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What if it is never too late to become what you might have been?
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What if you keep your big bowl of spaghetti off of my tray?
By Lynne Cory
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What if life is like being a waitress carrrying a huge tray of food overhead?
What if all of my life responsibilities and burdens and fears are on my tray?
What if you try to add all of your plates to my tray and make my life more difficult or perhaps you choose to help me carry it?
What if you carried your own tray?
What if she lost her passport in Russia?
By Lynne Cory
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What if on a recent trip to the Hermitage Museum, our guide repeatedly told us to look out for pickpockets and one woman was skillfully robbed of her wallet while in the middle of our group?
What if I heard her say many times: it will probably be me that loses my luggage or gets stopped at the airport or gets lost in the crowd?
What if she “unconsciously” set herself up for this shock?
What if the pickpockets were kind in Russia and within a few minutes her wallet was found at lost and found with everything but her money and she could continue traveling with no interruption?
What if she just doesn’t care?
By Lynne Cory
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What if there are people walking on this planet who lack the ability to show compassion and who take no responsibility for how they leave a path of hurt and devastation behind them?
What if those of us with a conscience repeatedly try to please them and help them and even think we are at fault for awhile?
What if the best course is to get quickly away from them because as they have no conscience they will never “get it”?
What if a mean one is good for me?
By Lynne Cory
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What if I honor every person in my life regardless of whether they make me feel good or bad or help me or hurt me?
What if those who hurt me and make my emotions flare are actually my best teachers with their difficult college classes in anger 1A, abandonment 2B, need for acknowledgment, rejection and resentment, as they push my emotional buttons and mirror my feelings that have been buried for so many years?
What if I can tell if I am doing well in a class when I do not respond in a mean way and give thanks and appreciation to the teacher?
What if my city was bombed while I was away?
By Lynne Cory
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What if I feel that this world is a safe and loving and supportive place and that has been my life experience?
What if others think this world is dangerous and scary and so it is for them?
What if my belief helps me to “walk between the raindrops” and not get wet?
What if there is a murder in one place but I am two hours away or an accident 20 minutes after I pass through or a widespread sickness but I stay well?
What if I said “No thank you” to the brie?
By Lynne Cory
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What if the various religions of the world helped those who practiced them?
What if everyone’s beliefs could be honored by everyone?
What if church was like cheese – you like manchego and he likes brie and she loves Velveeta and they adore string cheese and she prefers no cheese? Isn’t that OK?
What if you made 100 people smile?
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By Lynne Cory
What if I was going to the gas station and saw 25 day laborers sitting on a low fence waiting for someone to offer them jobs?
What if I saw a pick-up truck come in and open up the back and give coffee and warm breakfasts to all of them?
What if when I left, they were all eating and smiling and the men in the pick-up were feeling great and I am still smiling over this kindness and everyone I tell seems to get motivated to help others?
What if my smile added 35 years?
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By Lynne Cory
What if something we say to another can change or save their life?
What if we took a moment to give a brief helping hand or a heart-felt compliment or called to say hello or listened to your story or smiled as we walked past you?
What if we cannot tell the impact we have on another to help them through their day?
What if I was a 6′ tall Russian model?
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By Lynne Cory
What if before we come to Earth, we go before a council that helps us choose our birthplace and eye and hair color and body shape and parents and relatives and the lessons and talents we will master in the forthcoming lifetime?
What if what we look like and how we are gifted are chosen to give us the best possibility of achieving what we came to learn?
What if I asked you a HARD question?
By Lynne Cory
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What if you remained silent?
What if sometimes saying nothing is saying a lot?
What if he who does not deny, admits?
What if I had “galactic” enthusiasm?
By Lynne Cory
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What if “whatever” I do, I do it with feeling and gusto and joy?
What if the senator helped?
By Lynne Cory
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What if the politicians of the world are doing their best for their country?
What if politics is a way of uniting people for one cause?
What if many good things come from all of their efforts?
What if our world political situation is exactly as it is supposed to be?
What if I gave you $3.27?
By Lynne Cory
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What if we treated strangers like our family?
What if I saw the older generation as if they were my parents and grandparents and our generation as if they were my sisters and brothers and the younger generation as if they were my children and grandchildren?
Would we have a little more patience and compassion or offer help if we saw someone struggling and if we thought of them as a family member? If I saw a teenager short of a little money at the checkout line, would I ignore her if she was my granddaughter? Would I honk, impatiently, at an older driver if it was my grandfather?
What if I went to Ady’s fabulous play?
By Lynne Cory
What if I was in a big city, walking the evening streets on my way to a fabulous one-woman show, watching the limousines pass by with their fancy occupants and the tired workers heading home after a long day at their stressful jobs and the homeless leaning on their shopping carts or sitting in the doorways?
What if instead of envying some or pitying others, I realize that every person is exactly where they are supposed to be for their learning and growth? What if I cannot see it but everything is in Divine Order? Frank/Marilyn
What if I am on the fence?
By Lynne Cory
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What if one of the hardest decisions I will ever have to face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder?
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What if the judge and the jury “stayed” out?
By Lynne Cory
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What if I stopped judging myself because most of my opinions have come from others and they cannot see how truly wonderful I am?
What if I stopped comparing myself to what I see around me and appreciated my magnificence?
What if there is “always” a reason?
By Lynne Cory
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What if we always meet for a reason, and you are either a blessing or a lesson for me?
What if I extended my hand?
By Lynne Cory
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What if I never look down on someone unless I am helping them up?
What if I stood up and cheered?
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What if whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people to do the same? Gloria Steinem
What if I stayed strong?
By Lynne Cory
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What if I cannot help another if I am as “pitiful” as they are? Connie Jackson
What if when I went to my doctor he was crying uncontrollably as he told me of my condition, and this would not help me?
What if one of us has to have steady feet?
What if there was a “magic turnstyle” just up the road?
By Lynne Cory
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What if I have a little business and sometimes I sit there for hours with little to do and then 15 people come in all at the same time and both phones are ringing, and I feel bad because I cannot give them the personal service I want to give and they deserve?
What if I now set the intention on my way to work that people will come by in an orderly fashion so that I can help all of them?
What if am amused today about how 1 or 2 people are coming in continually and the phones are ringing when no customers are present and I have the time to help each one gratefully?
What if I can view how you think?
By Lynne Cory
What if the way we drive says volumes about how we perceive the world and ourselves? What if I patiently allow others to pass hurriedly in front of me or smile as they play their loud spirited music or see something to enjoy while traffic is stopped and know that all is perfect in the world?
What if I scream at drivers around me, cut people off, tailgate dangerous ly and fill myself and others with stress when I drive?
What if we are recreating Atlantis?
By Lynne Cory
What if the Atlanean people became too greedy, too cruel and mean and became unable to know what life is all about and their civilization soon disappeared?
What if our society is becoming similar with people withholding healing cures and modes of better transportation because of their greed. What if our bigotry is at an all time high but there is more bad to come? What if some are stealing from and cheating others without consciousness?
What if other civilizations are watching us in horror as we destroy ourselves?
What if Dug and Mable are smarter than me?
By Lynne Cory
What if animals are way, way, way more evolved than humans? What if they are filled with compassion and unending love?
What if it is always OK?
By Lynne Cory
What if I killed myself and found that there was no judgement on the other side? What if I was terminally ill and just wanted to stop the misery of all involved? What if I was trying to get away from a situation and it reappeared when I was reborn and I did not have the strength to cope yet?
What if his legs hurt?
By Lynne Cory
What if he is frozen in place unable to move forward or back because of indecision? What if he is filled with anger and hate and has dug in to his beliefs? What if he is not taking a step forward to HIS desire because he fears letting others down? What if he is pushing himself to do what he feels is the responsibile thing although he does not want to?
What if it is all up to me?
By Lynne Cory
What if all of my life’s struggles are lessons for my soul’s growth? What if they will all turn out how I see them?
What if he was mean to his horse?
By Lynne Cory
What if there are consequences to abusing an animal? What if we are not at the top of the chain in the Karmic process? What if we live our life compassionately?
What if jealousy and judgement are not needed?
By Lynne Cory
What if we are all living numerous lives concurrently? What if I am a poor, struggling, homeless woman with four children and poor health? What if I am also a well-loved college professor in Boston and in another country, I am an arrogant prince who is ruling cruelly over my subjects?
What if we each think we are the primary player? What if we each get to choose our different choices and experiences? What if we use each life wisely?
What if I got up early today?
By Lynne Cory
What if I began my day by going outside and watching a magnificent sunrise and appreciating the beauty of our glorious planet? What if this raised my vibration and set the tone for a magnificent day to follow?