Seeds for Upliftment – Goodwill People

Uplift Yourself #9

Greetings.
I am the 9th in a group of circulating Seeds for Upliftment. From a whole variety of sources we include selected bits and pieces that can be as catalysts to have you feeling more of the joyful happy presence of your higher nature, this makes for a better day.
Use these Seeds to help you feel connected to the peace and goodness of your higher nature. This can bring more acceptance and understandings of oneself, of others and how best to deal with the problems of life. You can use the insights of others to help bring more tolerance and more caring compassion (love) as the primary components for enhancing the friendships and goodwill around your space.
Use common sense, do not blindly believe any of these statements. Use anything new or challenging as questions to ponder over and test things out to see what works for you – if something is too far out then just let it go for now. When acceptance and upliftment are present the rewards and benefits will be as blessings for all of humanity, for being all connected as one, any person’s upliftment is an upliftment for the whole human family. If there is anything here that has you feeling good, then consider writing it in a little book to carry and read often – keep adding to it. Re-read bits when you want to feel your inner strengths, your own joyful happy essence of peaceful goodness.

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Relationships work when each person is willing to see
that each is an equal creator of all aspects of the
relationship. Relationships don’t work when anybody
takes less than 100% responsibility.
Learning to love yourself in a relationship is seeing
that you will create the very situations you need that
allow you to experience the parts of yourself you
cannot love. By doing that you will eventually have the
opportunity to love all of yourself. Then, as if by
magic, you will find yourself being completely loved by
others. Gay Hendricks

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The final test of faith is not how much you believe,
but how much you love.

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When an emotional injury takes place, the body
begins a process as natural as the healing of a physical
wound. Let the process happen. Trust that nature will
do the healing. The pain will pass and, when it passes,
you will he stronger, happier, more sensitive and
aware.

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Clouds may cover the sunshine, but they cannot
banish the sun.

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The last of the human freedom is to choose one’s
attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose
one’s own way Viktor Frankl

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You are where you belong by right of your own
thought. Your place in life right now is determined by
your beliefs, your attitudes, your emotions, your
concepts, your desires, or your Lack of them. If you
are not happy where you are remember that where you
are can always be changed. Raymond Charles Barker

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The next time you think about someone, “I hate you,” ask
yourself, ‘What is it this person is reminding me about
myself that I hate?” And the next time you think about
another, “I love you,” ask yourself, ‘What is it I love about
myself that I see in this person, too?” Peter McWilliams

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If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson

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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the
habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. At
first, keep quiet and count the days when you were not
angry: “ I used to he angry very day, then every other day:
next, every two, then every three days! “ and if you
succeed in passing thirty days, sacrifice to the gods in
thanksgiving. Epictetus

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Any person – no matter what his position, age or physical
condition –
has the capacity to be a wonderful person.
Robert H Schuller

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The only way to deal with the future is to function
efficiently in the now. Gita Bellin.

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Alice Freeman Palmer advocates three simple rules for
happiness. First, commit to memory every day something
good, such as a Bible verse. Second, look for something
pretty each day—a flower, a cloud, a star, and stop long
enough before it to say, “Isn’t it beautiful?” Third, do
something for someone every day. Paul S. Osumi

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I hope you have found something uplifting here. Now I want the chance to uplift as many other people as I can reach to. I want to travel on and on all over the world because uplifting thoughts can shift ones attention to their higher nature and this is the human dimension where we feel the presence of joy, the happy feelings that make life seem better. If you believe that this is something to support, then you can help me to achieve my potential. Please keep me circulating by passing me onto someone else, anywhere in the world. I hope that on every stopover I can bring some encouragement and nice uplifting feelings of the inner peace and goodness and to leave each location better off from my being there. Print out more like me and a whole bunch of other good seeds at www.goodwillpeople.net

upliftment 9

Uplift Yourself #7

Greetings.
I am the 7th in a group of circulating Seeds for Upliftment. From a whole variety of sources we include selected bits and pieces that can be as catalysts to have you feeling more of the joyful happy presence of your higher nature, this makes for a better day.
Use these Seeds to help you feel connected to the peace and goodness of your higher nature. This can bring more acceptance and understandings of oneself, of others and how best to deal with the problems of life. You can use the insights of others to help bring more tolerance and more caring compassion (love) as the primary components for enhancing the friendships and goodwill around your space.
Use common sense, do not blindly believe any of these statements. Use anything new or challenging as questions to ponder over and test things out to see what works for you – if something is too far out then just let it go for now. When acceptance and upliftment are present the rewards and benefits will be as blessings for all of humanity, for being all connected as one, any person’s upliftment is an upliftment for the whole human family. If there is anything here that has you feeling good, then consider writing it in a little book to carry and read often – keep adding to it. Re-read bits when you want to feel your inner strengths, your own joyful happy essence of peaceful goodness.

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In the Alps there is a monument erected to the
memory of a man who lost his life seeking to ascend
the mountain. The stone bears this simple inscription,
“He died climbing.” The three words recite his life of
heroism. He did not reach the summit, but he fell with
his face toward it. In spite of the struggle, we must
go forward. Paul S. Osumi

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Give the best you have received from the past to
the best that you may come to know in the future.
Accept life daily not as a cup to be drained but as a
chalice to be filled with whatsoever things are honest,
pure, lovely, and of good report.
Making a living is best undertaken as a part of the
more important business of making a life. Every now
and again take a good look at something not made with
hands – a mountain, a star, the turn a stream. There
will come to you wisdom and patience and
solace and, above all, the assurance that you an not
alone in the world. Sidney Lovett

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It’s easy enough to be pleasant when life flows along
like a song, but the man worth while is the man who
can smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Dov Peretz Elkins

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If one advances confidently in the directions of his
dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he
imagined, he will meet with a success in common
hours….. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the
laws of the universe will
appear less complex, and
solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty, nor
weakness, weakness. If you have built castles in the
air, your work need not be lost; that is where they
should be. Now put foundations under them.
DaviThoreau

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I have often thought that we have much to learn from
infants. They have not yet adapted to the concept of linear
time with a past, present and future. They relate only to
the immediate present, to right now. It is my hunch that
they do not see the world as fragmented. They feel that
they are joined to everything in the world as part of a
whole. To me, they represent true innocence, love wisdom
and forgiveness. Jerry Jampolsky

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There is no trait of character more enriching than simple
humility.

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It is easy to give in to despai
r, give up to mistakes and give
out resentment. The real challenge to test your integrity is
to be strong enough to cast away despair, conquer the
desire to stop trying because errors have been made and
have no malice toward anyone This is the one who
demonstrates integrity.
John Roger

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MAKING LIFE A SYMPHONY
To live content with small means;
To seek elegance rather than luxury,
And refinement rather than fashion;
To be worthy, not respectable,
And wealthy, not rich;
To study hard, think quietly,
Talk gently, act frankly;
To listen to stars and birds,
To babes and sages, with open heart;
To bear all cheerfully, do all bravely,
Await occasions, hurry never.
In a word, to let the spiritual,
unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common,
This is to be my symphony.
William Ellery Channing

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Uplift Yourself #6

Greetings.
I am the 6th in a group of circulating Seeds for Upliftment. From a whole variety of sources we include selected bits and pieces that can be as catalysts to have you feeling more of the joyful happy presence of your higher nature, this makes for a better day.
Use these Seeds to help you feel connected to the peace and goodness of your higher nature. This can bring more acceptance and understandings of oneself, of others and how best to deal with the problems of life. You can use the insights of others to help bring more tolerance and more caring compassion (love) as the primary components for enhancing the friendships and goodwill around your space.
Use common sense, do not blindly believe any of these statements. Use anything new or challenging as questions to ponder over and test things out to see what works for you – if something is too far out then just let it go for now. When acceptance and upliftment are present the rewards and benefits will be as blessings for all of humanity, for being all connected as one, any person’s upliftment is an upliftment for the whole human family. If there is anything here that has you feeling good, then consider writing it in a little book to carry and read often – keep adding to it. Re-read bits when you want to feel your inner strengths, your own joyful happy essence of peaceful goodness.

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Did you ever as a child come
home bursting with good
news only to find the house empty, no one to share it?
What a let down. The keen edge of joy is dulled if we
have to keep it to ourselves.
Thankfulness serves that same purpose of adding to
the meaning and blessing of what we have received. If
there were no one to thank, life would be poor
indeed. Peter Pleune

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For life is the mirror of king and slave,
‘Tis just what we are and do;
Then give to the world the best you have
And the best will come back to you.

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Do not take life’s experiences too seriously. Above
all do not let them hurt you, for in reality they are
nothing but dream experiences …. If circumstances
are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them
a part of yourself. Play your part in life, but never
forget that it is only a role. Paramahansa Yogananda

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I think of a husband and wife who have three healthy
daughters and a young son who is a mongoloid. “We
love all our children equally. but we enjoy our son the
most,” the father told me. “Perhaps it is because we
know the others can get along on their own. But we
know that he needs us. And we all need to be needed.
When I come home from work, even though I have
accomplished great things in my profession of
engineering, I pick up my little boy with the slanted
eyes and feel his thin arms
curl around my neck. I hold
him tight and in that supreme moment I know that I
am a very important person to him. In that divine
second I have an enormous and overwhelming sense ‘of
self-worth!” he told me. Robert H. Schuller

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‘To give is to receive’ is the Law of love. Under this Law,
when we give our Love away to others we gain, and what we
give we simultaneously receive.
The Law of Love is based on
abundance; we are completely filled with Love all the time,
and our supply is always full an
d running over. When we give
our Love unconditionally to others with no expectations of
return, the Love within us extends expands and joins. So by
giving our Love away we increase the Love within us and
everyone gains! Jerry Jampolsky

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Father Dominique Pire, a recipient f of the Nobel Prize
for Peace, believes, “Men build too many walls and not
enough bridges.” We build a
wall and shut out from our
association those whose ideas we disagree. We build a wall
against those who have slighted us, why not build bridges
of understanding, reconciliation, sympathy and love?
Paul Osumi

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The snow goose need not do anything to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself. Lao-Tse

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At every end is a new beginning. Susan Hayward

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When you can allow people to express their Light their
own way, to fulfil their destiny and walk the path to the
drummer they hear, then you are, in essence, doing the
same thing God does—allowing them the freedom of their
own expression. John-Roger

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Take time to THINK… it is the source of power.
Take time to PLAY… it is the secret of perpetual youth,
Take time to READ… it is
the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to PRAY… it is the greatest power on earth.
Take time to LAUGH… it is the music of the soul.
Take time to GIVE … it is too short a day to be selfish.

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Uplift Yourself #5

Greetings.
I am the 5th in a group of circulating Seeds for Upliftment. From a whole variety of sources we include selected bits and pieces that can be as catalysts to have you feeling more of the joyful happy presence of your higher nature, this makes for a better day.
Use these Seeds to help you feel connected to the peace and goodness of your higher nature. This can bring more acceptance and understandings of oneself, of others and how best to deal with the problems of life. You can use the insights of others to help bring more tolerance and more caring compassion (love) as the primary components for enhancing the friendships and goodwill around your space.
Use common sense, do not blindly believe any of these statements. Use anything new or challenging as questions to ponder over and test things out to see what works for you – if something is too far out then just let it go for now. When acceptance and upliftment are present the rewards and benefits will be as blessings for all of humanity, for being all connected as one, any person’s upliftment is an upliftment for the whole human family. If there is anything here that has you feeling good, then consider writing it in a little book to carry and read often – keep adding to it. Re-read bits when you want to feel your inner strengths, your own joyful happy essence of peaceful goodness.

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What does the world need more than anything else
today – It doesn’t seem to be more technical
knowledge. We build rockets, we solve scientific
problems and we transplant human organs. What do
we need more than all of this? We need brotherhood,
understanding and love. You can make yourself into the
kind of person who can spread this love around.
Nothing can be more important in the world than that.
And when you know that you are a faith-building,
cheer-spreading, hope-generating, encouragement-
offering person, you will know how wonderful you are.
Teach people this truth, and you build self-love within
them. Robert Schuller

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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from
success; we often discover what will do, by finding out
what will not do; and probably he who never made a
mistake never made a discovery. Samuel Smiles.

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The only safe and sure way to destroy enemies is to
make them your friend.

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Why destroy your present happiness by a distant
misery, which may never come at all? For every
substantial grief has twenty shadows and most of the
shadows are of your own making. Sydney Smith.

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Never Say Die
A passenger was terribly seasick on the ship deck.
A steward came along and said, “Cheer up, sir. No man
ever died of seasickness.” The sick man “Please don’t
say that. It’s he hope of dying that has kept me alive
so far.” No matter how discouraging a situation you
may be in, never give up hope. Where there is life
there is hope. Paul Osumi

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WRITE YOURSELF A LOVE LETTER…
Ridiculous! you say – who ever heard of sending a love-
letter to oneself? Everyone loves to receive a letter or a
card – and why not from yourself? Does it sound so silly to
your to tell yourself “I love you – I appreciate you?” Well,
perhaps it does sound a little unusual, but really, it is quite
important that we love and respect the self.
Most people discredit themselves, criticise themselves,
even dislike themselves and
think of themselves as
unworthy, for many different reasons. But we do have the
privilege and the choice to forgive ourselves and start to
love ourselves. We have been given the power to love, to
think and be creative – to draw upon the knowledge that is
within us, and to accept the truth of our own being.
So, send yourself a love-letter,
tell yourself : “I love you.”
Tell yourself what you appreciate about yourself.
Acknowledge yourself for the good you do, the positive
qualities and strengths you have, the things that you feel
proud about. The more you learn to love and accept
yourself, the more you can love others. Every person can
love their own self by respecting themself and by forgiving
themself for past mistakes.

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Man seeks to satisfy his desires with the least of effort.
People are always looking for shortcuts. Each one secretly
wants to know how he can change his life without too much
effort on his part.
Now, I’ll tell you a shortcut : A person who wants to change
his life for the better has only to change his attitude.
Jack Addington

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And in a sense love is everything! It is the key to life, and
it’s influences are those that move the world. Live only in
the thought of love for all and you will draw love to you
from all. Ralph Waldo Trine

Uplift Yourself #4

Greetings.
I am the 4th in a group of circulating Seeds for Upliftment. From a whole variety of sources we include selected bits and pieces that can be as catalysts to have you feeling more of the joyful happy presence of your higher nature, this makes for a better day.
Use these Seeds to help you feel connected to the peace and goodness of your higher nature. This can bring more acceptance and understandings of oneself, of others and how best to deal with the problems of life. You can use the insights of others to help bring more tolerance and more caring compassion (love) as the primary components for enhancing the friendships and goodwill around your space.
Use common sense, do not blindly believe any of these statements. Use anything new or challenging as questions to ponder over and test things out to see what works for you – if something is too far out then just let it go for now. When acceptance and upliftment are present the rewards and benefits will be as blessings for all of humanity, for being all connected as one, any person’s upliftment is an upliftment for the whole human family. If there is anything here that has you feeling good, then consider writing it in a little book to carry and read often – keep adding to it. Re-read bits when you want to feel your inner strengths, your own joyful happy essence of peaceful goodness.

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But to love is better than to be loved. For love is an
active pleasure and a good thing; whilst merely to be
loved creates no activity in the soul. He that loves, in
so far as he loves, is conferring benefit; whilst he who
is loved, in so far as he is loved, confers none.
Aristotle

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There was an old fellow who was always cheerful and
happy all the time. He was asked, “Why is it that you
are always so happy?” He answered “I wake up every
morning with two choices one is to be happy, the other
is to be miserable. I always choose to be happy and it
seems to work out that way.” He enjoyed life to the
fullest. In a survey of people over the age of eighty
designed to determine what
it was that enabled them
to live so abundantly into their ninth decade, a
common denominator was discovered : ail had a lively
interest in life. They had enthusiasm. They were filled
with God, which always expresses as a love for life, a
love for people, a love for what they are doing – as
enthusiasm. Donald Curtis

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When one door closes, another opens; but we often
look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door,
that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell

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To experience a sense of total freedom it is
important for us to detach ourselves from past-future
pre-occupations and choose to live in the now. To be
free also means not being confined to the reality that
seems limited by our physical senses. To be free
allows us to participate in the Love we share with
everyone. We cannot be free until we retrain our
minds to stay present in the now. Jerry Jampolsky

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Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self dis-esteem is the
deadliest and the hardest to overcome; for it is a pit
designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the
phrase, “It’s no use – I can’t do it.”
The penalty of succumbing to it is heavy- both for the
individual in terms of material
rewards lost, and for society
in gains and progress unachieved.
As a doctor I might also point out that defeatism has still
another aspect, a curious one, which is seldom recognised,
Isn’t it on those days when we are most subject to the
‘fearful Unbelief’, when we
most doubt ourselves and feel
inadequate to our task – isn’t it precisely then that we are
most difficult to get along with?
We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low
opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice!
Maxwell Maltz

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A GARDEN
A garden is a lovely place
Where seeds burst through the sod.
A garden is a partnership
Between two hands and God.
A garden is a restful place
Where gentle breezes blow…
A family of growing things
Where souls can also grow.
A garden is a peaceful place
Where I can go apart
To think to meditate, to pray
And listen with my heart.
William Arthur Ward

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SUCCESS is the result of mental attitude, and the right
mental attitude will bring success in everything you
undertake. Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Uplift Yourself #3

Greetings.
I am the 3rd in a group of circulating Seeds for Upliftment. From a whole variety of sources we include selected bits and pieces that can be as catalysts to have you feeling more of the joyful happy presence of your higher nature, this makes for a better day.
Use these Seeds to help you feel connected to the peace and goodness of your higher nature. This can bring more acceptance and understandings of oneself, of others and how best to deal with the problems of life. You can use the insights of others to help bring more tolerance and more caring compassion (love) as the primary components for enhancing the friendships and goodwill around your space. Use common sense, do not blindly believe any of these statements. Use anything new or challenging as questions to ponder over and test things out to see what works for you – if something is too far out then just let it go for now.
When acceptance and upliftment are present the rewards and benefits will be as blessings for all of humanity, for being all connected as one, any person’s upliftment is an upliftment for the whole human family. If there is anything here that has you feeling good, then consider writing it in a little book to carry and read often – keep adding to it. Re-read bits when you want to feel your inner strengths, your own joyful happy essence of peaceful goodness.

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Underneath it all, when you remove the masks, take
away the defences, guilts, do
ubts, and inhibitions, you
find a beautiful person waiting to experience life
emotionally, spiritually, creatively. You find a person
who cares about a job, others, and living life well –
one who loves and is lovable.

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lf we have pleasant thoughts, even when we are
alone, we are in good company.

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Robert Schuller’s experiences with people adopting a
worthy self Image gives hope to everyone! Here’s what
Dr. Schuller has to say in his book •Self Love’ :
Discover the power of a life-changing self-image. Your
life will change and the lives of others around you will
change, when a power-generating self-dignity is born
within you. In hundreds of cases I have seen how a
worthy self-image has enabled people to
conquer prejudice, overcome fatigue, lift depression,
raise personal achievement levels, break destructive
habits, conquer worry, fear and anxiety, enthusiasm,
break boredom, overcome personal handicaps, change
actual physical appearances and master grief and
loneliness.

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So many cares one loses when one decides not to be
something but to be someone. Coco Chanel

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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is
the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to
do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or
not. Thomas Huxley

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Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusionary
future that can not be attained. Gary Zukav
Who is there that can make muddy water clear? But if
allowed to remain still, it will gradually become clear of
itself…….. Be sparing of speech, and things will come right
of themselves; Lao-Tzu

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It’s up to you and me, my friend It’s up to you and me. If
there’s ever to be any peace on earth – It’s up to you and
me. Jill Jackson

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ON BEING YOUR OWN BEST FRIEND
Yes, I’m my own best friend. I’ve alway’s been that way,
even when I felt other people didn’t understand me,
because I knew I still had to be true to myself. There were
times when I allowed people to get me off the track about
who I was but I’d analyse myself and find out what was
happening before I got myself into too much trouble. I find
that people who don’t like themselves much are very
difficult to be with. They are constantly searching to find
out who they are, and therefore are never very honest.
They are intellectually floating personalities. Some people
say that being a performer has
something to do with being
your own best friend, but I think for me it was mostly
being without a family and having to find my own way
through life in order to survive. It was the basic need for
healthy survival that made I had
to be my own best friend.
Eartha Kitt

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Living love extends unconditionally to all beings. You love
everything and everyone pres
ent, no exceptions.
John-Roger
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The best thing to give your
enemy is forgiveness; to an
opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your ear; to your child,
a good example; to a father, reverence; to your mother,
conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself,
respect; to all men, charity. Benjamin Franklin

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Uplift Yourself #2

Greetings.
I am the 2nd in a group of circulating Seeds for Upliftment. From a whole variety of sources we include selected bits and pieces that can be as catalysts to have you feeling more of the joyful happy presence of your higher nature, this makes for a better day.
Use these Seeds to help you feel connected to the peace and goodness of your higher nature. This can bring more acceptance and understandings of oneself, of others and how best to deal with the problems of life. You can use the insights of others to help bring more tolerance and more caring compassion (love) as the primary components for enhancing the friendships and goodwill around your space. Use common sense, do not blindly believe any of these statements. Use anything new or challenging as questions to ponder over and test things out to see what works for you – if something is too far out then just let it go for now.
When acceptance and upliftment are present the rewards and benefits will be as blessings for all of humanity, for being all connected as one, any person’s upliftment is an upliftment for the whole human family. If there is anything here that has you feeling good, then consider writing it in a little book to carry and read often – keep adding to it. Re-read bits when you want to feel your inner strengths, your own joyful happy essence of peaceful goodness.

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The loving heart only wants to participate and be with
people. The loving heart isn’t interested in how you
comb your hair or what you’re wearing. The loving
heart just wants to know and love the person who is
present. It’s a beautiful way to live. John Roger

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Here’s recipe for happiness found in an old magazine:
Do you want to be happy?
Expect good everywhere.
Live in constant anticipation that something wonderful
is about to happen.
Turn your thoughts toward those things which
produce happiness.
Avoid dwelling upon trouble, conflict and ugliness.
Do those things which produce happiness for others.
Give of yourself. Expect people to be good to you.
Expect to have a good time living.
These are the seeds of happiness. And who ever
planted a good seed without expecting to reap a good
harvest

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Sam is fifty-six years old. All his life he has –
sometimes mildly, sometimes
severely – hated himself.
Why? Listen as he sits in my study and pours out his
story.
“All my life I’ve tried to be somebody else. I never
dared to be me. I didn’t think I was good enough. So
I’ve been a phoney for
over half a century. “
That’s the trouble with people – they’re all trying to
be somebody else, and that’s impossible!
Robert Schuller

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Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life – the
evening beam that smiles the clouds away and tints
tomorrow with prophetic ray. Byron
No man or woman you may know
Has reached perfection yet,
And that is true of me AND you –
A point not to forget.
If you look for another’s faults,
You’re sure to find a few;
But if you seek their virtues, why,
You’re sure to find them too!
Expect the best from folk you meet –
It helps to keep life rich and sweet.

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To wake each morning with a smile brightening my face;
To greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it
contains; To approach my work
a clean mind; To hold ever
before me, even in the doing of little things, the ultimate
purpose toward which I am working; To meet men and
women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; To be
gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; To
approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and
the joy that comes from work well done – This is how desire
to waste wisely my days.
Thomas Dreier

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Have you had your share, of troubles? Some bumps along
the way, maybe at times more than you felt needed ?
What if it all has been valuable beyond measure? Ponder
this thought of Confucius : “The gem cannot be polished
without friction, nor man Perfected without trials.” –
What if our trials are our stepping stones…

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Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it,
Only engage, and then the mind grows heated;
Begin, and then the work will be completed.
Goethe
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I hope you have found something uplifting here. Now I want the chance to uplift as many other people as I can reach to. I want to travel on and on all over the world because uplifting thoughts can shift ones attention to their higher nature and this is the human dimension where we feel the presence of joy, the happy feelings that make life seem better. If you believe that this is something to support, then you can help me to achieve my potential. Please keep me circulating by passing me onto someone else, anywhere in the world. I hope that on every stopover I can bring some encouragement and nice uplifting feelings of the inner peace and goodness and to leave each location better off from my being there. Print out more like me and a whole bunch of other good seeds at www.goodwillpeople.net

Uplift Yourself #1

Greetings.
I am the 1st in a group of circulating Seeds for Upliftment. From a whole variety of sources we include selected bits and pieces that can be as catalysts to have you feeling more of the joyful happy presence of your higher nature, this makes for a better day.
Use these Seeds to help you feel connected to the peace and goodness of your higher nature. This can bring more acceptance and understandings of oneself, of others and how best to deal with the problems of life. You can use the insights of others to help bring more tolerance and more caring compassion (love) as the primary components for enhancing the friendships and goodwill around your space.
Use common sense, do not blindly believe any of these statements. Use anything new or challenging as questions to ponder over and test things out to see what works for you – if something is too far out then just let it go for now. When acceptance and upliftment are present the rewards and benefits will be as blessings for all of humanity, for being all connected as one, any person’s upliftment is an upliftment for the whole human family. If there is anything here that has you feeling good, then consider writing it in a little book to carry and read often – keep adding to it. Re-read bits when you want to feel your inner strengths, your own joyful happy essence of peaceful
goodness.

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Being truly happy comes about when we live by our
hearts, which are hooked up to the universe. This
process is like a flower opening up to the sun Once we
begin to perceive our own hearts then we can begin to
perceive the hearts of others. As we look deeply into
ourselves and others, we see the real person – not the
outward things and the programs, but what is really
there. It is loving people for being themselves and not
how much money they make, or how they look, or what
their social position may be. At this level, there is no
condemnation, judging, or even blame, but only a
compassion and a love that looks past our faults and
weaknesses and wants what is best and right for that
person.
Robert Scheid
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty
of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous
benefits upon the world.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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What lies behind us and
what lies before us are tiny
matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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As I got older 1 became aware of the folly of this
perpetual reaching after the future, and of drawing
from tomorrow and for the joyfulness of today. I
learned, alas! when it was almost too late, to live in
each moment as it passed over my head, believing that
the sun as it is now rising is as good as it will ever be.
Mark Rutherford

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When Ali asked Mohammad, ‘What am I to do that I
may not waste my time,’ the Prophet answered: ‘Learn
to know thyself.’
This simple formula makes success available to everyone:
Success is speaking words of praise in cheering other
people’s ways,
In doing just the best you can, with every task and every
plan.
It’s silence when your speech would hurt, politeness when
your neighbour’s curt.
It’s deafness when the scandal flows, and sympathy with
other’s woes.
It’s loyalty when duty calls,
It’s courage when disaster falls.
It’s patience when the hours are long;
It’s found in laughter and in song.
It’s in the silent time of prayer;
In happiness and in despair.
In all of life and nothing less,
We find the thing we call Success.

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Why, who makes much of a miracle? As to me, I know of
nothing else but miracles, – Whether I wade with naked
feet along the beach just in the edge of the water… Or
watch honey-bees around the hive of a summer forenoon…
Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of the stars
shining so quiet and bright… These with the rest, one and
all, are to me, MIRACLES.
Walt Whitman

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Practicing the principle of love in daily life means sharing
fully of oneself. It means bringing out the best in others,
recognising only the positive in life, looking at nothing as
‘impossible’. Many times things
appear to be ‘impossible’.
Many times things appear to be negative and falling apart.
Love is the cohesive force that binds them together, that
makes everything possible. Humanity has moved forward
through people understanding and expressing this basic love principle.
Jack Addington

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I hope you have found something uplifting here. Now I want the chance to uplift as many other people as I can reach to. I want to travel on and on all over the world because uplifting thoughts can shift ones attention to their higher nature and this is the human dimension where we feel the presence of joy, the happy feelings that make life seem better. If you believe that this is something to support, then you can help me to achieve my potential. Please keep me circulating by passing me onto someone else, anywhere in the world. I hope that on every stopover I can bring some encouragement and nice uplifting feelings of the inner peace and goodness and to leave each location better off from my being there. Print out more like me and a whole bunch of other good seeds at
www.goodwillpeople.net