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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The Joy in Embracing Everything

If you are present in this moment, you are successful…right now, this moment….this is where we are meant to be.

All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.

~ Malala Yousafzai

The true antidote of greed is contentment.

~ Dalai Lama

Life’s most urgent question is, what are you doing for others?

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Prayer is when you speak to Spirit. Meditation is when you listen.

~Unknown

Opportunities abound in bad times as well as good times. In fact, the opportunities are often greater when the conventional wisdom is that everything is going into the toilet.

~ Tim Ferriss, The Four Hour Work Week

Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

~ Tim Ferriss, The Four Hour Work Week

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear.

~ Tim Ferriss, The Four Hour Work Week

Good relationships don’t just happen. They take time, patience, and two people who truly want to be together.

~ Unknown

The houses people live in reflect their opinions of themselves.

Circumstances may change, but the urge to control and dominate takes on different forms.

Are you humble enough to be a servant?

Too many need power and authority to give meaning to their work.

Things that are of value are usually out of the ordinary. Same with ideas.

Where you want to find love and acceptance you may have to first show love and acceptance, because love can be returned only when it is given.

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

  Photograph of actor/model Quinn Tu taken by Danielle Lussier of Lucid Practice

The simplicity of life reflects what we possess inside.

“May we live like a lotus, at home in muddy water.”

Photograph by Danielle Lussier of Lucid Practice

Works of art that merely evoke admiration rarely stimulate the mind and have little effect on behavior.

Being conscious of our success is not important. The left hand shouldn’t know what the right hand is doing. That can lead to vanity.

The beauty of nature is endless in its fascination.

You can detach yourself from the things you were taught to value. Most “things” do not give us peace and satisfaction.

Try walking through life as if material things are worthless.

Two Weeks of Quotes and Questions that will Help you Think Deeply

Over the next two weeks, most of the quotes you will see on Lucid Practice each morning will be from Joshua A Parable for Today. Paz and I recently read this book with friends/members of the Lucid Practice Community. In a previous post, Paz shared our book group’s thoughts and discussion which you can view here: Joshua A […]

“Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”

Photograph by Danielle Lussier

Enjoy all the beautiful things that belong to God, like the sunshine and the sky. You don’t have to posses them to enjoy them.

“Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice.”

Photograph by Danielle Lussier of Lucid Practice

Appreciate the beauty of a soul in a humble person who has no other obvious talent than the humility to stand in awe of the gifts God has given to others.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”

~ George Washington

My alma mater was books at a good library…I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

~ Malcolm X

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can”

~ John Wesley

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

~ St. Augustine

Robert Adams on Perfection

Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should. There are no mistakes anywhere, at any time. What appears to be wrong is simply your own false imagination. Perfection knows nothing about wrong and right, good and bad, happy and sad. It knows only itself as Perfection. […]

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

~ Wayne Dyer

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

~ Dalai Lama

The impossible is often the untried. ~ Jim Goodwin

~ Jim Goodwin  

The earth has music for those who listen.

~George Santayana

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

~ Steve Jobs

When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is (Steve Jobs Quote)

“When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited […]