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Through spontaneity we are reformed into ourselves. Freed from handed-down frames of reference, spontaneity becomes the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with a reality, explore it, and act accordingly. —Viola Spolin— Living in the here and the now opens up untold possibilities for new growth. Our inner self is enticed in new […]
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The trouble is not that we are never happy–it is that happiness is so episodical. —Ruth Benedict— Happiness is our birthright. The decision to be happy is ours to make, every day, when confronted with any experience. Too many of us grew up believing that life needed to be a certain way for us to […]
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… those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear, without having so much as a smile for the young future. —Simone de Beauvoir— Hanging on to any moment, once it’s gone, deadens us to the joys and lessons of the present. We must learn […]
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I have listened to the realm of the Spirit. I have heard my own soul’s voice, and I have remembered that love is the complete and unifying thread of existence. —Mary Casey— The act of loving someone else brings us together, closes whatever the gap between us. It draws us into the world of another, […]
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. —Eleanor Roosevelt— We are competent women. We made a wise choice for ourselves when we decided to recover. Each day that we continue working this program our Spirits are strengthened. And our gifts will multiply. Feeling inferior can become a habit. Being passive and feeling […]
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Of course, fortune has its part in human affairs, but conduct is really much more important. —Jeanne Detourbey— It’s not infrequent that we are faced with a dilemma; what is the best action to take in a certain situation? We can be guided, rightly, in every situation if we but turn inward and let our […]
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Women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting. —Ellen Glasgow— How often we turn minor challenges into monumental barriers by giving them undue attention, forgetting that within any problem lies its solution! However, the center of our focus must be off the problem’s tangle if we are to find the solution’s […]
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. . . that is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way. —Doris Lessing— As we are changed by our experiences, that which we know also changes. Our experiences foster growth and enlightenment, and all awarenesses give way to new understandings. We are forever students […]
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Peace, she supposed, was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible. —Elizabeth Goudge— Self-centeredness, egocentrism, and selfishness are familiar to most of us. We have judged our world and all the situations and people in it in terms of how their […]
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There are really only two ways to approach life–as victim or as gallant fighter–and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don’t decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you. —Merle Shain— Being the victim […]