Don’t feel guilty about
making
things easy for yourself.
- Author Unknown
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Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Monday, 28 October 2013
Calm
Calm…means finding a truer,
deeper
understanding of life’s problems.
- Author Unknown
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Friday, 25 October 2013
Greatest
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
– Buddha
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Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Accept
Tranquility can be reached
once you are able to accept
that life is unlikely to go
as you had planned.
- Author Unknown
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Monday, 21 October 2013
Past
Nothing has ever happened in
the past
that can prevent you from being present now;
and if the past cannot
prevent you
from being present now, what power does it have?
– Eckhart Tolle
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Friday, 18 October 2013
October 18, 2013 Chautauqua
From the Editor's Computer
The municipal elections are just around the
corner. I encourage everyone, in
municipalities with elections taking place, to make the time to mark a
ballot. You might as well, because there
are many folks who are being deprived of that opportunity to vote this time
around.
As is often the case during election
campaigns, the hot button is change.
Many candidates run on a platform that they will bring in change, in
whatever form is most important to them, be it in spending, infrastructure,
taxes, etc.
Making changes are really easy. Anyone can make any kind of change. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that
the change is good or right.
To make beneficial quality changes in any
area of life, not just the political arena, requires approaching change with a
totally different mindset. You must want
something more than you don’t want something.
For example:
- You must want peace and harmony more than you don’t want war.
- You must want to be a responsible citizen more than you don’t want to get caught by the police
- You must want health more than you don’t want illness.
- You must want happiness more than you don’t want sadness.
- You must want growth more than you don’t want the status quo.
Now the two parts of each statement above
may seem like they are saying the same thing, but they aren’t. There is a world of difference between the
two phrases.
When you come at change from the mindset of
“I don’t want...so I will get rid of/change…” you are fighting a losing
battle. You are resisting the situation,
and the cliché “What you resist, persists,” is all too true. Changes may be made but they won’t last, or will
bring about unexpected and detrimental results.
On the other hand, if you come at the change
from a mindset of “I want...what do I need to do to achieve that?” You aren’t resisting anything. You are looking to enhance whatever situation
you are in.
Beth
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Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Giftings
Am I thinking, “When will this
be over?”
or am I thinking, “When can I do this again?”
If I am asking the former,
then I am probably
operating outside of my giftings.
If I
am asking the latter,
it is a good sign that I am operating in my
giftings.
– Marcus Buckingham
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Monday, 14 October 2013
Mindset
You already have everything
you need…
It’s mindset…that separates
those who do from those who dream.
– John
Bingham
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Friday, 11 October 2013
Breathing
Be aware of your breathing
as
often as you are able,
whenever you remember.
Do that for one year,
it will be more powerfully transformative
than
attending [spiritual] courses.
And it’s
free.”
- Eckhart Tolle
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Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Step
Your entire life journey
ultimately consists of the step
you are taking
at this moment.
There is always only this one step,
and so
you give it your fullest attention.
This
doesn’t mean you don’t know
where you are going;
it just means that this step
is primary,
the destination is secondary.
And what you encounter at your destination
once you get there depends
on
the quality of this one step.
– Eckhart
Tolle
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Monday, 7 October 2013
Strong Will
The difference between
perseverance and obstinacy
is that one often comes from a strong will,
and the
other from a strong won’t.
– Henry Ward
Beecher
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Friday, 4 October 2013
October 4, 2013 Chautauqua
From the Editor's Computer
If the only prayer you said in your whole
life was, "thank you," that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart
Thanksgiving is just around the corner and
we all have so much for which we can be thankful - big things and little
things.
But too often, life crowds in and we forget
that we should be grateful. That is, we
forget until Thanksgiving rolls around in October.
We should be thankful ALL the time. Not just one day, or weekend, in the year.
No matter what the circumstances in your
life currently are, there is always at least one thing you can find to be
thankful for. And once you find one, you
can find another, and another, and another.
Some things that I am thankful for include
(however, this is by no means a complete list):
- I’m alive!
- my health is improving
- I have multiple options in many areas of my life and live in a country/province/municipality that allows me to explore those options
- time to rest and heal
- friends and family who care about me
- the lovely weather
- I have a roof over my head
- I have food to eat
- I can try new recipes
- playing with my niece
- I am still able to put The Chautauqua together and share it with all of you
- visiting with friends
- the blessings that I am showered with daily
As we express our gratitude, we must never
forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Wednesday, 2 October 2013
Upside down
When your entire world seems
upside down
you can either attempt to put it to right again
or stand on your
head.
- Author Unknown
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