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Daily Spark: Sacred Self-Care
I love the poet Maya Angelou’s words, “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”
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Daily Spark: Capacity for Delight
Julia Cameron said that “The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.”
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Slow Down and Breathe
It is easy sometimes to get in a hurry and forget to slow down and breathe. Oprah Winfrey has said, “Breathe. Let Go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”
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Daily Spark: Walk Towards Them
Rumi said, “Beautiful days do not come to you. You must walk towards them”.
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Daily Spark: From the Ashes
Kalen Dion said, “Yes, you will rise from the ashes. But the burning comes first. For this part, darling, you must be brave.”
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Daily Spark: Which Door?
I remember as a kid watching the original “Price is Right” game show with the host Bob Barker. I still remember how excited contestants would get. Barker would ask very dramatically, “which door do you want to open?”
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Daily Spark: Before it Melts
“An Italian sculptor held a personal exhibition of ice blocks entitled: “Life is short, enjoy it before it melts.”
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Daily Spark: One Moment, NOW!
“No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment, NOW!”
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Daily Spark: Making Sense of Our Lives
I once had an Episcopal priest, named Henry Parsley, say to me that “a life without reverie is meaningless”. We were talking about my propensity to go, go, go and I didn’t take much time for reverie, for self-reflection, for thinking about my life.
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Daily Spark: A Grand Thing
Agatha Christie said, “”I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”