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Selfish to Selfless
There was a time in my life when my thoughts and motivations centered on getting high. I was a junkie. Most of my energy and efforts were spent trying to fulfill my immediate desires. I took what I could get from the world and offered little or nothing in return. Consequently, I lived in misery. […]
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How to be an Inspired Voter
This is not a political post nor an endorsement. Instead, I am sharing ideas on how to remain inspired and spiritual at a time when passions and negativity rule the discourse around us. Here are five ideas on how to be inspired voters: 1. Practice Tolerance The core of our political stance lies in our […]
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Maintaining Gratitute During Hard Times
The decision to practice gratitude is one of the simplest and most significant decisions we can make in improving our personal joy, health, peace, contentment and level of inspiration. Gratitude changes our perspective in life, which in turn, changes our lives. However, it is important to understand that the practice of gratitude does not require […]
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Sustained Inspiration
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For most of us, the greatest struggle we have with inspiration is its apparent lack of persistence. We have a vision that motivates us: to have a beautiful body, to maintain a strong relationship with God, to develop a skill or to be successful in some way. The vision keeps us motivated, sometimes for quite […]
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Kindness, Poverty and Blog Action Day 2008
Today is Blog Action Day. For Blog Action Day 2008, nearly 10,000 bloggers have committed to writing on the topic of Poverty. [Update: The final count is 12,800 bloggers who had participated.] And, I am one of them. Kindness In Rough Times As many of us scale back our living standards and struggle to balance […]
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10 Meditation Tips
The aim of effective meditation is to arrest conscious thought and gain a spiritual perspective of the moment. Here are 10 tips that help me accomplish this.
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20 More Life Lessons Learned from My Toddler
Here is a sequel to my earlier post, 20 Things I Learned from My Toddler. My son, Tristen, continues to teach me lessons as he bounces through life, always in the moment, always free of regret and resentment, and maintaining priorities that allow him to maximize the joy in every moment in life for himself […]