Tag: #Presence
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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!
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Daily Spark: Zombies No More
I’ve been more practicing being more present in my surroundings, without walking around in a zombie daze, staring at my phone. I know I’ve found the beauty in being more fully present and connecting with others.
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Daily Spark: The Call of Your Gift
In his poem “A Blessing For Presence”, John O’Donahue said, and I quote, “May you respond to the call of your gift, and find the courage to follow its path.” I love those words, as I have felt the calling to my very soul to pause and give the gift of my presence to my…
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Daily Spark: Water Droplets on a Leaf
It is so easy to talk about how busy we are. Modern life seems to be a lot about rushing from task to task. But when I can pause, when I give the gift of my presence, my undivided attention, to a moment, I am more creative, more connected, more in touch, and in tune,…