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A piece of courage

You may be familiar with a description of courage that says: Courage isn’t the absence of fear. It’s feeling the fear and doing it anyway. There was a very specific time in my life, an entire lifetime ago, where this got me through each day. Sometimes each moment of each day. I will be forever […]

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Grateful blast from the past

I just revisited a past post here that absolutely stunned me. It’s as if two years ago, Present Me wrote a message to Future Me , that I was supposed to read today. (Which of course is now Present Me thanking Past Me, and again paving the way for Future Me… Oh Me, oh My!) […]

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Benchmarks of leveling up in relationship

Watch the above video till the end. All the way through. Even if you think you know what is coming. Even if you’ve already seen it. (Oh, for crying out loud, it’s only four minutes and ten seconds to the end credits. Consider it easy meditation time, and just enjoy.) QUESTIONS TO PONDER, NOW THAT […]

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Why the physical body doesn’t actually hinder the spiritual one

You’ve heard before that we are spiritual beings having a physical experience. “I think/reflect, therefore I am.” Within this Cartesian split, I reflect that I am turned more toward what I think of as the higher, spiritual realms than what I have thought of as the denser, physical body. As if the whole purpose of […]

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A modern fable to ponder

I recently read this modern fable, and I’m still pondering it. Upstream/Downstream: A Fable for Our Times It was many years ago that villagers in Downstream recall spotting the first body in the river. Some old-timers remember how Spartan were the facilities and procedures for managing that sort of thing. Sometimes, they say, it would […]

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