Michael Elmore-Meegan Quotes

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Anxiety is often related to having to perform and act an acceptable role in order to be admitted into relationships.

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We know how it feels to be in the wrong and have someone shout at us or frown and walk past, we feel dreadful. We try to be friendly but so often it turns into a strained smile as someone replies curtly and asks what we want.

Michael Elmore-Meegan
To be full of things is to be empty of what matters. To be empty of things is to be full of freedom.

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All life, every living thing is a word for God in His mystery.

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It is in crisis we find ourselves, so when we are broken then this light is nearest to us.

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The deepest and most enduring thirst common to us all is the desire for love and happiness. You and I spend a great part of our lives struggling towards self-fulfilment and joy, while at the same time we are very occupied in the daily responsibilities to our families, our work, the countless little things that absorb our time.

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Ulcers, high blood pressure and heart attacks, insomnia and depression, all stem from trying to do more than we can in a situation that has lost its humanity.

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Even if we were offered everything that exists, it is nothing compared to the freedom and power of being loved

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God is at home and is content, it is we who are looking and are not at one in ourselves.

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We want to be good, but it's difficult to know a safe place to start. We want to reach out our hand in friendship, but we don't want it bitten off.

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If someone humiliates and hurts us, it is difficult to give them a second chance and turn the other cheek. They might just take another swing at us, we are not ready for that kind of abuse. Who needs it?

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You may call God truth, you may call God hope. But the best name for God is love.

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We have all, at one time or another, been used, or have experienced someone being unfair to us.

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All our emotional scars and mental stress come from the pain of being fully accepted and cherished in ourselves.

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The best thing you can say is the thing that you have not uttered.

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If you only utter a single prayer in this life let it be Thanks, with all your heart

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One one thing is expect of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself and love with all your being and all your light without stopping.

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Your energy is powered by your thoughts, negative thoughts drain you, loving thoughts fill you with love

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The most important language of personal joy is the often complex linguistics of silence

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If you really want to know who your friends are, see you stands by you in a storm

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Do exactly what you would do if you felt most loved and cherished.

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If a young mother has a job as a secretary in a company trying to cut expenses, where they start giving her the work of two secretaries and making extra demands on her, she will do all she can to please her employers. In fact, they are causing her to worry, hurry to work and rush home late to her expectant family. Thus, pressure and demands in a business setting lead to anxiety and tension at home. This is what begins to happen in our civilization when we put profit before people, and getting work done before the feelings of those we work with.

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In order to create and to heal, to do and to serve,.. to act we need detachment.

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When we feel overwhelmed by all the suffering in the world, or just drained by the stress of the day, do this. Close your eyes, breathe deeply, and know that the very breath you are taking is the same miracle of life that pervades all creation. He who gives you this breath, despite your anxieties, fears and pain, knows you. He knows you better than you will ever understand yourself. Breathe in, breathe out. You are experiencing the miracle. The most amazing miracle of all. The gift of life. All things will find harmony in this knowing, in this, is the whisper of not only all creation, but of the Creator.

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The outward efforts will never be insignificant if the inner light is great.

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Every now and then its good to step back a little. When we let go a little and remove ourselves from the drama, we can see more clearly. So often we are caught up in the stress we fail to see what triggers our worries. When we are still and put distance between our problems we often discover the solutions

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When you are defeated it is your own attitude that is wrong.

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Because of the distrust that has grown from our experience, we are very careful whom we welcome. We are selective in our companions, we look suspiciously those who sit beside us in a bar and start talking to us: is he crazy? What's he up to? we wonder. The city becomes a desert. With groups of friends who are nobody else's friends. As Emily Dickinson, the reclusive poet, once wrote: The soul selects its own society, then shuts the door.

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The price of doing nothing is far greater than the cost of error.

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Remind yourself of your vision, keep your hopes close yo your heart, be passionate about them and always, always always be true to them

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