Peter McWilliams Quotes

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• Nothing adventured, nothing attained
• Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates…
• The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.
• Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
• I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two halves have little choice but…
• Positive thoughts: joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness, have positive results: enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love....
• Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most…
• Send the light of your own loving ahead of you. When you get there, the loving will have prepared a place for you. Be kind,…
• If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.
• To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real - a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies.…
• If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
• Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".
• The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.
• To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
• All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all of the things that you shouldn't have done, accept them.…
• The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.
• The most recent studies, . . . both behavioral and biological, indicate one's sexual orientation is genetic, something one is born with.
• For the most part, most people most often choose comfort - the familiar, the time-honored, the well-worn but well-known. After a lifetime of choosing between…
• Our thoughts create our reality-not instantly, necessarily, as in "Poof! There it is" - but eventually. Where we put our focus - our inner and…
• Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, most people give it entirely too often. Our word is a precious commodity…

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