Showing posts with label peace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peace. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Hopes, peace and contentment

That little voice in my head has been speaking to me and through feeling grateful again, I have regained hope for the future.  It isn't hope for anything in particular, just peace and contentment.  In my younger days, when I aspired to one thing or another, I didn't have time to be grateful...
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Friday, March 29, 2024

Lacking Peace

 My latest grief stage has brought me far away from perfect peace.  It is getting better, but faith and trust have been difficult to attain.  The birthdays of two husbands who have passed away have been awful trigger days with Easter around the corner.This definition of peace is what...
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Monday, January 3, 2022

Peace and Valuing Moments

 If we are to have true peace in the world, we must first find it within ourselves."Most people agree that a more peaceful world would be an ideal situation for all living creatures. However, we often seem stumped as to how to bring this ideal situation into being. If we are to have true peace...
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Thursday, August 11, 2016

Understanding the source

Taking time to understand the source of our emotions can help us resolve them and regain our centered state of mind. Feelings of confusion or uncertainty are often an indication of unresolved conflict within us.  If we simply turn within and begin exploring these feelings in more detail,...
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Sunday, July 17, 2016

Run Baby Run

This post is about a writing from the past.  I've been going through old posts from blogs no longer published and being nostalgic about where I've been as far as my emotions go.  This one is about running away . . . The Captain is trying to teach me not to do this anymore and I see...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

What do you really need?

Powerful words from Dr. Wayne Dyer. I've finally reached that place in life where I have realized what I need.  To love, to be loved, good health and enough money to live comfortably. The money part can be subjective.  Some people need more than others.  I'm happy to have a roof...
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Friday, September 4, 2015

Perfect Peace

In God we have . . . A love that can never be fathomed, A life that can never die, A righteousness that can never be tarnished, A peace that can never be understood, A rest that can never be disturbed, A joy that can never be diminished, A hope that can never be disappointed, A glory that can...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015

About Needing Love

You will never know how much having love in your life means to you until you have lost it.  Losing it suddenly puts you in a "strange box" of shock and disbelief that is difficult to get out of, leaving you broken in a million pieces.  It left me feeling like such a freak of nature....
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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Hope, Faith and A Positive Attitude

“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.”  Emily Dickinson “Hope is an optimistic attitude of mind based on an expectation of positive outcomes related to events and circumstances in one's...
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Friday, August 1, 2014

Peace and contentment . . . the basics

Do you sense the peace and contentmentthat can come from an appreciation of one'splace in the cosmos? How do we get there with the complexities and pressures of our current lifestyles? Perhaps it's a matter of becoming aware of what we truly have as opposed to what our egos believe we need. If...
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Sunday, December 8, 2013

The State of Bliss

Bliss is a stage which is above any emotional state that is characterized as extreme peace or happiness with feelings of enjoyment, pleasure, and satisfaction above all other feelings. Bernadette Roberts addresses the question of states of bliss and oneness in her book "The Experience of...
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Thursday, October 24, 2013

Free your mind

Free your mind and the rest will follow, be colorblind, don't be so shallow (before you read me you gotta learn how to see me) Lyrics from the song Free Your Mind | En Vogue Well, we are into week #2 of our water well system being out of commission which has meant no running...
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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Finding Hidden Gifts

"We need to make friends with what we reject, what we see as "bad" in ourselves and in other people. We must not only tolerate what we find painful, but actually approach it more deeply, more wholeheartedly rather than trying to escape from it. The only way to do this successfully is with an...
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