July 2008 - Posts
I think I finally learned the
secret to “acceptance”. You know the last stage of grief? . Grief as five
stages and acceptance is the last stage. It is only with this stage can we
start to grow and heal. We feel grief for any number of reasons…
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Einstein once said; “Once you can
accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing
stripes with plaid comes easy”.
No kidding! In the scope of things how many mole hills do
we turn into mountains?
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How much of the boulder is below the ground? How deep do the tree’s roots go? Is
the still river truly deep, or is it just quiet? As you go deeper and
deeper into the tunnel, does light decrease or does darkness increase? Nature has
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When
it’s raining (and I mean really raining… not a light drizzle) it’s pretty hard
not to get wet. Yes, you can tried to be
prepared with an umbrella, and this might help, but have you ever been in a
storm that takes your umbrella and turns
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Oneness. Oneness is a principle that has been taught
for centuries. I was clearly a Buddhist teaching, as well as a Christian
teaching (Corinthians1 12:14 -31) We
are all one. There is even plenty of
scientific evidence to support this.
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One hot summer day, as the sun beat down upon me from a clear blue sky, I found myself walking along a small stream. The dragonflies danced over the surface of the water and occasionally a trout would spring from the depths trying to catch an early lunch.
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Are
you who you truly say you are? Our egos
have designed any number of persona’s we can wear like a mask. In today technological world, it’s even
easier to hide…Hide behind your email, hide within your blog, hide behind your
anonymous
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In
this life, we are so often required to “pay the price”. This price can be anything from a few dollars
to your very life blood. The thing is,
so often it is our choice how much we pay.
Even in material things, people charge
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Whoa!
Guys how many times have you heard yourself say THAT?! We all know why you say it, you feel the firm
setting of someone ridding you. Usually
that ‘someone’, is your ‘loved one’. Oh,
you know what we are talking about -
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“I
hate that about you!” Have you ever said
that to someone? It was probably someone
that you loved too. Don’t those words
just look so ugly on the page? How could
you say that to someone you loved?
It’s
actually
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When something means enough to us, those are
definitely the things we end up going for. I’m not talking just about
the material things either, but the spiritual and emotional things too;
love, solitude, peace. If the desire is strong enough then we
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"A rolling stone gathers no
moss." I'm willing to bet everyone has heard that saying before. Have you
ever given it much thought? When do you use that saying? I think I’ve used it most when I really want
to light a fire under my daughters
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They tell us that the quickest
way from point A to point B is a straight line.
Of course if you’re a geometry nut that’s true or if you make maps I
suppose you like it that way. - “As the crow flies”.
But is that nature’s way?
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“What’s your problem?!” How many times have you heard that one in
your life? I’m willing to bet that 80%
of the time, you will (or want to) respond to that with, “YOU, you’re my
problem!” But is that really true?
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~ Got STRESS?! ~ How do you handle stress? How well you can handle stress can make or break how well you can succeed, or move forward. Some people identify stress as a form of friction, and we all know that car tires REQUIRE friction if it’s to move forward.
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That was one of the funniest
lines I’d heard in the TV sitcom Cheers, when Psychologist Frasier Crane leans over to
Cliff after some of his ever flowing rhetoric and says, “Hello in there, Cliff. Tell me, what color is the sky in your world?”
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You are flying in a jet plane
over the ocean, with your children.
Suddenly the plane bounces and jerks and the Fasten Your Seatbelt light
comes on. Over the loud speakers you
begin to hear the Captain’s voice, garbled under a layer
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