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It's Never Too Late: Simple Ways for Making Meaning, Healing, and Changing the World
What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, "I wish I'd made more money." What they say is, I wish I'd spent more time...
Feb 287 min read
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Tennessee Wisdom: Beware of Snootiness
Contempt is the sulfuric acid of love . Dr. John Gottman, relationship expert “How did this happen? I just don’t understand.” That’s...
Nov 15, 20248 min read
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Kindness, Cookies, and Milk... and All We Ever Really Need to Know
And it is still true, no matter how old you are -- when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together. Robert...
Sep 27, 20249 min read
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Kindness for Community... for Country, for President?
“We’re all going to die, all of us. What a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t.” -Charles Bukowski Maybe...
Sep 16, 20245 min read
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Healing: True Woo, Placebo, and Kindness
We have been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly just how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when...
Sep 4, 20246 min read
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Relationships, Flourishing, and Seeing With Our Autobiography
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anaïs Nin About forty years ago I had a quick conversation with a friend. He...
Jun 22, 20247 min read
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Suffering, Empathy, and The Parable of The Mustard Seed
For each event, use mindfulness, a sense of common humanity, and kindness to process the event in a self-compassionate way. Dr. Kristin...
May 29, 20246 min read
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Belonging To Each Other
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. Mother Teresa An acquaintance’s obituary was published...
May 10, 20244 min read
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Love Our Enemies: Getting Back On The Horse
If you fall off the horse, get back on (shouted by coaches and murmured by grandparents to keep us trying after failure...when they can't...
Feb 13, 20246 min read
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The Heart of It: Love and Lent, Moral Elevation, and Oxytocin
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation.... Charles Sumner, American statesman Some of you sent me beautiful stories related...
Feb 8, 20245 min read
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What Is The Sound Of Soul Clapping? Could Be Lovely
Goodness is the only investment that never fails. Henry David Thoreau, poet, writer Moments ago, I was chatting via email with my friend,...
Feb 6, 20244 min read
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A Good Resolution for Us All?
Let our New Year’s resolution be this: We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. —...
Jan 1, 20243 min read
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Gloria Steinem or Whoever was Wrong: Two Lessons From 50 Years of Marriage
“Look, you want to know what marriage is really like? Fine. You wake up, she's there. You come back from work, she's there. You fall...
Dec 20, 20234 min read
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Are We Naturally Good or Bad?
"I think there's a natural goodness built into human beings. You know when you've stepped across the line into evil, and it's your life's...
Nov 28, 20235 min read
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Thank YOU! Bring on the Wisdom
"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude." — G.K. Chesterton Some...
Nov 7, 20236 min read
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Silencing the Maggot Inside Your Head
“Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.” ― Dr. Christopher Germer,...
Oct 19, 20233 min read
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Bias Can't Be Outlawed, Now What?
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." James Baldwin, black American writer Our...
Jun 30, 20236 min read
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Freeing Ourselves From Prison... and Expanding Our Circle
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and...
Jun 13, 20233 min read
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Ode To The Unsung Heroes
"The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real." Victor Hugo If you want a little psychological...
May 16, 20234 min read
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Opening To Our Darkness
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own...
Apr 5, 20233 min read
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