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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Basic buddhism - doing what is right
- I find of particular interest in the Eastern Religions many threads that survive in other, later, belief systems. Not only do they survive in textual fact, but they seem to be super relevant to New Age and reformed movements. I speak especially of Right Action, Positive Thought, Positive Action, seeing only Good in all things and all people and believing in a Oneness.And I think that a reas...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to be secure in an insecure world
- Most of us believe that our happiness and security are dependent upon our relationships, work, income and the external events that take place in our lives. When things are going well there is a sense of well-being and safety. We sleep well at night, wake up feeling refreshed and have the sense that the world can be managed - that we are in control. However, this kind of security is fleeting. As pe...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to have an effortless life
- Isn't that an appealing title? How to Have an Effortless Life! Well guess what? The only time your life will be effortless is when you're buried six feet under.It takes effort to get results, and not just any effort, it takes smart effort. You cannot expect to achieve anything without doing something. Unfortunately in our society today, people are making an enormous effort to keep themselve...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Misery can eat you alive
- This is a true story about a woman I worked with for several years.I'm sure we all know at least one person who cannot find a good thing to say about anything or anyone. Your typical "miserable" person who could have $10 million handed to her and would complain that it wasn't $10 million and $1.This was such a person.The sky would be blue, the temperature warm and the flowers ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Life lessons - an inpirational story
- Ju was physically abused as a child. She lived with a mother who was diagnosed with post depression and a father who was a wife abuser.Her parent divorced and left six of them with her mother. She left school at 15 and went to work waiting tables to help her mother feed them all.At 18 she met and fell in love and was married soon after. Then she found out that her husband drank too m...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to put the sizzle back in your relationship with these seven goal setting tools
- Goal Setting and Relationships?That is not as weird as it may sound. Consider the following definition of a goal: "A goal is a future incidence or event that is consciously worked towards." With this in mind, it is perfectly normal to make it your goal to improve your relationship, and these seven goal setting tools can help you.A great relationship is one of the finest thin...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Getting unstuck
- According to the Buddhists, between January 29 and February 12 is the worst time of the year. "Don't start anything new during this ending period," they advise. "It won't last." February, however, can be a great time to meditate on new beginnings. But what if you have no direction? What if you are STUCK?You are probably in good company. Psychic or not, sometimes my own f...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Inspiring values of unforgettable teachers
- All of us recall special teachers - people who not only taught us but inspired us in ways that changed our lives. William Arthur Ward once said, "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." Here are five life-changing values inspired by unforgettable teachers.The Teachers I Will Always Remember.........
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Choicemaking: self-help secrets revealed
- We all assume that making choices is a simple process. We see what's in front of us and we choose the best option. That's the way it goes in this choicemaking process.But what if it were not that simple? Because, let's face it, people make the wrong choices everyday. The wrong girlfriend! The wrong boyfriend! The wrong destination! The wrong colors, and so on.Choicemaking is not as s...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What is your recovery rate?
- What is your recovery rate? How long does it take you to recover from actions and behaviours that upset you? Minutes? Hours? Days? Weeks? How long? The longer it takes you to recover the more influence that incident has on your actions, the less able you are to perform to your personal best. In a nutshell the longer it takes you to recover the weaker you are and the poorer your performance....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Garbage in its place
- There is nothing worse than seeing garbage blowing down the street of your neighborhood, or finding broken shards of glass at the local swimming hole where children play. Wildlife is just as vulnerable to garbage and many have lost their lives after becoming tangled in waste or mistaking garbage for food. It is up to each of us to make an effort to minimize this unsightly, and sometimes hazardous,...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Lewis and clark pay attention
- As I write this Southern California has just ended its second week of triple digit temperatures. The intense heat changes the way we live and alters the rhythm of our days. We are up earlier to walk the dog while the park is still cool. We spend a lot of time indoors in the air conditioning. We've been eating better. We don't want to heat up the house with the stove ? so it's salads and chicken fr...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What company does your business keep?
- A man is known by the company he keeps. We have heard that phrase so many times. Our folks have cautioned us often with that in our silly childhood. Do we heed to that advice in our business? Where do you hang out? What is your business surrounded by?Have you heard about Christian Huygens?This genius of early 17th century did something awesome. He discovered a law of resonance. A law...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Information -- schminformation, enough already!
- We are drowning in it, our grey matter is swollen with it, half the time when we need a piece of it and we know it is "in there" somewhere, we can't access it because the poor Grey Matter Computer is so jammed it takes forever to search for the file and then it's usually "just lost" or was mistakenly deleted. And that's just our brains...what about our files, drawers, shelves, filled with papers, ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The pledge
- You know kids, one of the things I've learned by letting more people know what's going on inside my head is that once you do people expect you to live up to what you've put out there. I've sort of learned on the fly here that using this knowledge as a burr under the saddle that is my life accelerates my growth. Where I used to piddle (piddle's a FUN word to say...) around on things that I was work...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Looking for a better world - what every person can do!
- Each night, when I put my head on the pillow and turn my thoughts to things ethereal, I am hopeful that the world is a little better place than when I awoke that morning. I hope that the dissidents, extremists, murderers, plunderers, bigots, philanderers, cheaters, molesters and others of mean-spirit find that their chosen path is not a beneficial avenue. I hope they see that they themselves are n...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - I dont like this
- You always do this wrong, how many times would I have to tell as to how to do the thing right, don't you understand to what I say, I am talking to you, are you listening to what I am saying. It would have been much better if I would have done that myself. Now go.Please don't take me wrong when you read that, cause this is the behavior I see prevailing from a human to other human.How ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Its about that time
- As we've reached the half way point of the year I'm thinking this might be a good time to pull up and evaluate things. Look back over the first 6 months, and look ahead to the upcoming days and months. Get some clarity. You know?Ask ourselves some questions. Get some answers. This is also a good time to switch gears. Reach into your reserve tank a little and take the pace of things up a not...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Super powers
- It is fun to watch movies of those with super powers. It sparks the imagination to watch their feats of great strength, lightening speed and great leaping ability. We can escape for a while from our dull routines, perplexing problems, and humiliating weaknesses. It seems that they have every ability that we don't.Did it ever occur to you that you have super powers too? No one has supernatur...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The importance of friendship
- My students and clients have constantly heard me stress that our Martial Art is more than just a physical discipline; that it is a discipline that develops both the mind and body. This is so important that Soke Masaaki Hatsumi, the grand master of our lineages, has made it the primary thrust of just about every one of his books about Ninpo and Martial Arts in general.The presence of mind th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Encouraging blossoms of achievement
- The tiny dogwood sapling was only a twig when my mother planted it years ago. At age four, with a red wagon and bucket, I was happy to carry water to anything that grew, even to the full grown flowering apple trees in my grandfather's orchard.Thrilled with the promise of a flowering dogwood, I happily nourished the new sapling with both water and anticipation. Yet weeks later, to my naive i...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The author within you!
- I always had an active imagination when I was young. I hated school, and would pass the time away day- dreaming about things I should not even have known about at such a young age. I used to make up stories in my head, that would always have me as the centre of attention, like collecting an Oscar for a Hollywood film that I had starred in, or recovering from a major operation or accident. I think ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How healing the past empowers your future
- Everyday I meet people who have a chronic upset that runs their lives, and I notice that they are not even aware of it. Often the pain has become buried in their unconscious; or if they are aware of it, they choose to deny any power to combat it.Yet unless they seek healing, this energy locked up in their mind is a continual drain on their vitality. It is a parasite to their life-force....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Michael vick is average
- Michael Vick can do wonders on a football field, but don't think of him as an anomaly. He is just like you and me. Average.How can that be? In the 2004 regular season, Vick led the Atlanta Falcons to an 11 and 5 record while passing for 2,313 yards. Perhaps most amazing of all, he ran for 902 yards with an average 7.5 yards per carry while the NFL's leading running back, Curtis Martin, aver...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Martial arts character and the universal law of interdependence - the keys to life mastery, key #2
- In the philosophical teachings which form the foundation for the Ninja Warrior's lifeways, there is a principle known as the 'law of interdependence.' This so-called 'law' is not a must-do rule which one must follow, nor is it to be confused with dependence or co-dependence as it is seen today where one or more individuals who cannot or choose not to provide for themselves, lean on and 'depend' on...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why does it take so long to slow down
- Why do we wait so long, before we start thinking about whom and what we are? Why does it take a lifetime of living and struggling before we begin a meaningful search for our truth? I don't believe that is necessary.I began my conscious journey to enlightenment when I was around 50 years of age. I was brought up in the churches and believed that it was just one of those things in life that w...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - World kindness day
- Once upon a time, in ancient India, a beggar favored a certain foot of land in a village square. He wanted to be rich, but he only knew dire poverty. One day he died on the spot where he had been begging for decades. The villagers decided to bury him on the spot where he had spent decades begging. They marveled when they found that only a few feet beneath the surface lay a treasure chest from an a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A lifetime in love
- We let ourselves love but are afraid to say I love you. We constantly allow our emotions to run deep but why do we hold back on our sweet sensations and tingling feelings?Sometimes although it hurts so bad we cry out for more. Is this what love is meant to be like?There are times when special moments become favourite memories but we find solace and comfort within, without saying a wo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Planning for the unexpected
- Unfortunately, most people fail to plan until it is too late. History tells us that for centuries humans have been witness to tragedies, and often times have been the victim of them. A cursory study points to one inescapable fact: a tragedy always produces another tragedy.Consider: all the wars, past and present, carried on in the name of some "sacred" or "national" caus...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Go where no man or woman has gone before
- "It`s life Jim but not as we know it." -SpockIn Corrogue there is a starry, starry night.This evening the night sky is so very clear and full of stars. The Milky Way is clearly visible. There is a sense of wonder at the beauty of it all.When I used to watch television I loved the program created by Gene Rodenberry named "Star Trek." Each week the crew o...