Bon Mots from Eckart Tolle

Make friends with the present moment.

It's everybody's responsibility to discover their dysfunction within them.

What we react to in another we strengthen in ourselves.

Complaining if the ego's favorite activity to strengthen itself.

What you resist, persists.

Ego takes everything personally.

Worry is the compulsion to think.

Some Surprises

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. -- Steven D. Woodhull

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. Jonas Salk

A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not. -The Talmud-

If something you are doing is not working, doing more of it won't work any better. -- Source unknown

and, not at all surprising, but a good point:

"I like Thinking Big. If you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well Think Big." -- Donald Trump

A Big Mix

There is a big mix out there, and there are lots of different things going on, and there is not one way that was intended to be the right way. Just like there's not one color or one flower or one vegetable or one fingerprint. There is not one that is to be the right one over all others. The variety is what fosters the creativity. And so you say, "Okay, I accept that there's lots of variety, but I don't like to eat cucumbers." Don't eat cucumbers. But don't ask them to be eliminated and don't condemn those who eat them. Don't stand on corners waving signs trying to outlaw the things that you don't like. Don't ruin your life by pushing against. Instead, say, "I choose this instead. This pleases me."

~~~Abraham-Hicks

What Does Pretending Do?

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.
Serj Tankian

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
Dan Millman, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in
the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

“Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.”

Leo Toltstoy

Quotes to Ponder

Giving another person too much power or taking too much power yourself are both sides of the same coin: misunderstanding personal power. (Marion Weinstein)

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. (William Arthur Ward)

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. (Norman Vincent Peale)

There are no failures in life, only results. (Anthony Robbins)

Thoughts.....

As you take a few minutes each day to quiet your mind, you will discover a nice benefit: your everyday, "ordinary" life will begin to seem far more extraordinary. Little things that previously went unnoticed will begin to please you. You'll be more easily satisfied, and happier all around. Rather than focusing on what's wrong with your life, you'll find yourself thinking about and more fully enjoying what's right with your life. The world won't change, but your perception of it will. You'll start to notice the little acts of kindness and caring from other people rather than the negativity and anger. (Jack Canfield)

People everywhere are looking for empowerment. Some people will seek it from the world around them, by believing that if they're successful, then they have power. Others will try to grab it from people in their lives by tearing them down. What is interesting is that everyone is looking for something that is already within them. Empowerment is the knowledge that you have the ability within you to create anything that you desire. All a person has to do to change their life is own their power. When you don't accept your power, you've given it away… To become empowered, you have to accept responsibility for your life. Responsibility doesn't mean blame. It means the ability to choose the way you want to respond to a situation. When you begin to take responsibility for your words, deeds, and life experiences, then you begin to accept your own power. You begin to believe that you have the power to choose. And once you recognize that, you have begun to open up to the Infinite reservoir of good within you. (Linda-Ann Stewart)

Small Steps Get You There

The things that we would be asking ourselves is, "What proportion of my day am I in vibrational harmony with my desires, which means, how much of my day am I happy, glad, eager, fulfilled, satisfied, complimentary? And what percentage of my day am I ornery, irritated, frustrated, or blaming?" And you don't have to do 100%, you don't have to do 90%, you don't have to do 80%. If you could even get around 55% feeling better, than not feeling so good -- you'd have significant movement in what begins to happen in your experience. Abraham-Hicks