Thursday, February 25, 2010

Personal Growth and Self-Improvement

Acknowledging Your Growth Foundations of Evolution Since personal evolution is most often a slow and gradual process, it can be difficult to recognize the scope of the changes taking place in our lives. Yet it is important that we regularly acknowledge our ongoing growth and reward ourselves for...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Challenges

When you look at a tall mountain from a distance, it looms very large indeed. It can be difficult to imagine how you could ever climb over it. Yet when you go right up to the foot of the mountain, you're likely to find a trail leading up the side. It then becomes obvious that by taking one step...
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Life Changes

We’re always moving into new experiences, new possibilities. This constant change unsettles the personality, which finds security in stability. But with life always in flux, that security is an illusion. We experience pain by trying to hold on to things that are not solid. Life becomes joyful...
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Monday, February 22, 2010

Free to choose

"Most people do not really want freedom,because freedom involves responsibility, andmost people are frightened of responsibility."Sigmund FreudIn his book Nobody’s Victim, Christopher J. McCullough explains, In order to live your freedom, you must first accept reality. ‘These are the choices, and given...
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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Happy Valentines Day

"A bell is no bell 'til you ring it, A song is no song 'til you sing it, And love in your heart Wasn't put there to stay - Love isn't love 'Til you give it away." (Oscar Hammerstein) We are homeBy Mastin Kipp Oh sweet loverI have faced the fears of my darkest nightsTo be with youOh sweet...
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Monday, February 1, 2010

Shine Sweet Freedom

"No more runnin' down the wrong road Dancin' to a diff'rent drum Can't you see what's goin' on Deep inside your heart Always searchin' for the real thing Livin' like it's far away Just leave all the madness in yesterday You're holdin' the key When you believe it" lyrics from the songSweet Freedom...
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Love . . .

"Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear." - John Lennon, the man, the myth, the Beatle Real Love | John Lennon Lyrics All my little plans and schemesLost like some forgotten dreamSeems like all I really was doingWas waiting for you Just...
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