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Live

Posted in Abundance, Life, Nature, Time, tagged Being, healthy-living, Letting-go, Living, Time on January 8, 2013 | 6 Comments »

“Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.” ~ Viktor E. Frankl

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The greatest trap

Posted in Abundance, Human Spirit, Life, Time, tagged healthy-living, Meaning, Reflection, Self-knowledge, Self-worth on December 4, 2012 | 9 Comments »

“Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, “Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody.” My dark side says, I am no good. I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved. Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence. – Henri Nouwen

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Sunday morning music . . .

Posted in Abundance, Human Spirit, Life, Nature, tagged Beauty, Being, common things, Energy, healthy-living, Imagination, Living, nature on October 21, 2012 | 1 Comment »

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I am a human being

Posted in Abundance, Human Spirit, Life, Time, tagged accomplishment, healthy-living, Living, Thought on October 16, 2012 | 4 Comments »

“I am a human being, not a human doing. Don’t equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren’t what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don’t… you aren’t.” ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

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Nature

Posted in Human Spirit, Life, Nature, Time, tagged Giving, healthy-living, Imagination, Kindness, Living, nature, Reflection on October 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »

“Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road. ” ~ Richard Le Gallienne

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Desire

Posted in Abundance, Human Spirit, Joy, Life, Time, tagged Compassion, Flourish, Free, Giving, healthy-living, Living, Love on September 30, 2012 | 1 Comment »

“Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire is devotion. By all means be devoted to the real, the infinite, the eternal heart of being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.” ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Our suffering

Posted in Abundance, Human Spirit, Life, Time, tagged accomplishment, Being, Flourish, healthy-living, Life, Meaning, nature, Time on July 31, 2012 | 3 Comments »

“Our suffering stems from ignorance. We react because we do not know what we are doing, because we do not know the reality of ourselves. The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now. Yet surely this moment, now, is the most important for us. We cannot live in the past; it is gone. Nor can we live in the future; it is forever beyond our grasp. We can live only in the present. If we are unaware of our present actions, we are condemned to repeating the mistakes of the past and can never succeed in attaining our dreams for the future. But if we can develop the ability to be aware of the present moment, we can use the past as a guide for ordering our actions in the future, so that we may attain our goal.” ~ S.N. Goenka

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Give to yourself

Posted in Human Spirit, Life, Time, tagged healthy-living, Hope, Joy, Life, Love, Selff-Care on July 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »

If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself. – Barbara De Angelis

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Being creative

Posted in Abundance, Human Spirit, Joy, Success, Time, tagged Creative, Flourish, healthy-living on July 12, 2012 | 3 Comments »

“There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.” ~ Warren G. Bennis

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Reality

Posted in Human Spirit, Life, tagged Flourish, healthy-living, Life on July 11, 2012 | 2 Comments »

“Reality is much more complex than any judgment of right and wrong encourages you to believe. When you really understand the ethical, spiritual, social, economic, and psychological forces that shape individuals, you will see that people’s choices are not based on a desire to hurt. Instead, they are in accord with what they know and what world views are available to them. Most are doing the best they can, given what information they’ve received and what problems they are facing.” ~ Michael Lerner