“Are you worried? Do you have many “what if” thoughts? You are identified with your mind, which is projecting itself into an imaginary future situation and creating fear. There is no way that you can cope with such a situation, because it doesn’t exist. It’s a mental phantom. You can stop this health – and life corroding insanity simply by acknowledging the present moment.

BECOME AWARE OF YOUR BREATHING. Feel the air flowing in and out of your body. Feel your inner energy field. All that you ever have to deal with, cope with, in real life – as opposed to imaginary mind projections – is this moment. Ask yourself what “problem” you have right now, not next year, tomorrow, or five minutes from now. What is wrong with this moment?

You can always cope with the Now, but you can never cope with the future – nor do you have to. The answer, the strength, the right action, or the resource will be there when you need it, not before, not after.”

Eckhart Tolle, in “Practicing The Power of Now”

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“Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.” When you think about it, the practice of Intentionally Centering Attention Now is about watching for the mental and emotional weeds that obstruct our view and clarity. Rather than letting those tumbling weeds within us cause an accident, we can choose to see them for what they are. Each weed guides us toward planting a beautiful garden of thoughts. As Emerson points out, weeds have a value when we look closely. Can the weeds of your life help you find the life you want?”

Donald Altman, in “The Mindfulness Code”

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“Each day you have many successes. To you they may seem unimportant. But to the sage, everything is important. Most of us tend to underplay our triumphs, for we are taught as children not to boast – to be nice and humble and call upon the Lord for forgiveness of our wretched state. That is a bunch of spiritual hogwash. You do not have to fake being humble, and the Lord does not consider you wretched at all. Even in your most awful moments, you are beautiful, and eternity is laced through every molecule of your being.

As you begin to see your life as important, each and every act, however small, becomes important as well. So a walk in silence at dawn is a triumph of discipline, an affirmation of essence. Giving your notice at work may be another. An hour of communicating with a person who is causing you trouble is another. Once you focus on success, the things you do toward that end act like candles on your path.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Affirmations”

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“Expecting the best means that you put your whole heart (i.e., the central essence of your personality) into what you want to accomplish. People are defeated in life not because of lack of ability, but for lack of wholeheartedness. They do not wholeheartedly expect to succeed. Their heart isn’t in it, which is to say they themselves are not fully given. Results do not yield themselves to the person who refuses to give him/herself to the desired results.

A major key to success in this life, to attaining that which you deeply desire, is to be completely released and throw all there is of yourself into your job or any project in which you are engaged. In other words, whatever you are doing, give it all you’ve got. Give every bit of yourself. Hold nothing back. Life cannot deny itself to the person who gives life his/her all. But most people, unfortunately, don’t do that. In fact, very few people do, and this is a tragic cause of failure, or, if not failure, it is the reason we only half attain.”

Norman Vincent Peale, in “The Power of Positive Thinking”

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“If you think of our society you see how the older generation, coming as they do from hard times, often endorses a view that shortages are rife. All of our culture and even our sayings endorse this. A stitch in time saves nine. A penny saved is a penny earned. The meek shall inherit the earth…How many times have you heard that to make money you have to work hard? Who told you that? The people who told you were the ones who experienced life as hard. They wanted you to experience it in the same way so that you could join them and they wouldn’t get lonely.

The people who try to sell you on the struggle of life are those who, by the virtue of that struggle, know little about how to make it. Best not to use them as advisers. Of course the idea that hard work and struggle are inevitable is nonsense. Inside the energy of abundance, there is no struggle, only flow. If you are struggling there is something about your thinking or your modus that needs adjustment. Effort is a natural part of our physical state but struggle is laced with emotion, and that is unnatural and unholy. You don’t need it.”

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

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