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If you attach yourself to one person, you ultimately end up having an unhealthy relationship. —Shirley MacLaine— Needing people in our lives is healthy, human and natural. Needing a single person to love at a very deep level, is also soothing to the soul’s well-being. Love and attachment are not synonymous, however. They are close […]
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. . . How much bondage and suffering a woman escapes when she takes the liberty of being her own physician of both body and soul. —Elizabeth Cady Stanton— If we listen to ourselves, to the innermost voice of our Spirits, we know that we have the power to heal ourselves. Self-healing begins with making […]
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I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others. —Amelia Earhart— Fear of failure plagues many women, not just those who get into trouble with drugs, alcohol, food. Those of us […]
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There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are interesting monologues, that is all. –Rebecca West— How often we want to be heard, to be truly listened to by our spouse, our children, friends and co-workers. And we deserve to be fully attended to. So do the other persons in our […]
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There were deep secrets, hidden in my heart, never said for fear others would scoff or sneer. At last I can reveal my sufferings, for the strength I once felt in silence has lost all its power. —Deidra Sarault— There is magic in sharing ourselves with someone else. We learn from Steps Four and Five […]
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One receives only that which is given. The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words, return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy. —Florence Scovel Shin— Each of us can attest to the truth of this passage. During the difficult times, however, it is not uppermost in our […]
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. . . we could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. —Helen Keller— We chase after joy, like a child after a firefly, being certain that in joy all problems are solved, all questions are answered. Joy has its rewards, and we deserve them. But life […]
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Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can’t bring down. —Olive Schreiner— God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change. Many times—yesterday, last week, today, and even tomorrow—we’ll come face-to-face with a seemingly intolerable situation. The compulsion to change the situation, to demand that another person change the situation, is […]
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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It’s a perpetual wound. —Maureen Duffy— We live in one another’s company. We grow to yearn for one another’s company at a deeper level. The yearning reciprocated opens the way to a love relationship, a relationship both blessed and torn by intimacies. It’s human to […]
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For many years I was so flexible I didn’t know who I was, and now that I’m discovering who I am, I think “OK, I know where I stand on that issue. Now on to the next one.” But I have to remind myself that all issues are interrelated–no one is separate. —Kathleen Casey Theisen— […]