• Wizards do not believe in death. In the light of awareness, everything is alive.
• There are no beginnings or endings. To the wizard these are only mental constructs.
• To be most fully alive, you have to be dead to the past.
• Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.

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Source:
The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want by Deepak Chopra

• Who am I? is the only question worth asking and the only one never answered.
• It is your destiny to play an infinity of roles, but these roles are not yourself.
• The spirit is non-local, but it leaves behind a fingerprint, which we call the body.
• A wizard does not believe himself to be a local event dreaming of a larger world. A wizard is a world dreaming of local events.

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Source:
The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want by Deepak Chopra

• The wizard watches the world come and go, but his sould dwells in realms of light.
• The scenery changes. The seer remains the same.
• Your body is just a place your memories call home.

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Source:
The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want by Deepak Chopra

• The return of the magical can only happen with the return to innocence.
• The essence of the wizard is transformation

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Source:
The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want by Deepak Chopra

• A wizard exists in all of us. The wizard sees and know everything.
• The wizard is beyond opposites of light and dark, good and evil, pleasure and pain.
• Everything the wizard see has its roots in the unseen world.
• Nature reflects the moods of the wizard.
• The body and the mind may sleep. but the wizard is always awake.
• The wizard possesses the secret of immortality.

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Source:
The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want by Deepak Chopra

The closer I get to achieving my goal, the stronger the forces pulling me away become, the louder my brain protests, and the more urgently I want to revert to old patterns.

If I feel cold feet, guilt, shame, fatigue, doubt my abilities, recall the pain of old failures, worry I made the wrong decision,

It is always interesting to me how a pattern develops with my clients. Lately, I’ve been having a lot of conversions about Best Self vs Best Life. While I always talk about Wholeness as the ability to be your best self and live your best life (and still feel strongly about that), I think that I may be giving the wrong impression.

It is becoming increasingly clear that living your best life is an OUTCOME of being your best self. When we are committed to becoming the best person we can be, the elements of our best life seem to fall into place. In addition, be careful not to confuse your “best” self with your “biggest” self. Sometimes our potential seems very scary, but I find that putting focus back on becoming our best self puts things in perspective.

You might want to make a list of what your best self looks life. Remember, when defining our best self we are talking about the qualities we want to exhibit and the way we want to live our life. In fact, this document will be a great starting point for creating a personal Mission Statement. [For an example, check out my personal mission statement, particularly the Principles.]

A clarifying statement that appears to be very effective for everyone who has worked with it is “I now choose to use all my energy to create my best self”. Take a deep breath, say it out loud, notice your first thought or feeling. Repeat the process and notice how the weight of the world seems to fall off your shoulders!

We talk a lot about abundance and allowing it into our life. Because of that it’s important that we are all referring to the same thing. Here are some of the points I think are true about abundance:

• It’s a profusion, a great plenty, an overflowing quantity. It’s the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply
• It’s available for each and every one of us. This means that even if I have it, you can too. And vice versa.
• There is enough for all of us to have more than we need. There is also enough for us to have all we want.
• You must believe in abundance before you can attract it into your life.
• No matter what you think you’ve done in the past, you deserve to experience it.

To help allow abundance into YOUR life, use the following statement, repeating it as often and as many times as needed:

I deserve nothing but the best and I allow myself to have it.

I believe that one of my gifts is to distill information down to its simplest form to help make that information understandable by more people.   It’s not just that I ‘do’ it, but that I recognize and admire anyone or any body of work that also ‘keeps it simple!’ 

While I have developed my own blueprint for living your best life with the concept of wholeness and my 5 steps and 8 elements, I don’t think anyone has done the job better than Don Miguel Ruiz in his Four Agreements. While the book is helpful and further elaborates on each of the agreements, it is the agreements themselves, in their eloquent simplicity, that move me (and make me wish I’d written them!).

Of all the many self-development books and programs I’ve gone through over the years, today, the only thing I have posted on the wall by my desk is one-pager I created a long time ago that lists the Four Agreements.  My clients will recognize them as I often end up reading one or another of the agreements to help explain a concept or highlight an issue.

In case you have forgotten them, or aren’t familiar with them, here they are.

THE FOUR AGREEMENTS
by Don Miguel Ruiz

BE IMPECCABLE WITH YOUR WORD
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

DON’T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY
Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

DON’T MAKE ASSUMPTIONS
Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstanding, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Can’t improve on that!

If you’d like a copy of the one-page summary to hang on YOUR wall, you can print out the following pdf file:
4Agreements.pdf

I believe that words ARE important, that the clearer and more specific we are in our choice of words, the more accurate our manifestations and awarenesses.  So often, we use words or expressions interchangably when actually they are not!

For example, there is a large difference between being grateful and being in gratitude.  For me, the difference is primarily one of freedom.  When I am being grateful, I am consciously grateful for a specific action on someone’s part that has in some way made my life easier.  There is a deep sense of being “beholden” to the other person.  Whether the action was given freely or not, I feel like I “owe” the person something specific in return. The  very word ‘beholden” means to “be morally obligated to someone”, to have the action “hold” us in gratitude.

To be in gratitude, on the other hand, is liberating. It’s a sense of gratitude, freely given and acknowledged, not so much for a specific event as for a particular person or life situation. When we are “in” gratitude, the feeling is joyous. We feel loved and supported, but in no way obliged to repay that which we are grateful for.  Quite an exhilirating feeling!!

I should also mention here that I believe we create everything in our life, which means that regardless of the intent of the other person, it is up to US to determine our response.  It is very easy to return the favor or acknowledge the giver while being “in” gratitude instead of ‘grateful’.  Feeling grateful can kill the soul; Being in gratitude is liberating!

Regards!!