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Things do not happen to us… They happen because of us ↗

— Gary Hopkins

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Removing toxicity from your life is essential to maintaining a peaceful state of mind and an overall quality of health. This purging can and should include any detrimental habits, including negative, controlling, and abusive people. Once you start living an empowered lifestyle that supports your own higher balance, you will find it to be an easy transition from the negative to the positive in every aspect of your life ↗

— Gary Hopkins

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Finding the calmness or serenity in oneself effectively diffuses the judgments of others ↗

— Gary Hopkins

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Enlightenment begins by getting acquainted with your inner voice or your higher self. The dialogue experienced in this process leads to a more comfortable, better-focused lifestyle. Over time this relationship blossoms into a higher and more efficient form of Self-Management. With practice, thoughts, feelings, emotions, and physical manifestations merge into a more harmonious state. This state of being allows for a softer, more gentile approach to life that not only benefits the individual, but the community as a whole ↗

— Gary Hopkins

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To be whole simply requires paying attention to oneself ↗

— Gary Hopkins

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Inner Awareness is often gained in incremental steps at first. The distraction of the perceived physical world dictates this. However, once one realizes this process, a new skill in “awareness recognition” emerges… and like riding a bike for the first time, one peddles faster, gaining confidence in their new skill, a skill that will take them much farther than any distraction previously experienced ↗

— Gary Hopkins

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Never put yourself in a position to be made an example of. ↗

— Gary Hopkins

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There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks or bring about your own birth. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

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Enlightenment is not about cocooning one’s self, but about integrating more fully with both your self and life. ↗

— Jay Woodman

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Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

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