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Let it go, let it be
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Maybe it’s okay when you don’t get your way. Maybe you can live with not having everything you want the moment you want it.

In fact, perhaps that’s a good thing. Perhaps your life would benefit greatly if you could take a step back from yourself and your desires.

Life becomes exhausting when it’s all the time all about you. How sweet it can be to connect with the beauty, the wonder, the mystery of not knowing, the power of detachment.

Your purpose, your goals, your objectives are important. Yet that’s no reason to wind yourself to the breaking point with anxiety.

You’re skilled at evaluating what happens and responding effectively to it, and that’s good. Just keep in mind that you also have the option to let it go, to let it be.

Live your life, live it well, with purpose, with dreams, with achievement. And magnify the value of all you do by being able, and willing, to let it go, to let it be.

— Ralph Marston

Love endures
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Love is not just a momentary good feeling. Love persists, perseveres, endures.

Love gives, and then gives more, and keeps on giving. Love gains its nourishment by giving its nourishment.

Love is not satisfied just to be. Love is eager to grow, to deepen, to find new expression, to offer new value.

Love generates energy and enthusiasm, patience, kindness, understanding and connection. Love eagerly seeks to be the source of new goodness in life.

Love challenges you to live at your highest level. Love connects you with the power and purpose to do so.

Give energy, attention and presence to love. And let love enhance all you do.

— Ralph Marston

Place of power
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Are you inside the problem, or are you outside it? The answer can be, both.

Physically, financially, socially, you’re inside the problem. Mentally, spiritually, you can situate yourself outside of it.

You can put yourself in a more objective, creative, effective position. You can visualize your way to a perspective that empowers you to successfully handle the problem.

You can think and feel what you choose, without limits, simply by choosing. You never have to be stuck or stymied by any situation.

Put yourself in a place of power. Put yourself in a place where you can transform problems into opportunities, disappointments into determination.

Using the power of your mind and spirit, make your perspective bigger and higher than any problem you encounter. With that perspective, you can find and follow a positive way forward.

— Ralph Marston

The magic
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See the magic. Be the magic.

On Wednesday evening, as the last of daylight fades from the sky, life is magical. Saturday morning, as a child runs through the playground to his favorite slide, life is magical.

Live the magic. Give the magic.

In the physical forces holding matter together, pulses the magic that is existence. In feelings and longings impossible to explain, the magic of life streams ever forward.

A simple, ordinary moment can feel as wondrous as anything has ever been. Because it is.

The magic is in you, comes through you, gaining new substance and meaning in all you do with it. Feel the magic in every moment, and live true to its highest promise.

— Ralph Marston