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All of us have unique talents and gifts. No obstacle, be it physical, mental or emotional, has the power to destroy our innate creative energies. –Liane Cordes— Believing this fully is difficult at times; for some of us, most of the time. But it is true. What each of us can contribute to the world […]
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Everyday . . . life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust our old programs accordingly. —Dr. Ann Faraday— Facing the day straight on is occasionally difficult to do. There are those days we feel like crawling under the covers and staying there, certain that we can’t handle whatever […]
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If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature’s greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal. —Catherine Ponder— Feeling joy may not come naturally to us […]
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My lifetime listens to yours. —Muriel Rukeyser— Our experiences educate us to help show each other the way. Others’ experiences, likewise, will help still others. We need to share our histories. And the program offers us the way. There is no greater honor we can give one another than rapt attention. We each want to […]
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When we start at the center of ourselves, we discover something worthwhile extending toward the periphery of the circle. We find again some of the joy in the now, some of the peace in the here, some of the love in me and thee which go to make up the kingdom of heaven on earth. […]
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Many of us achieve only the semblance of communication with others; what we say is often not contingent on what the other has just said, and neither of us is aware that we are not communicating. —Desy Safán-Gerard— When we don’t listen fully to each other, when we don’t revere the Spirit within others that’s […]
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The process of living, for each of us, is pretty similar. For every gain there is a setback. For every success, a failure. For every moment of joy, a time of sadness. For every hope realized, one is dashed. —Sue Atchley Ebaugh— The balance of events in our lives is much like the balance of […]
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Without discipline, there’s no life at all. —Katharine Hepburn— Procrastination is habitual. It’s perhaps a habit we’ve struggled with over the years, and not one that can be willed away. It eats at us, no doubt. How many times have we gone to bed at night depressed, discouraged, angry with ourselves for not finishing a […]
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From early infancy onward we all incorporate into our lives the message we receive concerning our self-worth, or lack of self-worth, and this sense of value is to be found beneath our actions and feelings as a tangled network of self-perception. —Christina Baldwin— Lifting our self-esteem is not a particularly easy task for most of […]
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The level of anxiety I feel when an attractive woman enters the room is the cue informing me of my closeness to God at that moment. —Anonymous— Our security lies now and always in our relationship with God. When we are spiritually connected, we don’t lack confidence, self-assurance. We don’t doubt our value to those […]