Attributed to Brian Dyson, CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises, from a university commencement address.

Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them work, family, health, friends and spirit, and you’re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that “work” is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls – family, health, friends & spirit–are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same.

You must understand that and strive for balance in your life. How?

Don’t undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.

Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you.

Don’t take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would your life, for without them, life is meaningless.

Don’t let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live ALL the days of your life.

Don’t give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.

Don’t be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect. It is this fragile thread that binds us to each other.

Don’t be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.

Don’t shut love out of your life by saying it’s impossible to find. The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

Don’t run through life so fast that you forget not only where you’ve been, but also where you are going.

Don’t forget that a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.

Don’t be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily.

Don’t use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved.
Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift. That’s why we call it “the present.”
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This poem by an unknown author is an extremely simple (although not easy!) guide for achieving happiness in this lifetime!

Everybody Knows,
You can’t be all things to all people.
You can’t do all things at once.
You can’t do all things equally well.
You can’t do all things better than everyone else.
Your humanity is showing just like everyone else’s.

So,
You have to find out who you are, and be that.
You have to decide what comes first, and do that.
You have to discover your strengths, and use them.
You have to learn not to compete with others, because no one else is in the contest of “being you”.

Then,
You will have learned to accept your own uniqueness.
You will have learned to set priorities and make decisions.
You will have learned to live with your limitations.
You will have learned to give yourself the respect that is due.
And you’ll be a most vital mortal.

Dare to Believe,
That you are a wonderful, unique person.
That you are a once-in all history event.
That it’s more than a right, it’s your duty, to be who you are.
That life is not a problem to solve, but a gift to cherish.
And you’ll be able to stay one up on what used to get you down.

• The most good you can do for the world is to become a wizard!

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

• Seekers are never lost, because spirit is always beckoning to them.
• Seekers are offered clues all the time from the world of spirit. Ordinary people call these clues coincidences.
• To a wizard there are no coincidences. Every event exists to expose another layer of the soul.
• Spirit wants to meet you. To accept its invitation, you must be undefended.
• When you seek, begin in your heart. The cave of the heart is the home of truth.

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

• Beyond waking, dreaing and sleeping, there are infinite realms of consciousness.
• A wizard exists simultaneously in all times.
• A wizard sees infinite versions of every event.
• The straight lines of time are actually threads of a web extending to infinity

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

• Wizards do not grieve over loss, because the only thing that can be lost is the unreal.
• Lose everything, and the real will still remain.
• In the rubble of devestation and disaster are buried hidden treasures.
• When you look in the ashes, look well .

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

• The reality you experience is a mirror image of your expectations.
• If you project the same images every day, your reality will be the same every day.
• When attention is perfect, it creates order and clarity out of chaos and confusion.

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

• Wisdom is alive and therefore always unpredictable.
• Order is another face of chaos; chaos is another face of order.
• The uncertainty you feel inside is the doorway to wisdom.
• Insecurity will always be with the quester — he continues to stumble but never falls.
• Human order is made of rules. The wizard’s order has no rules — it flows with the natur of life.

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

• The wizard is the teacher of alchemy. Alchemy is transformation.
• Through alchemy you begin the quest for perfection.
• You are the world. When you transform yourself, the world you live in will also be transformed.
• The goals of the quest — heroism, hope, grace, and love — are the inheritance of the timeless.
• To summon a wizard’s help, you must be strong in truth, not stubborn in judgment.

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

• We all have a shadow self that is part of our total reality.
• The shadow is not here to hurt you but to point out where you are incomplete.
• When the shadow is embraced, it can be healed. When it is healed, it turns into love.
• When you can live with all your opposite qualities, you will be living your total self as the wizard.

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