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Celebrate Your Variance
On the greater variance side, we find the artists, the change agents, the thinkers, the sexually adventurous, the loonies, all the people who give life some entertainment value. Continue reading
Posted in creativity, Reasons to Live
Tagged being yourself, bell curve, change, climate change, cooperation, evolution, evolutionary psychology, mean, sheep, statistics, survival, variance
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Unwanted Blessings
When painful things come to you, look deeper. They may be blessings in disguise. When my friend Nora was 24, she married Fredrik, her tall, good-looking high school sweetheart. She supported him through medical school and residency in San Francisco, … Continue reading
Posted in healing, Reasons to Live, Self-Care Support
Tagged acceptance, blessings, Call the Midwife, disability, disabled parking, happiness, healing, migraines, Saint Teresa
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The Happiest Man in the World
The point of the search is to realize there is nothing to search for, the destination of the journey is to realize that the journey never ends. Continue reading
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Tagged change, happiness, Idries Shah, journey, Kazakhstan, myths, patience, peace, therapy, World Tales
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Seeing People Right
Last week I went to a playground with my granddaughter Anaya on a rare sunny day in San Francisco. A mother came in with her seriously disabled nine or ten year old son. He had cerebral palsy, and his mother … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, children, disability, living fully, nonjudgment
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The River of Creation
The world is creative and you are too. Enjoy it and add your own creativity to the flow. Continue reading
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Tagged art, creation, creativity, fish, Internet, mandala, murals, Web
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The Story of Your Life
Say you are a movie director shooting a film of your own life. How do you see the story unfolding? Is it a biopic, perhaps starting when your parents got together, and ending with a touching funeral? Do you star … Continue reading
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Tagged biography, courage, creativity, death, eulogies, family, feminine mystique, flow, Hunger Games, immigration, letting go, life, living fully, Martin Luther King, memoir, not about you, path, patience, self-blame, Selma, story
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Prepare to be Amazed
“To be awake is to live in a constant state of amazement.” – Jack Kornfield, paraphrasing the Buddha Last month I was lucky enough to visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium. It was a family event; there were eight of us … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, bodies, Carnaval, cells, children, creativity, gratitude, jellyfish, joy, music, ocean within, proteins, sex, tentacles
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Giving It Away
“Live for yourself, you will live in vain. Live for others, you will live again.” – Bob Marley, “Pass It On” Elzéard Bouffier was a shepherd who brought a whole blighted district in Provence, in the foothills of the Alps … Continue reading
Posted in Reasons to Live
Tagged books, Camden, children, contribution, forests, Giono, giving, Lao Tzu, Maathai, patience, trees
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The Power of Nonjudgement
“The highest form of intelligence is to observe without evaluating.” Jiddu Krishnamurti I quote that a lot, but the meaning of it keeps growing on me. I belong to a men’s group that meets too rarely, and at one meeting … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, emotions, forgiveness, judgment, Krishnamurti, Left to Tell, nonjudgment, peace, restorative justice, schools
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All is Well
A poor town in India had a night watchman. Every night he would walk through the streets singing “All is Well.” People hearing him would feel reassured; he helped them sleep. The watchman went to bed before most people came … Continue reading
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Tagged 3 Idiots, acceptance, end of the world, Exodus, faith, global warming, immortality, life. death, Taoism, trust
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