Kat Posted December 1, 2006 Author Share Posted December 1, 2006 November 30 – Self-Esteem Every DayRomantic love is not a distraction from spiritual growth but one of the paths by which it may be attained. It tests spiritual maturity in unique ways. It presents unique challenges to your honesty and authenticity. It can be easier to assume the role of guru and address thousands of people from the safety of a lecture platform than to encounter in your living room one human being who might love and respect you but faces you as an equal and is not afraid to challenge your judgment, question some of your actions, pull you back when you have gone too far, and, when necessary, to tell you to "come off it." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted December 1, 2006 Author Share Posted December 1, 2006 December 1 – Self-Esteem Every DayThe more rapid the rate of change, the more dangerous it is to live mechanically, relying on routines of belief and behavior that might be irrelevant or obsolete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted December 3, 2006 Author Share Posted December 3, 2006 December 2 – Self-Esteem Every DayEveryone operates more consciously in some areas than in others. People might bring great consciousness to their work and very little to personal relationships—or vise versa. They might think far more clearly about their careers than about their political beliefs—or vice versa. They might maintain a sharp mental focus in matters pertaining to their health but a more diffuse focus in matters pertaining to ethics or religion—or vice versa. To say that a person is not living at an adequate level of consciousness is to say that there are aspects of his or her life where the range of action exceeds the range of thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted December 3, 2006 Author Share Posted December 3, 2006 December 3 – Self-Esteem Every DaySometimes there is no choice but to act instantly with no time for reflection. It is an act of consciousness to recognize such moments and take your chances—and know that you will live (or possibly die) with the consequences of your action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted December 8, 2006 Author Share Posted December 8, 2006 December 4 – Self-Esteem Every DayWhether your focus is on preserving and strengthening family ties in a world of increasingly unstable relationships, gaining access to a decent job, growing and evolving as a person, or guiding a company through the stormy seas of a fiecely competitive global marketplace—whether your goals are material, emotional, or spiritual—the price of success is the same: thinking, learning. To be asleep at the wheel—to rely only on the known, familiar and automotized—is to invite disaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted December 8, 2006 Author Share Posted December 8, 2006 December 5 – Self-Esteem Every DayTo arrive at a contradiction is to know that you have made an error. Toi persist in a contradiction is to short-circuit your mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted December 8, 2006 Author Share Posted December 8, 2006 December 6 – Self-Esteem Every DayWhen you live consciously, you do not evade facts; you do not pretend that by closing your eyes you can annihilate reality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted December 8, 2006 Author Share Posted December 8, 2006 December 7 – Self-Esteem Every DayLiving consciously reflects the conviction that sight is preferable to blindness; that respecting the facts of reality is more satisfying than defying them; that evasion does not make the unreal real or the real unreal; that it is better to correct your mistakes than to pretend they do not exist; and that the more conscious you are of facts bearing on your life and goals, the more wisely and effectively you can act. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted December 10, 2006 Author Share Posted December 10, 2006 December 8 – Self-Esteem Every DayIf you choose to move through life blindly, you have good reason to be anxious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted December 10, 2006 Author Share Posted December 10, 2006 December 9 – Self-Esteem Every DayThe quest for reason is the non-contradictory integration of experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted December 10, 2006 Author Share Posted December 10, 2006 December 10 – Self-Esteem Every DayNo other gift to a young person can equal that of teaching the intimate relationship that exists between rationality and self-esteem—between consciousness and efficacy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted December 16, 2006 Author Share Posted December 16, 2006 December 11 – Self-Esteem Every DayWhether in the workplace or in personal relationships, success belongs to those who are willing to take responsibility for attaining their desires—those who respond to life actively rather than passively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted December 16, 2006 Author Share Posted December 16, 2006 December 12 – Self-Esteem Every DayTo those who have fully experienced the joy of operating consciously the feeling is I = consciousness = aliveness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted December 16, 2006 Author Share Posted December 16, 2006 December 13 – Self-Esteem Every DayIt is not a sin to have an impulse to avoid some painful fact. But learn to manage such impulses. Don't be ruled by them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted December 16, 2006 Author Share Posted December 16, 2006 December 14 – Self-Esteem Every DayIf you bring five percent more awareness to your work tomorrow, or to your most important relationship, what might you do differently? Are you willing to find out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted December 16, 2006 Author Share Posted December 16, 2006 December 15 – Self-Esteem Every DayIf you give five percent more respect to your deepest needs and wants, what might you do differently? Are you willing to try it and see what you might discover? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted December 16, 2006 Author Share Posted December 16, 2006 December 16 – Self-Esteem Every DayIf morality—or spirituality—means anything, it means, first and foremost, a commitment to be aware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted December 18, 2006 Author Share Posted December 18, 2006 December 17 – Self-Esteem Every DayIt is cruel and misleading to tell people that all they need to do to have self-esteem is to decide to love themselves. Self-esteem is built by practices, not by emotions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted December 18, 2006 Author Share Posted December 18, 2006 December 18 – Self-Esteem Every DayWhen they lack self-esteem, people often try to create pseudo self-esteem—a pretense at self-confidence and self-respect that they do not actually feel. The act is chiefly for oneself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted December 22, 2006 Author Share Posted December 22, 2006 December 19 – Self-Esteem Every DayThe errors you are willing to confront become the rungs of a ladder leading to higher self-esteem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted December 22, 2006 Author Share Posted December 22, 2006 December 20 – Self-Esteem Every DayYou have a right to your feelings. Your feelings are there to tell you something, but they are not infallible guides to behavior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted December 22, 2006 Author Share Posted December 22, 2006 December 21 – Self-Esteem Every DayAs you grow in self-esteem, your face, manner and way of talking and moving will naturally project the pleasure you take in being alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted December 22, 2006 Author Share Posted December 22, 2006 December 22 – Self-Esteem Every DayIt does not take intelligence to suffer. It often takes intelligence to be happy. It takes wisdom to know how to make oneself happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted December 23, 2006 Author Share Posted December 23, 2006 December 23 – Self-Esteem Every DayAnyone who really loves you wants you to be authentic. And anyone who doesn't want you to be authentic doesn't really love you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 December 24 – Self-Esteem Every DayLive self-assertively. Bring into the world that which you think, value, and feel. Do not consign yourself to the unexpected and unlived. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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