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How to Maintain Gratitude
Wildflowers in a meadow in the mountains of West Virginia. Last Friday’s Post, Instant Gratification that is Permanent and Free, talked about the benefits of gratitude and its obstacles. I wrote that, “Gratitude is the single key to peace of mind, contentment and satisfaction.” Here are a few ideas on how to make gratitude a […]
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Web Authors Who Inspire Me IX
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Here is a quick list of posts I found inspiring this week: Tejvan Pettinger at Sri Chinmoy Inspiration wrote a helpful post offering 10 Tips to Get Out of a Rut. Scott Young wrote as a guest post at zen habits that discuses how to overcome one of the major obstacles to gratitude as discussed […]
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Instant Gratification that is Permanent and Free
Gratitude – Cliché or Real Power In the past, whenever the subject of gratitude would come up as a topic in a spiritual discussion, I would silently groan and think, “Not again.” But, it was always the case that by the end of the discussion, I was feeling blissful. At the time, I thought of […]
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Be Observant, Peaceful and Healthy – Slow Down
Have you ever taken a walk or a bike ride down a street that you usually drive? You probably noticed a lot more interesting things that you normally miss. How observant we are correlates negatively with our speed. Have you ever noticed that the only time you lose your keys is when you’re in a […]
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Tips to Alleviate Boredom
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Boredom is often a warning sign of one or more of several different problems including the following: We are not living our lives to the fullest that we can. We are taking ourselves too seriously. We are lacking in patience and tolerance. We are not respecting our time. We are allowing others to be disrespectful […]
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Caring, Compassion, Charity
We can not contribute to any cause without contributing to ourselves, because we are apart of all that surrounds us. This theme keeps coming up unintentionally in my posts lately. In We’re All Going to Die and We Are the Earth I pointed out that we are a part of the Earth. And today, I […]
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We Are the Earth
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Happy Blog Action Day! Along with over 15,000 other bloggers, I am writing today about the environment. Rather than looking at the environmental issue as a social and political one, I am discussing it as a personal and spiritual one because I believe that is what is truly is. We Are the Earth Our physical […]