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Continue reading →: Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. RUMI How do you know that something is beautiful? Traditionally, we understand beauty, by the way that our sensory apparatuses facilitate our perceptions of reality. Beauty is in one part, objective, and in another…
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Continue reading →: Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? RUMI When your world feels so oppressive and the circumstances are overwhelming, you are always afforded alternatives…. Yet in many cases, most of us do not opt for any of them. Why is that? The events of…
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Continue reading →: Only people who are unhappy with themselves, are mean to others.Only people who are unhappy with themselves, are mean to others. Remember that. The real problem with most bullies, is that they are deeply unhappy individuals who are working their very best to bring everybody else down to their level, so that they might feel normal. If you take time…
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Continue reading →: Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction. RUMI Are you confused by which path in life you should take? Do you find yourself at crossroads, like a deer in the headlights, unable to choose which of your options would be the best? In that moment of frozen confusion,…
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Continue reading →: Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames. RUMI Have you found your true calling? When you feel a deep passion for whatever it is that you are focusing your life on, you achieve a new definition of wealth in life. When something of this magnitude consumes…
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Continue reading →: Cutting people out of my life, doesn’t mean that I hate them, it means that I respect myself.Cutting people out of my life, doesn’t mean that I hate them, it means that I respect myself. The choice to remove someone from your life can be incidental for some people, and substantially consequential for others, depending upon what role or relationship, they play in your world. A tangential…
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Continue reading →: Bring love wherever you go. Shine light wherever it’s dark. Leave blessings wherever you’ve been. Be kind wherever you are.Bring love wherever you go. Shine light wherever it’s dark. Leave blessings wherever you’ve been. Be kind wherever you are. MARY DAVIS The choice to be a luminous being is always yours. Regardless of circumstance. Regardless of consequence. In your determination to be such a person, you are inevitably going…
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Continue reading →: You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it. MAHATMA GANDHI Are you impervious to the way others feel about you? Is anyone? We might all like to believe that we are such, but the…
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Continue reading →: First it hurts, then it changes you.First it hurts, then it changes you. Some of the most difficult lessons in life, are anything but painless. That is perhaps why those particular lessons are so hard to actually learn. You need to experience them empirically prior to your having a real understanding about what someone else is…
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Continue reading →: Sometimes you have to let go of the picture of what you thought life would be like, and learn to find joy in the story you are actually living.Sometimes you have to let go of the picture of what you thought life would be like, and learn to find joy in the story you are actually living. RACHEL MARIE MARTIN How often are your preconceived notions accurate? We all forecast concepts of what we believe is going to…
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