What if we “gossiped” about you?

By Lynne Cory

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What if another lady and I were sitting on the couch at our meditation group and were talking about the others in the group? What if we spoke of what a gifted doctor she was and what a profound teacher she was and how her cheesecake cupcakes are the best and we know the book she just wrote will be great and what a great new mom she will be and we hope to one day see the amazing jewelry she creates and what a gift she has at the computer?

What if both of us smiled as the class began?     Colleen

What if some men like men?

By Lynne Cory

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What if some men like men? What if some women like women? What if some men like women and some women like men and some people like both?

What if some people like cats? What if some people like dogs? What if some people like cats and dogs?

What if everything was just fine and there was nothing to judge?

What if I yell at you from the pulpit?

By Lynne Cory

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What if I am up here on my raised platform preaching hell and damnation and fire and brimstone and punishment and reward because that is what has been done for centuries, to control my followers?

What if I got a message in a dream to try speaking love and compassion, hope and encouragement and the Golden Rule, and within a few weeks the number of my followers began to increase and then it was standing room only when I spoke?

What if I am selfish and content?

By Lynne Cory

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What if we were all a little more selfish and that made us all a little happier? What if my choices during the day were about what makes me happy instead of what makes you happy, within reason and integrity? (I have the choice of watching my grandson’s play or going to your cocktail party and I choose the play.) (I can go out to a movie with you or stay home in quiet – what feels better for me?)   (I can ignore the ringing phone or enjoy our conversation.)

What if I cannot do enough to make another happy?

What if the best gift I can give the earth is to be happy?

What if you couldn’t help me?

By Lynne Cory

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What if I have the belief that people who cannot receive will create an illness that will force them to receive and I get kind of annoyed with them when they cannot just say thank you and receive for their own health?

What if I notice that with everyone who gives me a beautiful gift of a thing or their time or talents, I am always searching for something wonderful to repay them? What if I had better learn to just say thank you and receive as I have been preaching to others to do?

For Eloise

What if there is magic somewhere?

By Lynne Cory

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What if what we see is not all that there is on this planet: people going to work and coming home and doing errands and making meals and buying things and watching TV and doing homework and doing laundry and dishes and working in their yards day after day after day after day?

What if there is a lot more going on here and we have just not discovered where the little door to walk through is located?

What if we were amazed when we found that magic door? What if meditation was the key?

What if there was nothing more but what if there is a great deal more?

 

What if I am sinking to the bottom?

By Lynne Cory

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What if one of the secrets of this life was to imagine it how I want it to be?

What if when I felt myself sinking into despair or worry or terror, I sat myself down and took a few deep breaths and began to focus in the direction of how I want things to be?

What if all it took to shift my thinking was to say, “Wouldn’t it be nice if…” or “Each day I grow closer to…” and soon I arrived at my destination of peaceful thinking and a peaceful life?

What if my friend changed gender?

By Lynne Cory

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What if I have a friend who was once a man but is now a woman?

What if for the last few lifetimes my friend was a woman and came into this lifetime as a male but the cellular memory of the physical body was so strong that he never felt comfortable as a male and finally resorted to the gender where she was the most comfortable? What if, like all of us, he or she was just trying to be happy?

for Terri and Sean

 

What if I want a second glass of champagne?

By Lynne Cory

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What if addictions (alcohol, drugs, gambling, shopping, eating, exercising, working) help to keep us going until we can get on track and find our way going in a healthier direction?

What if sometimes we do not get on track in time?

What if it does not matter as it is all about our learning and growth?

What if my junk is making me fat?

By Lynne Cory

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What if clutterers tend to overeat because their objects drain them and everywhere they look, there is a pile of something (in the closets, on the floor, in the drawers, on the counters, in the yard, in the car)?

What if these items hold memory and also tired energy?

What if some of these items have come from sad places or sad people or even the garbage and the clutterer has to keep eating just to stay grounded to feel a little better?

What if people with a lot of clutter often cannot keep up with the dust and the cobwebs and that compounds the energy drain?                        Connie

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What if I focused on the bright side?

By Lynne Cory

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What if I was speaking with a person who was going head-on into an experience that could either go in a good way or a bad way?

What if I had already experienced the good and the bad of the situation but I chose to share the good things that they might encounter?

What if because of this, they only encountered the good things because that was what they had been focusing upon?

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What if I only got a mint green sweater?

By Lynne Cory

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What if we could measure our growth by what makes us angry?

What if I got mad because the store did not have the hat I wanted in my particular shade of “austere azure” or someone stole my parking place close to the front door or I chipped the nail polish on my thumb?

What if you got angry if you saw unneeded cruelty by a bully, or a person boldly telling a lie about another person or someone being mean to a helpless animal?

 

What if I visited an old concentration camp?

By Lynne Cory

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What if I had the opportunity to visit a concentration camp in Poland that had been closed for years before I was born?

What if my intention was to honor the souls who suffered so greatly here and acknowledge the horrors they went through and bless them with love?                                    Susan

What if you ask me 10,000 questions?

By Lynne Cory

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What if I have a friend and every time we get together, he grills me like a hamburger with 5000 questions and every time I try to inquire about him he replies with more questions and advice?

What if I know that he is trying to distract me from finding anything out about his very personal life and business and would be insulted if I asked him the questions he has no difficulty in asking me?

What if because of his ways, we cannot have a real conversation because I am always on guard and he is always thinking of the next question?

What if he really did care?

What if I pay your rent?

By Lynne Cory

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What if my friend is barely able to cover his own expenses but every person who shows a need to him goes away better for knowing him?

What if my thought was that he should take care of himself first and then help others when he is financially stable?

What if he has such a belief that he will be cared for on the planet that he is able to live each day in the present moment not worrying about tomorrow?

What if I watch people bring him leftover gourmet food from their banquet (which he then shares with others) or ask him to watch and use their car while they are away or use their house until it sells (a few years later) or pay him for a healing service and as he continues to give everything away, all his needs are met?                  Dr Ciri

What if I need to control everything at all times?

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By Lynne Cory

What if I am a very controlling person and everything needs to be done my way which is the best way, of course?

What if the Universe continues to bring me very annoying people who will not do it my way and they are driving me nuts and filling me with frustration and anger and making my life miserable when I think about them and I wish that they would just go somewhere else far from me?

What if these annoying people are actually angels in my life trying to help me see that if I loosened up the reins just a little and let life flow, I could have a much more enjoyable life experience and maybe then I could see that they might have a good idea once in a while too?