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Complaining is unoriginal. Acceptance on the other hand, activates all that is unique about you. Engage the full power of your positivity.
Indulge yourself for a moment and judge things in terms of what they offer your heart. Weigh each by its measure of tenderness toward you.
Shift your perspective in this unrolled moment. By letting your mind visit new points of view, you give your heart more reasons to expand.
You heal yourself by creating the tranquility you require, so distance yourself from people who try to define and decide serenity for you.
You are the busy bee, you are the lovely flower, you are the sweet honey; embrace that you are the seeker, the journey, and the destination.
Have the courage to leave some of the questions unanswered and trust that you know the way. All you need to do is to decide to stop waiting.
Opinions, recommendations, and advice are noisy art critics. Quietly marvel at what others will only realize as a masterpiece later: You.
Be experimental. Serendipity rewards this. You will meet key people in uncanny ways. Break your patterns. Disrupt your routines.
Where these circumstances may not serve you, your attitude most certainly will. Let nothing shock or trigger you. Choose your responses.
Nothing is ever lost. All that you treasured in others is now a deeper part of you. Let your sadness pass, but invite appreciation to stay.
You have toyed with acting small, but you are vast — timeless, endless, boundless, light beyond life. Remember that you came here to shine.
As you quiet down, you will find that what you thought was you was merely what the real you has been allowing to flow through its vastness.
If it comes to a choice between determination or tenderness, always choose tenderness. Over time, few people remember to remain tender.
If you can rush and breathe evenly, then rush. Otherwise, breathe evenly and go gradually and save that rushing for later when it might help.
When your focus is right here, there are no problems, only features. When you expand your awareness to all that is here, all is well.
To the smallest of things, give the greatest of care. As you do this, you will come to see that there really are no 'big' things to take care of.
The little details are an opportunity to radiate lightness. As you move through them with a gentle grace, you will shed the weight of duty.
As easily as this scroll unrolled, this moment is free of obligation. There are no requirements and nothing owed for you to be who you are.
When you get blown off course, steer gently and faithfully back. Make no sudden moves as you recover your momentum and direction.
If it looks like chaos up ahead, blink away that mirage and behold this precise moment. Being here now means there are options and hope.
Tend to the tasks of the day as exercises, not details. Do them as a practice. Rise above what you feel. Deactivate all your reaction triggers.
This is you, as accepting as this, as serene as this. As easy as it is to see the stillness somewhere in you, so you can let it consume you here, now.
Do not defend 'who you are.' After all, that is technically 'who you were.' The fluid essence of your being is uninterested in wearing any label.
Let every thread of the past fall from you like a worn-out, wrong-size outfit that has gone out of style. The being you wear is custom tailored.
Expectations, progress, and milestones are the weeds that crowd and tangle your flowering presence, awareness, and calm. Uproot them.
No more movement. Trust the stillness within you to handle everything. Fully inhabit this space but do not exert or extend elsewhere.
Even precious memories go bland. Appreciate the fresh herbs life offers you to cook with. Slice your day up into bite-sized moments.
If it is so important to be learning from your experiences, then experience yourself from now on. See things from inside the seer in you.
Choose your food consciously — nourishment beyond nutrients, vitality past vitamins, and sustenance that surpasses mere substance.
You have sacrificed before. So now, sacrifice the seriousness, the intensity, and the stories. Be open to receive the gifts of levity and lightness.
Visualizing has its uses. Imagining you are now freed of the need for visualization itself, what do you see? Return here and work from here.
Allow the negativity to pass through you without limiting or delaying it as it travels along. Refuse to judge it, and it will leave.
The nature of appetite is that you are separate from what you crave. Experience appetite's emptiness. Taste this perfection of waiting.
Forgiving converts all negativity everywhere into transformative energy. Discover for yourself how mistakes fit within perfection.
Listen to your appetite until it starts to repeat itself. There is no harm in hearing things again, only in assuming their continuing usefulness.
Leave your coverings and masks behind and share yourself without apology. It is time for those who prefer to focus on the exterior to go.
It is not a question of which direction is more challenging, but of which leads you here, back to centered patience. Thus, the answer is either.
Make contact. Meet. Visit. Embrace. Gaze. Sit. Chat. Stroll. Linger. Laugh. Remember that this is an enormous celebration of everyone's lives.
As often as your body flushes and purges, your mind is reminded and invited to do the same. All you take in is useful, but only for so long.
Be rid of what has lost meaning for you, and allow it to be gone. Living is a shedding process. Peel back today's layers of passing thoughts.
Let these situations remind you that whatever tightness exists may also go. You must remain light and open in order to adapt and overcome.
Memorization is a misuse of your mind. The best use of that busy brain is to make many observations but few decisions as you go about.
It is time for you to be free of heaviness. Be respectful, forgiving, and light with yourself, and then extend this same treatment to others.
Your body stores memories like food, in many places. Find them. Flush them. Cleanse yourself of all that can hide and hold what is not fresh.
Experiences are dusty mirrors, too difficult to see yourself in, so stop looking for reflections. Close your eyes and see yourself, true and clear.
As far as your ability to be here, what 'happens' has nothing to do with what is. Locate your thoughts and senses, but now find yourself.
See what is in your heart. Now accept what is in your heart. Now be what is in your heart. This being makes your days vivid and precious to all.
Take firm, gradual, and even steps when you do, and remember to rub those feet, too. 'Step by step' means to give each one its own time.
Your brain wanders farther than your feet and yet your feet know when to stop when they are tired. Shut off your senses for awhile and rest it.
What others see of you might as well be a lifetime ago. You are pure potential right now. Even once you do act, you are still ever new.
You are as vast as all you can conceive and as lovely as you have ever found loveliness in others. Treasure and care for this gift you have.
You are as great as your capacity to appreciate and as small as your ability to judge. Over time let there be fewer words and more compassion.
Needing strength is a story. Lacking anything is a fiction. You are the author of perfection. Once you decide so, the world is remade to suit you.
Decisions are vibrations that, like a catchy tune, attract listeners who might hum along. So be aware of the sort of fans your music will draw.
What you take in with each breath does not have to be the same as what you let out. The full release may be waiting for when you sleep.
Breathing is the perfect practice for the fluid and cyclical solution you need now: no sooner will you have it than you will begin to let it go.
Bow to your experience for what it has taught. Now laugh at it for just as long and do today clearly and lightly. Flow through the clamor.
Unburden your shoulders. Let them bear no weight but that of a clear, contented mind. The balance between them is the balance in you.
The 'death' of a person, relationship, or venture is pure transformative energy. Yield to to grief that yields to acceptance that finds celebration.
Doubt is as tempting, sticky, and addictive as any other form of belief. Lose interest in the idea-chase and establish your calm awareness.
You get what you get when you get it. You'll know what you know when you know it. You will find that this delay is actually a good thing.
Whatever remains quiet in all this commotion may be conserving breath because it has a lot to say to you. Hush everyone and give it the time.
When you need a teacher, you will have many, but this does not mean you are a 'student' — you simply enjoy these packaged reminders.
You speak things into existence. So use kind, caring, confident words to manifest peaceful momentum. Otherwise, be quiet until you can.
Embrace gratitude so that whether you seek comfort or connection, you will have plenty. Give thanks to everything presented to you.
Sense that uncomfortable is just a feeling and that wisdom is just a word. Wake the presence within you that surpasses present conditions.
Success is relative. Understanding where things fit for tomorrow is not for today. Enjoy all of this. Live in a way that lets things fall into place.
Expectation can ransom your joy. Be mindful about letting expectation hijack your day. Find liberty in uncertainty, perfection in presence.
Unburden from of all these stories of intrigue and woe. Arrive at that inner space where there are no moments of strife or pain on display.
Your mind's job is to fish for reasons. But most of the things it reels in are either too big or too small. Your heart is a sea with all your answers.
Holding plans in one hand and love in the other, you will soon need two hands for one. Put plans down and lift love with both hands.
You are so very interesting; and beyond all these 'features,' you are still endlessly more. You come from beauty. You create beauty.
When it is time to make a choice, remain a witness to who in you is choosing. If there is an urge to choose quickly, wait. Choose smoothly.
Love all of this preparation. It is here that you cultivate the essence that inspires others. How you do what you do is your connective power.
Be strong and flexible. Develop strength that is flexible and flexibility that is strong. Practice this in body, mind, and spirit — gentle certainty.
There is a frontier to explore today. It lies between your peace and your discomfort. Onward into your own unknown features.
There is enough good and bad news to distract you for a lifetime. The point is awareness, not news. Remain aware that you are what is real.
Rushing is something you pretend to do, but you are already here. If there is indeed a place you must get to as quickly as you can, it is here.
If it is not positive, it does not belong in your world. See it as it is, and no worse than it is. Be uplifted by its potential or use it to move on.
There is richness in listening, so listen to the talkers; be the silence that contains them. Hear all they say; hear all you refrain from saying.
Stories are a spillage of crumbs that starving ones scrape together to make a meal. Not one story will fill you for very long. Love is the feast.
Unite your energy with things that generate more light — light that keeps spreading and brightening. Leave nowhere within you unlit.
They say that appearances may deceive, but perfecting your presentation will turn your vision into reality. Bring forth what you see.
Every weakness born has an identical twin that is an opportunity. Everything that comes to you is beautiful if you will see all that it connects to.
Spend real time with people. Scheduling time is not the same as spending time when it is time. Let your appointments slip. Stay awhile longer.
You are wanted and needed there, but such flattery distracts you from the truth of your purpose here. They can go on without you.
Frustration is natural. Retaining it is artificial. Accept and release all things, impatient youth, because you are still younger than you will be.
You should no longer measure things getting better by your feeling more comfortable. Mark your progress by how few comforts define you.
Complaining feels creative, but being a serene witness channels true creativity. These events happening around you are the best that can be.
Choose neither. Nothing that has an opposite is as real as You. Reject talk that makes divisions of types and levels when there is only oneness.
So cast off from your dock into the vast ocean before you. Sail where there's wind, keep your bearings, and don't be afraid to change course.
You are 'having' these experiences; a thing you 'have' cannot also be the thing you 'are.' Define yourself without inviting experiences to help.
Help them without thinking of yourself as 'The Helper.' Change will manage itself. Follow your inclination to get involved and show devotion.
Celebrate the fact that everything is temporary. Let it be this for awhile, and that for awhile. Choose to emerge from these changes reborn.
Though your efforts may meet with praise, detach from concern and peacefully flow. It only matters that you harmonize with yourself.
From the position of love, you can say almost anything, because the words you use only gift- wrap the heart-felt meaning rolled inside them.
Make a new set of rituals — ones that support your finest expression. There should be a ritual for every aspect of what you want to sustain.
Both apathy and habit generate a lot of inner chatter — excuses, fictions, and gossip. Quiet this noise and there will be no resistance in you.
Your day is a little hourglass: each grain of sand in it measures a moment to love. Smile, make eye contact, touch, embrace, compliment, give.
Are you sure? Do you need to be sure? Will you remain sure? Perhaps it is time for certainty to become an instinct and cease being a search.
Your mind will come up with more you could say, but hire your heart as your speechwriter. Always speak with more compassion than wit.
Build a bridge if you truly must cross right now. Otherwise, marvel at the void. Stand at the edge and applaud the convincing illusion of distance.
Check your motivation today. Give up the goal for a moment and rediscover your purpose. Recharge by revisiting your original reasons.
Where we are most certain is often where we are most blind. Close your eyes and brave an expedition to the other side of your certainty.
Delivering kindness is the second most important thing you can use your day to do. The first is to receive kindness from yourself.
Take lightly any advice to 'ground yourself.' You are aboard this rolling, spinning, quaking planet where 'grounding' itself is in motion.
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Forgiveness does not have to be holy, high, or mighty. It is simply a way to relieve your heart. You are limitless capacity to forgive and grow.
The delivery is more important than the package: poor delivery breaks whatever is inside. Be mindful of how you say what you say.
Be free of facts, policies, and issues. People enjoy people and people appreciate meaning. Do not waste time scrutinizing impersonal minutiae.
You are known for making good things because you use good ingredients, and you come by good ingredients from using good judgment.
You have reached good places before, and none were worth preserving at the cost of growth. Being fulfilled and being satisfied are different.
Whatever state you wear to present yourself to the day tells the day how to receive you. Dress yourself in readiness, confidence, and interest.
As you walk through today, don't turn around to see if your footprint is still on yesterday. This you leaves no trace on the past or the future.
Habits are often based on information that was never entirely true anyway. Dissect your daily routine. Find unquestioned misinformation.
Sarcasm is a jester along your path. Its creativity is hurtful. As you lose interest in laughing at derision, it will look for work elsewhere.
This should not feel like success, failure, a path, journey, process, or work; it should feel like play. If you cannot have fun, play elsewhere.
Free of ego, you are unstoppable — able to use every form of critique to improve your own approach. Assume all is here for your benefit.
Today's guides are nearby. You don't need to seek them out. They already know to look for you, so stay open to each of their surprise visits.
Society will not celebrate you falling in love with yourself, so do not await its invitation, approval, or congratulations for this courtship.
Wonderful surprises await you today, provided you exhale expectations away right now. There is no bad or good, just disinterest or gratitude.
Sit relentlessly, until your internal storyteller exhausts every book in your collection and has no legends, myths, or tales of you left for you.
Celebrate where you are right now, with full appreciation of the yearnings that remain. Let wanting be a reminder that you are still young.
You will uncover truth by being less vocal and more present. And just as this happens, you will begin to lose interest in uncovering truths.
We are trained to harmonize with the outside world. Train yourself to harmonize within. Come to know your own signs and states.
Don't measure in miles, measure in breaths. The outward traveler might drive, fly, or ride, but no vehicle can shorten the inner journey.
Nothing is worthy of your devotion until you pay homage to the great gift of your being. Tend to your needs first and then others'.
Your body is a partner that relies on you for good food, safe stress, and regulated rest. Be one of the few people who are consistent with this.
Fact-based truth requires endless revision and more facts. Find your truth in the mystery of inspiration and in the power of the unknown.
You own nothing that does not in fact own you, so give eagerly and possess lightly. Use any gain as a chance to somehow own less elsewhere.
Today has you in its embrace. You will be just fine. There are no more impossible things for you — only things that take a little more time.
Change your state. Begin with the same energy you expect to have at the highest point of the day. Make it so by shifting your own outlook.
Seeds take root. Plant faithfully. Wait patiently. Appreciating these basic principles will enable you to perceive as much as you will ever need.
It is enough for you to be here. And it is alright for you want to strive for more. All ways have a rightness for you. There are no wrong ways.
Everything changes in a breath, so patience as you try to plan too many breaths ahead. Like a cup, let your emptiness be what truly fills you.
You cannot fail. You will try dozens of things and learn so much from so many interesting people along the way. It will be worth it all.
Don't read into things: your emotions cloud your perception, your senses are not perfect, and your vantage point is limited. So, stop.
If you continue like this, you will be poised to succeed in ways you cannot yet comprehend based on what you know just now. Keep going.
Only part of you is seen, and even less of you can be explained — mere glimpses of a shadow. Thinking you are seeing yourself is blindness.
You will be such a success by doing what you love. On the way there, unravel the myth that your path will need to be anyone's but yours.
When your body surprises you, be patient and grateful; it is constantly healing for you. This unending renewal is taking care of tomorrow.
You will do just fine, better in fact without needing to know any more than you do right now. Ignorance can be very valuable sometimes.
You are like the night sky: even where the eye perceives darkness, there is brilliant, faraway light. You shine more light than you realize.
If you value endurance, also value paths that are neither comfortable nor convenient. You are not lost, you are returning to your center.
When you no longer wish to grapple with it, it will go just as it came. You battle a monster imagined from your own shadow. Winning?
Feelings form like fog and then gather into a mood. Your own warm light can dry up these flightless clouds. Shine all passing moods away.
Expand by loving this, not by striving for that. You offer more than can ever be dangled before you. You are the treasure. You are the goal.
Mediocrity was never an option. By now the very idea has no place to take hold of you, and there is no one here to compare yourself to.
This is just a season. It will have its weather patterns. You already know what to expect. You also know you will still get your sun.
Confidence in your heart, Humility in your head, This moment in your hand. Move away from friction. Submit to your own momentum.
Get rid of the mind-sugar — the ideas that spark beliefs but fail to nourish your calm awareness. Such triggers will be less and less useful to you.
Let go. Leap joyfully. Soar gracefully, never to land again. While your mind drifts among the clouds, your spirit can float across the winds.
This is no mere step along the way, but is in fact, the Way itself. The part of you that resists this is simply not paying attention to right now.
You have unrolled a tiny bit of love. The spirit of this scroll is cradling you in its arms, gently blowing in your face, and making you smile.
There is another opportunity here — a deeper, less obvious one — to sacrifice and be changed. Intensify your transformation by surrendering.
When it feels like falling, don't flinch. Continue 'falling.' That feeling is merely false conceptions dropping from you, yet thinking they are you.
The people you invite in are the spices in your recipe; they make your good that much better. Mix them liberally and look for new flavors.
Not every nut is so easily cracked. Take your time to figure out the proper approach so you do not hurt yourself or make a huge mess.
Some beans won't cook until they've been soaked. Other things are like that, too. Even you need some time to soften before you engage.
Sharing means you are as open to giving as to receiving. Be evenly balanced in generosity and humility. There is not one without the other.
As all of this lifts from you, remain with what neither rises nor falls. Here you are — free of any more new insights, radiating perfect brilliance.
Have the courage to slow down. This is going to take exactly as long as it is going to take, so put your focus and your essence into every detail.
Growth needs emptiness to fill. Free yourself of the explanations that have stayed long enough. Once you have cleared space, let it remain so.
It requires no effort to stay here. You are quite naturally 'here.' 'There' asks too much of you. Decline offers to travel far to gain your insights.
Devotion is simple and story-free. It is loving service. It is a commitment to deepen. You are prepared to go to this holy place within you.
The Universe is matching you with a challenge that will both inspire and improve you. All you need to do is live into it. You are fully prepared.
Logic fits nowhere in this picture. Do not waste time building rationale. Keep developing all of your instincts. Be fluid, unceasing, and earnest.
Your feelings will have their say and depart in peace. Be mindful about letting them speak for you. Their voices do not sound like your voice.
There is nowhere else you should be. You are here. There is no one but you. You are here. There is nothing missing in you. You are here.
A master is at your fingertips. More precisely, let your fingertips be your master. One snap is lesson enough to remind you to be present.
Close the book for a moment on your stories made of words. Now let your pulse tell its story of here and now. Listen for one whole chapter.
Identifying the problem is the work of your mind, offering solutions is the work of your heart. Let your spirit manage the whole affair.
Forgetting is a beautiful cleansing when you let it wash over you gradually. Do not fight your mind's grip on thoughts, let it tire naturally.
We do not hope our way out of holes; we climb our way up mountains. Try to see everything as a form of pure positivity and personal progress.
The negativity is good, fertile soil for growing potential and harvesting transcendence. Put your head as well as your hands to work here.
If your tendency is to take yet another mental journey, then get the itinerary beforehand to be sure you're going somewhere new this time.
Your acceptance will make today go well, your devotion will make tomorrow go well, and your healthy sense of humor will make others well.
Fear is a mirage that only appears because you are looking at yourself from too far away from yourself. Close your eyes and see fearlessness.
Your outward beliefs and passions are only poor imitations of your inner peace and love. These two original aspects are the true You.
Even those truths that served you well are an attachment to illusions. Ending your search for truth begins the discovery of your perfection.