T.F. Hodge Quotes: 77

• To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.

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• Head up, heart open. To better days!

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• Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.

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• The sky is not my limit...I am.

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• Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity.

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• Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease.

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• Elevate your inside game. A negative attitude is below the horizon...a place for lonesome hearts.

  From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

• Betrayal and dishonor is usually an inside job. Keep it 'sucka-free', loved one!

  From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

• Don't wish...DO! Don't try...BE! Don't think...KNOW! And above all: Bless a stranger with a small, yet powerful, random act of kindness. You feel me?

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• The path of peace is not a passive journey. It takes incredible strength not to open a can of 'whoop-ass', justifiably, when ones button is pushed.

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• Solitude is the house of peace.

  From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

• Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience.

  From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

• To witness miracles unfold in your experience, count your blessings and be thankful. Perceived small blessings accumulate to be the most powerful.

  From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

• Having beef with someone is unnecessary and avoidable. Whatever the issue, if not positive, it is an opportunity to cut the excess fat from an unhealthy dietary network. Simply excuse yourself from the table of negativity and lean forward in peace.

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• What you are, and who you are should provide greater clarity about where you have been and where you are headed. Although one distinguishes spiritual from physical nature, the ultimate unification of the two is the consequence of the struggle for internal, external and eternal – peace.

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• Never let haters 'still' your flow. They can only do so with your permission.

  From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

• Tough love may be tough to give, but it is a necessity of life and assurance of positive growth.

  From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

• Love spiritually, not strategically.

  From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

• What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say.

  From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

• Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity.

  From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

• The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth preserving, and is meaningful, nourish it and have no regrets. Ultimately, this is true living and love of self...from within.

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• You cannot build a dream on a foundation of sand. To weather the test of storms, it must be cemented in the heart with uncompromising conviction.

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• The ego lusts for satisfaction. It has a prideful ferocious appetite for its version of "truth". It is the most challenging aspect to conquer; the cause for most spiritual turmoil.

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• Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule of hard knocks. Though potential influence of either extreme is inevitable, our actions bear witness to the one we embrace.

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• One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments...is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an original state of being and awareness. This is 'dis-ease.

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• There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive illusion. Choose wisely at each fork in the road.

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• Fully inhale your dream and completely exhale manifestation of it.

  From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

• Life is short only if you are not living your purpose.

  From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

• The Motto of Champions: If you are hurt, you can suck it up and press on. If injured, you can rebound and return bigger and better...and continue to inspire!

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• Some lean back. But those who lean forward are poised to cross the finish-line, first!

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• Do not hate the player, nor the game...rule it!

  From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

• This path was not that of my conscious choosing. But after persistent subconscious confrontation, I have finally embraced what is, 'souly' for me...and I am thankful, when called upon, to be able to share and give to those who seek their own way of the path.

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• What are you prepared to give for your dream? If it is not everything...stop pipe dreaming.

  From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

• Freedom is realizing you have a choice.

  From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

• A King and Queen cannot support a crown with eyes looking down. Their universe expands as far as you can see.

  From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

• If you wish to transform, pretend this day until it is so.

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• Success is not determined by the outcome. The outcome is the result of having already decided that you are successful to begin with.

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• In the game of life, we all receive a set of variables and limitations in the field of play. We can either focus on the lack thereof or empower ourselves to create better realities with the pieces we play the game with.

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• Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.

  From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

• If the thought inspires you, and it feels good and right...it is yours, alone, to exercise. So get right on it!

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• Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power.

  From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

• Do not only think about it, but feel about it, also, before taking appropriate action.

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• Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress.

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• What surrounds us is what is within us.

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• When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don't trip...allowing them to fester. These are random tests of your conviction and determination. Large or small, your reaction to such intrusions is a defining moment for which no one else, but you, can mitigate.

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• While fear depletes power, faith gives wings for the soul’s elevation.

  From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

• The energy it took to exit mother’s womb is the same force required to manifest a dream...a different kind of struggle. Push, push, push!

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• From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.

  From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

• Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deep...slow...breathing. Of this, the natural law of self-preservation demands.

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• You do not get what you wish for, unless it be known to the source of your desire.

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