As a TREE, we also have seasons where we flourish and seasons where we lose our leaves. Given time the leaves grow again. This is called WINTERING, when we lose our leaves. WINTERING is the season for tending to the inner garden of the SOUL, that is when we humans […]
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I will not be upset if anyone accuses me of having too much SPACE between my ears. Remember, Debussy said music is the SPACE between the notes. Cezanne said SPACE in a painting makes the observer’s imagination work. Lao Tzu said empty SPACE gives usefulness. SO….. THE BEAUTY IN LIFE […]
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Most cities and towns remove the TRASH two times a week. So we should EMPTY THE TRASH FROM OUR; intellect, thought, perception, ego, judgment and reasoning. In other words our MINDS. Yes, believe it or not we can accumulate TRASH in our MINDS. So let us two times a week […]
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“I MAY NOT REMEMBER WHAT YOU SAID OR WHAT YOU DID, BUT I WILL REMEMBER HOW YOU MADE ME FEEL,” what a beautiful and powerful quote from Maya Angelou. The ability to move people’s SOULS is a very effective way of COMMUNICATING. As mentioned in previous posts MEMORY and EMOTIONS […]
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The HEART and SOUL have the same basic meaning according to the Thesaurus. The SOUL is; HEART, ESSENCE, SPIRITUAL, love. The Thesaurus says the HEART is; SOUL, ESSENCE, SPIRIT, empathy. We cannot exist well by having HEART/SOUL only for our immediate circle of friends. Our circle should encompass the world. […]
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I saw a video from Sean Buranahiran that is totally mind changing and mind comforting. I feel obligated to share the exact content of his talk. The following is unchanged from the tape of Sean. ENJOY. There is a famous story of a beautiful temple that everyone visits to take […]
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To COMPETE is; to take part, struggle, be in the running, encounter, EMULATE(follow the example of) and endeavor to equal or surpass another. There are basically two ways of DEALING WITH COMPETITION. Only one way is WISE. If one takes the ENCOUNTER as a lesson, it is possible that you […]
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IT IS WHAT TRUTH WE SAY AND WHAT WE DO with that TRUTH that we should be perceived and evaluated by others. Not on; what we look like, what we wear, how we walk, where we live or come from. We ALL come from the planet earth, we are ALL […]
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THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF JOY IS WITHIN US ALL. It is not power, not money and not status, they all produce the temporary feeling of PLEASURE. We undermine our JOY by chasing the materialistic life of external stimuli. We are hardwired to be COMPASSIONATE, yet some of us tend […]
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How beautiful the SNOW-CAPPED mountains look, how beautiful a freshly fallen SNOW looks, how beautiful a SNOW-MAN looks. In essence a SNOW-FALL has a special beauty. People travel many miles to enjoy the SNOW. Individual SNOWFLAKES differ in detail from one another. It is unlikely that any two SNOWFLAKES are alike, […]
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