My sweetheart Jeannette and I have had this discussion many times, and Henry Miller is quoted as saying it so well: “One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.” Too often we get caught up thinking that the whole purpose of life is to achieve a goal. That is an example […]
You are probably very familiar with the concept that when you drop a pebble into a pond it will produce ripples which emanate from the central point. You are also most likely aware that this is how ideas and changes spread; from a central point outward to the community at large. These are great thoughts,
This one is just for fun; think about the changes you have seen in your life and ask; was it an evolution or was it a revolution? Was the Black Power movement of the 60’s a revolution or was it an evolution of the 1964 Civil Rights Act? Was the Woman’s Rights movement an evolution of
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“Ask and it is given”, “knock and the door will be opened.” These are phrases and thoughts we may have learned during our early years from biblical sources. But what happens when we ask, or we knock, and before we can be answered, or before the door is opened we walk away. We do not
I suppose it would be easy to get the idea from these posts that my goal is to eliminate all emotions from my life, but this would be untrue. Emotions are a playground for our hearts. Emotions are where we learn our life experiences, so emotions are very important to our growth. They
When we listen to others speak what we will hear is their story. This story might be full of joy, it might be full of doom and gloom, it might be funny, or scary, it might be anything at all, but it is still a story. To fully hear what the other person is saying
OK, you want me to make you happy, what would that look like? You want your spouse or partner to make you happy, exactly what would that take. You want the world to dedicate itself to making you happy. How would that happen? If that car in front of you would just move over so
Practice makes perfect. We have heard that line countless times, and we have heard it so often because it is totally true. My question for you today is just what are you practicing? Are you practicing love for those around you, or are you practicing judgement about others worthiness? Are you practicing patience and acceptance
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One of the things we share in our experience is the fruitless need to “do” or to “be”. I say fruitless because we begin as fully formed, fully IN-powered beings. When we attempt to justify ourselves or define ourselves through what we do, where we live, who our family is, how we practice our spirituality,
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“If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything.” I can still hear my mother saying that to me even though decades have passed since I last heard her voice. It is still good advice today, for you and for me both. Yet for some reason we seem to have the need to
