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A Distinction Between Pain and Suffering

August 11, 2011

Pain and suffering. We have all experienced them.  Many make no distinction between the two­–to have pain is to suffer.  I do make a distinction between pain and suffering, though it took decades for me to find that distinction. This is how I see it:  Pain is pure and simple.  It burns clear and hot.  [...]

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To the Greatest Extent Possible

July 20, 2011

“It is as though fear has caused something to be lifted out of the riverbed of limitless possibilities to a fallow stretch of shore where nothing happens.  For it is not inertia alone that causes the unspeakably monotonous and unrenewed human condition to repeat itself again and again.  It is the aversion to anything new, [...]

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Do Something

July 18, 2011

  “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”  Helen Keller I can do something today.  I can add value, beauty, or goodness in some way [...]

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Words to Consider on July 4th

July 4, 2011

“This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.”  Theodore Roosevelt “We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.  We must get away from the idea [...]

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How to Improve the World

June 1, 2011

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”  Anne Frank It’s so easy to complain about what’s wrong in the world, isn’t it?  I wonder how much time and energy we waste in the moaning–time and energy that could be freed up to serve the world. [...]

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Courage to Face What Is

April 6, 2011

It’s an interesting thing—Acceptance.  How I resist it.  How I contract.  How easily I can turn a blind eye. I think of Japan.  I read that they have raised their radiation safe limit in their fish.  I also read that the US Environmental Protection Agency intends to raise limits for radiation exposure, and that Canada [...]

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The Good, The True, The Beautiful

April 5, 2011

Wake up!  Wake up to the good, the true, and the beautiful.  In the midst of all the turmoil, these three remain.  Touch each one right now. Breathe the air into your lungs and feel yourself expand.  Listen to the bird song fill your ears and sing your heart alive.  See the humanity in your [...]

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Be Present–Wherever You Are

March 21, 2011

This weekend I found out that a dear friend has a brain tumor.  They rushed her to another city with a bigger, better hospital for surgery.  We don’t know what it all means yet. Upon hearing the news, I sat for awhile, helpless.  There is nothing I can do this far away except pray.  And [...]

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Golden Shadow

February 21, 2011

How many of us seek that which we already possess?  How many times have I looked outside myself for something that I already have within me?  I look to someone else for courage and strength, or fun and excitement.  I look to another situation for peace or pleasure.  I long for a new job, new [...]

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Irritation Creates Opportunity

January 11, 2011

Irritation opens up the possibility for empowerment and acceptance–if we allow it.  By sitting with the irritation and dropping the story line attached to it, new possibilities become available. I had purchased a meditation audio that I tried out the other morning.  It contains the beautiful sounds of ocean and whale song.  However, at various [...]

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