Posts Tagged ‘choice’
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
I have come to believe that there are actually two types of fear. The one – healthy caution – provides us with the protection that we need against rash decision-making. There is another type of fear, however, that arises from insecurity and self-doubt.
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Tags: acceptance, adult, anger, choice, commitment, courage, engagement, fear, love, maturity, midlife, Midlife Mastery, relationship, Spirituality, trust
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Sunday, January 24th, 2010
Apart from outright physical and emotional abuse, I believe that many (if not all) relationships “on the rocks” could be healed under the right circumstances. From my perspective, the fact that this healing so often fails to take place could be an indication that one or both of the partners have stopped listening. Additionally, ceasing to listen indicates a spiritual problem.
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Tags: acceptance, anger, avoidance, blame, challenge, challenges, change, choice, communication, courage, crisis, death, denial, direction, emotions, engagement, faith, fear, future, grief, hope, humility, integrity, intention, isolation, love, mastery, maturity, meaning, midlife, Midlife Mastery, purpose, relationship, responsibility, Spirituality, transition, trust, values, victim
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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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Tags: acceptance, adult, adulthood, anger, choice, culture, denial, emotions, fear, grief, health, humility, love, mastery, meaning, midlife, purpose, relationship, Spirituality, transformation
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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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Tags: adulthood, attitude, change, choice, Creativity, holiday, holidays, mastery, maturity, midlife, power, tradition, traditions, transformation
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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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Tags: adult, adulthood, change, choice, courage, fear, isolation, lone, loneliness, lonely, mastery, midlife
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