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Every Instance Since The Beginning Of Time Has Been A Coincidence: A Leaf In A Tree Embodies The Combined Efforts Of The Earth, Water, Wind, Stars, And Sunshine. When You Realize That Everything Has Led To The Present, To This Moment, You See There's Nothing To Be Afraid Of, Nothing To Be Burdened By. The Present Moment Is The Moment Of Arrival - And It Took The Entire Universe To Create It. All Is As It Should Be.

-Deepak Chopra

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Every Instance Since The Beginning Of Time Has Been A Coincidence: A Leaf In A Tree Embodies The Combined Efforts Of The Earth, Water, Wind, Stars, And Sunshine. When You Realize That Everything Has Led To The Present, To This Moment, You See There's Nothing To Be Afraid Of, Nothing To Be Burdened By. The Present Moment Is The Moment Of Arrival - And It Took The Entire Universe To Create It. All Is As It Should Be.

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Law Of Attraction

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The More Intimately You Come In Contact With Your Own Being, The Simpler Things Look And The Easier They Are To Deal With.

Just As A Wave Is A Movement Of The Whole Ocean, You Are The Energy Of The Cosmos. Don't Underestimate Your Power.

Laughter Is Humanity's Mechanism To Escape Suffering.

When You Struggle Against This Moment, You're Actually Struggling Against The Entire Universe. Instead, You Can Make The Decision That Today You Will Not Struggle Against The Whole Universe By Struggling Against This Moment. This Means That Your Acceptance Of This Moment Is Total And Complete. You Accept Things As They Are, Not As You Wish They Were In This Moment. This Is Important To Understand. You Can Wish For Things In The Future To Be Different, But In This Moment You Have To Accept Things As They Are.

If You Have A Happy Friend, Your Happiness Goes Up Fifteen Times.

Every Day, Take Some Time To Meditate And Cultivate Inner Quiet. Then Ask Yourself What I Call The "soul Questions": Who Am I? What Do I Want? What Is The Purpose And Meaning Of My Life?

Remember This: Beliefs Divide, Values Unite. When We Go To The Values That Underlie So Many Religious Beliefs, They Unite Us.

Observe The Silence Between Your Thoughts, Actions, Reactions, And You Will Feel The Presence Of Spirit In The Stillness Of Those Spaces.

We Must Find Out For Ourselves That Inside Us Is A God Or Goddess In Embryo That Wants To Be Born So That We Can Express Our Divinity.

You Belong In The Scheme Of The Universe. There's Nothing To Be Afraid Of. You Are Safe.

You Break Free When You Feel Neither Beneath Anyone Nor Superior To Anyone, When You Shed The Need To Control Other People, When You Create Space For Others To Be Who They Are And For Your Real Self To Be What It Is.

Whenever We Experience An Event, Whether We're Visiting The Dentist Or Taking A Dream Vacation, Our Consciousness Registers That Experience Internally On A Spectrum With Great Pain At One End And Extreme Pleasure At The Other. Once Completed, The Memory Of That Experience Is Tagged To Either Pain Or Pleasure, And It Continues To Exist In Our Bodymind.

In Our Willingness To Give That Which We Seek, We Keep The Abundance Of The Universe Circulating In Our Lives.

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I Cherish My Every Connection. I See The Other In Myself And Myself In Others.

So, You Pay Attention To What Is In Every Moment. And When You Do That, Then You Realize That The Presence Of God Is Everywhere.

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