“Forgiveness means changing your misperceptions. When we forgive another for anything that he or she may have done to us, we are really saying, “I no longer give you the power to control who I am, how I think, and how I’ll behave in the future. I take responsibility for all of that now.” Thus we really have nothing to forgive, since we create our own reality by how we choose to process the behavior of others.

We processed it in a way that hurt us when we chose blame. We might have chosen not to have hatred within ourselves and simply let it go. Once we change our perceptions of life’s hurts and pains and see that we create all that we need for this dream, including the scoundrels, we no longer need to blame anyone for anything. This is the most freeing stage to reach that you can imagine.”

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

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“Do not seek first to change the world. You will not change the world by trying first to change the world. You will change the world by first changing yourself. You must first decide some important things about yourself, come to some new conclusions within yourself about who you are, about God, and about Life, and then begin to live those decisions.

This inner process can, in fact, produce changes in the world around you, for the world that you touch is affected by how you touch it. Who you are, and how you are, affects the world to a much larger degree than you might imagine. Yet, remember this. You cannot achieve inner peace by being agitated if you do not achieve outer peace.

Therefore, do not tie your efforts at personal transformation to a result called planetary transformation, or you may achieve neither.”

God, as spoken to Neale Donald Walsch, in “The New Revelations”

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“We don’t need to push life so much as we need to experience it more elegantly, to be motivated more by inspiration than by ambition. Sometimes we’re so intent on moving up the ladder that we make compromises we know we shouldn’t make while we’re on the lower rungs. Yet faith is a ladder that leads to new heights. We are here to do what God would have us do; our prayer is to receive guidance not only as to what that is, but also how to do it in any situation. We can remain in the realm of divine understanding, for our depth of understanding is the key to the life we truly want.”

Marianne Williamson in “Everyday Grace”

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“The evil in the world allowed there to be saints, just as the failures of your life – and there really are none – allow you to create the groundwork for success. However, if you recall the disaster and say, “That is the energy pattern I experienced last time so I had better be careful this time,” you restrict your areas of personal development.

Negative thought is self-fulfilling: The farther you fall into negativity, the harder it is to climb out of the morass. The prophecy of negativity grows stronger and stronger, and each event in your life serves to confirm its truth.To make affirmations of thought work, you have to create within you a parabola of hope and positive expectancy. The thought-form has to become a natural habit that says, “There is a way, and I will definitely find it.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Affirmations”

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“Accepting something doesn’t mean refusing to change it. In fact, the opposite is true. You cannot change that which you do not accept – in yourself especially, and outside of yourself as well.

Accept everything, therefore, as the divine manifestation of the divinity within you. Then you declare yourself to be its creator, and only then can you “uncreate” it. Only then can you recognize – that is, know again – the power within you to create something new.

To accept something is not to agree with it. It is simply to embrace it, whether you agree with it or not.”

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

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