Posts Tagged ‘Spirituality’
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
There are many ways to deal with the onset of emotional pain. Some approaches are more effective than others. There’s one approach that has all the advantages and few of the drawbacks: write it out.
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Tags: anger, change, emotional pain, emotions, fear, journaling, midlife, Midlife Mastery, pain, Spirituality
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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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Monday, December 28th, 2009
We’re looking at the immanent close of this year and our entry into the teens of this new century. Of course, we do well to look at where we’ve been this past year and where we hope to go in the one that begins anew in a couple of days. It could be a time for a radically new approach to living, if you want it to be.
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Tags: change, despair, discouragement, hope, mastery, meaning, midlife, New Year, purpose, resolutions, Spirituality, transformation
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