Tag: connection
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Turn Off Self Doubt
I offer you this article titled “Steps to Turn Off the Nagging Self-Doubt in Your Head” from the New York Times, by Elizabeth Bernstein. Most of us lose time to…
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Living in the Moment
Our Thanksgiving celebration with family is always a mixed blessing. We spend a lot of time on the day before preparing our house for a larger group of people and…
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Impermanence II
This week, many of my friends and family are, let’s say, saddened by the results of the recent election. On the flip side, many of my friends and family are…
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Doubts IV
The problem that arises when we are experiencing doubt on our spiritual path is that it creates tension in the mind. We are unsure of the path we are on,…
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Connectedness III — Kindness
We have been exploring the sense of connectedness with the world and with other beings. We have realized that the strangers we see all around us worry about the same…
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Connectedness II — Empathy
Your homework this week is to consider all the ways that we, as human beings (especially you, as a member of that group), are connected with each other. As I…
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Connectedness I — Trees
Here is a short piece from the Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Overstory by Richard Powers (perhaps inspired by the book, The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben —…
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Addiction III
The “addictions” we have been talking about over the last few weeks are not of the “substance abuse” variety. They are what we call “habitual patterns of thinking and reacting.”…
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