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“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. James Thurber”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own. Ben Sweetland”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“Abundance Prayer   When I am afraid, I ask myself: How can I give more to life? When I am tangled in past regrets or frightening stories of the future, I bring myself into the present moment And know that I am safe. When I am tempted to complain I choose praise and gratitude. I take a deep breath. I look around and see How rich I am in the things that count. I look within and see my unlimited potential I realize that every moment is filled with blessings and every day I am alive is a gift to be grateful for. I remember that God is my Source and abundance is reflected in the faces of the people I love and in the faces of those I have yet to learn to love. Eternally, this abundance says: Every family is my family. Every success is my success. Every bride is my beauty and every bridegroom my Beloved. Every child is my new beginning and every elder is my life ripe with experience. Every dawn is my new day. Every sunset is my world turning. Every season is good and offers its bounty to me. Every moment is mine to embrace for it is the Eternal Now forever expressing in, through, and for me. I live in the Forever Here that is alive in all. Translucent grace shines in us, awake and aware of the beauty we are as we become all we were meant to be. And so it is.”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love. —Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”
― Candy Paull, Finding Serenity in Seasons of Stress: Simple Solutions for Difficult Times

“Every sunset is my world turning. Every season is good and offers its bounty to me. Every moment is mine to embrace for it is the Eternal Now forever expressing in, through, and for me. I live in the Forever Here that is alive in all. Translucent grace shines in us, awake and aware of the beauty we are as we become all we were meant to be. And so it is.     For”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“choices. There is great power in immersing yourself in a satisfying creative project. First of all, it takes your mind off your worries and immerses yourself in the moment, in the doing of the thing. It is also empowering, for you are the one who is making the choices. The creative work is yours. When other parts of your life are stressful and feel out of your control, the world you create in your artistic projects tells you that you are capable. The soothing nature of the creative process can calm and center”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“If we make choices unconsciously, moved by a reaction to outer circumstances or driven by our own random and chaotic thoughts, we have habituated ourselves to being constrained in a mental prison created by our own lack of understanding.”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“Choosing to believe that something larger than you is at work in, through, and for you is the starting point for all the good things life has to offer. Trust this larger life to support and sustain you. Trust a wisdom greater than your limited knowledge to be provider and guide in all situations, for the highest good of all.”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. Oliver Wendell Holmes”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“Gratitude is the heart’s memory. French Proverb”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“SImplicity is focusing my attention on what I want to create and experience.”
― Candy Paull, The Art of Simplicity: Living Life by the Essentials of the Heart

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. Mother Teresa”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“In her inspiring book The Not So Big Life, she says, “We need to remodel the way we are living, but not in a way that gives us more of the same kinds of space we already have; that would simply create an even bigger life. What we need is a remodeling that allows us to experience what’s already here but to experience it differently, so that it delights us rather than drives us crazy.” Even a small detail in a home”
― Candy Paull, Finding Serenity in Seasons of Stress: Simple Solutions for Difficult Times

“Fear believes . . . no one is listening and no one cares. Love believes . . . in prayer.”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“We have to make peace and reduce the suffering in ourselves first, because we represent the world. Peace, love, and happiness must always begin here, with ourselves.”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“I call that mind free which is not passively framed by outward circumstances, which is not swept away by the torrent of events, which is not the creature of accidental impulse, but which bends events to its own improvement, and acts from an inward spring, from immutable principles which it has deliberately espoused.”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. Jesus, Gospel of Thomas”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“Abundance Prayer   When I am afraid, I ask myself: How can I give more to life? When I am tangled in past regrets or frightening stories of the future, I bring myself into the present moment And know that I am safe. When I am tempted to complain I choose praise and gratitude. I take a deep breath. I look around and see How rich I am in the things that count. I look within and see my unlimited potential I realize that every moment is filled with blessings and every day I am alive is a gift to be grateful for. I remember that God is my Source and abundance is reflected in the faces of the people I love and in the faces of those I have yet to learn to love. Eternally, this abundance says: Every family is my family. Every success is my success. Every bride is my beauty and every bridegroom my Beloved. Every child is my new beginning and every elder is my life ripe with experience. Every dawn is my new day.”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“We have to make peace and reduce the suffering in ourselves first, because we represent the world. Peace, love, and happiness must always begin here, with ourselves. There is suffering, fear, and anger inside of us, and when we take care of it, we are taking care of the world. . . . So first you have to focus on the practice of being. Being Fresh. Being peaceful. Being attentive. Being Generous. Being compassionate. Thich Nhat Hanh”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“Real encouragers are willing to be fools in the eyes of cynics because they have a great vision,”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulty. Helen Keller”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“When I am tempted to complain I choose praise and gratitude. I take a deep breath. I look around and see How rich I am in the things that count.”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“Choices are the hinges of destiny. Edwin Markham”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“you, bringing serenity in those moments when you are most absorbed in a project.”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.”
― Candy Paull, Inner Abundance: Affirmations for Confidence, Creativity, and Higher Consciousness

“It begins with you. Value yourself. Then value others. The quiet contagion of example can spread. It will make a difference, one person at a time. If each of us chooses to make even a small difference in our corner of the universe, then perhaps we can be part of a movement that could one day transform the world.”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“Judge not and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For the measure you give will be the measure you get back. Luke 6:37-38 (RSV)”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“Frequently, the most encouraging option comes out of love and choosing to believe that a benign universe will respond to our attitude of faith.”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

“Prayer changes things? No! Prayer changes people and people change things.”
― Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life