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Awful Acting People and Sacred Enemies: We Are All Just Walking Each Other Home
God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, courage to change the one I can, and wisdom to know that one is me . ...
4 days ago7 min read
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Steward Your Attention: Fill and Protect Your Own Bucket
Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings. Ralph Marston, author...
Oct 24, 20245 min read
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What Is Theory of Mind? Why Should We And How Can We Develop It?
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk...
Oct 12, 20247 min read
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Hope for Cynics
Todays’ young people—everywhere I go—they’re so excited and empowered. We’re listening to their voices. That gives us a reason to hope . ...
Sep 19, 20248 min read
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I Have a Dream: Healing the Heart of Democracy
John and I were discussing the upcoming debates tonight. John was saying how he was hoping to hear someone take the “high ground.” I...
Sep 10, 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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Anti-Aging: Maybe Some Blue Zones AND Mindset
Age is just a number. Embrace every stage of life and never let your dreams fade away. Carol Channing, Broadway star who continued...
Aug 30, 20245 min read
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"Born Bad": Can We Adopt A More Helpful, Accurate, and Life-Giving Story?
"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...
Jul 22, 20247 min read
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A Bigger Story than from Dust to Dust? Let's Hear from a Raindrop
So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last....
Mar 28, 20245 min read
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Rose, Thorn, Bud: Self-Regulation Tools for Flourishing
Directing your attention toward the most important object of your choosing - and then sustaining that attention - is the most...
Mar 11, 20244 min read
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On the Hero's Journey Everything Changes
“The fundamental human experience is that of compassion." ― Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work...
Mar 5, 20247 min read
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Rosing Up: Moving Mindfulness and Gratitude To Holy Ground
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” W. B. Yeats Let’s get right to it – we are taking...
Mar 1, 20245 min read
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Beating Bad to Bits: The Rule of Four and the Negative Golden Rule
"That which is to you hateful do not to your neighbor. This is the whole law; the rest is commentary on it; go, learn!" Hillel, renowned...
Feb 17, 20245 min read
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How Wise is Anne Lamott? What AI Thinks
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov, popular science...
Jan 23, 20248 min read
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Can You See The Water You Swim In?
I don't know who discovered water, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a fish. Marshall McLuhan, writer My parents were concerned about...
Jan 15, 20246 min read
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Is It Alive? And Other Soul Stuff
In the world we everywhere find clear signs of an order in accordance with a determinate purpose, carried out with great wisdom —Immanuel...
Nov 21, 20234 min read
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Where's the Pony? Choosing Useful Mindsets and Mental Filters
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven. John Milton, Paradise Lost Supposedly President...
Nov 17, 20235 min read
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Your Mindset is...Everything?
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” —Frances Hodgson Burnett, novelist and playwright Think...
Nov 14, 20235 min read
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Thin Places, Impossible Things, and Spiritual Breakthroughs
“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said...
Apr 9, 20234 min read
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Noticing What Makes Us Joyful and Strong
“With awareness, we can make conscious choices, instead of letting our habitual thoughts and patterns run the show.” – Tamara Levitt,...
Oct 21, 20225 min read
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