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Continue reading →: If your belief system requires you to hate someone, perhaps you don’t truly understand the essence behind your belief system.If your belief system requires you to hate someone, perhaps you don’t truly understand the essence behind your belief system. I have spoken at length with people of almost every large denomination, and the one thing that all of the belief systems seem to have in common in their documentation/scriptures,…
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Continue reading →: Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’re going to have to ram them down people’s throats.Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’re going to have to ram them down people’s throats. HOWARD AIKEN How many times have you worried that someone is going to steal one of your ideas? It is a normal concern in a world full…
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Continue reading →: Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. EPICURUS Do you find yourself continuously yearning, rather than appreciating? We are often times so consumed by wanting things, we can ultimately create…
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Continue reading →: Make a habit of shutting down conversations that involve hating on other people.Make a habit of shutting down conversations that involve hating on other people. When was the last time that you listened in on or participated in a conversation that involved defamatory discussions about other cultures or other individuals specifically? Did you laugh and join in, keep silent or vocally express…
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Continue reading →: Imagine finding a distant planet, in which the inhabitants were killing each other, and destroying the surface upon which they dwelled.Imagine finding a distant planet, in which the inhabitants were killing each other, and destroying the surface upon which they dwelled. It sounds like a mediocre sci-fi film, doesn’t it? Unless you’re living in the middle of it, in which case it seems extraordinarily preposterous that a small elite group…
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Continue reading →: You’re about to overcome something you’ve been dealing with. Your mind and heart will soon be at peace again. Be patient. Everything will be okay.You’re about to overcome something you’ve been dealing with. Your mind and heart will soon be at peace again. Be patient. Everything will be okay. Is there something that is gnawing away at your life force? Do you find yourself becoming entirely overwhelmed by its presence in your life? Are…
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Continue reading →: Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. PAUL SIMON Do you hear only what you want to hear? Or, are you willing to potentially listen to the things that you do not wish to hear? Many are willing to listen all day long to…
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Continue reading →: Sometimes in life, you should leap before you look.Sometimes in life, you should leap before you look. MARTIN STORM Is caution always your best option? When we take a leap of faith, what exactly is that faith based upon? Patrick Overton describes it in a poem called Faith: “When you walk to the edge of all the light…
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Continue reading →: As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. JOHN F. KENNEDY Someone you know, is coping with today being the first Thanksgiving that they are celebrating without a husband, wife, brother, sister, mother, father, son,…
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