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In Many Other Cultures, And Certainly In The Eastern World, There's Great Value Put On Being, Contemplating, And Even Withdrawing From The World At Certain Times Or For Certain Periods Of Time. But We Don't Really Have That In Our Culture, So It's Difficult For Many Westerners To Learn How To Sit Down Or Lie Down And Just Be Quiet Without Going To Sleep. We're Just Not Trained To Do It.

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In Many Other Cultures,

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In Many Other Cultures, And Certainly In The Eastern World, There's Great Value Put On Being, Contemplating, And Even Withdrawing From The World At Certain Times Or For Certain Periods Of Time. But We Don't Really Have That In Our Culture, So It's Difficult For Many Westerners To Learn How To Sit Down Or Lie Down And Just Be Quiet Without Going To Sleep. We're Just Not Trained To Do It.

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We All Have Within Us A Deep Wisdom, But Sometimes We Don't Know We Have It. We Live In A Culture That Doesn't Acknowledge Or Validate Human Intuition And Doesn't Encourage Us To Rely On Our Intuitive Wisdom. Much Of The Western World Emphasizes Rationality And Reason, But Overlooks Or Ignores The Enormous Value Of Intuition And Instinctive Wisdom.

When We Finally Give Up The Struggle To Find Fulfillment "out There," We Have Nowhere To Go But Within. It Is At This Moment Of Total Surrender That A New Light Begins To Dawn.

Creative Power Has To Filter Through Our Beliefs, Attitudes, Emotions, And Habits. The More Negative And Constricted Our Beliefs And Patterns Are, The More They Block The Creative Energy. Most People Hope That By Ignoring Negativity, It Will Go Away, But The Reverse Is Actually True. Through Recognizing, Acknowledging, And Experiencing It, The Blocked Energy Can Be Released. You Are Then Free To Replace It With Positive Beliefs And Attitudes.

If You Are Trying To Appear Calm And Collected On The Outside When Actually You Are Feeling Upset And Angry, Your Children May Mirror This To You By Becoming Wild And Disruptive. While You Are Trying To Maintain Control, They Pick Up The Chaotic Energy Inside Of You And Reflect It In Their Behavior. If You Express Directly What You Are Feeling, Without Trying To Cover It Up, They Will Usually Calm Down. They Feel Comfortable With The Truth, The Congruity Between Your Feelings And Your Words. This Is True Of Other Relationships As Well.

Your Intuition Is Not The Same Thing As Your Mind. In Fact, Intuition Is Really The Opposite Of Your Mind - And You Need To Use Both In Living Your Day-to-day Life.

The Body Is Our Primary Feedback Mechanism Which Can Show Us What Is And Isn't Working About Our Ways Of Thinking, Expressing, And Living. As We Live Our Truth More Fully And Freely, Our Body Grows Healthier, Stronger, And More Beautiful.

While Prosperity Is In Some Ways Related To Money, It Is Not Caused By Money.

The Most Powerful Thing You Can Do To Change The World Is To Change Your Own Beliefs About The Nature Of Life, People, And Reality To Something More Positive... And Begin To Act Accordingly.

My Willingness To Be Intimate With My Own Deep Feelings Creates The Space For Intimacy With Another.

Loving Yourself

I Believe That Everybody Needs To Tell Their Story - To Be Heard, To Be Seen, To Be Acknowledged, To Be Understood. We All Want That, Deep Down Inside - And Writing A Book Is A Great Way To Make Sense Of Your Own Experience And To Share It With Others.

As We Begin To Love And Appreciate Ourselves As We Are, Our Channels Open And We Access The Infinite Vitality Of Life Force.

We Avoid The Things That We're Afraid Of Because We Think There Will Be Dire Consequences If We Confront Them. But The Truly Dire Consequences In Our Lives Come From Avoiding Things That We Need To Learn About Or Discover.

The More We Learn To Operate In The World Based On Trust In Our Intuition, The Stronger Our Channel Will Be And The More Money We Will Have.

When You're Following Your Energy And Doing What You Want All The Time, The Distinction Between Work And Play Dissolves.

Poverty On Both A Personal And Worldwide Level Is Supported By Our Collective Belief In Scarcity.

We Live In A Culture That Doesn't Acknowledge Or Validate Human Intuition And Doesn't Encourage Us To Rely On Our Intuitive Wisdom.

As Long As We Focus On The Outside, There Will Always Be That Empty, Hungry, Lost Place Inside That Needs To Be Filled.

Most Of Us Have Considerable Prosperity In Our Lives. Often, We Are So Busy Pursuing Our Unmet Desires That We Are Unable To Enjoy All That We Already Have. Allowing Ourselves To Really Appreciate The Prosperity We Have Created Is A Big Step Toward Opening To Even Greater Fulfillment.

The Process Of Change Does Not Occur On Superficial Levels, Through Mere 'positive Thinking.' It Involves Exploring, Discovering, And Changing Our Deepest, Most Basic Attitudes Toward Life.

Positive Thinking

Every Moment Of Your Life Is Infinitely Creative And The Universe Is Endlessly Bountiful

Law Of Attraction

Our Bodies Communicate To Us Clearly And Specifically, If We Are Willing To Listen To Them.

Creative Visualization

Many Of Us Have Had The Attitude That Life Is Something That Happens To Us And That All We Can Do Is Make The Best Of It. It Is Basically A Victim's Position, Giving Power To People And Things Outside Of Ourselves. We Are Beginning To Realize That The Power Rests In Us, That We Can Choose To Create Our Life The Way We Want It To Be.

I Think That Everything In The World Around Us Is A Reflection Of What Is Going On Inside Of Us. So Each Of Us As An Individual Creates A Life - We Draw To Us Certain People And Events And Circumstances That Reflect What's Going On Inside Of Us, So We Can Literally Look At Our Life And See A Mirror Of Our Own Consciousness. And If That's True On An Individual Level, It's Also True That What's Going On In The World In A Bigger Way Is A Reflection Of The Collective Consciousness.

Our "life Education" Has Not Necessarily Taught Us A Satisfying Way To Live. We Suffer From A Vague Sense That There Must Be Something More, Some Deeper Meaning. We Must Return To Kindergarten And Start To Learn A Way Of Life That Is Contrary To The Way We Approached Things Before-a Way Of Life Based On Trust Of Our Own Inner Truth. We Can Rediscover The Child-like Innocence And Wisdom That Knows That Anything Is Possible.

Problems Are Messages.

In Order To Cause A Shadow To Disappear, You Must Shine Light On It.

The Key Point To Understand Is That Prosperity Is An Internal Experience, Not An External State, And It Is An Experience That Is Not Tied To Having A Certain Amount Of Money.

Freedom And Relationship Are Polar Opposites - They Both Exist On The Same Continuum. You Do Want A Relationship - And You Do Want Freedom - What You Really Want Is Balance, You Want Wholeness.

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