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Perhaps this very instant is your time… your own, your peculiar, your promised and presaged moment, out of all moments forever. —Louise Bogan— “This very instant” is all we have. We make plans for the future, we invoke memories of the past, but really, all we have to deal with and to act in is […]
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Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions. —Joseph Chilton Pearce— How we greet today will color the returns of this day. Further, our expectations will be manifest, which means we have the personal power to determine the course our minds and thus our actions will take. […]
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Freedom means choosing your burden. —Hephzibah Menuhin— Everyone of us is haunted by fears of some measure. That we learn through pain and grow beyond our fears we can only appreciate in retrospect. During the moment of painful confrontation or the spell of overwhelming anxiety we learn only that we’re feeling no joy, no peace, […]
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Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. —Anne Sullivan— Children are not just the people under ten. We are all children at heart. And in many of the activities that call us we are as uncertain of the steps to take, as unsure of the course of the outcomes as any ten-year-old. No […]
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A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. —Eleanor R. Belmont— The hunger for solitude visits each of us at various points in our development as whole, healthy human beings. It’s in our solitude that we come to know ourselves, to appreciate the many nuances that distinguish us from […]
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When a man leaves off believing in imaginary property, then only will he make use of his true property. —Leo Tolstoy— The original meaning of property is “belonging to the self.” In this sense, land, houses, money, paintings, jewels, cars, cannot be our property; they are all things, and we enjoy using them, but they […]
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All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.—George Orwell— For the most part, we receive too much information. We’re bombarded with print, sound, images. Many of us cultivate a healthy skepticism: we consider the source. What does this person, this agency, this network, this […]
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I’m not sorry for anyone’s being poor; I’m only sorry when they have no work. —Helena Morley— Human beings have been described as animals with language, animals with laughter, tool-using animals, animals that play. But we’re pre-eminently animals that work. Small children’s play is imitation of the work they see adults doing. Fortunate adults put […]
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It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves. —Helen Keller— Our attention to someone else’s needs is spirit lifting, both for that someone and for […]
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Nothing on earth consumes a man more completely than the passion of resentment. —Friedrich Nietzsche— …Our obsession with controlling other people, and our failure to succeed with our attempts, are most likely consistent attempts, the fodder for the resentments that we garner. It’s human to want to control others, to try to control outcomes to […]