November 28, 2009 at 8:54 pm (Blogroll, Health and Wellness, alternative lifestyle, compassion, day to day, families, family, happiness, home, life, mindfulness, people, positive thinking, relationships, self awareness, simple living, simplify, suffering, transition)
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Life is about relationships. The relationship we have with ourselves, with each other, as well as the connection to that which is beyond any of us yet immanent in each of us. When our relationships are good we feel good. When they are bad we feel awful. Life would be so much easier if we all just accepted that we need each other. We need to feel connected; we need to feel each other’s presence and love.
I was reading an article the other day that stated that ancient scriptures in India say that we are all part of a universal web of light. All in one and one in all. We are never disconnected from a whole. I believe that. Nonetheless there are tmes where I feel disconnected from this knowledge. I just lose sight of where I belong and experience intense feelings of loneliness, alienation, and confusion. When I allow myself to feel what I need to feel in that moment, I am able to work through it, I become centered, and I get back on my spiritual journey of discovering who I am. We are all connected.
Peace and love
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November 27, 2009 at 11:03 pm (Blogroll, Health and Wellness, alternative lifestyle, compassion, day to day, families, family, happiness, home, life, mindfulness, people, positive thinking, relationships, self awareness, simple living)
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I feel appreciation is vital for living well, but appreciation is not a basic emotion like happiness or sadness so practicing it is our best way to show it.. When we do not show appreciation we disconnect from those around us.
Appreciating people proactively for their good qualities and who they are as well as reactively for when a person has done something for us is key to having successful relationships. Letting someone you love know who they are is important to you can make a big difference. Be honest about how you feel. There is never a better time than now, so just speak from the heart and go for it. I have a very close family. In every area we all are very close. We are a family that is not scared to show emotion, or be honest with one another. This way of being has carried over to my personal relationships with my close circle of friends. I try to never let an oppportunity pass, where if I feel something I say it, I show it. It makes me feel good to be this forthcoming, and honest and I hope that it makes the receiver feel just as good or even better.
Speaking from the heart, being honest, showing appreciation can make all the difference.
Peace and love.
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November 12, 2009 at 10:53 pm (Blogroll, Health and Wellness, Peace, alternative lifestyle, compassion, day to day, dreams, family, happiness, home, life, mindfulness, people, positive thinking, relationships, self awareness, simple living, simplify)
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“What happens to a dream deferred?”
“Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”
-Langston Hughes-
I think in these lines the poet Langston Hughes wondered what happens to dreams that do not come true. I have often wondered what happens to the dreamer. How do people cope with the realization that important dimensions of their lives will not turn out as they had hoped they would.
Many of us look at the world and see two groups of people winners and losers. In reality life is more complicated than that. Nobody gets everything he or she yearns for. In my case it would be children. I never had them. I look at the world now and see three sorts of people. Those that dream bodly even as they realize that a lot of their dreams will not come true. Those that dream more modestly and fear that even their modest dreams may not be realized, and those that do not dream at all. I wish more people would dream no matter how great or small. To dream in a world with so much heartache may give us some resilience to our disappointments.
Peace and love…
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