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Be Courageous: There’s more than one way to do it . . .
Courage doesn’t always mean rushing into a burning building to save a life. Courage can be asking forgiveness. Or courage can mean offering it. Courage can mean honoring your true feelings or openly accepting the feelings of another (no … Continue reading
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Being Non-Patient: The secret we can learn from saints
“A person’s single most important task is to discover the divinity of ordinary things, ordinary lives, and ordinary minds.” – Aldous Huxley In our society, we are always lauding the “patience of saints”. We see a preschool teacher peacefully smiling in … Continue reading
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Be Grateful: You are never as alone as you imagine
There is solace in every breeze. Support in the ground below you. Nurturance in every raindrop. In gratitude for these we will find connection and healing. We are never as alone as we imagine. There is compassion within the warmth … Continue reading
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When to listen to fear (and when not to)
If fear tells you not to step onto a pond that has just frozen over, it is a good idea to listen to fear. But if fear tells you not to set foot outside your door in the winter because … Continue reading
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Be Caring: Care for your heart. It is a home for multitudes
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) . . . – e.e. … Continue reading
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Love is Your Superpower!
Love is our Superpower. Love gives us strength, providing us the power to create shining diamonds of insight from the rough and rugged coal of hard experience. Love gives us X-ray vision, offering us the ability to see beneath the hard … Continue reading
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Be Focused: If we want to move from “Point A” we need to envision “Point B”
It all started when we heard this curious science story on NPR which reported that without a distant point of focus human beings are incapable of walking in a straight line. In fact, without a point of reference to guide us, it appears … Continue reading
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Be Wisely Invested: Every emotion has something to sell you . . .
Imagine that you have a pocket full of money, representing your time. Pennies that are seconds, nickels that are minutes, dimes that are hours, quarters that are days, bills that are months, years, and decades. If time was money, how … Continue reading
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Be Present: Ten years from now, what will have mattered to our children?
Ten years from now . . . Ten years from now, it won’t have mattered whether or not the sink was perfectly scrubbed. Ten years from now it will have mattered that I stopped scrubbing the sink to listen to … Continue reading
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Be Patient: An ugly encounter with impatience in the checkout line
I intend to go grocery, but my day is not being especially cooperative in yielding me the freedom to do so. Of course I have no one to blame but myself for this conundrum: I have packed it end to … Continue reading
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