Setbacks

Let every setback be a catalyst for learning to let more deeply. To let what? To let your heart come to rest, so that you can listen and hear more clearly and so that you can see more clearly. Listen to what more clearly? To listen with your heart to the still small voice within. …

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Is it a pleasure being you?

“I think I'll be" by C.O. Burleson I think I’ll be a cloud this day anewThrough which the sun its warming rays shall passAnd cast its light upon each blade of grassThat glistens with refreshing morning dew;Or should I be a bird with out-stretched wingThat glides along and then at once soars highCreating graceful figures …

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Calm, Forward, Straight

As a living, breathing human being, you are an animate creature, capable of orienting in, being motivated by and coloring your expression with a wide variety of spirits. The spirit which compels or dominates your expression in any given moment gives evidence to the true centering of your heart, regardless of what you believe mentally …

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The Touch of Life

A Day of Sunshine by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow O gift of God! O perfect day: Whereon shall no man work, but play; Whereon it is enough for me, Not to be doing, but to be! Through every fibre of my brain, Through every nerve, through every vein, I feel the electric thrill, the touch Of …

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The Value of Decision

Lexi, my Red-tailed Hawk hunting partner, has taught me a great many things over the last two-and-a-half years. I have a deep respect for her hunting style, which centers around an uncluttered capacity for decision. Human beings have it relatively easy. We don't, generally speaking, have to risk life and limb every time we eat. …

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