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The Deaf and the Paralytic

What’s in the way becomes the way. -Marcus Aurelius Circumcision of heart implies humility, faith, hope, and charity (loving kindness). Humility, a right judgment of ourselves, cleanses our minds from those high conceits of our own perfection, from that undue opinion of our own abilities and attainments, which are the genuine fruit of a corrupted […]

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The Walk

Someone said, “I’m not asking you to walk in my shoes; I’d never wish my afflictions on anyone. But could you walk beside me on secure ground and reach to hold my hand? They have not walked in your shoes; don’t put much stock in their opinions.” Life is a series of decisions. The decision […]

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GLADIATOR

“..The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” —Marcus Aurelius I love the movie, GLADIATOR. A story of a general who became a slave; a slave who became a gladiator; a gladiator who saved Rome, not the Empire. Camadus, a paranoid prince, killed his father, the Cesar because of […]

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HIS PRESENCE

Familiarity breeds contempt. Familiarity breeds contempt is an old proverb that means the,   better you know someone, the more you will find fault with him. To let the proverb speak to me, I saw that it’s a projection of self-loathing spirit functioning within my soul to self-destruct.  There’s a story of King David in First […]

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HOW’S YOUR HEART?

If your heart is right, your mind will follow. If your heart is broken, your mind will be cognitively distorted. It’s like that woman accusing their neighbor for not doing their laundry correctly. One day the husband cleaned their kitchen windows. She saw and admired her neighbor for doing her laundry correctly. Her view was […]

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LEARN, DON’T DWELL 

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research. – Carl Jung Most self-help teaching does  not tell you that your problem is a result of your childhood starting at age zero to nineteen.  I’m a believer of cause and effect.  I suppose this is where it begins for a […]

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