Apr 09 2010
“A ship in the harbor is safe, but after a while the bottom rots out.”
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“That can happen if we stay too long in our safe zone. I begin to “rot.” Oh, just little indicators. A pound here or there goes on. A negative way of thinking begins to take root in my brain. Getting the ship out of the harbor is HARD WORK!! (Just go to any major pier.) But the pay off is fantastic.”
Susan Lewis Lally
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Mar 12 2010
This weeks quote comes from a book I love by Joan Anderson. She has written several books about her journey of self discovery.
Such is my morning ritual, nothing terribly complicated unless I’ve forgotten to bring logs in from the woodpile the night before. I’m deep into my time-out season of life, where it seems best to be actively passive, involved in little, aware of much. Instinct told me to take myself away and look at all the unwrapped gifts nature has to offer. The natural world is hibernating and so am I.
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Feb 19 2010
I’ve always been in the right place at the right time. Of course I steered myself there.Bob Hope
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Feb 13 2010
My Friday quote comes from Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth, pg 161.
The beginning of freedom from the pain-body lies first of all in the realization that you have a pain body. Then, more important, in your ability to stay present enough, alert enough, to notice the pain-body in yourself as a heavy influx of negative emotion when it becomes active.
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Oct 09 2009
This is the first in a series of Friday quotes. We will add quotes of a spiritual nature. We hope they will offer support on family, life or relationships. It’s my hope that the quotes will touch my readers in some small way. Today’s quote reminds me when I’m hurt by another to consider they may be in pain and their hurt may have been instrumental in the action that hurt me.
“Hurt People, hurt people.”
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