Today’s reality is that we right click on pre-selected categories: single, married, separated, and the ever popular, “it’s complicated.” We have allowed ourselves to be defined by what are simply generalities, when in truth we, each of us, you and I, are far from generalities. Do you understand that you and I, through the very […]
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Study after study has shown that babies who are touched and held, especially those babies who are premature, thrive far more successfully than babies who do not get the power of human touch. Yet as we move into our aging process we are taught to NOT touch each other. There are inappropriate ways to touch
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This thing about creating a movement of Mass Cooperation has been moving around my head since my friend Lynn Collins brought it up to me. I see a world of possibility for us all if we could find ways to make Mass Cooperation more than an interesting concept, but part of our conscious lives each
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Much of my writing in both the book Think, Believe, Receive and the book It’s All About Me (both available through Amazon.com) touches deeply into the opinions we hold which we had nothing to do with forming. These opinions, these pre-judgments were imposed upon us by others; our parents, our teachers, friends, media, overheard conversations,
Practice makes perfect. We have been told that about every sport or activity we have ever done, and that we understand, right? Well, why do we think every aspect of our lives must be done perfectly the first time, or the tenth time or the fiftieth time? If practice makes perfect in activity, it must
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We have clearly reached the time on this planet where it no longer is possible to put into submission those with whom we disagree. It does not work one-on-one, it does not work between management and staff, and how many of our young people do we have to send out to be harmed before we finally
For many of us the idea of being humble means feeling unworthy, insignificant, and perhaps even in submission to someone or something else. To “eat humble pie is to be forced into submission, apology or retraction. Yes, these definitions are in the dictionary, but only as secondary definitions. the primary definition is : not proud or
This weekend I was in Phoenix, Arizona to receive my Doctor of Divinity. From my home on the California shoreline to Phoenix I had to cross hundreds of miles of “barren desert.” How easy it is to overlook the beauty of that barrenness, that nothingness. On first glance it is easy to miss the
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Some of us spend quite a bit of energy attempting to not be upset at anyone or anything. I have to ask; why? Harmony is not the absence of discord. I offer the example of western music verses Japanese traditional music. To the western ear Japanese music is simply discordant, not so to those who
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Throughout our lives we have been guided to live our lives certain ways by others. Our parents, teachers, society, our heroes, are all possible examples of how we think we should live our lives. Your life is your life, no one else can live it, and even more, we can only live our lives the way
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