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ron winnegrad
Ron Winnegrad has been a Perfumer and teacher for 46 years. As a perfumer, Ron has been able to express the world he sees through a rainbow of olfactive and emotive visions. As a teacher, Ron has helped others to see fragrance through his own multi sensorial lens.
“THE GREATEST STRENGTH IS GENTLENESS,” said Leon Shenandoah. “There is no weapon against it, because GENTLENESS comes from the spirit.” TO BECOME A HUMAN BEING is through GENTLENESS, one will rise above their emotions. By using the “GOOD MIND” each person would have the WISDOM to make correct decisions, no […]
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Black Elk was a spiritual elder from the Dakota People, he was known as a Shaman. He felt that everyone will prosper if they followed the road to the TREE OF LIFE. The PERSONAL VIRTUES, the POWERS that we should strive for are WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE, and GIFT. When one […]
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Have we lost our way in making the effort to promote a concept? Has the pursuit of the goal obscured our vision for the basic way to communicate a purpose. We should be COMMUNICATING, INFORMING, REVEALING the idea, by TELLING the individual WHAT THE IDEA CAN DO FOR YOU. The […]
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ALWAYS LEARN SOMETHING NEW TODAY, SO THAT YOU ARE BETTER THAN YESTERDAY. When we are tracking our performance, we should be more focused on improving rather than concentrating on the goal. When a skill becomes a mindless habit, then we have expertise. Focused on improving the skill, on a daily […]
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To work for the future, a person needs to be stimulated and motivated. Your needs can be met by gathering people around you who can ASSIST you to achieve your aims. A descriptive way to describe ENTHUSIASM is musically. The word music simultaneously captures the notions of DELIGHT, HARMONY, INSPIRATION […]
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To work for the future, a person needs to be stimulated and motivated. Your needs can be met by gathering people around you who can ASSIST you to achieve your aims. A descriptive way to describe ENTHUSIASM is musically. The word music simultaneously captures the notions of DELIGHT, HARMONY, INSPIRATION […]
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ASSISTING OTHERS has been mentioned here several times. It has been suggested that we try another viewpoint in discussing the value of ASSISTING OTHERS. One definition for ASSIST is; to lend a hand, to oblige, to accommodate, to give supplementary support, to serve. In other words, to supply another with […]
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Have we given up on the THOUGHTFUL TELESCOPIC PERSPECTIVE and put in its place the rigid, backward, microscopic perspective. Therefore, surrendering the UNANSWERED QUESTIONS to the BIASED PERSPECTIVE of the tribe. We then absolutely will lose our humanity, our decency. When we toss CERTAINTY at one another, more interested […]
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“These day’s people seek knowledge, not WISDOM. Knowledge is of the past; WISDOM is of the future.” Says V. Cooper a Lumbee elder. Through education, tomorrow we will be wiser than we are today. We must utilize the education that we obtain in a different way than what exists today. […]
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Some of the following has been said before. But as I have learned from my Native American friends, repetition goes to the HEART and not the brain. Anybody can be TRAINED TO SMELL, it is all about FOCUS. SMELL is a language. And like any language, it takes years […]
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