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What If ...we are being given so much more than we know, right in the middle of the circumstances we are in (perhaps because of them or, e...

If we go for the easy way, we never change . -- Marina Abramovic

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in  beliefs . -- Tony  Robbins As noted  earlier this week , changing our minds (especially o...

Addictive behavior keeps us unaware of what is going on inside us. -- Anne Wilson Schaef

Ever noticed ...that you rarely ‘win’ arguments?  …or how (relatively) powerless you are to change what someone else thinks ?

An evolving faith is one that survives by adapting to change . -- Rachel Held Evans

Just because people occasionally get struck by lightning doesn’t mean that lightning is a  bad  thing…. We become good at something that we’...

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' Poem for the week' -- "Evening": Another word I love is evening for the balance it implies, balance being something I s...

Letting go gives us  freedom , and freedom is the only condition for happiness . -- Thích Nhat Hanh

On Wednesdays, I usually write up about 1000 words (give or take 500).  How about a pic today instead, since we’re vacationing this week in ...

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -- Terry Pratchett

I'm wondering ...about emotional gaps.  Do you ever feel a kind of gap between you and another person at times?  I wonder if the gaps we...

Enjoying an amazing time (and views) with the family in Granby, CO this Fathers Day.  So glad to be together seeing the beauty of God’s work...

Many times you can’t do it, if you haven’t put yourself in a position to do it. Perhaps one of the truest measures of humility is our int...

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While unintelligent people are more easily misled by other people, intelligent people are more easily misled by themselves. They’re better a...

Instagram:  richvillodas I don't have concrete data to back this up, but I think the quality of our conversation regarding polarizing...

By hanging on to things, we lose them. Whereas by offering ourselves into the world, we find infinite richness. -- James Low Among many oth...

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around...

I’ve noticed ...if I don’t say it , it starts to shape me. And, if I do, it does as well. 

We claim spiritual progress, not spiritual perfection . -- The Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous

"Cafayate star factory" - Gonzalo Santile

No one can have more impact on your overall health …than you. You have to follow your heart — but, first, you have to learn what is in it...

' Poem for the week' -- "My heart": My heart sings but the apparatus of singing doesn’t convey half what it feels and mea...

Living with regrets is like driving a car that only moves in reverse. -- Jodi Picoult

You are only entitled to the action, never to its fruits. -- Bhagavad Gita So many things are out of my control.... But, that doesn’t mean t...

If you don't understand people, you don't understand business. -- Simon Sinek

Ever noticed ... that s ometimes you have to walk away from something in order to understand more purely what it is?

Grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poign...

You make a life out of what you have , not what you're missing. -- Kate Morton It's not what the world holds for you, it's what...

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... outrage is the business model of about one-third of the companies on the NASDAQ. -- Sunny Bonnell AND Ashleigh Hansberger What ever hap...

There is no remedy for love but to love more. -- Henry David Thoreau

I trust the forces of goodness. That they're taking care of the universe. And I believe it. It restores my faith and restores a feelin...

American troops' service and sacrifice, and that of their families, echoes far beyond those silent stones out there. -- Joe Biden So why...

Transitions can only take place if we are willing to let go of what we have known, the worlds we have created, and our assumptions about “ho...

If nothing else, discovery is often predicated on effort. There is the story you’ve lived and then there is the story you've developed...

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' Poem for the week' -- "Speak to us of Children": And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Chi...

In the context of yesterday's post:   Never surrender to the flow of time .  Never put off what you have decided to do. -- Simone Weil

The whole thing seems to fairly routinely rotate back toward identifying what is possible when energized by what I want . Wait, what? Did I ...

We pay too much attention to the most confident voices — and too little attention to the most thoughtful ones. Certainty is not a sign of ...

I'm wondering ...about  how often we assess the value of something that is changing primarily through a frame of relativity to what is ...

A Prayer for When God Seems Absent: Oh God, comfortable would we be if You gave us formulas and answered prayers and realized hope . But Yo...

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In many cases, the best time to do something is...now. One of the key features of participating in goodness seems to be the willingness t...

Teresa of Ávila 's favorite nature image was water. She speaks lavishly of flowing springs, pools, wells, and fountains, rivers, waves,...

To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. -- Nelson Man...

As I was getting ready for work today, I noticed the waves of nearly effervescent green in the  Spring  leaves outside my window.  A slight ...

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. -- Elbert Hubbard

I’ve noticed ...that sometimes I think IF I knew more about my future , I could relax and enjoy more. But since that's an impossibility...

To dehumanize another human is to work in direct opposition to the incarnation (en-flesh-ment) of God in Christ.  Be wary of anyone who cla...

It has become important for me to acknowledge each day one thing that I don’t know about — this helps keep me from concluding that I know w...

Do the woes of the world get you down? Are daily headlines capsizing your ship? Does it seem like it's taking too long for the deluge of...

You are more open when walking , more receptive , more enmeshed in the landscape through which you pass…walk out your door every day with an...

In anticipation of turning 60 (today), I recently queried some people I respect about their experience with awareness, particularly as they ...