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Cynthia
Granado
making
peace with what is
grant
me the serenity to accept the things I cannot
change,
the
courage to change the things I can,
and the
wisdom to know the difference.
~
Alcoholics Anonymous
Dalai Lama: Instructions for Life
1. Take into account that great love and
great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs:
Respect for self
Respect for others and
Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break
them properly.
6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great
friendship.
7. When you realize you've made a mistake,
take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don't let
go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the
best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when
you get older and think back, you'll be able
to enjoy it a second time.
12. In disagreements with loved ones, deal
only with the current situation. Don't bring
up the past.
13. Share your knowledge. It's a way to
achieve immortality.
14. Be gentle with the earth.
15. Once a year, go someplace you've never
been before.
16. Remember that the best relationship is
one in which your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
17. Judge your success by what you had to
give up in order to get it.
18. Approach love and cooking with reckless
abandon.
19. A loving atmosphere in your home is the
foundation for your life.
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THE PARADOXICAL COMMANDMENTS
1.
People are illogical, unreasonable, and
self-centered. Love them anyway.
2.
If you do good, people will accuse you of
selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
3.
If you are successful, you win false friends
and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
4.
The good you do today will be forgotten
tomorrow. Do good anyway.
5.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
6.
The biggest men and women with the biggest
ideas can be shot down by the smallest men
and women with the smallest minds. Think big
anyway.
7.
People favor underdogs but follow only top
dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
8.
What you spend years building may be
destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
9.
People really need help but may attack you
if you do help them. Help people anyway.
10.
Give the world the best you have and you'll
get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the
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"Making peace with what is
equals making peace with no. You
can only control what you want or wish or ask for -
you have no control over what shows up." ~ Dr.
Richard Greene
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"Everything that is not given, is lost."
Read those words again - and
really take them in.
"Everything that is not given
is lost."
This is a potent wake-up
call. Because we are mortal, every talent,
skill, ability we possess, every thought and
feeling we ever have, every beautiful sight
we ever see, every material possession we
own, will ultimately be lost.
UNLESS WE SHARE IT.
Unless we give what we have
to others - to our spouse, our children, our
friends, our neighbors - to the strangers we
encounter on our path - what we know and
value will be irrevocably and utterly gone.
BUT... If we give freely of
our minds, hearts, spirits - who we are -
then what matters most to us will never die
- but will live forever in the psyches of
not only all those who know us - but
everyone who encounters them - and then
everyone who encounters those who knew them
- in an infinite regression of mysteriously
unseen effect.
That's why the metaphor of
the a pebble in a pond is so potent. We toss
the pebble of our soul into the pond of life
and ripples are created.
If we hoard ourselves - our
gifts, our talents, our love, our thoughts,
our feelings, our insights, our words - we
will make a very little splash and the
ripples will soon end.
But if we give fully, with
abandon and abundance, the ripples go out
infinitely, overlapping and intermingling
with other souls.
Viewed this way...what kind
of ripple do you want to be?
~ one of many morsels ... BE HAPPY DAMNIT -
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