“If you are a person who has felt and expressed a lot of anger in your life, you need to look for the hurt that is underneath it and express that. You are using anger as a defense mechanism to avoid being vulnerable. An important key in transforming anger into an acceptance of your power is learning to assert yourself. Learn to ask for what you want and do what you want to do without being unduly influenced by other people. When you stop giving your power away to other people you won’t feel angry any more.”

Shakti Gawain, in “Living in the Light”

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“I purchased a stopwatch at an athletics store, the kind that marathoners use to train for triathlons, and I set the alarm to sound every nine minutes, except while I slept. The first beep occurred, at which time I stopped to notice what was happening with my thoughts. Was I thinking of something that had already happened in the past? Or, was I contemplating some future event, or hoping for some positive outcome? Was I worried about something that hadn’t even happened yet?

After investigating the nature of my own thoughts in this manner for several days, I was shocked to discover just how non-stop my thinking actually was. Clearly, I could not deny that I could benefit from a quieter mind. Not only were my thoughts chronically active, but they were mostly repetitive. In addition, many thoughts had to do with the future or the past, even when I was physically involved in some activity. It seemed that my mind wasn’t satisfied to engage in one activity at a time. It wanted to multi-task to accomplish several things at once, all in the name of being more productive. Like everyone else’s my mind never stopped thinking.”

Lisette Larkins, in “Difficult People”

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“If you experience jealousy, it is often based on a fear that others are giving something to someone else that they are not giving to you. If you look and examine the issue, it is usually something you are not giving yourself. If you are jealous of your mate giving attention to another person and you want to curtail his freedom so that he cannot do so, look again. It may be that your higher self is not being given the attention it is requiring.

Jealousy takes away the freedom of both the one who is jealous and the one who is possessed. If you give yourself what you need – be it attention, love, or something else – them you will not experience jealousy. You will find that you can get satisfaction from many sources, not just from the one you love. Jealousy implies scarcity, that there is not enough. Freedom implies abundance, that there is enough.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Living with Joy”

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“The trick to money is having some, or at least kidding your mind into believing that what you do have is abundance. Once you pull away from all the emotion of money, the block that is created by that emotion is freed. Opportunities flow to you more or less instantly. To make the decision to pull away from the emotion is not hard, after all the struggle of the past was only an opinion you held. It’s no effort to change that opinion. If you “click” your mind so that you see money as energy rather than as a symbol of your survival, you will disengage from the baser feelings of the common man and move into a more infinite perspective in which all the wealth that there is in the world becomes yours. What you are and what you have is offered in the same liberated way.”

Stuart Wilde, in “The Trick to Money is Having Some”

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“Do not seek to forget your past, seek to change your future. The worst thing you could do is forget your past. Forget your past and you forget all that it has to show you, all that it gave you as its gift. Neither pretend that it doesn’t matter. Rather, acknowledge that it does matter – and that, precisely because it does, you have decided not to repeat certain behaviors ever again.

Yet, once you have made that decision, let go of your past. Letting go of it does not mean forgetting it. It means stopping the holding on, ending the clinging to your past as if you are going to drown without it. You are drowning because of it. Stop using your past to keep you afloat in your ideas of Who You Are. Let go of these old logs and swim to a new shore.”

God, as spoken to Neale Donald Walsch, “Friendship with God”

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