors. Savor every bite. If you limit your intake of sweets, it will make the small treats you give yourself (berries or dark chocolate are my favorites) even more enjoyable. And when you do have them, really, really savor them. Slowly.
  • Create a morning ritual. Wake early and greet the day. Watch the sun rise. Out loud, tell yourself that you will not waste this day, which is a gift. You will be compassionate to your fellow human beings, and live every moment to its fullest. Stretch or meditate or exercise as part of your ritual. Enjoy some coffee.
  • Take chances. We often live our lives too cautiously, worried about what might go wrong. Be bold, risk it all. Quit your job and go to business for yourself (plan it out first!), or go up to that girl you’ve liked for a long time and ask her out. What do you have to lose?
  • Follow excitement. Try to find the things in life that excite you, and then go after them. Make life one exciting adventure after another (with perhaps some quiet times in between).
  • Find your passion. Similar to the above tip, this one asks you to find your calling. Make your living by doing the thing you love to do. First, think about what you really love to do. There may be many things. Find out how you can make a living doing it. It may be difficult, but you only live once.
  • Get out of your cubicle. Do you sit all day in front of computer, shuffling papers and taking phone calls and chatting on the Internet? Don’t waste your days like this. Break free from the cubicle environment, and do your work on a laptop, in a coffee shop, or on a boat, or in a log cabin. This may require a change of jobs, or becoming a freelancer. It’s worth it.
  • Turn off the TV. How many hours will we waste away in front of the boob tube? How many hours do we have to live? Do the math, then unplug the TV. Only plug it back in when you have a DVD of a movie you love. Otherwise, keep it off and find other stuff to do. Don’t know what to do? Read further.
  • Pull away from Internet. You’re reading something on the Internet right now. And, with the exception of this article, it is just more wasting away of your precious time. You cannot get these minutes back. Unplug the Internet, then get out of your office or house. Right now! And go and do something.
  • Travel. Sure, you want to travel some day. When you have vacation time, or when you’re older. Well, what are you waiting for? Find a way to take a trip, if not this month, then sometime soon. You may need to sell your car or stop your cable bill and stop eating out to do it, but make it happen. You are too young to not see the world. If need be, find a way to make a living by freelancing, then work while you travel. Only work an hour or two a day. Don’t check email but once a week. Then use the rest of the time to see the world.
  • Rediscover what’s important. Take an hour and make a list of everything that’s important to you. Add to it everything that you want to do in life. Now cut that list down to 4-5 things. Just the most important things in your life. This is your core list. This is what matters. Focus your life on these things. Make time for them.
  • Eliminate everything else. What’s going on in your life that’s not on that short list? All that stuff is wasting your time, pulling your attention from what’s important. As much as possible, simplify your life by eliminating the stuff that’s not on your short list, or minimizing it.
  • Exercise. Get off the couch and go for a walk. Eventually try running. Or do some push ups and crunches. Or swim or bike or row. Or go for a hike. Whatever you do, get active, and you’ll love it. And life will be more alive.
  • Be positive. Learn to recognize the negative thoughts you have. These are the self-doubts, the criticisms of others, the complaints, the reasons you can’t do something. Then stop yourself when you have these thoughts, and replace them with positive thoughts. Solutions. You can do this!
  • Open your heart. Is your heart a closed bundle of scar tissue? Learn to open it, have it ready to receive love, to give love unconditionally. If you have a problem with this, talk to someone about it. And practice makes perfect.
  • Kiss in the rain. Seize the moment and be romantic. Raining outside? Grab your lover and give her a passionate kiss. Driving home? Stop the car and pick some wildflowers. Send her a love note. Dress sexy for him.
  • Face your fears. What are you most afraid of? What is holding you back? Whatever it is, recognize it, and face it. Do what you are most afraid of. Afraid of heights? Go to the tallest building, and look down over the edge. Only by facing our fears can we be free of them.
  • When you suffer, suffer. Life isn’t all about fun and games. Suffering is an inevitable part of life. We lose our jobs. We lose our lovers. We lose our pets. We get physically injured or sick. A loved one becomes sick. A parent dies. Learn to feel the pain intensely, and really grieve. This is a part of life — really feel the pain. And when you’re done, move on, and find joy.
  • Slow down. Life moves along at such a rapid pace these days. It’s not healthy, and it’s not conducive to living. Practice doing everything slowly — everything, from eating to walking to driving to working to reading. Enjoy what you do. Learn to move at a snail’s pace.
  • Touch humanity. Get out of your house and manicured neighborhoods, and find those who live in worse conditions. Meet them, talk to them, understand them. Live among them. Be one of them. Give up your materialistic lifestyle.
  • Volunteer. Help at homeless soup kitchens. Learn compassion, and learn to help ease the suffering of others. Help the sick, those with disabilities, those who are dying.
  • Play with children. Children, more than anyone else, know how to live. They experience everything in the moment, fully. When they get hurt, they really cry. When they play, they really have fun. Learn from them, instead of thinking you know so much more than them. Play with them, and learn to be joyful like them.
  • Talk to old people. There is no one wiser, more experienced, more learned, than those who have lived through life. They can tell you amazing stories. Give you advice on making a marriage last or staying out of debt. Tell you about their regrets, so you can learn from them and avoid the same mistakes. They are the wisdom of our society — take advantage of their existence while they’re still around.
  • Learn new skills. Constantly improve yourself instead of standing still — not because you’re so imperfect now, but because it is gratifying and satisfying. You should accept yourself as you are, and learn to love who you are, but still try to improve — if only because the process of improvement is life itself.
  • Find spirituality. For some, this means finding God or Jesus or Allah or Buddha. For others, this means becoming in tune with the spirits of our ancestors, or with nature. For still others, this just means an inner energy. Whatever spirituality means for you, rediscover it, and its power.
  • Take mini-retirements. Don’t leave the joy of retirement until you are too old to enjoy it. Do it now, while you’re young. It makes working that much more worth it. Find ways to take a year off every few years. Save up, sell your home, your possessions, and travel. Live simply, but live, without having to work. Enjoy life, then go back to work and save up enough money to do it again in a couple of years.
  • Do nothing. Despite the tip above that we should find excitement, there is value in doing nothing as well. Not doing nothing as in reading, or taking a nap, or watching TV, or meditating. Doing nothing as in sitting there, doing nothing. Just learning to be still, in silence, to hear our inner voice, to be in tune with life. Do this daily if possible.
  • Stop playing video games. They might be fun, but they can take up way too much time. If you spend a lot of time playing online games, or computer solitaire, or Wii or Gameboy or whatever, consider going a week without it. Then find something else to do, outside.
  • Watch sunsets, daily. One of the most beautiful times of day. Make it a daily ritual to find a good spot to watch the sunset, perhaps having a light dinner while you do so.
  • Stop reading magazines. They’re basically crap. And they waste your time and money. Cancel your subscriptions and walk past them at the news stands. If you have to read something, read a trashy novel or even better, read Dumb Little Man once a day and be done.
  • Break out from ruts. Do you do things the same way every day? Change it up. Try something new. Take a different route to work. Start your day out differently. Approach work from a new angle. Look at things from new perspectives.
  • Stop watching the news. It’s depressing and useless. If you’re a news junky, this may be difficult. I haven’t watch TV news or read a newspaper regularly in about two years. It hasn’t hurt me a bit. Anything important, my mom tells me about.
  • Laugh till you cry. Laughing is one of the best ways to live. Tell jokes and laugh your head off. Watch an awesome comedy. Learn to laugh at anything. Roll on the ground laughing. You’ll love it.
  • Lose control. Not only control over yourself, but control over others. It’s a bad habit to try to control others — it will only lead to stress and unhappiness for yourself and those you try to control. Let others live, and live for yourself. And lose control of yourself now and then too.
  • Cry. Men, especially, tend to hold in our tears, but crying is an amazing release. Cry at sad movies. Cry at a funeral. Cry when you are hurt, or when somebody you love is hurt. It releases these emotions and allows us to cleanse ourselves.
  • Make an awesome dessert. I like to make warm, soft chocolate cake. But even berries dipped in chocolate, or crepes with ice cream and fruit, or fresh apple pie, or homemade chocolate chip cookies or brownies, are great. This isn’t an every day thing, but an occasional treat thing. But it’s wonderful.
  • Try something new, every week. Ask yourself: “What new thing shall I try this week?” Then be sure to do it. You don’t have to learn a new language in one week, but seek new experiences. Give it a try. You might decide you want to keep it in your life.
  • Be in the moment. Instead of thinking about things you need to do, or things that have happened to you, or worrying or planning or regretting, think about what you are doing, right now. What is around you? What smells and sounds and sights and feelings are you experiencing? Learn to do this as much as possible through meditation, but also through bringing your focus back to the present as much as you can in everything you do.
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20 Key Ideas For a Happy Marriage

1. Keep your mind on your main goal, which is to have a happy marriage. Say and do what will enable you and your spouse to have a happy marriage. Avoid the opposite. Everything else is commentary.

2. Keep asking yourselves, What can we do to have a happy, loving atmosphere in our home?

3.  Focus on giving, rather than taking. Say and do as many things as possible to meet your spouses needs.

4.  Keep doing and saying things that will give your spouse a sense of importance.

5.  Frequently ask yourself, What positive things can I say and do to put my (husband or wife) in a positive emotional state?

6.  Before speaking, clarify the outcome you want. The meaning of your communication is the response you actually get. If the first thing you say is not achieving your goal, change your approach. Remember that mutual respect and happiness is your real goal. Do not needlessly argue. Silence is often the wisest choice. Constantly be mutually respectful.

7.  Show appreciation and gratitude in as many ways as possible. Say something appreciative a few times a day.

8.  Be a good listener. Understand your spouse from his or her point of view.

9.  Be considerate of the feelings and needs of your spouse. Think of ways that you have lacked consideration and be resolved to increase your level of consideration.

10.  Instead of blaming and complaining think of positive ways to motivate your spouse. If your first strategies are not effective, think of creative ways.

11.  Give up unrealistic expectations. Do not expect your spouse to be perfect and do not make comparisons.

12.  Do not cause pain with words. If your spouse speaks to you in ways that cause you pain, choose outcome wording, Lets speak to each other in ways that are mutually respectful.

13.  Be willing to compromise. Be willing to do something you would rather not do in return for similar behavior from your spouse.

14.  Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Keep adding to the list and reread it frequently.

15.  Write a list of your spouses positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the list and read it frequently.

16.  Keep thinking about what you can do to bring out the best qualities of your spouse. Reinforce those qualities with words and action.

17.  Focus on finding solutions to any problems that arise. Be solution oriented. Do not just blame and complain. Do not focus on who is more wrong. For a happy marriage, work together to find mutually acceptable solutions.

18.  Remember your finest moments. What did you say and do when you felt best about each other? Increase them.

19.  Look for positive activities you can do together.

20.  Live in the present. What went wrong in the past is the past. You create the present and future with your thoughts, words, and actions right now. Choose them wisely.


THE IMPORTANCE OF SILENCE

 

THE IMPORTANCE OF SILENCE

Think of someone who is powerful. That you fight and scream like a chicken or looks and silences, like a wolf? Wolves Do not Cry. They have the aura of strength and power. Quietly observe.

Only the powerful, are wolves, men or women, respond to a verbal attack with silence.

Besides, who avoids saying anything they want, rarely regret for hurting someone with harsh words and thoughtless.

Precisely for this reason, the first and most obvious sign of power over oneself is the silence at critical moments.

If you are in silence, looking at the problem, shows its thinking, no time for futile debates.

If a thread that has left the realm of reason, who has won shows that silent, even when the other side insists on yelling his defeat.

Look … Smile … Silence … Go ahead.

Remember that there are times to speak and there aremoments of silence.

Choose which of those times is right, even if they have to work for it.

For some reason, probably cultural, we are trained for the (false) idea that we are obliged to answer all the questions and respond to all attacks. Not true!

You answer only to want to respond and react only when they want to react.

You is not even obliged to meet their personal phone.

Talk is a choice, not a requirement, more so than it seems. You can choose silence.

In addition, you will not have to repent for things said in thoughtless moments, as he defended a Greek thinker, over 300 years before Christ, saying:  ”I regret what you said, but never my silence.”

Respond with silence when necessary.

Use smiles, no smiles sarcastic, but real.

Use the look, use a hug or use something else to not respond at times

you’ll find that silence can be the most powerful responses.

And at the right time, the most comprehensive and real one.

With respect, hugs and kisses,

Imaginethespirit


20 Quotes For Getting Through Tough Times

  1. Tough times never last, but tough people do.
  2. The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.
  3. Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines
  4. A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
  5. I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
  6. If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.
  7. When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
  8. Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
  9. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
  10. I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death
  11. If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
  12. The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
  13. The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
  14. Adversity is a fact of life. It can’t be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.
  15. The true test of a person character is how they stand during test of adversity
  16. The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
  17. He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
  18. In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
  19. Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
  20. One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

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Spirituality Needs Love

Love needs another. Love is an open giving and receiving process that gets deeper only by letting go and going deeper. Love is a relationship, and a relationship in it’s highest form of two people losing themselves into each other into an everlasting love that is within each for themselves and the other. Less is unfulfilled love that leaves the being short of the blossoming of divine love, or love beyond that which comes, and goes with ‘conditions’.

Love in any degree or form may be part of keeping a marriage together for a ‘marriage marathon’ achievement of decades of survival. Love does not need closed contracts of agreements to live together ‘til death do we part’. On the other hand, love can flourish under many circumstances that have infinite descriptions. Staying together through thick and thin may likely have nothing to do with anything but a low level love of ‘ego commitment’.

Breaking through love’s socially accepted barriers enters a space of evolving into what could be referred to as a ‘spiritual realm of consciousness’. Love in it’s deepest mutual sense is the catalyst to deeper levels of insight, consciousness, spirituality or whatever identification that comes closest to describing it. Love is far more than a word that gets passed around as if to touch everything with it. Love to the ultimate degree passes through, and is reflected by the mirroring of another simultaneously and unbreakably.

Love is the movement of energy light into your being while awareness is the giving out of love in the reverse. Awareness is also being within yourself in absolute aloneness, and in a sense, a feeling in high consciousness without a relationship but one within. Both love and awareness open the being to a state of higher consciousness. Deep inner awareness facilitates the ability to love another with no limitations as well as love being an opening of awareness. One merges with the other moving one beyond the state of the ‘coma’ of normal humanity.

Love does not possess without diminishing it into a ‘conditional’, low energy love. Love needs freedom or space for each person. Freedom is more valuable than love, but needs to have love filled in the heart to be really free. Love is never a bondage but a necessity on the path of ‘self realization’. Love is not a goal but a journey. The love journey is the goal with the insights it brings to the changes and maturity within. Freedom enriches love and awareness that together bring more of each other.



88 Important Truths I’ve Learned About Life

Everyone gets drilled with certain lessons in life. Sometimes it takes repeated demonstrations of a given law of life to really get it into your skull, and other times one powerful experience drives the point home once forever. Here are 88 things I’ve discovered about life, the world, and its inhabitants by this point in my short time on earth.

1. You can’t change other people, and it’s rude to try.

2. It is a hundred times more difficult to burn calories than to refrain from consuming them in the first place.

3. If you’re talking to someone you don’t know well, you may be talking to someone who knows way more about whatever you’re talking about than you do.

4. The cheapest and most expensive models are usually both bad deals.

5. Everyone likes somebody who gets to the point quickly.

6. Bad moods will come and go your whole life, and trying to force them away makes them run deeper and last longer.

7. Children are remarkably honest creatures until we teach them not to be.

8. If everyone in the TV show you’re watching is good-looking, it’s not worth watching.

9. Yelling always makes things worse.

10. Whenever you’re worried about what others will think of you, you’re really just worried about what you’ll think of you.

11. Every problem you have is your responsibility, regardless of who caused it.

12. You never have to deal with more than one moment at a time.

13. If you never doubt your beliefs, then you’re wrong a lot.

14. Managing one’s wants is the most powerful skill a person can learn.

15. Nobody has it all figured out.

16. Cynicism is far too easy to be useful.

17. Every passing face on the street represents a story every bit as compelling and complicated as yours.

18. Whenever you hate something, it hates you back: people, situations and inanimate objects alike.

19. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s works alone can teach you everything you need to know about living with grace and happiness.

20. People embellish everything, as a rule.

21. Anger reveals weakness of character, violence even moreso.

22. Humans cannot destroy the planet, but we can destroy its capacity to keep us alive.  And we are.

23. When people are uncomfortable with the present moment, they fidget with their hands or their minds.  Watch and see.

24. Those who complain the most, accomplish the least.

25. Putting something off makes it instantly harder and scarier.

26. Credit card debt devours souls.

27. Nobody knows more than a minuscule fraction of what’s going on in the world. It’s just way too big for any one person to know it well.

28. Most of what we see is only what we think about what we see.

29. A person who is unafraid to present a candid version of herself to the world is as rare as diamonds.

30. The most common addiction in the world is the draw of comfort. It wrecks dreams and breaks people.

31. If what you’re doing feels perfectly safe, there is probably a better course of action.

32. The greatest innovation in the history of humankind is language.

33. Blame is the favorite pastime of those who dislike responsibility.

34. Everyone you meet is better than you at something.

35. Proof is nothing but a collection of opinions that match your own.

36. Knowledge is belief, nothing more.

37. Indulging your desires is not self-love.

38. What makes human beings different from animals is that animals can be themselves with ease.

39. Self-examination is the only path out of misery.

40. Whoever you are, you will die. To know and understand that means you are alive.

41. Revenge is for the petty and irresponsible.

42. Getting truly organized can vastly improve anyone’s life.

43. Almost every cliché contains a truth so profound that people have been compelled to repeat it until it makes you roll your eyes. But the wisdom is still in there.

44. People cause suffering when they are suffering themselves. Alleviating their suffering will help them not hurt others.

45. High quality is worth any quantity, in possessions, friends and experiences.

46. The world would be a better place if everyone read National Geographic.

47. If you aren’t happy single, you won’t be happy in a relationship.

48. Even if it costs no money, nothing is free if it takes time.

49. Emotions exist to make us strongly biased towards or against something. This hinders as often as it helps.

50. Addiction is a much greater problem in society than it’s made out to be. It’s present in every person in various forms, but usually we call it something else.

51. “Gut feeling” is not just a euphemism. Tension in the abdomen speaks volumes about how you truly feel about something, beyond all arguments and rationales.

52. Posture and dress change profoundly how you feel about yourself and how others feel about you, like it or not.

53. Everyone thinks they’re an above average driver.

54. The urge to punish others has much more to do with venting frustration than correcting behavior.

55. By default, people think far too much.

56. If anything is worth splurging on, it’s a high-quality mattress. You’ll spend a third of your life using it.

57. There is nothing worse than having no friends.

58. To write a person off as worthless is an act of great violence.

59. Try as we might to be otherwise, we are all hypocrites.

60. Justice is a human invention which is in reality rarely achievable, but many will not hesitate to destroy lives demanding it.

61. Kids will usually understand exactly what you mean if you keep it to one or two short sentences.

62. Stuff that’s on sale usually has an annoying downside.

63. Casual swearing makes people sound dumb.

64. Words are immensely powerful. One cruel remark can wound someone for life.

65. It’s easy to make someone’s day just by being uncommonly pleasant to them.

66. Most of what children learn from their parents isn’t taught on purpose.

67. The secret ingredient is usually butter, in obscene amounts.

68. It is worth re-trying foods that you didn’t like at first.

69. Problems, when they arise, are rarely as painful as the experience of fearing them.

70. Nothing — ever — happens exactly like you pictured it.

71. North Americans are generally terrible at accepting compliments and offers of help.

72. There are not enough women in positions of power. The world has suffered from this deficit for a long time.

73. When you break promises to yourself, you feel terrible. When you make a habit of it, you begin to hate yourself.

74. A good nine out of ten bad things I’ve worried about never happened. A good nine out of ten bad things that did happen never occurred to me to worry about.

75. You can’t hide a bad mood from people who know you well, but you can always be polite.

76. Sometimes you have to remove certain people from your life, even if they’re family.

77. Anyone can be calmed in an instant by looking at the ocean or the stars.

78. There is no point finishing a book you aren’t enjoying. Life is too short for that. Swallow your pride and put it down for good, unfinished.

79. There is no correlation between the price of a brand of batteries and how long they last.

80. Breaking new ground only takes a small amount more effort than you’re used to giving.

81. Life is a solo trip, but you’ll have lots of visitors. Some of them are long-term, most aren’t.

82. One of the best things you can do for your kids is take them on road trips. I’m not a parent, but I was a kid once.

83. The fewer possessions you have, the more they do for you.

84. Einstein was wiser than he was intelligent, and he was a genius.

85. When you’re sick of your own life, that’s a good time to pick up a book.

86. Wishing things were different is a great way to torture yourself.

87. The ability to be happy is nothing other than the ability to come to terms with how things change.

88. Killing time is an atrocity. It’s priceless, and it never grows back.


62 power questions you should ask to reconnect with yourself

A few of the questions you’re about to read will really disturb you. Some of them will cause you to lose your current focus and delve into dreamlike thoughts. And some of them will touch a sore spot in your heart you’ve been covering for too long. Needless to say, you’ll be all shook up.

But no matter how difficult it may be, be honest with yourself when answering the questions. The more you know about yourself, the better you will translate your thoughts and emotions into your creative work. Your inner self is a deep drilling-well, which is the real source of your creative flow. But insight and wisdom are not all you’ll discover there. You’ll also find much blood, sweat and tears.

You’ll get closer to the essence of your true self as long as you keep asking and digging. No harm will ever come from discovering and understanding yourself at a deeper level. Things will click and fall into place.

You know those aha! moments, right? They’re priceless!

I’ve prepared a downloadable list so that after reading the questions below, you can take a neat printout, cuddle in a cozy corner and spend some intimate time with yourself. (Download the simple form of the list here and the worksheet form of the list with spaces here.)

Try doing this exercise whenever you feel the need to reconnect with yourself, especiallywhen you feel stuck or you’re at a crossroads on your creative journey. It’s interesting to observe yourself while answering the questions. Some of them aim for very subjective answers. And that’s the trick! (Hint: There are no right or fixed answers. And it pays off to mull over why you answer a question in a certain way.)

Here we go!

  1. What is that thing that no one, not even your partner, your mother or your best friend, knows about you?
  2. What would make you feel embarrassed in public?
  3. What do you think is your biggest flaw? What have you done about it?
  4. What is your biggest strength? How did you develop it?
  5. What do you have to put up with in your life? How long have you been tolerating it?
  6. If you could change your name, what would your new name be?
  7. If you could change your appearance, how would you decide to look?
  8. What color dominates your wardrobe? How do you feel when you wear that color? Why?
  9. Which song do you sing only when you’re alone? What memory does it bring back?
  10. Whom do you secretly envy? Why?
  11. What do you really want? But really…
  12. What is the way you often sabotage yourself?
  13. Who would you like to please the most?
  14. What do you think a stranger’s first impression of you would be?
  15. What recurring dream do you have? What do you think is the message your subconscious is sending you through that dream?
  16. What would you try now if you were sure you wouldn’t fail?
  17. What was that thing you never tried because you were afraid of failure?
  18. What was your greatest disappointment in life?
  19. As a kid, what did you dream of becoming when you grew up?
  20. What are you really good at?
  21. What can you do better?
  22. What worries you the most when you think about your future?
  23. What really sucks in your life? Who has the power to change it?
  24. What is your life really about? What is your purpose in life?
  25. What fear could wake you in the middle of the night?
  26. What joy could wake you in the middle of the night?
  27. What are you grateful for?
  28. What time of the day do you feel the most energetic? And what do you usually do in those moments?
  29. If you knew you had only one week to live, how and with whom would you spend it?
  30. Why do you think your most favorite film touches you so deeply?
  31. If you could be a fictional character from a movie or a novel, who would you want to be? Why?
  32. What are you really bad at?
  33. Who would you like to forgive and forget?
  34. Do you often hear your inner voice? What does it usually tell you?
  35. When was the last time you cried without anyone seeing you? And why?
  36. What do you want people you meet for the first time to think about you?
  37. What’s your most striking physical attribute? Do you like it?
  38. If you had the opportunity to go back in time and make a change, would you still want to have the same parents?
  39. If you could go back in time and change things, how would you alter the last ten years?
  40. If you could get rid of one of your responsibilities today, what would that be?
  41. What is the biggest lie you tell yourself?
  42. What do you think is missing in your life?
  43. What do you think is the biggest injustice that was ever done to you?
  44. What type of person angers you the most?
  45. Who never fails to make you feel good about yourself?
  46. If you could start all over again, what would you want to study?
  47. Which type of intelligence do you wish you had: kinetic, visual, interpersonal, linguistic or mathematical?
  48. What is your biggest pet peeve?
  49. What was the one opportunity you always believed you’ve missed out on?
  50. What do you like about yourself the most?
  51. What do you regret the most?
  52. What is the most hurtful thing you’ve ever witnessed? Why did it affect you?
  53. What would you like most to be acknowledged for in your life?
  54. What is the first thought that usually crosses your mind the second you open your eyes in the morning?
  55. What is that thing about yourself you’re sick and tired of?
  56. Who really depends on you? Why?
  57. What was the main factor that played a role in your biggest mistake?
  58. What was the main factor that played a role in your biggest success?
  59. What childhood memory sizzles your heart?
  60. What was the most frustrating period in your creative life?
  61. Do you love yourself?
  62. If you were your own coach, how would you guide yourself?

Do you think it’s easy to answer such questions about yourself? Share with me in the comments!


Advice from Somewhere

  1. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
  2. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
  3. Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.
  4. When you say, “I love you,” mean it.
  5. When you say, “I’m sorry,” look the person in the eye.
  6. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
  7. Believe in love at first sight.
  8. Never laugh at anyone’s dreams. People who don’t have dreams don’t have much.
  9. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it’s the only way to live life completely.

10. In disagreements, fight fairly. Please No name calling.

11. Don’t judge people by their relatives.

12. Talk slowly but think quickly.

13. When someone asks you a question you don’t want to answer, smile and ask, “Why do you want to know?”

14. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

15. Say “bless you” when you hear someone sneeze.

16. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.

17. Remember the three R’s:

  • Respect for self;
  • Respect for others;
  • Responsibility for all your actions.

18. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

19. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

20. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.

21. Spend some time alone.


75 Lessons that MUST be Learned in Relationships

  1. If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away.
    If he doesn’t want you, nothing can make him stay.
  2. Stop making excuses for a man and his behavior.
  3. If you have ANY doubt in your mind about a man’s character, leave him alone.
  4. Allow your intuition (or spirit) to save you from heartache.
  5. Stop trying to change yourself for a relationship that’s not meant to be.
  6. Don’t force an attraction.
  7. Slower is better.
  8. Never live your life for a man before you find what makes you truly happy.
  9. If a relationship ends because the man was not treating you as you deserve then heck no you can’t “be friends.” A friend wouldn’t mistreat a friend.
  10. Have faith in God regarding your relationship, but don’t let faith make you stupid. God does things decent and in order.
  11. Don’t settle.
  12. If you feel like he is stringing you along, then he probably is.
  13. If he keeps changing his mind about the relationship–take that as a BIG sign that he is unstable. Do you really want to be with a man like that?
  14. Don’t stay because you think “it will get better.” You’ll be mad at yourself a year later for staying when things are not better.
  15. Honorable men take care of their business and aren’t involved in a whole lot of mess.
  16. The only person you can control in a relationship is you.
  17. There’s only one ‘reason’ a man dumps you; he doesn’t want you.
  18. Avoid men who’ve got a bunch of children by a bunch of different women. He didn’t marry them when he got them pregnant, why would he treat you any differently?
  19. You really do have to kiss a few frogs before finding the prince.
  20. Always put yourself and your happiness first.
  21. Always have your own set of friends separate from his.
  22. Maintain boundaries in how a guy treats you. If something bothers you, speak up.
  23. Like from the show Sex and the City, if he doesn’t call, he just isn’t that interested.
  24. Be honest and upfront.
  25. Know when to cut the cord, don’t be strung along.
  26. Don’t fall for the “I’m confused role”. Remove yourself from the situation to let him figure things out (but don’t wait for him, move on).
  27. If you want to have a clue as to how he will treat you, watch how he treats the WOMEN in his family (not just mom).
  28. There’s more than physical abuse, there’s emotional and mental abuse. If he causes any of them…flee.
  29. You cannot change a man’s behaviors. Change comes from within.
  30. Don’t let him place rules on you that he is not willing to follow himself — double-standard.
  31. Don’t EVER make him feel he is more important than you are…even if he has more education or in a better job.
  32. Do not make him into a quasi-god. He is a man, nothing more nothing less.
  33. Demand respect and if he can’t give it, he can’t have you!
  34. Don’t compete with other woman, but be aware that men are attracted to what they see.
  35. If you think he is cheating, he probably is. Confront him right away and if you feel he’s lying, let him go.
  36. Actions speak louder than words.
  37. Never let a man define who you are.
  38. Never rely on a man for compliments, look to yourself for that.
  39. Never borrow someone else’s man.
  40. If he cheated with you, he’ll cheat on you.
  41. Just because he says he loves you, doesn’t mean that he won’t hurt you and it doesn’t mean that you are meant to be with him.
  42. To use painful hard-won wisdom — ‘get it right’ the next time.
  43. Know that you deserve to be the number one person in the life of the No.1 person in your life.
  44. Love is a verb …
  45. Learn to give up your lifelong task of trying to make someone unavailable-available, someone ungiving-giving, and someone unloving-loving.
  46. A man will only treat you the way you ALLOW him to treat you.
  47. All men are NOT dogs.
  48. You should not be the one doing all the bending…compromise is a two way street.
  49. If you don’t love self…you can’t love anyone else.
  50. You cannot mend someone else’s broken heart.
  51. You need time to heal between relationships…there is nothing cute about baggage…deal with your issues before pursuing a new relationship.
  52. You should never look for someone to COMPLETE you…a relationship consists of two WHOLE individuals…look for someone complementary…not supplementary.
  53. Dating is fun…even if he doesn’t turn out to be Mr. Right.
  54. NEVER give more in a relationship than you are getting out of it.
  55. Never become your man’s “therapist”.
  56. When actions and words conflict, believe the actions. Respond to the actions.
  57. A real healthy relationship requires two people. One person can end it – but it takes two to make it work.
  58. Don’t fall for the “I’m not the loving type”…when a man loves you there is nothing in this world (within reason) that he wouldn’t do for you.
  59. Make him miss you sometimes…when a man always know where you are, and you’re always readily available to him he takes it for granted.
  60. Give him his space…let him go out with his boys, don’t pressure him to spend time with you, You cant force a man to hang out with you.
  61. If you wouldn’t allow your daughter to be with him you shouldn’t.
  62. Never let a man know everything. He will use it against you later.
  63. Never move into his mother’s house.
  64. Provide financially for yourself and don’t depend on anyone.
  65. Never co-sign for a man.
  66. Never believe you have the perfect guy and he is so innocent.
  67. Never spoil your man; let him spoil you.
  68. Never let a man mess up your credit.
  69. When it’s time to let go; let go.
  70. Good men should be treated like good men.
  71. Don’t play games.
  72. Don’t fully commit to a man who doesn’t give you everything that you need.
  73. Keep him in your radar but get to know others.
  74. Compatibility in terms of educational attainment, values, beliefs, personal and career goals, and socioeconomic status, are important.
  75. Never date a guy who wears color contact lens.

10 principles for peace of mind

1. Do Not Interfere In Others’ Business Unless Asked:
Most of us create our own problems by interfering too often in others’ affairs.We do so because somehow we have convinced ourselves that our way is the best way, our logic is the perfect logic and those who do not conform to our thinking must be criticized and steered to the right direction, our direction.This thinking denies the existence of individuality and consequently the existence of God..God has created each one of us in a unique way.No two human beings can think or act in exactly the same way.All men or women act the way they do because God within them prompts them that way.Mind your own business and you will keep your peace.
2. Forgive And Forget:

This is the most powerful aid to peace of mind.We often develop ill feelings inside our heart for the person who insults us or harms us.We nurture grievances.This in turn results in loss of sleep, development of stomach ulcers, and high blood pressure.This insult or injury was done once, but nourishing of grievance goes on forever by constantly remembering it.Get over this bad habit.Life is too short to waste in such trifles.Forgive & Forget, and march on.Love flourishes in giving and forgiving.
3. Do Not Crave For Recognition:
This world is full of selfish people.They seldom praise anybody without selfish motives.They may praise you today because you are in power, but no sooner than you are powerless, they will forget your achievement and will start finding faults in you.Why do you wish to kill yourself in striving for their recognition?Their recognition is not worth the aggravation.Do your duties ethically and sincerely.
4. Do Not Be Jealous:

We all have experienced how jealousy can disturb our peace of mind.You know that you work harder than your colleagues in the office, but sometimes they get promotions; you do not.You started a business several years ago, but you are not as successful as your neighbor whose business is only one year old.There are several examples like these in everyday life.Should you be jealous?No.
5. Change Yourself According To The Environment:

If you try to change the environment single-handedly, the chances are you will fail.Instead, change yourself to suit your environment.As you do this, even the environment, which has been unfriendly to you, will mysteriously change and seem congenial and harmonious.
6. Endure What Cannot Be Cured:

This is the best way to turn a disadvantage into an advantage.Every day we face numerous inconveniences, ailments, irritations, and accidents that are beyond our control.If we cannot control them or change them, we must learn to put up with these things.We must learn to endure them cheerfully.Believe in yourself and you will gain in terms of patience, inner strength and will power.
7. Do Not Bite Off More Than You Can Chew:

This maxim needs to be remembered constantly.We often tend to take more responsibilities than we are capable of carrying out.Know your limitations. . Why take on additional loads that may create more worries?You cannot gain peace of mind by expanding your external activities.Reduce your material engagements and spend time in prayer, introspection andmeditation. This will reduce those thoughts in your mind that make you restless.Uncluttered mind will produce greater peace of mind.8. Meditate Regularly:

Meditation calms the mind and gets rid of disturbing thoughts.This is the highest state of peace of mind.Try and experience it yourself.If you meditate earnestly for half an hour everyday, your mind will tend to become peaceful during the remaining twenty-three and half-hours.Your mind will not be easily disturbed as it was before.You would benefit by gradually increasing the period of daily meditation.You may think that this will interfere with your daily work.On the contrary, this will increase your efficiency and you will be able to produce better results in less time.
9. Never Leave The Mind Vacant:

An empty mind is the devil’s workshop.All evil actions start in the vacant mind.Keep your mind occupied in something positive, something worthwhile.Actively follow a hobby.Do something that holds your interest.You must decide what you value more: money or peace of mind.Your hobby, like social work or religious work, may not always earn you more money, but you will have a sense of fulfillment and achievement.Even when you are resting physically, occupy yourself in healthy reading or mental chanting of God’s name.
10.Do Not Procrastinate And Never Regret:

Do not waste time in protracted wondering ” Should I or shouldn’t I?”Days, weeks, months, and years may be wasted in that futile mental debating.You can never plan enough because you can never anticipate all future happenings.Value your time and do the things that need to be done.It does not matter if you fail the first time.You can learn from your mistakes and succeed the next time.Sitting back and worrying will lead to nothing.Learn from your mistakes, but do not brood over the past.
DO NOT REGRET.
Why cry over split milk?.

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