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Continue reading →: Those seemingly ordinary moments of wonder in your life – when you are arrested by the sunset, the swell of music or your child’s face, and the line between you and everything blurs – are not throw away moments. They are actually portals into the sacred nature of things.Those seemingly ordinary moments of wonder in your life – when you are arrested by the sunset, the swell of music or your child’s face, and the line between you and everything blurs – are not throw away moments. They are actually portals into the sacred nature of things. What…
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Continue reading →: Feelings are much like waves. We can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which ones to surf.Feelings are much like waves. We can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which ones to surf. POWER OF POSITIVITY Where do feelings come from? Given that feelings are omnipresent, how would we ever know which ones to pay attention to and which ones are not worthy of…
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Continue reading →: Wishing the best to anyone struggling right now. May you find the relief you need, and the resolution you desire. Keep going, you’ve got this.Wishing the best to anyone struggling right now. May you find the relief you need, and the resolution you desire. Keep going, you’ve got this. When you are struggling, your world closes in…What is it that you do in a moment like that? When we are struggling, our attention gets…
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Continue reading →: Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness. When is it appropriate to have a soft heart? Depending upon whom you ask, you could get answers across the entire spectrum on this particular question. When things are going at a dysfunctional clip, it is normal (sadly)…
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Continue reading →: Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. COCO CHANEL Why spend your time pounding, when you could be rethinking and innovating? How many times have you found yourself continually pursuing an identical pathway to that which has already proven itself ineffective? We are…
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Continue reading →: It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. ARISTOTLE What was the darkest moment you lived through before you were able to focus and see the light? When we are weathering the hardest chapters of our lives, we are hard-pressed to find any light…
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Continue reading →: Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. ERWIN SCHRODINGER Why does music have the ability to instantly transport us to feelings or emotions from times gone by? The tiniest segment of a melody, or…
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Continue reading →: I am free… no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free…because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.I am free… no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free…because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. ROBERT HEINLEIN How do you claim your freedom in…
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Continue reading →: Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make, makes you.Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make, makes you. JOHN C. MAXWELL What choices have you made that define you? We literally make hundreds of choices, every single day, and yet only a tiny handful of them ultimately define us on a large scale. What is…
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Continue reading →: Happiness never decreases by being shared.Happiness never decreases by being shared. BUDDHA What is it about both love and happiness that makes it infinite? Happiness and love are each, infinite pools of emotion that are not in the least bit diminished in the active sharing with others. Each defy the mathematical rules which only allow…
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