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Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.

The Pocket Pema Chodron

Anything you can think of, anything you can imagine- is real.. somewhere. We dream of such things, here on earth, never realizing in our dream-state our minds are peering into other worlds.

Paper Dolls

It seems then that instead of consumers' willingness to pay influencing market prices, the causality is somewhat reversed and it is market prices themselves that influence consumers' willingness to pay.

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

People are willing to work free, and they are willing to work for a reasonable wage; but offer them just a small payment and they will walk away.

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold.

Practical Ethics

Our life's great friendships are dropped on us in strange little ways but for providential reasons. We are meant to encounter our opposites in life and be changed by them – transformed, in some manner.

The Possessions Of Doctor Forrest

In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked...

Profane Friendship

On occasion we stumble upon what seems to be a truth. Compared to the surrounding blackness, it sparkles and dazzles our eyes. But are these actually truths? Are our eyes really feasting upon light? Or just patches of grey?

Patches Of Grey

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image

Phantoms

Energy holds our potential in patterns of intelligence. Self awareness can take us to these shimmering fields so we can manifest our choices ~ Jeanne McElvaney

Personal Development Insights

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, t...

Pensées

Our Scripture awakened that most glorious of things, the spontaneous love our Lord so desires His children to bear Him, for it is what He bears them.

Perpetua: A Bride, a Martyr, a Passion

So there are countless reasons to remain on this Godforsaken planet that was long considered the only world, if for no other reason than to learn the end of our story: what the author of our lives has not yet taken the trouble to finish.

The Parrots

Much of our lives consists of a series of choices over which we have absolute control.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

When we write down our dreams we transform what we imagine into reality.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

If we never challenge our shortcomings, we ensure that they remain our Achilles' heel.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice. It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called the Universal Language.

The Price We Must Pay for Our Father's Sins

Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.

The Price We Must Pay for Our Father's Sins

Love is ageless and colorless. It is a spiritual force that binds two hearts and two souls together as one.

The Price We Must Pay for Our Father's Sins

Time can move quickly when it loses its memory, or when there are no new memories to create. Reality’s vulture flies down and picks at the bones of our dreams.

A Poison Tree