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Around the time of the Oscars I realized that I actually spend a considerable amount of time acting instead of living my life. I constantly try to meet expectations and to be what, I think, is expected of me in my role as a senior manager aspiring to the executive level. However, if I am …
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‘Cause love is the answer It’s the answer to the questions in your mind Love is the answer It’s the answer, if you’re looking you will find How to love without attaching? I don’t remember since when I started asking myself that question. What is the difference and how can I tell? Why should I …
The phone is ringing on both lines. 3 waiters are giving their drink orders simultaneously. Customers are waiting impatiently. There are people all around that need something. Needless to say this is a stressful moment and I lose myself in the whirlwind of the restaurant business. On top of all that I have my own …
Nasa recently announced the discovery of 1700 exoplanets. Exoplanets are planets that exist outside of our solar system and orbit their own distant suns. There were thousands more found but these 1700 have been officially confirmed to exist. Pluto was demoted to a “dwarf planet” not so long ago leaving us with only 8 planets …
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 About 10 years ago Master Johwa introduced me to smiling as a meditation for spiritual growth. I remember it rather well. It took so much effort to simply smile for no reason that it is actually incredible when I think about it. I resisted consistently for a long time and we had many conversations …
in my grandson I see me as I was, and feel the child still within. seeing through each other’s eyes we will smile at sunrises and sunsets. listening through each other’s ears we will marvel at the howling wind, the roaring sea,  and the singing of birds, and in our dreams there will be as much joy as in …
If there is one thing that I am sure of from practicing meditation while working it is that the less serious I take myself the happier I am. When I take myself seriously and make myself the star of my personal movie, which is usually a drama where I have been under appreciated my whole …
