{"id":770,"date":"2005-08-26T18:16:32","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T22:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2005\/08\/26\/770\/"},"modified":"2005-08-26T18:16:32","modified_gmt":"2005-08-26T22:16:32","slug":"770","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2005\/08\/26\/770\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re afraid of either failure or success. If we\u2019re closer to success,<br \/>\nwe\u2019ll fear success. If we\u2019re closer to failure, we\u2019ll fear failure. The<br \/>\nissue isn\u2019t success or failure. The issue is the presence of fear, and<br \/>\nits inevitability wherever love is absent.<br \/>\n&#8211; Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">You know quite well deep within you,<br \/>\nthat there is only a single magic,<br \/>\na single power, a single salvation . . .<br \/>\nAnd that is called loving.<br \/>\nWell then, love your suffering.<br \/>\nDo not resist it, do not flee from it.<br \/>\nIt is only your aversion that hurts,<br \/>\nnothing else.<\/p>\n<p>-Herman Hesse\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&#8230;there are but three truths: you create your reality, you are a Piece<br \/>\nof the One, and you absolutely cannot fail.&nbsp; Life is not measured<br \/>\nby the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our<br \/>\nbreath away.&nbsp; Hatred can never put an end to hatred, love alone<br \/>\ncan. This is the unalterable law.<\/p>\n<p>You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never<br \/>\nthought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do<br \/>\nexcept the limitations of your own mind.<br \/>\n&#8211; Darwin P. Kingsley<\/p>\n<p>God is making use of you &#8211; you should be grateful He&#8217;s found a use for you.<br \/>\n&#8211; Mathew King, Lakota Nation<\/p>\n<p>I have seen several posts today on celebrating the struggle for women&#8217;s<br \/>\nequality.&nbsp; This bothers me, and I&#8217;ll tell you why.&nbsp; So many<br \/>\nwomen &#8212; and men &#8212; see equality as a competition, not a sharing. We<br \/>\nstill have not changed the paradigm of superiority and competition for<br \/>\na paradigm of partnership. This is our greatest challenge, IMHO.<br \/>\n&#8211; Moss Bliss (you heard it here first!)<\/p>\n<p>Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly<br \/>\nwhat it needed to be. Don&#8217;t think that you&#8217;ve lost time. There is no<br \/>\nshort-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have<br \/>\nencountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.<br \/>\n&#8211; Asha Tyson <\/p>\n<p>Why does talk about a united world remain only talk?&nbsp; Division<br \/>\nbegins in an individual mind and spreads itself throughout the<br \/>\nworld.&nbsp; Now, where must non-division begin if we are to unite the<br \/>\nworld?<br \/>\n&#8211; Vernon Howard, Esoteric Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge<\/p>\n<p>Unity is an external manifestation only when it is our internal condition.<br \/>\n&#8211; Carson&#8217;s Commentary<\/p>\n<p>Identifying an imbalance in your life doesn&#8217;t mean you have to rush out<br \/>\nand try to bring it into balance. Rather than resisting the imbalance,<br \/>\nor taking a position that lack of balance is bad, you can just relax<br \/>\nand accept it as what is happening in this moment.<br \/>\n&#8211; John-Roger with Paul Kaye, from Momentum, Letting Love Lead &#8211; Simple Practices for Spiritual Living, p. 8-9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re afraid of either failure or success. If we\u2019re closer to success, we\u2019ll fear success. If we\u2019re closer to failure, we\u2019ll fear failure. The issue isn\u2019t success or failure. 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