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"Do not get lost in your pain. Know that one day your pain will become your cure." - Rumi
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The Dragon and the Bug
Soon, most of the businesses, jobs, entertainment, and schools that made up Sam’s inner world lay in broken heaps. People who could still work, worked for less, slept in the street, ate what they could. It got harder for Sam to stomp around the world or pretend to be great when its insides were in so much pain. Continue reading
A Lesson from Roses
Do we only get what we work for? Really, isn’t the world always giving us stuff? I mean, the Sun never stops giving. Neither does Earth. See the gifts in life. Continue reading
Posted in happiness, miracles, Reasons to Live, spirituality, Uncategorized
Tagged flowers, friendship, gift, love, work ethic
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Can We Live Without Hope?
After the storms, fires, and wars of 2017-18, the ongoing climate chaos, the hundreds of millions of refugees, where is hope? And if we don’t have hope, what are we to do? You might be surprised to learn there are ways you can live well without hope. Your life can still manifest beauty, love, happiness, and even humor. You can still do a lot of good. Continue reading
Posted in happiness, Reasons to Live, spirituality, Uncategorized
Tagged despair, global warming, love, peace, spirituality
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Beautiful – or at least interesting – Thoughts
“Do not judge my story by the chapter you happened to walk in on.” – Linda Dilworth. When you see someone who is old, or disabled, or in poverty or crazy, that is not their whole story. Often, if we knew the whole story, we would be amazed and moved. Continue reading
Posted in creativity, Reasons to Live, Uncategorized
Tagged acceptance, creativity, love, Taoism
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Five Things Not to Think About
Thinking about sex is the opposite of doing it. Thinking in general is the opposite of experiencing. Save the brain for what it evolved for, solving real problems, and give it a rest when you want to create, love, laugh, relax, or be sexy. Continue reading
Posted in creativity, happiness
Tagged athletics, creativity, happiness, laughter, love, relaxation, sex, thinking
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Why Fear is Boss
Fear causes us to focus on the negative. You go to a party and eight lovely things happen – meetings, conversations, food, attraction, dance – and one clumsy thing – you bump into someone and they glare at you. You’ll probably remember the one negative over all the positives. This focus on fear is a survival strategy from long ago. If that one negative was a tiger behind a tree, you really needed to focus on that. Continue reading
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Tagged evolution, fear, happiness, love, oxytocin, racism, war
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You Are Loved
If you’re like most people, you have no idea how much you are loved. But you are, and I can prove it. Continue reading
Posted in healing, Reasons to Live, Uncategorized
Tagged agape, Gary Chapman, gifts, Lori Deschene, love, phileo, service, sex, touch
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