Posts Tagged ‘adulthood’

Acceptance: the Gift of Perspective

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

Acceptance of the changes and vagaries of the seasons depends upon our capacity to keep those changes in perspective; so the changes from youth to adulthood to maturity demands a perspective that only spiritual insight can offer.

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Why Are You Doing This to Me?

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

So long as we’re stuck in the ‘me-centered’ universe of adulthood, challenges and adversity will continue to appear to us to be focused on us (because that’s where our unconscious focus lies, and that’s the perspective from which we view everything that happens around us).

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The Meaning of Life: a Manifesto

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

It seems — to the best of my ability to understand the answer — that the universe and all it contains is nothing but a mega-University that’s only function is to educate Consciousness (in all its known and unknown iterations) in just two interrelated subjects: what I’m calling the Two Great Lessons of Life. I won’t keep you hanging there in anticipation. The First Great Lesson of Life comes down to this: learning how to love. The Second Great Lesson of Life is its complement: learning how to let go. That’s it. That’s all there is. Once you’ve mastered both subjects, you’re ready to graduate. If it were only that easy.

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The Midlife Holiday Challenge

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

The holidays can be particularly challenging for men and women at midlife. There are attitudes that you can adopt that transform your holiday season into something very special.

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The Unbearable Loneliness of Choice

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

Remember back to when you were the only person in the entire world who ever felt this way: the time of favorite songs (that made your heart ache) and trying to do the ‘right’ things with the ‘right’ people at the ‘right’ time so that maybe eventually you’d belong? Remember how you felt when you were convinced that you didn’t belong? like you’d never belong? like nobody understood you? like you were alone?

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