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Envision the good you can do
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Boldly take hold of the opportunity that is now. Put yourself out there, take the initiative, act on your ideas, follow through with your plans.

Create value, meaning, and substance from the time that passes. Be willing to get your hands dirty and eager to get your feet wet.

Use the moment at hand to give your active support to what you care about. Feel the power and fulfillment that come from focusing on purpose rather than on mere distractions.

Right in front of you is a stretch of time in which you can make a difference. Surrounding you are possibilities, resources, ideas, and other people who also seek fulfillment.

See the potential for goodness, progress, enrichment, and work to bring that potential to life. Feel the satisfaction that comes from giving your best.

Envision the good you can do with now. Then make the effort to make the vision real.

— Ralph Marston

Filled with appreciation
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Allow waves to crash upon the shore. Allow people to be who they are, as they are, including you.

Allow clouds to stream across the sky. Allow the rising sun to push darkness away.

Right now encompasses everything there is. And here you are, able to know it, to live it, and to even improve upon it.

With gratitude for all of existence, you can let life flow. With purpose and love, you can add your own warmth and goodness to that flow.

Reflect for a little while on the limitless nature of reality and possibility. Remind yourself it’s a realm in which you have the good fortune to act as a positive force.

Allow the noise, confusion and anxiety to fade completely away. Fill yourself with appreciation for the immense potential of right now and live it in the best way you can imagine.

— Ralph Marston

Living and giving happiness
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No situation on its own will make you happy. Right now there are people living in the most ideal situations you can imagine, who are miserable.

It’s great when you can make improvements in your life and in your world. Take care, though, not to pin all your hopes on anticipated improvements that may or may not materialize.

If you envision your happiness as existing only in some other place or time or circumstance, it will always elude you. To experience happiness, stop chasing it and start living it.

Happiness comes not from what you’re looking at, but from what you choose to see. See it, be it, live it where you are, doing what you’re doing, in the world as it is.

Embrace the reality of right now. Allow yourself to recognize the beauty, the possibilities, the opportunities for living and giving happiness.

Rather than imposing conditions on happiness, let it be. Let it be now, let it be here, let it be you.

— Ralph Marston

Live with abundance
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This is a time for you to live with abundance. Yours is a life to be filled with abundance.

Pick a possibility and follow it, persist with it, fulfill it. Then select another, and another, bringing a continual flow of richness to life.

Living with abundance doesn’t mean being wasteful, selfish, careless, or frivolous. A life of abundance is a life of positive purpose, joy, energy, achievement, and generosity.

Abundance is the nature of the universe. Choose to resonate with that reality and make abundance the nature of your existence.

A new day dawns, a fresh moment comes, ready to fill with your own flavor of abundance. As you dance with what’s possible those possibilities continue to grow.

Live with abundance, for it is what you do best. Live with abundance and make it ever more present throughout all of life.

— Ralph Marston