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When you improve the quality of your decisions, you improve the quality of your life: Instead of life happening to you, you'll make the choices that will deliver the outcomes you really want.
~ Stephen P. Robbins, Ph.D., author of Decide & Conquer: Make Winning Decisions and Take Control of Your Life (Prentice Hall, 2003)
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"The Self is not already present from the beginning in a comprehensible form but manifests itself only through the outer and inner realizations of a life lived to its end. For this reason (C.G.) Jung has likened it to the crystal lattice present as a potential form in a solution but which first becomes visible in the process of crystallization, although crystallization does not necessarily take place. The Self is therefore not complete but is present in us as a potentiality which can become manifest only in the course of a specific process. Certainly, the Self is not invariably realized through the unfolding of the natural biological life processes. There appear to be many lives where this does not come to pass.
Then how and by what means can the Self become manifest? It is realized to that extent in which it is lived in the experience of daily life. It is not achieved, however, when it appears in symbolic form in dreams and inner images, nor is it when consciousness acquires a specific degree of clarity, nor yet when a psychological function has attained a high degree of differentiation.”
~ The Grail Legend By Emma Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz (1970)
"As the threads of fabric are woven into a pattern, so the Self as the living garment of divinity is woven out of the many decisions and crises..."

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In karma yoga, you're not the doer. Even if you believe you are the doer, you're not. You used to believe in Santa Glaus, so how reliable are beliefs? Life is happening through you. When you get this, you might be able to truly enjoy work. You may be conscious of thoughts arising, but you are not those thoughts. You are the consciousness that is aware of the thoughts arising. You may be aware of work happening, but it's not being done by you, it's coming through you. You are the consciousness aware of the work.
True karma yoga is the divine serving the divine. Where you see a problem, that is your calling to work.
~ Steve Ross, Happy Yoga