Assume magic is happening because it is.

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Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?
            - Mary Manin Morrissey


Our Deepest Fear

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

   ~ Marianne Williamson, who was quoted by Nelson Mandela

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Promise Yourself

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
        To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
        To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
To think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best.
        To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.         To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a             smile.
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
    To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

         ~ Christian D. Larson

Commitment

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves, too.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no person could have dreamed would have come his or her way.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Begin it now.

                ~ Goethe

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 I Commit Myself

I commit myself to treat you lovingly, gently and with respect in your presence or out of it, in thought, word and action. If anything less than that surfaces in our relationship, I will take responsibility. I will be there. I will keep communication channels open and I will heal it as quickly as possible. I will also remember that our relationship is more important than any issue that might come up.

            ~ Michael Ryce

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 Attitude

The longer I live, the more I Realize the impact of attitude on life. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failure, than successses, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company … a church … a home. The remarkable thing is we have choice every day regarding the attitude we embrace that day. We cannot change our past ... we cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude … I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you … we are in charge of our attitude.

 ~ Chuck Swindall, Jane Angelhart Designs

Rules for Being Human

1.    You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.

2.       You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.

3.       There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error and experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process and the experiment that ultimately “works.”

4.       A lesson is repeated until learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson.

5.       Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

6.       “There” is no better place than “here.” When your “there” has become “here,” you will simply obtain another “there” that will again look better than “here.”

7.       Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

8.       What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

9.       Your answers lie inside you. The answers to life’s questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen and trust.

10.   You will forget all this.

        
~ Author unknown, Found on a refrigerator in Toronto