“The orthodox slant on investment policy is to invest only to make gains. The way of the contemporary urban warrior, by contrast, is to invest in loss. This is not to suggest the warrior is a sucker. Simply that, rather than invest your energy for a return in momentary gain, you invest in decreasing your self image.

The more you increase your self-image, i.e., the “myth” of who you are, what you do, what you own and what you want, the more unwieldy you become. By carrying that psycho-emotional junk in your traveling trunk, you lose mobility, flexibility, and adaptability, and therefore freedom.

When you invest in the loss of they myth of who you are, you reduce the load, thereby reducing wind-drag coefficient. This makes it easier for you to move freely from adventure to adventure and increases your chances of being in the right place at the right time for reality to work its full quota of magic on your behalf.”

Stephen Russell, in “Barefoot Doctor’s Guide to the TAO”

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“You’ve heard it a million times, but it bears repeating: we all make mistakes – all of us. And while guilt can sometimes be a natural side effect of a mistake, especially when we perceive that mistake to have negatively affected another in some way, it never helps to hold onto it…The truth is, once something has happened, it’s what happened. While of course asking for forgiveness and making amends is often a wise and appropriate thing to do, incessantly regretting what happened is fighting against the truth, and you will always lose that fight. It’s just a waste of energy, and it holds you back from being the best you in the present moment that you can possibly be. So for everyone’s sake, let yourself off the hook and let go!”

Tess Whitehurst, in “Holistic Energy Magic”

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“Spiritual beings do not order their lives to be “against’ anything. They are not against starvation, they are for feeding the people and seeing that everyone in the world is nutritionally satisfied. They work on what they are for, rather than fighting what they are against.

When you fight evil employing the methods of hatred and violence, you are part of the hatred and violence of evil itself, despite the rightness of your position in your own mind. If all the people in the world who are against terrorism and war were to shift their perspective to supporting and working for peace, terrorism and war would be eliminated. For every dollar we spend on peace, we spend two thousand on war.

Somehow our priorities are turned inside out. Spiritual beings do not get tied up with hatred. They are focused thoughtfully on what they are for and they translate that into action. Spiritual beings keep their thoughts on love and harmony, in the face of things they would love to see changed. ALL THAT YOU FIGHT WEAKENS YOU. All that you are for EMPOWERS you. In order to manifest miracles you must be totally focused on what you are for. Real Magic occurs in your life when you have eliminated the hatred that is in your life, even the hatred that you have against hatred.”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “Real Magic”

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“There is not a country and there is not a group of people on Earth that imagines itself to be an aggressor. Everyone who enters into war does so saying that they are defending something.

Do you see this now? I am making a repeated point of this because it is something you need to look at very closely. On your planet there are no “attackers”, only defenders. You achieve this interesting paradox by simply calling all attack a defense. In this way you are able to change your basic values from moment to moment as it suits you, without seeming to change them at all.

You get to kill people with impunity to obtain what you want by simply saying that you had no choice. You had to defend yourself.  All attackers see their actions in this way. Indeed, you have seen your own attacks on others exactly this way. Not just in war, but in every situation of conflict in your life, from battlefields to bedrooms, command centers to boardrooms. Nobody attacks, everybody defends.”

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

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“Thoughts are, most assuredly, things. They are conceived in the mind and they travel through time and space like ripples in a pond, affecting all that they touch. Thoughts are the building blocks of our experience; the world that we see is the one that we have created with our thoughts. Edgar Cayce said, “Mind is the builder.” We think a thought, attach a feeling to it, and a circumstance in our life is attracted to it. If we want to see how got to be where we are in life, we need only to trace our experience back to our thoughts.”

Alan Cohen in, “The Dragon Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”

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