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Intention is what one wants and plans to do

• Intention: A thing intended; an aim or plan. Oxford Dictionary
• Intention: Something that you want and plan to do.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Intention: An act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result. Dictionary.com
• Intention: A determination to act in a certain way. Merriam Webster
• Intention: What one intends to do or bring about. Merriam Webster
• Goal setting,  Vision,  Planning,  Purpose,   Begin with the end in mind, Know what you want

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What is the relationship between intentions and goals?

• I can feel an intention and I can see a goal. Nadia Charles
• Goals focus on a fixed outcome in the future, while intentions focus on the present and provide the guiding light to living mindfully moment-to-moment.  Goals are an effort to achieve a set of results in the future, which we accomplish or fail to reach.  Intentions, on the other hand help point us with more clarity toward our heartfelt aspirations and values. Sigal
• Goals are focused on the future. Intentions are in the present moment.  Goals are a destination or specific achievement.  Intentions are lived each day, independent of reaching the goal or destination.  Goals are external achievements.  Intentions are your inner-relationships with yourself and others.  Debbie Smith
• To be effective goals must also be so narrow that – while they do help direct our energies – they provide lousy guidance when life intervenes with our plans (as it inevitably does). Intentions, by contrast, are a broad and holistic statement of what success in any given situation looks, feels and acts like. Dana Theus
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Our intentions hold immense power

• Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention. Sharon Salzberg
• All that counts in life is intention. Andrea Bocelli
• Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power. Deepak Chopra
• The shortest distance between two points is an intention. Richard Carlson
• The qualities of creativity and genius are within you, awaiting your decision to match up with the power of intention. Wayne Dyer
• Success depends on where intention is. Gita Bellin
• When I have a strong intention, I set energy in motion. Energy in motion touches other energy in motion and remarkable things can happen. Susan Jeffers
• Whatever we believe will happen, will happen. The things that we hold in mind will ultimately come about. Our intention sets our direction. Karl Moore
• Our aspirations are our possibilities. Robert Browning
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Use the power of intention to create what you desire

• Learn to harness the power of intention, and you can create anything you desire. Deepak Chopra
• Everything that happens in the universe starts with intention. Intention is the very basis of creation. Deepak Chopra
• Our intention creates our reality. Wayne Dyer
• I tell you this: Your Life proceeds out of your intentions for it. Neale Donald Walsch
• When an object or purpose is clearly held in thought, its precipitation, in tangible and visible form, is merely a question of time. The vision always precedes the realisation. Lillian Whiting
• You create your thoughts, your thoughts create your intentions, and your intentions create your reality. Wayne Dyer
• Intention orchestrates infinite possibilities. You might wonder what kind of intent is ideal. What would you ask if your intention could be fulfilled right now? Deepak Chopra
• Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon, must inevitably come to pass. Paul Meyer
• That’s why, if you really want to break out of the mundane, you must learn to think and dream the impossible. Only with repeated thoughts can the impossible be made possible through the intention of the nonlocal mind. Deepak Chopra
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Set the intention and trust the universe to orchestrate the details

• Set your intention and trust the universe to take care of the details. Mike Fotheringham
• Let the universe handle the details. Your intentions and desires, when released in the gap, have infinite organizing power. Trust that infinite organizing power of intention to orchestrate all the details for you. Deepak Chopra
• Trust,  The universe

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Focus and belief will add great power to your intentions

• One-pointed intention is that quality of attention that is unbending in its fixity of purpose. One-pointed intention means holding your attention to the intended outcome with such unbending purpose that you absolutely refuse to allow obstacles to consume and dissipate the focused quality of your attention. There is a total and complete exclusion of all obstacles from your consciousness. You are able to maintain an unshakable serenity while being committed to your goal with intense passion. This is the power of detached awareness and one-pointed, focused intention simultaneously. Deepak Chopra
• Whatever things ye pray for and ask for believing that ye have received, ye shall receive them. Jesus
• The secret of making something work in your lives is first of all, the deep desire to make it work; then the faith and belief that it can work; then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief. Eileen Caddy
• Focus,  Belief

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To focus your intentions, practice stillness

• But first, you have to practice stillness. Stillness is the first requirement of manifesting your desires, because in stillness lies your connection to the field of pure potentiality that can orchestrate an infinity of details for you. Deepak Chopra
• Meditation is a tool that you can use to give your thoughts more focus and power. It is much easier to visualize what you want and inject substance (feelings) when you are relaxed and free from distractions. Henri Junttila
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Deepak Chopra recommends the following daily intentions ritual

• I will make a list of all my desires. I will carry this list with me wherever I go. I will look at this list before I go into my silence and meditation. I will look at it before I go to sleep at night. I will look at it when I wake up in the morning.
• I will release this list of my desires and surrender it to the womb of creation, trusting that when things don’t seem to go my way, there is a reason, and that the cosmic plan has designs for me much grander than even those that I have conceived.
• I will remind myself to practice present-moment awareness in all my actions. I will refuse to allow obstacles to consume and dissipate the quality of my attention in the present moment. I will accept the present as it is, and manifest the future through my deepest, most cherished intentions and desires.

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Intentions must be followed with action…

• You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you’ll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless. Caroline Myss
• The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention. Duguet
• A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement. Bo Bennett
• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau
• Once you’ve released negativity, meditated and focused on what you want, you have to start taking massive action. If you’re sitting there waiting for something to happen, you’re going to be waiting for a long, long time. Henri Junttila
• To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan . . . believe . . . act!  Alfred Montapert
• In my experience, the greatest successes don’t come from grandiose scenarios of good intentions engendered by temporarily pumped-up motivation. Rather, the most lasting and significant positive effects result from small things, done consistently, in strategic places. David Allen
• The universe doesn’t give you what you want in your mind; it gives you what you demand with your actions. Steve Maraboli
• The best way to keep good intentions from dying is to execute them.
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… for aligning your intentions and actions is where true power lies

• Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world! Joel Barker
• Intent without dedicated action is simply not enough. Action without a clear intent is a waste. It is when these two powerful forces are aligned that the energy of the universe conspires in your favor. Steve Maraboli
• Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress. Steve Maraboli
• While intent is the seed of manifestation, action is the water that nourishes the seed. Your actions must reflect your goals in order to achieve true success. Steve Maraboli
• Thought is the blossom, language the bud, action the fruit behind it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• An intention is a quality of consciousness that you bring to an action. Gary Zukav
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Set intentions but let go of your attachment to the result

• Always perform your duty efficiently and without attachment to the results, because by doing work without attachment one attains the Supreme. Bhagavad Gita
• I embrace desires but I am not bound by them, I’m not attached to them. I can have a desire, and drop the desire if it’s not fulfilled… I don’t get stuck anywhere. Zen Master Genpo Roshi
• Intentions are a form of desire. Desire per se is not the root of suffering; craving is. The key is to have wholesome intentions without being attached to their results. Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
• Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions. Joan Borysenko
• The Law of Detachment says that in order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn’t mean that you give up the intention to create your desire. You don’t give up the intention, and you don’t give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result. Deepak Chopra
• To rid yourself of excuses, you must learn to practice contemplating what you intend to manifest and simultaneously detach from the outcome. Wayne Dyer
• Intend the future but let go of attachment to result

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• A wedding is a public confession of a private intention.  Ian Hay
• Flirtation: Attention without intention.  Max O’Rell
• Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.  Oscar Wilde
• Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions it is walled and roofed with them.  Aldous Huxley
• If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intention of doing you good you should run for your life.  Thoreau’s Law
• It isn’t premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married.  Drew Carey
• No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions – he had money too.  Margaret Thatcher
• Wedding: A public confession of a private intention.   Ian Hay
• What makes men chase women they have no intention of marrying? The same urge that makes dogs chase cars they have no intention of driving.

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