You’re no longer living inside of yourself with a desire to be someone else or to gain something that seems to be omnipresent in all of those around you— you’ve traded in striving for arriving. ~ Wayne Dyer, Change Your Thoughts […]
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Remembering
I bought a 70th birthday card… and didn’t send it, a silly card declaring a desire to not grow older. She was in the hospital on the birthday. Forty-nine days later she was gone. Who but a lawyer would think […]
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God, grant me the serenity to accept… ~ The Serenity Prayer To accept. To understand I have enough. To grasp the concept I have no unmet needs. To trust that sufficient grace will come my way, and to know that […]
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…it’s crucial to remain independent of both the positive and negative opinions of other people. Regardless of whether they love or despise us, if we make their assessments more important than our own, we’ll be greatly afflicted. ~ Dyer, Wayne (2007-07-31). […]
Continue reading »Learning to Lack Guilt
Guilt is one thing in a court of law… either an accurate assessment or a distortion of justice. But what about the mass of us, the “good girls” — or boys — who feel guilty without adjudication or even justification, feelings of culpability especially […]
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