Tag: #Presence
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Daily Spark: Whole and Healed Self
Oprah Winfrey,“Every year should teach you something valuable; whether you get the lesson is up to you. Every year brings you closer to expressing your whole and healed self.”
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Daily Spark: Joy, Joy, Joy
Do you remember the old Southern Baptist hymn, “I got that joy, joy, joy, joy, down in my heart . . . to stay”?
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Daily Spark: Music of the Night
Charles Hart’s lyrics from the Phantom of the Opera, “Slowly, gently night unfurls its splendor. Grasp it, sense it, tremulous and tender . . . listen to the music of the night.”
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Daily Spark: Beauty All Around
Greg McKeown said that “Focus is more important than genius”.
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Joy in the Everyday
“No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.” CS Lewis, Surprised by Joy
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Daily Spark: Sleepwalking Through Life
I want more than simply sleepwalking through my life! Philip Toshio Sudo mirrored my thoughts on this when he said, “We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake.”
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Daily Spark: Celebrate Good Times
Today was a good day, a joyful day. After five weeks of health challenges with life and death struggles, my partner made it home from the hospital. I feel a bit like singing Kool and the Gang’s song, you all know it: “Celebrate good times, come on!”
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Daily Spark: NOT a Bit Player
Have you ever felt as if your life is so much on autopilot that you are barely present for it? “I want to be the author of my next chapter, not a bit player”.
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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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Daily Spark: Less on Autopilot
When I’m less on autopilot, and more in the precious now, it is so much easier to love my life, and to shine!