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I imagine this one is an easy one to understand.
If you cannot accept something in life all it does is make you miserable. I was told in meditation one time that two of the most important words for me are acceptance and understanding.
After pondering that for a while I realized that utilizing these two words would bring a lot of peace in my life.
I remember one time my father saw a bird carrying a french fry in his beak. He smiled and got enjoyment from this little incident.
Was he easily amused? Did he have a genuine interest in the details of life? Was it both?
This also reminds me of the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off when he says, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
If you just stop and look around at the details of everything around you. You will begin to see the beauty of all of the miracles around you. You will also become grateful for every little thing in life and I can guarantee you that if you do that you will be a happier person. That is why I take walks outdoors when I need to destress.
This quote puts a nice twist on things. Just like the quote, “There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.”
The chicken or the egg? Why are people happy? Because they are grateful!
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
This is a simpler way of putting it. If you think having possessions will make you happy. Think again. It is what the possessions make you feel like.
What you have and who you just make it easier. When you feel that you need something to make you happy think about how that something makes you feel then think of another thing that can make you feel that way. Object or not.
Not sure if Elizabeth Kenny is the Australian nurse or not, but this quote is a nice reminder that if you lose control of your emotions with someone who is trying to anger you then they have control and can manipulate you. If you remained calm like the Buddha and not ‘accept the gift’ then they have no control over you.
The Dalai Lama not only is guiding us with what to do but gives us a direction of what to do if you cannot do the prime purpose YET. I admire that.
There will be days when you just don’t have it within you to help others or you are conditioned in such a way where it is very difficult for you to help others but the alternative of ‘not hurting them’ is a nice stepping stone to helping you to get to the point of helping others.
This meme is credited to The Art of Ancient Wisdom.
This quote from Wayne Dyer has always been debated by people especially when people have been abused, raped, etc.
People often asked how can you be responsible if someone rapes you! What he meant though was if you are negative in life you will attract negativity in life. Nothing easily detected is the cause of misfortune in your life. There was another story I read about this woman that was about to be raped and all she did was apply Wayne Dyer’s advice and sent him love and asked him questions and said she would pray for him and found out the difficulties that he was going through that led him to this point. He ended up not raping her after their little conversion.
I know this quote is highly debatable so that is why I shared this story. She may or may not have attracted this into her life but she definitely could change it. If you can imagine yourself in this situation you can imagine how strong of a woman this was.
This quote shares the spiritual side of Anthony Robbins and there are many other quotes similar to this that basically mean the same thing about being appreciative of what you have in life instead of constantly striving yourself for something. When you realize all that you have in life already or how fortunate you are compared to others you can realize what you strive for is already present in your life.
Fear usually manifests itself when you think you are missing something so it is important to realize what you really do have in your life.
Abundance also appears when you realize how much you have when compared to someone else. One time I was meditating by the lake and I had an overcoming feeling of Joy and realized that I had everything that I ever needed just sitting there listening to the waves. I did not think of any possessions in my life or people in my life. Just sitting there listening to the water was all that I needed in my life at that very moment.
Insight Timer is a meditation app that I use that has helped me many times. And this little Buddhist quote I remind myself many times before I open my mouth. On bad days I keep my mouth shut often.
In the movie, “One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest” there was a character that everybody thought was deaf and dumb but in reality, he never really had anything important to say. It made me wonder if the character was applying this quote to himself.
This quote comes from a DVD series that I purchased from Wayne Dyer. I remember Wayne stating that he thought the word ‘intention’ was going to become the new buzz word in years to come. Not sure if that really happened or not though.
The intention is one of the motivating forces that starts the ball rolling but has to be followed up by much more. Wayne talked about buying the first couple of printings of his first book and put them in the trunk of his car and went out promoting himself. Motivation (motivation is like bathing, it should be done daily – Zig Ziglar) and hard work also attributed to his success.