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Inspiration
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YOUR LIFE"
Your life is your train.
You are the conductor
and a passenger.
How your train moves and where it ends up
Is totally up
to you.
Your talents and abilities, dreams and goals
Are your
tickets.
Now, don't get excited just because you have a tickets
If you do not use it, you won't go anywhere.
Opportunities are stations along the way.
If you are not at the station
on time,
You will be left standing at the station
With all the other
people who merely have tickets.
The train will not wait for you.
You cannot hold the
train for people who are late.
You cannot stop the train at every
station
To make sure everybody who wants to ride
Is on the train.
Keep your train well fuelled,
Keep it clean, be on the lookout
for
Nicks and cracks in the tracks.
Above all else, be sure you don't run
over people.
Move out at a steady pace, slow, but sure.
If you are a
conscientious and alert conductor,
Your train will never take a wrong turn.
--Authored by Iyanla Vanzant
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN FIVE
SHORT CHAPTERS
By Portia
Nelson
I walk down the street
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk,
I fall in
I am lost... I am helpless It isn't my fault,
It takes forever to find a way out.
I walk down the same street
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk,
I pretend I don't see it.
I fall in again.
I can't believe I am in the same place,
But, it isn't my fault. It still takes a long time to get out
I walk down the same street
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk,
I see it is there.. I still fall in
It's a habit,
My eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.
I walk down the same street
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.
I walk down another street
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FEAR OF FAILURE
So much of life involves risk
and the possibility of failure.
If you are not afraid of failure,
you will take many more
risks in your life.
And the more risks you take,
the more alive you will feel.
You fear failure because
you fear rejection.
The moment you give up seeking
acceptance from others,
your fear of rejection will
disappear.
And with it, the fear of failure.
Copyright Author Lipanovzc 1995
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THE FEAR OF REJECTION
Because you won't let
yourself go anywhere near rejection, the fear of rejection gets bigger
and bigger in your mind.
But the more you allow yourself to
experience rejection, then the fear of it gradually diminishes until
only a flicker is left.
And that must remain, because that
is the very nature of vulnerability. The fear remains as a flicker, but
if you are rejected, then that is all you will feel.
Just a flicker of rejection. And I
can assure you that it is not a problem for you. The problem arises when
you do everything to avoid rejection.
The fear of rejection takes on inflated proportions
and you avoid it even more. But in the process you deaden yourself to
life.
Copyright
Anthony Lipanovic 1995
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FINDING YOURSELF WHEN LOST
Stand still.
The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost.
Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it
as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen, It answers,
I have made this place
around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the
same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If
what a tree or a bush does is lost on you.
You are surely
lost. Stand still.
The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find
you,
Stand still.
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THE GIFT OF FORGIVENESS
One of my teachers had each one of us bring a
clear plastic bag and a sack of potatoes. For every person we'd refuse
to forgive in our life experience, we were told to choose a potato,
write on it the name and date, and put it in the plastic bag.
Some of our bags, as you can imagine, were quite
heavy. We were then told to carry this bag with us everywhere for one
week, putting it beside our bed at night, on the car seat when driving,
next to our desk at work.
The hassle of lugging this around with us made it
clear what a weight we were carrying spiritually, and how we had to pay
attention to it all the time to not forget, and keep leaving it in
embarrassing places.
Naturally, the condition of the potatoes deteriorated
to a nasty slime. This was a great metaphor for the price we pay for
keeping our pain and heavy negativity!
Too often we think of forgiveness as a gift to the
other person, and it clearly is for ourselves!! So the next time you
decide you can't forgive someone, ask yourself ...isn't your bag heavy
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The Invitation
'It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to
know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting
your heart's longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if
you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams,
for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your
moon... I want to know if you have touched the centre of
your own sorrow, if you have been opened to life's betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed from the fear of
further pain! I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine
or your own, without moving to hide it, or fade it, or fix
it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own,
if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you
to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us
to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations
of being a human.
It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is
true, I want to know if you can disappoint another to be
true to yourself, if you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul. I want to know if you can be
faithful and therefore be trustworthy! I want to know if you
can see beauty even when it is not pretty every day, and if
you source your life from it's presence. I want to know if
you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand
on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full
moon, ‘YES'.
It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much
money you have. I wont to know if you can get up after the
night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone,
and do what needs to be done for the children.
It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be
here. I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the
fire with me and not shrink back.
It doesn’t t interest me where or what or with whom you have
studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside
when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in
the empty moments.
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• ORIAH mountain dreamer,
indian elder, may 1994 |
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Advice for Lovers on the Search
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If you want someone who'll make a total fool of himself because
he's so glad to see you, get a dog.
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If you want someone who's always ready to go out any time you
ask, Get a dog.
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If you want someone who'll be content JUST to snuggle up and
keep you warm in bed, get a dog. (You can always kick him out
of the bed and make him sleep in the laundry room if he snores.)
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If you want someone who eats whatever you put in front of him,
and never says
"Why can't you make it like Mom did?" get a dog.
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If you want someone who can scare away burglars without
brandishing a lethal weapon, endangering you (and all the
neighbours), get a dog.
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If you want someone who will do anything to please YOU, get a
dog.
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If you want someone to bring in your newspaper without tearing
through it first for the sports page, get a dog.
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If you want someone who never criticizes ANYTHING you do,
doesn't care how bad you look, acts as though every word you say
is worth hearing, and loves you unconditionally, get a dog.
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If you want someone who NEVER touches the remote, couldn't care
less about Monday Night Football, and watches teary movies with
you as long as you want, get a dog.
AND ON THE OTHER HAND
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If you want someone who totally ignores you when you walk into a
room, get a cat.
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If you want someone who acts as though you are there only to see
that HE's happy, get a cat.
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If you want someone who'll prowl around all night and come home
only to eat and sleep all day,
get a cat.
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If you want someone who leaves hair all over the place, get a
cat.
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If you want someone who never comes when you call him, get a
cat.
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If you want someone who'll walk all over you, get a cat.
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If none of this works for you and your expectations can not be
fulfilled, live with and love yourself for a while and see how
you get along.
Remember, don't give up, you always can try to love a goldfish.
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David Garb,
Communications &
Relationship Training,
Ph +64 3 355 6166
Fax +64 3 355 6276 Mobile +64 21 362 801 Email
david.garb@paradise.net.nz
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