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One of the greatest gifts of being human is our ability to choose. While it may not always seem like life is affording us the option to choose, we always have a choice. Chocolate or vanilla. Right or left. Smile or cry. Give or take.

This week I’d like to focus on the moments when it seems we don’t have a choice, when situations seem out of our control. In situations when we can’t change the outcome, we can always change how we react to the outcome. In other words, even if the situation is out of our hands, what we do with it is always in our hands.

Even in moments of pain or suffering, ours or another’s, we can control whether we connect to the Light or to the darkness.

We can’t control every single thing that happens in our own lives, let alone in the lives around us, or in the world. We understand the laws of cause and effect, that everything has a previous (and usually unseen) cause. So when one has a parent or friend who’s sick, or going through any other kind of challenge, we should keep in mind that sometimes that soul needs to go through its thing and move on.

Regardless of how the process looks or feels, when we are aware and able to see potential gifts of the process, we’re at peace.

I recommend that you first begin shifting your perspective by looking at other people’s situations. As third-party observers, when we look without judgment and without emotion that can often blind us, we can see what’s going on.

After practicing this for a while – looking for the Light/the good/the perfection in someone else’s process – you’ll have a better chance of doing it in your own life.

And when you’re feeling evolved, you can recognize the Light/the good/the perfection before it becomes apparent in your life.

You’ve heard the phrase, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” This is no different. Light is also in the eye of the beholder. Let’s see how much Light you can behold this week. I’d love to hear from you about how this looks. Send me an email, tweet, or smoke signal.

All the best,

Yehuda

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Cultivating a close, warm-hearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease.

As well as refraining from negative thoughts and emotions, we need to cultivate and reinforce our positive qualities.

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We can’t overcome anger and hatred by simply suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate their antidotes - patience and tolerance.

Dalai Lama

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NAILS WORTH FINDING





39. Diamond in the Rough



A guy walks into a home improvement store in search of a particular size of nails. A clerk tells him they’re on the third floor, aisle three, in the back. Despite a diligent search, the guy can’t locate the nails. He finds the clerk and says, “Excuse me, I didn’t see these nails.”

“Oh, you mean those nails,” the clerk replies. “They are in the basement in aisle seven.” The customer goes there and again doesn’t find the nails. He returns to the clerk and asks, “Do you even sell this type of nail?”

“They’re right behind you,” the clerk says. The man is furious and asks, “Why did you make me run up and down and back and forth throughout the store?”

The clerk smiles. “These nails are our most popular item. If they were easy to get, we would be out of stock. We run our customers ragged in search of them to make sure only those who really want these nails actually find them.”

I share this parable with you because we’re nearing the time of year in which we are encouraged to look at the past and ask ourselves vital questions like:

Do we really want to change?
Do we really want the coming year to be different than the last year?
How much work are we willing to do this year so that our lives will be chaos free?
Over the next month and a half, I will continue to post insights, inspiration, and guidance that I’ve personally received to make this end-of-year process a fruitful one.

For starters, we have to begin taking responsibility for our lives – for the good, the bad, and the ugly. It’s easy to take credit when the going is good. But when the going gets tough, we’re eager to point fingers, place blame, and even look upwards, shaking a fist at the forces that seemingly govern, or do not govern, our universe. We blame doctors, lawyers, politicians, neighbors, bosses, and employees.

But our supporting cast is not meant to have a starring role. We cannot give over our power to our doctors, lawyers, accountants – even psychics. They are here to help us take responsibility, and this is the one thing we must do – take responsibility for everything in our lives. Over the coming weeks, it’s especially important to keep in mind that we’re in nobody else’s hands but our own.

All the best,

Yehuda

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Been talking to myself again lol
hopefully one day someone will talk to me im not as scary as i look, know someone is looking, so hopefully im doing something that useful, lets all make a difference, that is the way things will change, we can all be part of that,
love and light clivex

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If you care about your services, about your future, about your health, about your choices, get involved, https://twitter.com/UP2USP

How many of us moan about services or lack of it, we can all have a say to the right people, your input will make a difference, take the steps and make contact,
clivex

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Loving thoughts and actions are clearly beneficial for our physical and mental health.
Dalai Lama

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Little unusual for me,
going to tell you what my day was like, just for today.... had a lot of pain just for today thought about drinking on it just for today, put some action in went along to a presentation to NHS forum on sexual health in addiction, got so much out of it, not only do i think i learnt something, but like to think i had some input, its action like this that changes things for all of us. put in the action, makes the changes , remember that,
peace love harmony and tolerance clivexx

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well going to share my experiance srength and hope,

Went to the docs today, i have a long term medical condition that causes me a great deal of pain, been put on opiate bassed pain meds, lots of concerns over this, as i have abussed this sort of meds before, after all thats what addicts do!!
Cant tell you how important it is to talk about these things, look and talk to peers that have experiance of this.
Going to mention the fellowships AA CA its so important to me to be a part of, i know that they will pick up if my thinking and using these meds gets out of prescribed limits, put this out on another forum, well two, waiting to be told how it is!! dont underestimate the power of comunication, its there for all of us, use it!!!
peace love harmony and tolerance clivex