Bill Crawford Quotes
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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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Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series 'on purpose' ?
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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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Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the 'other' as both dangerous and important!
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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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Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.
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When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
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There are only three things we 'have to' do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!
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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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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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Worry, shame, and fear can't be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
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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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What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Peace of Mind? Don't leave home or go home without it.
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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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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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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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Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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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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Selfish is caring for ourselves at others' expense ... Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
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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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To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?
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Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.