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Thursday, February 24, 2011

forgiveness

"The ability to forgive heals old wounds and liberates us from past burdens...it enables us to transcend negative feelings of hurt and vengeance that hold us back and prevent us from focusing on our real purpose." ~Roderick Terry

~QUESTION FOR CONTEMPLATION AND JOURNALING:
Is an inability to forgive preventing you from focusing on your real purpose?


~AFFIRMATION FOR MEDITATION:
Take a deep breath, exhale, and remember...
"FORGIVENESS LIBERATES."

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Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:16:00 -0800 important battles http://focusandflow.posterous.com/important-battles http://focusandflow.posterous.com/important-battles

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

important battles

 

"I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important." ~Arthur Ashe

~QUESTION FOR CONTEMPLATION AND JOURNALING:
What battles are important to you?

 ~AFFIRMATION FOR MEDITATION:
Take a deep breath, exhale, and remember...
"TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE."

 

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Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:47:40 -0800 love builds http://focusandflow.posterous.com/love-builds http://focusandflow.posterous.com/love-builds
"Love builds. It is positive and helpful...'Love thy neighbor' is a precept which could transform the world if it were universally practiced." ~Mary McLeod Bethune

 

~QUESTION FOR CONTEMPLATION AND JOURNALING:
How will you practice love today?

 ~AFFIRMATION FOR MEDITATION: 
Take a deep breath, exhale, and remember...
"LOVE BUILDS."

 

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Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:15:00 -0800 go for it http://focusandflow.posterous.com/go-for-it http://focusandflow.posterous.com/go-for-it

"You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing." ~Arthur Ashe

~QUESTION FOR CONTEMPLATION AND JOURNALING:
Are you going for the things in life that are important to you?

~AFFIRMATION FOR MEDITATION: 
Take a deep breath, exhale, and remember...
"GO FOR IT."

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Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:11:00 -0800 do work http://focusandflow.posterous.com/do-work http://focusandflow.posterous.com/do-work
"Nothing will work unless you do." ~Maya Angelou

~QUESTION FOR CONTEMPLATION AND JOURNALING:
What work are you doing?

 ~AFFIRMATION FOR MEDITATION: 
Take a deep breath, exhale, and remember...
"DO THE WORK."

 

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Sat, 05 Feb 2011 21:08:00 -0800 get free http://focusandflow.posterous.com/get-free http://focusandflow.posterous.com/get-free
"I have freed hundreds of slaves and I would have freed thousands more if only they had known they were slaves." ~Harriet Tubman

~QUESTION FOR CONTEMPLATION AND JOURNALING:
Do you know what enslaves you?

 ~AFFIRMATION FOR MEDITATION: 
Take a deep breath, exhale, and remember...
"KNOW FREEDOM."

 

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Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:03:00 -0800 reason for growth http://focusandflow.posterous.com/reason-for-growth http://focusandflow.posterous.com/reason-for-growth

"In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction." ~Audre Lorde 


~QUESTION FOR CONTEMPLATION AND JOURNALING:
How can you celebrate and grow from difference more actively?

~AFFIRMATION FOR MEDITATION: 
Take a deep breath, exhale, and remember...
"BE INSPIRED BY DIFFERENCES."

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Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:01:00 -0800 a better day http://focusandflow.posterous.com/a-better-day http://focusandflow.posterous.com/a-better-day

"I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day." ~-Rosa Parks

~QUESTION FOR CONTEMPLATION AND JOURNALING:
How will you look upon life today?

~AFFIRMATION FOR MEDITATION: 
Take a deep breath, exhale, and remember...
"LOOK WITH OPTIMISM."

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Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:59:00 -0800 reach out http://focusandflow.posterous.com/reach-out http://focusandflow.posterous.com/reach-out

"If you see me stumble, don't stand back and look on. Reach out now. Give your hands to struggle." ~Bernice Johnson Reagon

~QUESTION FOR CONTEMPLATION AND JOURNALING:
What will you do when you see someone stumble?

~AFFIRMATION FOR MEDITATION: 
Take a deep breath, exhale, and remember...
"REACH OUT NOW."

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Tue, 01 Feb 2011 20:54:00 -0800 plant it http://focusandflow.posterous.com/plant-it http://focusandflow.posterous.com/plant-it
"‎Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."  ~Martin Luther King Jr.

~QUESTION FOR CONTEMPLATION AND JOURNALING:
Where and how will you plant your apple tree, make your contribution to the betterment of the world?

 ~AFFIRMATION FOR MEDITATION: 
Take a deep breath, exhale, and remember...
"PLANT YOUR TREE."

 

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Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:51:00 -0800 free spirit http://focusandflow.posterous.com/free-spirit http://focusandflow.posterous.com/free-spirit

"There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free." ~Hubert H. Humphrey

~QUESTION FOR CONTEMPLATION AND JOURNALING:
Have you set your spirit free?

~AFFIRMATION FOR MEDITATION: 
Take a deep breath, exhale, and remember...
"FREE YOUR SPIRIT."

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Sun, 30 Jan 2011 02:12:00 -0800 seeing http://focusandflow.posterous.com/seeing http://focusandflow.posterous.com/seeing
"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others." ~Jonathan Swift

~QUESTION FOR CONTEMPLATION AND JOURNALING:
What is your vision?

 ~AFFIRMATION FOR MEDITATION: 
Take a deep breath, exhale, and remember...
"SEE THE INVISIBLE."

 

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Sat, 29 Jan 2011 02:09:00 -0800 love and happiness http://focusandflow.posterous.com/love-and-happiness http://focusandflow.posterous.com/love-and-happiness
"Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well." ~Mary Cholmondeley

~QUESTION FOR CONTEMPLATION AND JOURNALING: 
What are you willing to risk to live a full life?

AFFIRMATION FOR MEDITATION:
Take a deep breath, exhale, and remember...
"GIVE LOVE, SEIZE HAPPINESS."

 

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Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:41:00 -0800 discovery work http://focusandflow.posterous.com/discovery-work http://focusandflow.posterous.com/discovery-work
"Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it." ~Buddha

~QUESTION FOR CONTEMPLATION AND JOURNALING:
What have you discovered about the work you are here to do?

 ~AFFIRMATION FOR MEDITATION: 
Take a deep breath, exhale, and remember...
"GIVE IT YOUR HEART."

 

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Thu, 27 Jan 2011 02:15:00 -0800 blessings and benefits http://focusandflow.posterous.com/blessings-and-benefits http://focusandflow.posterous.com/blessings-and-benefits

"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses." ~Hippocrates

~QUESTION FOR CONTEMPLATION AND JOURNALING:
What benefits can you derive from those unhealthy aspects of your life?

~AFFIRMATION FOR MEDITATION: 
Take a deep breath, exhale, and remember...
"CONSIDER YOUR BLESSINGS AND FIND YOUR BENEFITS."

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Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:43:00 -0800 raw invention http://focusandflow.posterous.com/raw-invention http://focusandflow.posterous.com/raw-invention
"You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself." ~Warren G. Bennis

~QUESTION FOR CONTEMPLATION AND JOURNALING:
What is your raw material and what are you going to make of it?

 ~AFFIRMATION FOR MEDITATION: 
Take a deep breath, exhale, and remember...
"INVENT YOURSELF."

 

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Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:39:00 -0800 more to life http://focusandflow.posterous.com/more-to-life http://focusandflow.posterous.com/more-to-life

"There is more to life than increasing its speed." ~Mahatma Gandhi

~QUESTION FOR CONTEMPLATION AND JOURNALING:
Are you trying to speed through aspects of your life?

~AFFIRMATION FOR MEDITATION: 
Take a deep breath, exhale, and remember...
"SLOW DOWN AND LIVE MORE FULLY."

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Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:40:00 -0800 savor the moment http://focusandflow.posterous.com/savor-the-moment http://focusandflow.posterous.com/savor-the-moment
"Every moment is there to be savored and to be improved upon and invested with humor and with beauty and solemnity. We don't ever get to skip a single part and sort of fast forward to the life still to come." ~Garrison Keillor

~QUESTION FOR CONTEMPLATION AND JOURNALING:
Are you savoring the moments of your life?


 ~AFFIRMATION FOR MEDITATION: 
Take a deep breath, exhale, and remember...
"SAVOR THE MOMENT."

 

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Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:16:00 -0800 seek within http://focusandflow.posterous.com/seek-within http://focusandflow.posterous.com/seek-within

"All you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within, and you will surely find it." ~Eileen Caddy

~QUESTION FOR CONTEMPLATION AND JOURNALING:
What do you find when you are still and look within?

~AFFIRMATION FOR MEDITATION: 
Take a deep breath, exhale, and remember...
"WHAT YOU SEEK IS WITHIN YOU."

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Sat, 22 Jan 2011 08:43:00 -0800 allow happiness http://focusandflow.posterous.com/allow-happiness http://focusandflow.posterous.com/allow-happiness


"Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you." ~Hafiz

~QUESTION FOR CONTEMPLATION AND JOURNALING:
Have you allowed happiness to find you (and in what ways might you still be running from it)?

 ~AFFIRMATION FOR MEDITATION: 
Take a deep breath, exhale, and remember...
"ALLOW HAPPINESS."

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