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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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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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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The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
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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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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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Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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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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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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We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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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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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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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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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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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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You can't cope with change anymore than you can manage stress.
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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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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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The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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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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Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.