Bill Crawford Quotes
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What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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There are two ways to make someone important in our lives ... we can either love them or hate them.
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Until we become clear about our own worth and value, we will forever be searching for it in the eyes of others.
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Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.
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Love will keep us safe when we commit to choosing the kind of qualities, characteristics, and relationships that we would recommend to someone we love.
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Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
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The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
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The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life's transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.
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Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.
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We can't always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!
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When our worries and fears just don't make sense, it's possible we are trusting the part of the brain that doesn't make sense... it just reacts.
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We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.
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You can't use stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry to deal with your stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry. It's like pulling up to a burning building with a flame thrower. The energy of the problem can't be the energy behind a successful solution.
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The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
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You can't cope with change anymore than you can manage stress.
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It's not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
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Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go.
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A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.
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All connections are infused with dreams of what is possible in the future. Thus, when we lose something or someone important to us, we aren't just grieving the loss, we are grieving the shattered dream.
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Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.
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You can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.