Making Decisions.

I have a situation before me that I must deal with. I see a few paths that I could take (normally there is more than one option to take). I then compare those paths with my moral beliefs. I ask myself, “Is this the decent thing to do?” Then I consider “is this the best

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Love Yourself

The sooner we begin to love ourselves honestly then we will open our spiritual heart honestly to love someone else! When that times comes we will care so much about ourself that we won’t want to see ourself hurt so we will protect ourself and avoid people that may hurt and abuse us. We will

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Love is Spiritual.

Remember, love is not about money, fame, or adoration from people or material gain. Life is about living in spiritual life for one another. The lifting spiritual nature of a person is showing caring, charitable, gentle caring love for others. * This is why a person can try to teach a dog to hate a

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Love is such a tender emotion.

I know nothing that would satisfy me more than real love from a woman who wanted me for what I am and for what she and I would be as the future unfolded. ♥ But I am willing to wait, (we all should wait). Those that know me closely know I never talk about females

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Love is…

Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. Love does not dishonor others, love is not self-seeking, love is not easily angered, love keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. Love always protects, always trusts, always

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Love is a “need”, not a want.

Love is a “need”, not a want. We, in modern society, have been groomed to believe that we can choose love or refuse it. And sure without heartfelt love we will get by, but as it is with all “needs” we will suffer and be incomplete without it. We have been groomed to believe that

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Know and believe your true worth.

Look in the mirror. See a person, you. See the simple you as you were born. Keep your image of yourself simple. Keep your accomplishments in your mind simple, don’t overate your achievements. Many have achieved much. See yourself humbly and you won’t be easily fooled by those who try to flatter you with sweet

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Not everyone learns at the same pace

If you are trying to help someone, but the person stays in the situation that is wrong for that person, please don’t get angry at the person or blame God. Not everyone learns at the same pace, lots of people make mistakes etc. Some over and over again. Also know that “if the person is

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Life was never meant to be this hard.

Life is this hard because we are forcing ourselves to depart from a natural spiritual life in favour of a depressing materialistic life of slavery. ° If we go back to the basics of parenting, loving and eating and drinking well, we will go to bed in the arms of someone we love, drifting into

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Some purpose for all of us being born

Life itself means birth, usefulness, a reason to be alive, and that there is some purpose for all of us being born. All around us is “life and living things” of all shapes and sizes. Life is what this planet was made for. All around us are dead planets with no life on them. It

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Life is a spiritual journey…

Life is a spiritual journey that is taken in the physical world in our physical bodies. Once in a while something will come to our mind that we feel is very important, emotional and moving, something that has a powerful sense of reality and we feel a strong need to take that journey, or to

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Life gets better when you have good standards.

Life gets better when you have good standards, dreams and have deep faith in God and yourself. ° If you don’t have these things then you must change or you will be forever unhappy with your life and will always be envious of those of us who stand up for ourselves and have the faith

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Liar’s can seem clever.

Liars will sound knowledgeable, amazing, clever, and competent to us when we are unconfident, and when we are gullible and full of fears. We are easy victims and are eagerly and easily seduced by what seems true and common sense, but is really fed into our mind to create more fears, confusion and to keep

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You know you better than anyone else alive.

We can safely say to ourselves that we are all learning in life and that no one person knows everything. Knowing this, and knowing that all people make mistakes, we can safely say that no one had the right to tell me what is wrong with me. Because you are learning every day and I

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Leap in faith

Leap in faith…. A Leap In Faith is like standing at a cliff edge where you can see over the cliff and the fall is rocky and scary. In front of you is a mist that you cannot see through. And on the other side of that mist is someone that you love (God) who

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Knowing That Someone Loves You, and that you love them

Knowing That Someone Loves You, and that you love them: True love is spiritual. It encompasses a person’s soul, and yet it is internal and fills one from deep within. We delight in seeing that special person that we have fallen in love with. We want to be close to that person because we feel

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Keep your dream alive in your heart

You don’t know for sure what will happen in the future. No one can know what has not already happened. That is life. We must have the courage to walk forward, the wind on our face, the fear pushed away, moving forward with a determination to do what our heart calls for us to do.

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Hard to see the Big Picture from the Inside.

From the inside it can be hard to see the bigger picture. When a person has mental issues and wild imaginings then it is hard for that person to understand that what they think is true, isn’t true. It takes time I know, because I remember what it felt like when I was struggling, depressed,

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Giving Up Smoking.

Keeping busy did me a lot of good when I gave up. I kept telling myself that each minute, hour and day was a distance from the last cigarette. I went cold turkey although at first I did use use nicotine gum, but I chewed so much I hurt my gums etc. â—‹ As time

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Keep Door Open to Friendship.

We should always keep your door open and a friendly smile for our enemies to give them the chance to become our friends in the future. If people can see that we are always friendly towards them then at sometime in the future they may see the wrongs and rights of the past and something

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Please don’t be a stumbling block in other people’s lives

Romans Chapter 14, verses 19-23: Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. It is good neither to eat flesh, nor

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Judge not, that ye be not judged:

Judge not, that ye be not judged: Since becoming a believer in God and His ways I have learnt a lot about people, about their trials, and sufferings, and to my great surprise I found that they had suffered as I had suffered, and that they had many of the same trials. We all acted

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Bad Moods Mess with the Mind.

  There was a man who was blind, and when he was 16 he led a resistance group in Nazi occupied France during the Second World War (true story). His name was Jaques Lusseyran. He told an interesting story about dinnertime. He would set out his salt, pepper and glass of water, food etc when

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God is Everywhere.

God is everywhere. God is a Spirit. God is infinite in relation to space. Psalms 139, verses 7: Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I

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God spoke to the nations through prophets.

God spoke to the nations through prophets. The people would fall into sin, lose their way and need God to get them out again. This is why prophets were needed. Evil doesn’t want people to listen to the prophets, so evil set people up against the prophets in the hope that the prophet would fail.

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We are Works in Progress

It is wise to remember that we are works in progress, we are not perfect, we never will be perfect. The human way is to try and to and be what is the most important that we care about the most. When we attempt something and we want it to turn out perfectly, we should

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To take that road the soul won’t grow…

It is the boring road where many go, It is simple easy and goes with the flow, To take that road the soul won’t grow, And the mind will melt from boredom like snow. The path is smooth, And all are entertained and in with the groove, They feel comfortable walking hand in hand, Towards

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It is not nice to be called bad things.

It is not nice to be called bad things. It hurts, but some people have weaknesses and issues that cause them to be like that towards us. Or they have listened to lies and gossip and they have allowed that to help them form a wrongful impression of our character. Or they are having an

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It is easy to judge people and hurt them.

It is easy to judge people and hurt them. But it is also easy for people to think that we are judging them and we are not. Many “wrong things” are considered “normal” because society has decided so. To speak out about what is wrong makes a person a target for hatred and abuse. The

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The Spiritually Weakened are Easy Victims.

When we are spiritually weakened by life we can become an easy victim to others, and then with an unconfident frightened soul we feel that we have nowhere to go and no one to turn to. One of the weapons of domineering people is isolation. They find ways to isolate a person from general society

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Seeking Approval of Others.

Instead of us seeking the approval of other people that we know, the wise thing to do is to seek the approval of our own heart. To do that we would look at the things that we do and then ask ourself, “Do I feel good about what I just did?” and don’t base any

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I used to have a instant anger.

I used to have a instant anger. My father did too. He would rant and rave, and we all were nervous around dad. When he got home from work the whole house went quiet, us children stopped playing sometimes because our playing would cause an instant outburst every now and then. My father had no

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