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The Benefits of Emotional Intelligence

While we all, at some level, understand that we’re motivated by pain and pleasure, it’s amazing how we can learn, especially in our Western culture, to ignore the concomitant fact that moving toward pleasure makes us feel good, and is good for ou...

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Schindler's List A Fecal Matter

(The following was written in 1993.)Recently, when a visiting friend wanted to rent it, I saw "Schindler’s List" again. I can report that a second viewing of Ralph Fiennes’ portrayal of the concentration camp commandant Amon Goeth yields even mo...

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Tapping Primal Life Force

When the residents of the Scottish spiritual community of Findhorn first encountered Pan in the forest, Pan asked them to convey a message from the Beings of Nature to the rest of humanity. Pan said: “Tell them, ‘We never left—you did.’”The...

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Ah, Sweet Memories Part One

Finally! The colors of the leaves are changing, and now all too quickly. As I walk around my neighborhood enjoying the smells of autumn, combined with the reds, oranges and even maroons of some of the leaves, I think once more of all the autumns that...

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Create a Conscious Love Relationship 2

Create a Conscious Love Relationship ?2 Robert Elias NajemyPart 2 of 3 part seriesWe continue here to discuss aspects of a mature relationship.COMMUNICATION a. Expressing needs and feelings rather than blame.One of the main causes of misunderstanding...

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Sometime We Need To Be Stripped Of Everything In Order To Rebuild

Throughout life we will experience many situations that will cause us to reach a “bottom”. It seems as though we have to be stripped of everything by spiritual laws in order to rebuild upon a stronger foundation. Before you can go up, you must hi...

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Accepting our Rejected Thoughts

Sometimes we are in a position to look into the lives of other people. It could be through a book, or a movie, or a story we hear, or occasionally it could be someone that we meet. Sometimes when this happens, we see qualities that we truly admire, a...

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How's Your Self Talk

You know, what are you saying to yourself? There's always something going on in there. Do you make positive statements about yourself to yourself or are you beating yourself up with your own words?"Know thyself" is a statement that comes to mind...

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Making an Investment in Friendship Can Pay Off in Your Old Age!

When I was twenty-two, I was befriended by a woman named Doris who was thirty years older than I was. Although Doris was then a fifty-two year old woman, she did not feel it was inappropriate to befriend me. She did not operate with the social belief...

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Keys To Increased Intelligence

Keys To Increased Intelligenceby Alan Tutthttp://www.KeysToPower.comIt's back to school season, and many students will be looking for ways to make better grades with less effort. Even those of us who are not enrolled in formal education, are fac...

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