Various quotes on the destructive and painful nature of Judgment.
“When someone fails to count their blessings, counting only the perceived negatives in their life, they rob themselves and others of great joy and contentment with their ungrateful nature.” ~ Chris W Metz
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“Just as humans continue to give where their gifts are appreciated, why should the life force be any different?” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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“Gratitude produces synergistic relationships which act as a conduit from which all good things flow.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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“Growth can be achieved by recognizing and overcoming our fears, eventually becoming fearless. It requires work and dedication at first, then a faith you can cross the abyss through this we gain confidence. If we are lucky, we acquire the understanding the abyss is our own creation. It is very easy during life to get caught up in the typical aspirations involving success and material goods. During our quest of this objective we rarely if at all take the time to reflect on what is truly important. Sometimes it takes a fall into the abyss to reflect on our life. I would argue it is only our encounters with the abyss that make us reflect at all.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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“Life is similar to running a business, if one is only interested in surviving they make no attempt to grow or risk for the sake of growth or a vision. If a person’s vision is to survive, won't that person make choices far different than one who's mission is to grow, to leave behind a legacy, teach, help, or to make this world a better place for having been alive? By having a vision for our life that stands for something greater than ourselves and greater than our current condition, we are motivated to cross the abyss. All of life is hardwired in this way, yet through our own evolution and the creation of the ego we remain too focused on survival thereby creating a conflict that hinders our growth. In business there are only two states of being; growing/improving or declining/decaying. Moving through life we find the same thing.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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"Many would call the desire for predictability as a comfort zone. Staying within that zone eliminates surprises and minimizes fear, but unfortunately also limits our experience in life. To experience expanded levels of consciousness, we must be
willing to go outside of our comfort zone. Real growth or accelerated growth comes from pushing ourselves beyond our known limitations. Growth can be likened to a plant that seeks to reach the light of the sky, it can only produce more growth above soil consciousness) when it has pushed its roots deeper into the ground of knowledge and self-awareness. This analogy is fitting because the roots of a plant cannot see where it is pushing. It does not know when it may come upon an obstacle or an area of fertile ground. Faith is similar to this because one cannot always know the outcome of a particular action, at least not at this stage of our evolution." ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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"We expand our knowledge by the acquisition of new information which either supplants or adds to previous knowledge. Personal growth or the expansion of consciousness however is oftentimes the result of an experience with
hardship, significant emotional events, or paradigm shifts. These experiences force us to look within ourselves examining why we have perceived things a certain way, thus we begin to see what we are made of. The keystone to growth and expanded consciousness events, is a change in perspective or perception. This fact alone should tell us it is our own current beliefs and convictions that prevent us from monumental leaps in growth and consciousness. By holding on to false beliefs we prevent ourselves from awareness outside of those beliefs. We alone hold the key to an enlightened state, yet we search for it outside ourselves. It is growth and learning that become the catalyst for these sudden changes in thinking patterns and perceptions." ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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“As we examine our life we find there are many activities which do not provide any nourishment to our growth. All growth requires the shedding of the old to experience the new. We too must discard old ideas and thought patterns in order to experience new ways of interpreting our world. In this process we clear the way for new experiences and beliefs. All throughout nature there are various examples of this from the skin cells we shed every minute to the molting of a snake’s outer skin to the complete transformation of caterpillar into a butterfly. What if our entire physical life experience was this same type of molting process, whereby we come into this realm of physical existence to grow and eventually shed our body? To experience a lifetime of growth requires that we continually shed old ideas, old beliefs, old habits and old thought processes in order to experience the new.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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“The pinnacle of your own personal power is reached when you accept responsibility for everything in your life up to that moment.” ~ Chris W Metz
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“It is surely easier and safer to never take risk in life and therefore avoid the abyss. The irony is in doing so we create the ultimate abyss in which we spend our lives. Any species which does not experiment, take risk, adapt and grow, ultimately grows stagnant or extinct. All of nature seeks expression of this life force. It is evident in life all around us as it has taken up domain in every place on earth; it has exploited every possible niche it can find. This is the spirit of life. Life is driven to exploit every conceivable strength. In the human species, it is the mind and our consciousness which allows us to connect to the greater consciousness that exist.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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"The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness." ~ Lao Tzu
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"Happiness Comes not from having, but from feeling." ~ Chris W Metz
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"Sometimes all it takes to be happy is just a little gratitude." ~ Chris W Metz
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"Happiness is not created, it is discovered." ~ Chris W Metz
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"The room for joy gets cramped when it is stuffed with too many possessions." ~ Chris W Metz
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"Water the flowers not the weeds, a simple enough desire, yet we plant the anger and plant the guilt and continue watering thoughts. If we could remember that once planted, to withhold the water, they too would wither and die. Watering with love, the flowers would be all we see." ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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“Never allow yourself to need anything so much, that without it, your life is miserable.” ~ Chris W Metz
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"When we predicate our happiness on another person behaving a certain way, then we are always at risk of being unhappy. When we make the decision to be happy, we no longer allow any external factor to decide our own happiness. We can never control the behavior of others and so if we wish to maintain our own happiness, we have three choices in every relationship: love unconditionally; have compassion for them; or expel them from our life." ~ Chris W Metz
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"Seek not your happiness in someone else, seek only to share your happiness with someone else." ~ Chris W Metz
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"Be careful in believing happiness comes with a future event, a thing obtained or within another person. These things are all outside yourself and therefore will never be within yourself. Happiness is a state cultivated from within. As long as your happiness depends on something outside yourself then you can never be truly happy. The only way to become something is to be something; there is no other way to possess it other than within yourself." ~ Chris W Metz
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Uploaded | February 3, 2018 |
"The road of Judgment, Entitlement, Anger and Hate will never lead to a happy life." ~ Chris W Metz
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“It is not difficult to see when we concentrate on the bad in our lives we tend to nothing but weeds. This eventually chokes out everything else. To see the beauty in life we must spread seeds of love, compassion, friendship and helpfulness always cultivating and nurturing their growth. nurturing these seeds they become the flowers in our life kept healthy by good memories and a focus on all that is good in our life. Those who continuously cultivate the bad memories of their life by reliving them, talking about them and sharing them often with others, are tending to their weeds.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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Uploaded | January 13, 2018 |
“Happiness is a state of mind, it will never be found outside yourself.” ~ Chris W Metz
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Uploaded | February 28, 2018 |
"You'll never hear a person blaming someone else for their happiness." ~ Chris W Metz
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"Next time you accuse someone of stealing your happiness, you should understand it was an inside job." ~ Chris W Metz
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“Lasting happiness does not come from the possession of a gift. Happiness comes from the memory of the kindness that inspired it.” ~ Chris W Metz
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“When we are content with all we presently have, we possess the basis for experiencing true happiness. Many get caught up in the trap of always needing more, the ‘if only I had X’ then I would be happy syndrome. If only I had more money, a better job, a better spouse, a nicer car, etc.. We can never be truly happy unless we celebrate and relish what we already have on a daily basis. Happiness and contentment comes from within and can never be found outside ourselves. Those that possess genuine happiness remain in such a state regardless of their current circumstances or the ebb and flow of material possessions. Joy is a state of consciousness arrived at when we are thankful for what we already have.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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“Gratitude comes from love, joy and happiness, these are not physical things, they represent ideas or thoughts, and unlike a material item which is decreased by giving it away, thoughts and ideas are increased by extension or sharing. The person receiving the idea experiences more by receiving it and the idea itself is reinforced within the giver thereby increasing it as we give it away. Happiness and love like many things can be shared and given away and will forever increase upon itself.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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“We fail to comprehend the effect we have on other people by being happy. Being in the presence of happy people our own happiness tends to increase. The opposite is true for being around unhappy, ungrateful people, as they tend to bring us down. If we are truly happy and do not let other people effect our decision for happiness, then we become the positive force. This will start to reverse the mood and outlook of those that are in a negative state.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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“If we examine the differences between the pessimist and the optimist, we find the pessimist looks upon misfortune as usual and customary. They regard luck as temporary and abnormal, searching always for the next calamity. The optimist regards misfortune as unusual and temporary expecting their good luck to continue. Even the optimist will experience circumstances inducing negativity, however by focusing on the positive aspects of life, negative feelings will be fleeting.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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"You can never be truly happy when you judge others. To judge others is to live with constant pain and no one suffers the pain of judgment other than yourself." ~ Chris W Metz
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“Stop and look around, what do you see? If everything you look at is judged or analyzed in some way, then you are unable to truly see what you are looking at.” ~ Chris W Metz
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“There is beauty in all things; it is only our judgment of them that hides what they would otherwise give to us.” ~ Chris W Metz
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"In the emptiness of space, there is no up, down, forward or backward. There is no east or west. In this same emptiness it could be said there is no right, wrong, good or bad. These are all creations of mind that give rise to distinctions and judgment, they are in essence ideas. We create these distinctions and ideas in our own mind and then believe them to be true. Only love is real." ~ Chris W Metz
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“Why do we hate another person? Can we not look and understand their truths are different from our own? Is it reasonable to expect others to know our truths and follow them just because we believe in them? Does not everyone have a god given right to their own free will?” ~ Chris W Metz
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“It is our judgment of things that hides their beauty. Every moment of every day is beautiful, it is only our judgment that prevents us from seeing this is so.” ~ Chris W Metz
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“If we must judge another, let us at least judge them by their most loving, noble and courageous acts, rather than summing them up based on their weakest and most frail moments.” ~ Chris W Metz
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“Judge not, for what you see are perceptions of yourself.” ~ Chris W Metz
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“Why should we be enslaved, dying the slow death of our past, when the birth of our becoming is available to us at any moment.” ~ Chris W Metz
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"As a white canvas is undefined until it is painted upon, so too is each moment of our life undefined. The very act of bringing meaning to any moment is what defines it for us. We define whether each moment of now is stressful, happy, sad or loving. No one can define that moment for us, we alone paint all the meaning it will ever have." ~ Chris W Metz
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