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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. —Indira Gandhi— Each person we welcome into our lives blesses us in ways that only the passage of time can validate. To invite someone in, however, takes an honest extension of the self, an open-armed posture which implies that we will risk being open. How short life […]
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Rivers and roads lead people on. —Georgia O’keeffe— Life is flowing and continuous; it is full of crossroads, tributaries, and sudden bends. To live is to travel, and negative spaces attract us. We want to follow the river or the road to find what lies around the next bend, over the next rise. The mere […]
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Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself. —Joseph Chilton Pearce— The magic in believing our capabilities at the moment, believing in our future potential, believing that we are worthy human beings with a purpose for being alive.Those ideas we hold in our minds, be they positive self-appraisals or negative personal […]
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Old folks—and here I’m talking about myself—need more than anything else to feel they are needed, that they have a purpose in life. —Ruth Youngdahl Nelson— Believing that we count in the lives of others, that others need us and appreciate our contribution in the workplace, the community, and at home is a universal need. […]
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. —Hellen Keller— We can make of our experiences what we choose. We can focus on the traffic snarls while traveling to work, or we can smile because we have a job to go to and a car to carry us there. We can […]
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We are whole beings. We know this somewhere in a part of ourselves that feels like memory. —Susan Griffin— When we study biology, we learn that in every cell of our bodies we carry our whole genetic program, the complex set of chemical instructions for building us: our skeleton, skin, hair, eyes, muscles, brain, genitals, […]
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Everything has its own perfection, be it higher or lower in the scale of things; and the perfection of one is not the perfection of another. —John Henry Newman— There is no “perfection” in the world, yet in another sense, everything is perfect. Everything has its part to play in the world’s great unfolding. Everything […]
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…we have grown into one as we slept and now I can’t jump Because I can’t let go your hand. —Marina Tsvetayeva— Long intimate relationships often confuse us. We may lose where our individual boundaries are. We confuse our desires and our pain with another person’s—our spouse or lover, our parent, sibling, or child. When […]
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If you find your inner conversation running along negative lines, you have the power to change the subject, to think along different lines. —Martha Smock— Most of us carry on a continual inner dialogue. At times we’re sizing up our co-workers or perhaps strangers entering a room. At other times we’re being critical of our […]
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Who ever is interested in life is particularly interested in death. —Thomas Mann— In this biological world we can see clearly that death is a stage in the life cycle. In our human case, we cling to the precious consciousness that seem to set us apart from the rest of the natural world, and we […]