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the busy bias

Our society praises busyness. It equates being busy with being successful. If you are busy, then you are important, admirable and in high demand of others. Busy bees buzzing around here and there,...

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you have a body

You don’t have a soul. You are a soul, You have a body. C.S. Lewis

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let the good stuff in

I had my hands in the river, My feet back up on the banks Looked up to the Lord above and said, “hey, Man, thanks.” Sometimes, I feel so good I’ve got to scream. She said, “Baby, I know exactly what...

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if you call one wolf, you invite the pack

I’m an intelligent chick. I learn quickly and make rational choices to stay out of trouble. Still, every now and then, a negative idea will pop up. As if it was planted there by some external force. It...

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wolf in sheep’s clothing

How do you know if something is good or bad? It seems a simple question, but this is a task at which humans are notoriously inept. We would say that something is good if we like it. If it makes us feel...

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with the earth

Now I see the greatest secret to making the best person: To grow in the open air, and eat, and to sleep with the earth. Walt Whitman

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grace

Offer up your burdens and you will be taken care of. Those who do will not be permitted to slip and fall. This is difficult in the face of hardships, but your faithfulness will be honoured. Grace is...

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crisis survival guide: a weapon

This is the fifth post in an ongoing blog series, featuring some practical tools and activities. Fill up your arsenal and collect your weapons for recovery. ***** Crisis time. I’d guess that less than...

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scaredy cat

Fear is a paralyzing creation of the mind. Every time we allow our minds to dwell on anxieties about the unknown, we are being present with fear and blind to the the moment upon us. We are bombarded...

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for everything which is yes

i thank you for this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and the blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes e. e. cummings

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love right now

Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun, like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now. Fred Rogers

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does that fear keep you warm at night?

When we get too close to the fire, we get burned. When we get burned, it hurts. When we feel pain, we recoil. We naturally pull away from what causes us pain and suffering. Our brains are cool like...

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poof

It’s like, easy come, easy go Sometimes without goodbye, sometimes without hello She’s got one magic trick, Just one and that’s it She disappears. And that’s it.

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it’s a slow blossom

We are infinitely evolving. Nothing about our existence can truly be broken down into checkpoints, as much as we’d love to believe it could be logged in a pretty Excel spreadsheet. Nope. In truth, one...

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thanksgiving ii

Originally posted on wildheart: To practice gratitude means more to me than counting my blessings at night before I fall asleep. You cannot selectively numb feelings. You cannot decide to shut some of...

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wage love, spread peace

The judge. The critic. The timekeeper. The doubter. The persecutor. Hearing it. And then, opening the heart instead. Feeling the fear, breathing into it and just opening even more anyways. Self...

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one for me, one for you

Opening and giving to others is a movement that starts and ends within. In order to offer our love to others, we need to first give to ourselves. Does that sound paradoxical? It’s not. The amount you...

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one foot in sea, one on shore

Love, It will not betray you Dismiss you, or Enslave you. It will set you free.

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destined to be diamonds

It was a perfect day. Bright prisms of dew glittered like diamonds in the grass, although I knew that, as the day went on, they would be vaporized by the sun. Vaporized by the sun! Wasn’t that what the...

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comfortable abundance

We don’t have to push against nature to find joy. It wants to present itself to us on a path that requires the least effort.  Even after a harsh winter, when the ground is frozen and inanimate, the...

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coming back around again

Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water. And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes you cannot even breathe deeply, and the night sky is no home, and you have cried...

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too gentle to live among wolves

I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue...

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of letting go

the year of letting go, of understanding loss. grace. of the word ‘no’ and also being able to say ‘you are not kind’. the year of humanity/humility. when the whole world couldn’t get out of bed....

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always grow, grow all ways

Don’t let me show cruelty though I may make mistakes. Don’t let me show ugliness though I know I can hate. And don’t let me show evil though it might be all I take. Show me love Show me love Show me...

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