When the Cheshire emerges...

Today is World Mental Health Day, and while I am promoting affirmations regularly this year in my posts I hope this helps anyone affected by mental illness.

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Your ability to be a winner 100 per cent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser.

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Our days are the precious currency of our lives.

If you're suffering in your life right now, I can guarantee that you're somehow attached to how things should be going.

The more you work at just being yourself, the more likely you'll feel purposeful and significant in your life.

The universal principles will never show up in your life until you know they're there. When you believe in them, you'll see them everywhere.

You don't get abused because there are a lot of abusers out there. You get abused because you send out signals that say, "Abuse me, I'll take that."

What you have to learn to do is fall in love with what you do and then sell that love.

You can spend the rest of your life, beginning right now, worrying about the future - and no amount of worry will change a thing.

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Once you know that what you think about expands, you start getting really careful about what you think about.

If you depend on others for your value, it's "other-worth", not "self-worth".

In Western civilisation, we're accustomed to believing that what we produce and what we get for ourselves is a measure of who we are, when, in fact, that's a dead end.

When you're ready, whatever will need to be transformed will be there.

When you're just like everyone else in the world, you have to ask yourself, "What do I have to offer?"

Happiness, fulfillment and purpose in life are all inner concepts. If you don't have inner peace and serenity, then you have nothing.

Only a ghost wallows around in his past, explaining himself with descriptors based on a life already lived. You are what you choose today, not what you've chosen before.

A successful person isn't someone who makes a lot of money. A successful person brings success to everything that he or she does, and money is one of the payoffs.

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Those who behave in ways that you dislike are sending out their disharmony toward you because that's all they have to give away. Hating them is akin to hating moss for growing on the tree.

You don't need to let anyone in your life unless they come in with love and harmony.

One of the highest places you can get to is to be independent of the good opinions of other people.

You're doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

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Why?

What’s over is over. You did what you knew how to do. It wasn’t right or wrong or good or bad. It just was. But all you’ve got is today. You can’t have it back.

No one can get behind your eyeballs and experience life the way that you do.

The only difference between ALONE and ALL ONE is one L… and that stands for love.
In matters of taste, you alone are, and must be, the sole judge of what pleases you.

Everything you “have to have” owns you.

It takes not one drop of sweat to put off doing something.

When God speaks through your hands and smiles upon the earth through you because you’re an unconditional giver, a purposeful being who asks nothing of anyone… prosperity will be your reward.

Networking can never fail. It’s so powerful because you just keep creating more power sources. It’s like geometric progression.

If you can conceive it in your mind, then it can be brought into the physical world.

If you work at living your life a moment – instead of a decade – at a time, then you can cope with your challenges.

You can attend a beautiful service every Sunday, and you can practice all kinds of Bible sayings, and you can label yourself with the most fantastic tags that you can come up with, but you won’t find your heart in a temple if you don’t have a temple in your heart.

The beggars in the streets of New Delhi, the boat people in Malaysia, the royalty in Buckingham Palace, the factory workers in Detroit, and you (whoever you are) are all equal cells in the body called humanity.

If children are raised in peace, they will not know how to be warlike.

We are all at once teachers and learners in every encounter of our lives.

Every problem you have you experience in your mind. The solution to the problem is in the same place.

Starvation is part of what the universe is about, but so is my desire to change it.

You’re not your form. You’re something much more magnificent, divine and grand.

Anytime you get hate, send out love. Then love will come back and you’ll be free.

When you no longer need to learn how to deal with disharmony in your life, you’ll stop creating it, and you’ll create love and harmony virtually everywhere you turn.

Instead of saying, “Why is this happening to me? Isn’t this awful. Poor me,” begin to say, “What do I have to learn from this?”

That we breathe, that we showed up on this planet, that we communicate, is a miracle.

The purpose of life is to know God.

The difference between being neurotic and being a no-limits person isn’t whether someone has problems. Everyone has problems. It’s attitude. Do you look for solutions or more problems?

Doing some weekend reading led me to the latest from the Eurozone crisis.

I was not surprised, but still extremely saddened to read that Greek unemployment has risen to a record 27.6 per cent.

That's more than one in four. Just thinking of it in those terms is scary enough. It's more than double the eurozone average of 12.1 per cent...

But then I read that 64.9 per cent of the 15-24 age group were unemployed. 64.9 per cent. That's mind-boggling. What hope does that give to a generation otherwise known for their "me, me, me" attitudes? They will be starved of growth, of well-being and of any confidence in being able to earn a solid living.

I've been looking for a new job for some time, and have been close on a few occasions only to be let down. Sometimes things just get put in perspective like a slap to the face though, don't they?

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Everything in your life is a miracle to be cherished. A grain of sand, a bee on a flower, a sailboat, a cup of coffee, a wet diaper, a caterpillar, are all miracles. When you learn to view life and everything in it as a miracle, you soon see that complaining is a waste of the miracle that you are.

Loving relationships work because there is no work.

The only limits you have are limits you believe.

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Other people are going to be exactly the way they are, independent of your opinion of them.

If you want to find a deeper meaning in your life, you can't find it in the opinions or beliefs that have been handed to you. You have to go to that place within yourself.

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Why?

Today marked the end of nearly five months of wonder and speculation.

I'm back on Rotten Tomatoes as an official critic!

I had been registered as a critic from my time at Moviedex (which is different to being a regular member/reviewer), but decided to make a go of putting my reviews from the Daily Liberal up.

There was a bit of a process. Then I never heard back about whether it had all be done.

Turns out on looking today, it had. WINNING.

You can see reviews new and old from me on Rotten Tomatoes whenever you like!

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Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.

In Zen they say, "Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water." You've got to chop and carry. That's just part of the human condition.

Anything that bothers you is only a problem within. Only you can experience it, and only you can correct it.

Instead of judging others as people who should be behaving in certain ways, see them as reflecting a part of you, and ask yourself what it is you're ready to learn from them.

It's intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.

Guilt is an irresponsible choice. As long as you feel guilty about whatever you've done, then you don't have to do anything to correct it.

Happiness and success are inner processes that we bring to life's undertakings, rather than something we get from "out there". 

The body is a great healer. That magnificent, perfect creation is capable of healing itself in many, many instances.

Healthy thinking is a habit, just like neurotic thinking is a habit.

If you expect to be upset, then you'll seldom disappoint yourself.

Highly functioning people say, "Where I am is fine, but I can grow."

The freest people in the world are those who have inner peace.

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.

Both of these are inspiring quotes, and I'm still rather enjoying going through
Staying on the Path and seeing what is there for me to take in every day.

There are some though that I sometimes see and think it's so much easier said than done. Or a case of just shaking my head because it'll never really happen.


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Take the second quote. I would say I'm nice to just about everyone I know - I certainly do my best to get along with people in all the different areas of my life.

There are some people that just don't want a bar of it though. People that perhaps have their own insecurities (everyone has those) but can't hide them other than by putting up a wall. Those who just have no sense of common courtesy, and those who are just plain rude and/or negative.

What happens? You try and be nice to people, be positive to people, but there will always be instances where it gets thrown back in your face.

That always hurts.

They try and teach you the concept of giving love/politeness/positivity to others to receive it, and I'm very much a believer in karma. Unfortunately, I finally have to face the fact not everyone grasps this. And I'm trying to deal with it.

At this point in time that quote really reads as "Give love and unconditional acceptance but don't waste your energy or expectation on getting the response you (think you) deserve".

It's still important to radiate positivity in life even if not everyone agrees with your view. For sanity of the soul.

If you slip, it doesn't mean you're less valuable. It simply means you have something to learn from slipping.

Fear of failure becomes fear of success for those who never try anything new.

To not forgive is to fail to understand how the universe works and how you fit into it.

An invisible intelligence suffuses all form in the universe, and allows flowers to grow and planets to align and the whole thing to exist.

The more you understand as a human being, the more you realise that you can either flow with life or fight it. And every time you fight something, you become weaker.

Plus one I had sent to me for good measure:

The more you let go of people and things, the fewer obstacles you will have on your life's journey.

The most effective weapon you have in banishing neurotic behaviour from your life is your own determination.

Schools must become caring places full of teachers who understand that teaching students to love themselves and feel positive about their natural curiosity ought to be given as much attention as geometry and grammar.

Your emotions shouldn't be immobilising. They shouldn't be defended. They shouldn't keep you from being all that you can be.

These are the good old days.

Enlightened people move away from conflict and confrontation.

Develop an inner candle flame that won't flicker even when the worst situations befall you.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you're residing on another planet, with a different reality system.

How harmony gets inside you is through your thinking.

The way you change your behaviour is to look at the source of strength that you are.

Feelings aren't emotions that happen to you. Feelings are reactions you choose to have, and they show up in your body as physical reactions to your thoughts.

A child is a wonder to behold.

Behaviour is a much better barometer of what you are than words.

If you practice maintaining your composure, and remember that someone else's behaviour belongs to that person and cannot upset you unless you allow it to do so, then you will not become an unwilling target.

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The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement.

The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity.

You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside.

Thoughts are ways in which we can make virtually anything happen.

Your form will simply pass along, but you can't kill thought, so you can't kill who you really are.

If you don't have confidence in yourself, get off your rear end and do anything that will make you feel better about yourself.

If you believe that this book will liberate you, then you're already a victim of your own illusions. You and only you must decide to take these suggestions and turn them into constructive, self-fulfilling behaviours.

We all have a well of infinite depth within us that contains more potential for creativity than we can ever imagine.

You can make your life into a grand, ever-evolving work of art. The key is your thoughts, the wondrous, invisible part of you that is your spiritual soul.

You mustn't attempt to will anything. You need only be willing.

The use of mental imagery is onen of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you.

When you get enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.

If you find yourself being treated in a way you resent or that turns you into a victim, ask yourself this question: "What have I done to teach this person that this behaviour is something I'm willing to tolerate?"

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Why?

Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't, you aren't.

You don't have to be a person who's at the mercy of anyone who chooses to annoy you.

Shy people make shy pictures over and over in their minds, and until they see themselves as unafraid, they'll always act on the pictures they create.

What makes you human is not this form, but the invisible intelligence that suffuses it - mind, spirit, God, whatever you want to call it.

Imagine the word CANCEL being a huge rubber stamp in your mind. Stamp CANCEL on any self-defeating image you can place in your head, and begin to think in a self-enhancing way.

Suffering comes from wants.

We become what we think about all day long. The question is, "What do you think about?"

Surrender to a new consciousness, a thought that whispers, "I can do this thing in this moment. I will receive all the help that I need as long as I stay with this intention and go within for assistance."

Advance confidently in the direction of your own dreams to live the life that you've imagined. That's when you have success.

There's a rhythm to the universe. When we're able to get quiet enough, we experience how we're a part of that perfect rhythm.

How ironic in that days where I've felt more than a bit isolated I let my blog, and these quotes, slip. No more...

Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisition and approval.

You cannot always be number one, or always win a contest, or always get the merit badge, or always make the honour roll, but you can always think of yourself as an important, worthwhile person.

Our beliefs about ourselves are the most telling factors in determining our level of success and happiness in life.

Every single condition in your life can be improved if you learn to be more effective at visualising what you want and having the intention to manifest it.

Individuals who use self-labels are stating, "I'm a finished product in this area, and I'm never going to be any different." If you're a finished product, all tied up and put away, you've stopped growing.

Make a personal decision to be in love with the most beautiful, exciting, worthy person ever - you!

Whenever other people are upset, always remember that they own the upset, and that you can refuse to join them.

With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself, or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

Buddha said, "You will not be punished for your anger. You will be punished by your anger."

No one can depress you. No one can make you anxious. No one can hurt your feelings. No one can make you anything other than what you allow inside.



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In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.

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Risk is only your evaluation of it.

You can reshape your thinking so that you never have to think in negatives again. You and only you choose your thoughts.

Some people believe that they live a life of lack because they're unlucky, instead of realising that their belief systems are rooted in scarcity thinking.

Only insecure people need security. Secure people know that there's no such thing. Security comes from within, when you know you can handle anything.

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Why?

I just want to say how glad I actually am that it's May. I need a new month. It's been a really ordinary few weeks and hoping the stars are right in that I'll spend time this month with good people.

Each experience in your life was absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next, up until this very moment.

When the universe is presented with a problem, does it say, "I don't know how to deal with this"? No. The universe is perfect.

The only boundaries we have are in form. There are no obstacles in thought.

Love is forgiving... and love is for giving.

Chasing success is like trying to squeeze a handful of water. The tighter you squeeze, the less water you get. With success, when you chase it, your life becomes the chase, and you never arrive at a place called successful. You become a victim of wanting more.

Remember what Victor Huge told us: "Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come."

All of the "stuff" in your life has arrived to serve you, rather than to make you a servant of the stuff.

Prejudice means to "pre-judge". When you do so, you're making a decision about something before you have enough data on which to base a decision.

If you get pushed around, you've been sending push-me-around signals.

When you truly know that your life has a grand and heroic mission, you'll realign yourself as a spiritual being.

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Why?