Much good would come if you began and ended each day focusing on that for which you are grateful. Melody Beattie said, “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…. gratitude makes sense of our past, brings […]
Guidelines
Treat Everyone as a Treasure
Treat everyone as a treasure. Every person is in fact a unique work of art, with more in them than they imagine, let alone us. Sometimes our task is to help them discover and embrace what is already within them. As a part of that task, we may have to help them believe enough in […]
Accept Others to Open Their Hearts
The key to opening the human heart is acceptance. That recently hit me like an epiphany. If you’ll just take a minute and imagine how it affects you when you feel truly accepted by another, I suspect you will sense a softening, an easing, a relaxing of your heart. I suspect you will realize how […]
Follow the Golden Rule
The question of how to treat others has received the same singular answer in most every religion and ethical tradition since the sixth century BCE. For example, in ancient Hinduism we are told, “One should never do something to others that one would regard as an injury to one’s own self. In brief, this is […]
Love is a Circle with Three Phases
Love is a circle with three phases. These phases blend into one another seamlessly, around and around again, potentially lifelong, and maybe even beyond. The phases are as the sweeps of a second hand, beginning at 12: first downward, then across, finally upward toward closure – and repetition. For love’s satisfaction, love’s perpetuation, all three […]
You Are What You Share
You are what you share. Sharing affirms and ushers you into the present, something we need to enter constantly. It is easy to get lost in yesterday’s memories or tomorrow hopes. Yet all that is, is right here and now. But you must risk sharing yourself with others to make accessible the nourishing treasure-trove of […]
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