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Failure to Thrive

You cannot get sick enough to help sick people get better.You cannot get poor enough to help poor people thrive.It is only in your thriving that you have anything to offer anyone. ~ Abraham Hicks Do you think that sometimes (or oftentimes) we hold ourselves back because of others around us?  Is it ok to […]
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Do We Wait For Joy?

“We can become either enabled or embittered.  The difference lies in whether we are able to find meaning in our suffering.”  ~ Archbishop Desmond Tutu   I highly recommend The Book Of Joy (Douglas Abrams), which expertly details the reunion of the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.  The  amicable & loving conversations between the Christian […]
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The Art of Self-Reflection

“Do the best you can until you know better.  Then when you know better, do better.” ~Maya Angelou Remember how, as a teenager, we thought everyone else had it all figured out except us?  Of course, most didn’t any more than we did.  As we live, we strive and from that we grow.  No one […]
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Be the Sculptor and the Marble

“We can write a meaningful lifetime script.  We will become both sculptor and marble. We will be the designer and the design.”~Bernard Strehler, Gerontologist  What an absolutely wonderful concept!  This idea that we are sculpting our life. It brings about the visual of a life of contemplated and deliberate creation.  I will tell anyone who asks […]
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Media Mania

“If we are not prepared to think for ourselves, and to make the effort to learn how to do this well, we will always be in danger of becoming slaves to the ideas and values of others due to our own ignorance.”~ William Hughes, US Democratic Politician  The events in the past three months with […]
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The Virus Of Fear

I am sharing an excerpt from my reading this morning out of The Mandala Of Being by Richard Moss. This, to me, is a very pertinent message for the viral pandemic and warranted an immediate release.  In a culture dominated by and addicted to fear, the one thing we seem incapable of doubting is fear itself.  […]