“What you refer to as your “life” should more accurately be called your “life situation.” It is psychological time: past and future. Certain things in the past didn’t go the way you wanted them to go. You are still resisting what happened in the past, and now you are resisting what is. Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now, and therefore your unhappiness.

FORGET ABOUT YOUR LIFE SITUATION for a while and pay attention to your life. You life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind-stuff. Your life is real. Find the ‘narrow gate that leads to life.’ It is called the Now. Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have any problem at this moment. Not tomorrow or in ten minutes, but now, do you have a problem NOW?”

Eckhart Tolle, in “Practicing The Power of Now”

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“People ask, “How can there be a God if there’s so much evil on the earth plane?” The fact is, God isn’t involved in the evil. God is detached and just watching it. God isn’t saying that there should be evil or that there should be good. God is pure love, existing in the detachment of infinity – watching , and being there for us, but not interfering – allowing each of us to work through what we need to work through.

Certainly, someone can give you a hand up, but in the end, you have to buy your own healing. You can either buy it with money because you go to a counselor or practitioner of some kind, or you buy it with energy. Generate more energy, and you can heal your life.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Infinite Self”

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“Unhappiness doesn’t and can’t exist on its own. Unhappiness is the feeling that accompanies negative thinking about your life. In the absence of that thinking, the unhappiness, or stress, or jealousy, can’t exist. There is nothing to hold your negative feelings in place other than your own thinking. The next time you’re feeling upset, notice your thinking – it will be negative.

Remind yourself that it’s your thinking that is negative, not your life. This simple awareness will be the first step in putting you back on the path toward happiness. It takes practice, but you can get to the point where you treat your negative thoughts in much the same way you would treat flies at a picnic: You shoo them away and get on with your day.”

Richard Carlson, PH.D., in “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff”

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“Simply desire to be aware and awareness is. It comes and goes with the breath. If you want to be aware, breathe! Breathe in to embrace this moment. Breathe out to release it. Breathe, breathe, breathe. Each breath is an act of awareness.

Now if I came to your doorstep and told you I was selling breaths for $5 million a piece, you would think that was pretty funny. You would tell me, “that’s very nice, brother, but I already have all the breaths I need. Of course you do. But you keep forgetting that you have them. You buying the insurance policy, falling in love with prince or princess charming, chasing doctor I can make you feel good, or swami I’ve got it all come and get it for five bucks. You know, they all have such long names, it’s a wonder you can pronounce them!

Take a breath, my friend! That’s right, a deep breath. Nobody has what you need. Did you hear me? Nobody!”

Paul Ferrini, in “The Silence of the Heart”

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“When you find yourself thinking and behaving in negative or judgmental terms, remind yourself that this is an indication of where you are at the moment and where you are not; that here may be a signal that you are identifying in some way with the judged person. What bothers us most about others quite often is something we refuse to acknowledge in ourselves, or even something we need more of! Try to be more interested in what is causing you to feel judgmental than in what is ‘wrong’ with that other person.”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “You’ll See It When You Believe It”

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