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How To Have A Life-changing Experience

Can you really plan a life-changing experience, or do they just happen? Are they accident's of fate, inherited life forces, or can they be experiences the we choose?A brief story. Soon after graduating I left home for adventure and discovery, an...

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Thoughts on a Desert Ledge

I’m an American woman in mid-life, who for the most part has bought into the prevailing model where busy is good. Outside of an hour’s walk through the woods and a few weeks’ car camping when my daughter was young, I’m a city girl whose idea ...

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Are You Stuck

Are You Stuck?(c) Copyright 2003 by Murdo MacleodYou know the feeling.There's something you want to do. You've thought about it,you've made your decision, and now it's time to act.Except... you don't.You want to take the next...

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Does Master your beliefs, Master Your Emotions

Master your beliefs, Master Your EmotionsJoe makes a comment and you suddenly feel a rush of energy. Your face flushes and your knuckles whiten as you begin squeezing the edge of the table for dear life. Some part of you knows that this feeling is no...

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Maximize your mind

Maximize your mind"We are all born originals why is it so many of us die copies?" A quarter center ago, poet Edward Young bemoaned the lack of uniqueness among human beings. If you're interested in developing your originality (and by extension, ...

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Workaholism, Leisure and Pleasure - Part II

The emotional leap was only a question of time. Historically, people went to work because they had to. What they did after work was designated as "pleasure". Now, both work and leisure were pleasurable - or torturous - or both. Some people began to e...

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You're How Old!

"Well, Happy Birthday! How old are you anyway?""Oh, I'm just 29 … again."It's a harmless game, denying our age, right? We play sensitive about our age as we get older, as we get further away from birth and closer to death. It's just ...

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Carl Jung

Carl Jung wondered if he might be crazy when he had visions of the World War before the first of these conflagrations in the 20th Century came to pass. This made him a lot more desirous of understanding from whence his prophetic visions might have c...

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Move on!

I woke up one morning with a sharp pain in my ear. The last time I had an earache was some eighteen years ago. Then it was my mother’s lot to worry about it. But this morning, I am to worry because I’m grown and hardly could hear with the left ea...

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If You're Happy And You Know It

If You're Happy And You Know It by: Rose DesRochers What role does humor play in your life? In 1988 I ended a year long abusive relationship, in the same year I was date raped, in that same year my father died. In 1992 my second born daught...

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