Choosing Your Thoughts

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Changing your thoughts changes everything.  

The nature of our thoughts determines the quality of our life.  This is not an overstatement.  Your thoughts will determine whether you are content or discontented,  optimistic or  depressed.  Many times, you will find that simply by having an "attitude of gratitude" and changing your thoughts to focus on your many blessings, will change your entire feeling about your life -- even though the circumstances in your life haven't changed at all.

What did change?  The way you chose to think about your life.

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Specialization is for insects

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In this life, we have so many opportunities to expand our reality.  Play with it! Expand! Please don't let yourself be limited by a specific role you play.  You'll play lots of roles, and wear lots of hats.  Let each new game you play, add to the expansion of who you are.  

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-Robert A. Heinlein

(Well, being a vegan, I'm probably not interested in learning to butcher a hog, but the rest of it... I just love this quote.)

Heinlein is so right!  Specialization is for insects.

The Present Moment Is All There Is

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This moment, here and now, is all there is.  The past and future are in a sense, illusions; yet we tend to spend much of our time fixated on them, obsessing over what has happend in the past or projecting what may happen in the future.  But where we actually live is in our one precious NOW. Be here.  Take a moment to really feel yourself PRESENT right now.

“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions,
that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”
~ Alan Watts

What does being fully present feel like? 

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