Various quotes on the subject of Life
"A true friend will never judge or criticize you, they only assist you in seeing the parts of yourself that you alone cannot see." ~ Chris W Metz
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"The potential seeds of friendship are planted each time two people meet. They sprout through kindness, respect and authenticity and continue to grow by every loving and considerate gesture through time. Their roots grow wide celebrating each others joys and grow deep in sharing each others vulnerability and pain. Once firmly established and nurtured through time, they are not uprooted easily." ~ Chris W Metz
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"There are very few opportunities in life to show someone you really care about them. During times of grief, serious health issues, extreme good fortune or financial calamity, you have the unique and rare opportunity to show someone how much you care. Make no mistake, these are opportunities to show the
authenticity of your friendship, or the extent of your insincerity.” ~ Chris W Metz
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"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~ Kahlil Gilbran
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“From nothing, a man can give what little he has and start the process of multiplying his riches. As he accumulates more, he will realize he can never give it all away as it will always come back to him multiplied.” ~ Chris W Metz
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“Countless wishes come across our radar, if we do not respond to them who will? We have the greatest impact on those around us, we should seek out these opportunities
eagerly. If we deny the request of a friend, neighbor, co-worker or family member and subsequently send a check to another cause outside of our network, then what good is our association within our own sphere? Where is the integrity of our mission to give and nurture within our own relationships?” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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"Generosity is lost on those who only know how to take." ~ Chris W Metz
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"Sincere compliments often build awareness in others until those compliments become an affirmation." ~ Chris W Metz
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“Interpersonal relationships also contain aspects of giving or taking as it relates to energy…Love and positive statements of support, optimism and enthusiasm give out positive energy. defeatism, negativity, gossiping, judgment, fear and hate suck the energy from another.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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"To fulfill the needs of others is to recognize what you already have." ~ Chris W Metz
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“Never underestimate a kindness that is done for someone; rarely will we know the effect we can have on another by a compassionate act. In many cases the long term effects are more profound than we could possibly imagine at the time the kindness was extended.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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“One of the greatest gifts we can bestow upon another is telling them what their good deeds and kindness has meant to us. This type of giving is void of any materialistic substance and requires no physical exchange, and yet aside from love, it represents the most meaningful gift we can give.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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“Our intention for giving should not be out of obligation or reciprocity.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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“There is no substitution for the care and love that goes into a gesture…You can’t expect a result that is greater than the effort. This is true in all of life. To think that our gesture or gift will mean something more than the effort we put into it, is to truly deceive ourselves, and yet this is what many of us do in life. We put forth very little effort expecting something more in return. We cannot feign gratitude and thoughtfulness, it is either a genuine feeling or it is a hollow gesture.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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"God is forever expressing love in creation providing inspiration for anyone who wishes to experience it." ~ Chris W Metz
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“Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.” ~ Frederick Buechner, The Alphabet of Grace
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“Gratitude can magically turn your relationships into joyful and meaningful relationships, no matter what state they are in now. Gratitude can miraculously make you more prosperous so that you have the money you need to do the things you want to do. It will increase your health and bring a level of happiness beyond what you’ve ever felt before. Gratitude will work it’s magic to accelerate your career, increase success, and bring about your dream job or whatever it is you want to do. In fact, whatever it is that you want to be, do or have, gratitude is the way to receive it. The magical power of gratitude turns your life into gold!” ~ Rhonda Byrne
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“Each experience in the abyss contains the great lessons in life. These can only be appreciated by looking back with gratitude on what we have learned from the experience. We must value these lessons as they renew and deepen our faith, strengthen our relationships and allow us to look upon life and the world with a new perspective. When we reflect on the person we are now we must realize we are the result of our trials and tribulations in life. Our character is not
strengthened because of all the experiences when things were normal and uneventful. We will find our character and who we are as a person came about as a result of our lessons in life. We are forged in our moments of challenge and difficulties. If we feel that our life has been nothing but trials and tribulations then we should rejoice in the bounty of lessons learned so far. However, if we continue to experience the same problems over and over again it means that we have not yet learned and appreciated a particular lesson.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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"Gratitude - How likely are we to appreciated what we have already come to expect?" ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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“When we demand things through entitlement, the happiness derived from receiving never occurs. This in turn produces a state of wanting and expecting things without any joy from acquiring them. The true irony of living this way, is appreciation only comes when everything that was taken for granted is gone.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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“If one cannot be thankful for what they have, they will never appreciate more. One of the most fundamental lessons we learn in life is how to be happy. If we think happiness comes from expecting and fulfilling every
material wish, we are not likely to be happy at all. The more we come to expect from people, the less likely we are to receive from them, as entitlement is a negative, self-absorbed, selfish state of mind. Only when we stop expecting things from people, are they able to surprise us with their generosity.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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“In life, we become successful by the efforts and outpouring of support we receive from those around us. There are many paths to prosperity and success, in all cases one should leave evidence of gratitude along the way. Gratitude provides the nourishment and sustenance for the soul to keep walking onward and it provides a roadmap for those who would follow in our footsteps.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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“To find enlightenment we must affirm our belief we are a loving person. What do loving people do? They live in a state of gratitude. How do we feel when we are thankful for everything? We begin to see the magic and wonder in our life, the small blessings along with the large. We cannot fake these types of feelings or attitudes; it would be foolish to think we could fool ourselves. If we affirm to ourselves we are a loving person and then ignore opportunities to express that belief in our lives than the affirmation or belief is hollow.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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“Fill yourself with gratitude and you will never feel lack, fill your heart with love and you leave no room for hate. Unite with everyone by judging no one. Go forward with compassion leaving kindness in your wake. Awake to a higher consciousness and stop asking why. Fill yourself with happiness and you will never need a reason to smile.” ~ Chris W Metz
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Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
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“Love seeks its own and in Gratitude finds a home. In this Gratitude we find the joy in existence, Without it, we only exist.” ~ Chris W Metz
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"If you are not happy with what you have now, you'll never be happier with more." ~ Unknown
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“Let us learn to appreciate fully and often all that we have here and now, lest we will otherwise learn to appreciate it after it’s gone.” ~ Chris W Metz
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"You receive from others based on how much you
appreciate what they have already given you." ~ Chris W Metz
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"Nothing lasts forever, we can either scorn the past or graciously relish the memories." ~ Chris W Metz
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“Gratitude produces a content state through the acknowledgement of all good things in our life. It also has the beneficial effect of combating negative emotions as it is difficult to be grateful and angry or depressed at the same time. When we fill ourselves up with the acknowledgement and recognition of all that is good, we allow the feeling of abundance to overflow into our lives. This becomes the conduit for all good things to affect the world around us. By sharing our joy and happiness, instead of anger and resentment common with a scarcity state of mind, we attract to ourselves more positive things in life. This self-reinforcing cycle allows us to focus on what makes us happy and that which we focus on, we
get more of.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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It doesn’t matter if the glass is half empty or half full. Be thankful you have a glass and grateful there’s something in it. ~ Unknown
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“At times we may find it difficult to rid ourselves of pessimism. By feeling this way our beliefs create the conditions to receive more of the same. The best technique for shifting doubt and pessimism to optimism is through gratitude, it washes away negativity by displacing it. This is best illustrated by the water the flowers not the weeds philosophy. To water those aspects of life we are thankful for assist their growth going forward. Withholding the water of thought and recognition from the undesirable aspects of life allows them to wither away and die. Searching life for all that is good effectively dispels the dark emotions. We should always be thankful for many things such as family, friends, shelter, food, etc.. When all else fails we can always be thankful for the wonderful gift of life and the many experiences it provides.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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“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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