“Remember that what we focus on, we attract. If you focus on not having enough money, you will continue to not have enough money. If you envy someone else’s money, you are really telling your subconscious that you don’t have any. Your mind accepts the same message if you live in a state of fear about money or give money a negative connotation. Remember, spiritual substance responds to our words and thoughts. Money has no more negative attribute than gold, silver, wheat, sheep, or any other forms of value exchanged ever used.

Are you a gardener? Do you believe that when you love your plants, you nurture them and they are happier and healthier plants?…Is there anything you can think of in your life that does not grow and prosper when showered with love and blessing and praise? If you love your body, it will respond with health and vitality. If you love your work or your business, it will grow and prosper. Well, you can also love money right into your life.”

Marilyn Jenett, in “Feel Free to Prosper”

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“One of the reasons so many of us remain hurried, frightened, and competitive, and continue to live life as if it were one giant emergency, is our fear that if we were to become more peaceful and loving, we would suddenly stop achieving our goals. We would become lazy and apathetic.

You can put this fear to rest by realizing that the opposite is actually true. Fearful, frantic thinking takes an enormous amount of energy and drains the creativity and motivation from our lives. When you are fearful or frantic, you literally immobilize yourself from your greatest potential, not to mention enjoyment. Any success that you do have is despite your fear, not because of it.”

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

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“If someone is criticizing you, “agree quickly” – which means “get yourself in neutral.” Deal quickly with the tendency to flare up and resent the critic, so that you can deal impersonally with the criticism. It may be a helpful comment that will mean blessings to you. If it is not justified, you can easily discard it without personal animosity.

However, if you do not make that quick agreement – if do not dispose of the adversary of your own negative reaction right at the outset, you may well create a poison within you that will extract a tremendous price in terms of peace and well-being. You may carry this person on your back in hurt and anger for years. But it is completely in your mind, for your thought is your life.”

Eric Butterworth, in “Discover the Power Within You”

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“You might not think that doubt could have much of an effect on your life. But part of the damage that it creates is that it is so thoroughly etched on to your belief system that it becomes impossible to think any other way. Doubting our potential achievements, we proclaim with certainty just what is and what is not possible. But when doubt is banished, we come to a knowing that leads to creative and inspired solutions far beyond what we believed was possible.

With the attitude of doubt you are unable to successfully tread the path of your sacred quest and realize your sacred self. Be steadfast in recognizing this obstacle to higher awareness. You will need to deliberately and actively work at banishing doubt from your inner world. When it is removed from your thoughts it will disappear from your outer world, and you will find yourself on a most satisfying inner and outer journey.”

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

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“There is no reason for any of us to stay in a situation that is repulsive or damaging to us. Perhaps in our sense of guilt or unworthiness we believe that we must endure a painful predicament because we are not worthy of better, or because we are paying off some old karma or sins. We must cast such thoughts from our mind without hesitation and reclaim our right to be happy and treat ourself and others with dignity and respect.

I reiterate that no one deserves to be abused. The first time you are abused, it is the other person’s fault; the second time it is your own. You have a responsibility to listen to the still small voice within you that prompts, “This is not right. I must do something to change this.” At such a time, remember that being repulsed by something that is potentially harmful is a very helpful experience. It gives you the motivation to remove yourself from pain and be at peace in your right place elsewhere. In such a case, you are not running away. You are coming home.”

Alan Cohen, in “Dare to Be Yourself”

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