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Love the Questions of your Life

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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

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Rainer Maria Rilke

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you.

A short quote with a BIG Meaning

"It's a Beautiful Day."

Father Joe Nolan

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This past Sunday the Nolan Family celebrated my Uncle Joe's 95th Birthday along with his 70th anniversary of his ordination to the Priesthood. About 70 cousins, brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, and friends were there to celebrate. The big surprise of the day was when 20 plus members of the Sacred Heart Church Choir (the church where Father Joe retired) came and sang 3 beautiful hymns in his honor. It was a beautiful tribute.

 "It's a Beautiful Day" was a way that he started many of his sermons and had a reputation throughout his parish of carrying that same Beautiful Day attitudethroughout his work.  It was quite apparent that he was an inspiration to the congregation, and is still an inspiration to ALL of his family and friends! 

It was a Beautiful Day!

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

(Now you know why I always end the Quote of the Week with the above statement ~ Thanks, Uncle Joe!)

The Journey

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"Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. 

Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything that isn’t you 

so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place."

Paul Coelho

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

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TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW:

"MY HAPPINESS DEPENDS ON ME
SO YOU'RE OFF THE HOOK."

AND THEN DEMONSTRATE IT

BE HAPPY NO MATTER WHAT THEY'RE DOING

PRACTICE FEELING GOOD, NO MATTER WHAT.

AND BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, YOU WILL NOT GIVE ANYONE

ELSE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE WAY YOU FEEL AND THEN,

YOU’LL LOVE THEM ALL.  BECAUSE THE ONLY REASON YOU DON’T LOVE THEM,

IS BECAUSE YOU’RE USING THEM AS YOUR EXCUSE TO NOT FEEL GOOD. 

Esther Abraham-Hicks

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Wishing you a most beautiful and happy day wherever this may find you!

The REAL Battle

The Real Battle

~ for me anyway ;-) ~ 

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"I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things-the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos-are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle,

which is the one waged within the individual soul."

Caroline Myss

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

Looking to Improve the World?

“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.” 

Robert M. Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

See the bright future that can be, and you will Make it so

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"What has happened before has brought you to where you are. 

Yet the past has no control over where you can go from here.

Your past history does not create your future. 

The choices you make right now are what create the substance of that future.

Learn from your mistakes, but do not agonize over them. 

There is nothing you can do to change the fact that they happened, 

yet there is much you can do to move positively beyond them.

When you dwell on the past it holds you prisoner. 

When you let it go, that allows you to go anywhere you now choose.

People change, circumstances change, and you can change too. 

With each moment comes the opportunity to shake off the old assumptions and limitations, to give new purpose and meaning to life.

Give new energy, new effort, new commitment and determination to this day 

that you have the good fortune to be living. 

See the ​Bright Future that can be and you will make it so"

Ralph Marston

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!​

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Reflection


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“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”

Charles Dickens

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Wishing you a most BEAUTIFUL day wherever this may find you!​

It Begins with a Dream

"The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream.The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; 

and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs.

Dreams are the seedlings of realities."

James Allen

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You are what your deep, driving desire is. 

As your desire is, so is your will. 

As your will is, so is your deed. 

As you deed is, so is your destiny.

Upanishads, Brihad. IV.4.5

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!​

Thank you!

“When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.”

Shauna Niequist

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​A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...​

Discovering a Magical Mantra

Many years ago, I’d heard about an Indian guru who had come up with a magical mantra that supposedly helped people develop an attitude of gratitude. I decided to visit him in India and see what this gratitude practice was. So after traveling 18 hours by plane, and then taking a taxi for another 2 hours, I finally reached his ashram. When at last I finally met the bearded guru, I told him I wanted to hear his amazing mantra for helping people practice daily gratitude. He said in his heavy Indian accent, “Ah yes, my technique is the most powerful mantra on earth.” He leaned in to whisper it into my ear. He said, “Whenever possible, repeat the following words in your head. The magical mantra I give you is the words,“Thank You.”

I was supremely disappointed. I said,“That’s IT!?”

He said, “No, ‘that’s it’ is the mantra you have been using, and that mantra makes you feel like you never have enough. My mantra is the words ‘Thank You’—not ‘That’s It.’ ‘That’s it’ will take you nowhere, but ‘Thank You’ will quiet your mind and open your heart. So when you eat good food, say thank you! When you see your child, or a sunset or your pet, repeat the mantra ‘thank you’ and soon you will have an attitude of gratitude for each blessing in your life.”

Jonathan Robinson

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!​

​Thank you!​

For Just One Second...

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​“For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.”

​L​ev Grossman

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

Living Fully

​Living 

Fully​

L
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"If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, 

or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, 

but ask me what I am living for, in detail, 

ask me what I think is keeping me from

living fully for the thing I want to live for."

Thomas Merton

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

Grow Change Learn

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“The only way that we can live is if we grow. The only way we can grow is if we change. The only way we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we are exposed is if we throw ourselves into the open.” 

C. Joybell

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you