“Relationships are lessons in tangible form that we need for our personal growth. If we are holding any unconsciousness about a character trait, or some prejudice or judgment about any kind of action, someone who does the thing we don’t like will be drawn to us so that we may learn to let go and to love.

The quickest way to free yourself of someone who does something that irritates you is to love and accept them with their trait.

The more you fight it, the more prominent it will become. When you let go of your resistance, the person may or may not leave your life, but if you have truly released them it will not matter.”

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

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“Many people believe that they will be happy once they arrive at some specific goal they set for themselves. For some the goal may be amassing a million dollars, for others losing those annoying ten-plus pounds, and for still others it is finding a soulmate. It could be getting a better job, driving a nicer car, or pursuing a dream career. Whatever your “there’ is, you may be convinced that once you arrive you will finally find the peace you have always dreamed of. You will finally become fulfilled, happy, generous, loving, and content.

However, more often than now, once you arrive “there” you will still feel dissatisfied, and move your “there” vision to yet another point in the future. By always chasing after “there,” you are never really appreciating what you already have right “here.”

Chérie Carter-Scott in, “If Life Is A Game, These Are The Rules”

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“As you assess past influences on our own life, make sure you’re not hanging onto the belief that anyone else is responsible for what you are feeling or doing, or even failing to do, today. If you catch yourself blaming your parents, grandparents, the hard times, or whatever, for your present troubles, keep this little sentence in your mind:

“If my past is at fault for what I am today, and the past cannot be changed, I am doomed to stay as I am.”

Today is a brand-new experience, and you can decide now to chuck out all the unpleasant things you remember about your past, and make THIS moment a pleasant one.”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “Pulling Your Own Strings”

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“The frustration of traffic is a good metaphor for the frustration of modern life. We want to get somewhere…But it’s going too slow, and all these other people are in our way! If we wish to remain affected by traffic, or anything else, then that’s our choice. The day is hot, perhaps, and we have no air-conditioner, or the day is cold and we have no heater. We can think, Poor me. The drivers around us are acting nuts. We can think, These people are total jerks. We can think that way if we choose to, but we cannot diminish the power of our thoughts. Every thought of victimization or attack is an attack upon ourselves. When we think them, we are opening a door: enter stress, enter sickness, enter fear.”

Marianne Williamson, in “Everyday Grace”

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“Of course, taking action is a vital part of bringing our consciousness into form and making real change. Direct, powerful, and committed action is extremely important both on a personal and social/political level. Whether or not we commit ourselves to such actions is not so much the issue as where the motivation for that action comes from within us.

The pitfall is this: If we put our primary attention and commitment into external action, we repeat an old pattern, one that is at the root of much of the trouble we’re in today – which is believing that the cause of the problem, as well as the power to correct it, exists primarily in the external world.

If we try to solve our problems only externally, which we often do by trying to fix or change other people or institutions, we give away our power. We project it out there, into the external world instead of owning where it really exists, and where we can actually do something about it – inside us.”

Pay attention to whatever feedback you get from the way things unfold in your external experience. See how things work out when you follow your own inner guidance. If things don’t seem to be working out, it may be because you are not yet fully attuned with your inner guidance. You may be following other feelings instead. The best indication that you are in tune with your inner truth is that you feel more alive as a result. Also, things generally work more easily. Doors open. There’s a sense of following a certain flow of energy.”

Shakti Gawain, in “The Path of Transformation”

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