“Coming from compassion means coming from truth. How often do you rehearse in your mind what you are going to say to someone because you are justifying yourself, coming from ego, talking about how great you are, or how right you are? Every time you find yourself mentally rehearsing a situation (as all of you do, over and over) ask, “Can I come from a deeper level of truth?” You can always find one way in which to be more loving, understanding and compassionate.

Finding your deepest truth means looking within. It means not blaming other people, not playing the victim and not spending time feeling sorry for yourself. When you look more deeply at any situation, you can always see that you set it up for your growth. In any situation you feel you were a victim you always had an inkling of what was going on, and ignored opportunities to change things.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Personal Power through Awareness”

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“If you do not value who and what you are, you will seek to borrow worth from the outer world. You will look for validation from people whom you believe know or have more than you. But since everything you need is inside you and no one can know more about your path and purpose than you do, any power you ascribe to external authorities must eventually explode in your face and leave you feeling worse than when you started. The question is not, “Have you given your power away?” The question is, “How can you get it back?”

Unsucking your life is an inside job. You do not need to import power, for you were born with it; you just need to plug the holes in your bucket through which it is leaking. The quest is about peeling away the lies and illusions you have been told – and went on to tell yourself – that have kept you living smaller than you deserve. When you do, you will be amazed to realize how much you have settled for. Then you will have little patience for halfhearted living and reclaim your right to live from choice rather than default.”

Alan Cohen, in “Why Your Life Sucks…And What You Can Do About It

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“Money is merely a form of energy/chi. A measure of money equates to a measure of chi. There is nothing intrinsically wrong or right about money. It is merely an energy-measuring device, hence why it’s called currency, i.e., current, literally, that which runs/flows (like water)…Money is not the root of all evil. It cannot be; it’s only an idea we’ve all agreed to believe in. It has no intrinsic value of its own. It’s a myth. Money is merely a harmless measuring device we use to expedited energy exchange between individuals and groups, which otherwise would become too unwieldy to manage, owing to the high numbers of people interacting.

Greed is the root of all evil. Greed arises from the mistaken belief or fear that there exists a fundamental shortage of energy/chi, the limited supply of which is depleted every time you give it away. Hence, for you to gain, someone else has to lose. Whereas, in reality, the more energy/chi you use, the more you generate. In basic terms, the more money you have the more you’ll be circulating.”

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

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“It is extremely common for people to build their lives on the mistaken notion that without certain things or certain people, they cannot be happy. It’s almost as if they are programmed to be unhappy. So, their attitude is, without my things, without a particular person, without money, without friendship, I am destined to be gloomy. Thus, they become conditioned to believe that scarcity is an excuse for despair. We have all swallowed these beliefs to some extent, and consequently we have developed varying degrees of attachments. These attachments are the source of despair because we justify gloom on the basis of what or who is missing. In fact, we experience ecstasy when we attain an object; anxiety over losing it; and despair when it is lost!

In order to transcend this cycle of attachment we must remind ourselves of the difference between our ego and our higher self. Ego’s voice is always eager to dominate with thoughts like “I am what I have, what I do, and what others think of me.” If you can remain quiet long enough, God’s voice will penetrate with messages such as “None of these things will bring you happiness, they are only illusions, I am your only source of peace.” This is your highest self speaking, this is the spiritual solution to all problems related to attachments.”

Wayne W. Dyer, in “There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem”

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“Think about many of the beliefs that you have today and how they have shifted over the years. If fact, many of the beliefs that you now hold were met with revulsion and disgust when you first experienced them.

Can you remember how many people were shocked to see men wearing long hair and earrings when this style of dress was first introduced? Many tried to get these young men banned from schools. They labeled them as sissies and weirdos. Today those same people sport shoulder-length hair themselves and watch football played by mastodons of masculinity with earrings and long hair protruding from their helmets.

Beliefs change. Many of the beliefs that you hold today will be rejected by you in the coming years.”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “Your Sacred Self”

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