Spring is my favorite time of year in Door County. Over the past 17 years, residents have engaged in a program to plant my favorite flower — daffodils — EVERYWHERE. 2.2 million to be exact. The days when they start to bloom not only please my sense of beauty, but they signal that warm weather is here to stay for just a little bit; http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/wisconsins-door-county-celebrates-spring-in-style-89777112.html

Wisconsin’s Door County Celebrates Spring in Style (sys-con.com)

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If you are the answer…

…then what are the questions that people would ask to find you? Here are some ideas…

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Change Your Life In 2 Seconds

Pema Chodron writes:

One of the lines that I really like in Gaylon Ferguson’s book Natural Wakefulness is “Distraction is married to discontent.” You could test this out in your own experience. There’s nothing as real and direct and counterhabitual as being present with yourself, just as you are, with your emotions just as they are.

As difficult as that can be, the result of that training is nonstruggle: not rejecting your experience, fully engaged with yourself, with the world, there for other people. Another result of coming back to being with yourself, just as you are, is that emotions don’t escalate. Continue reading “Change Your Life In 2 Seconds” →

May 4, 2013 0

There is No Expiration Date to Your Dreams

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What’s in a Name? How Status Anxiety Could be Affecting You

The team at FinerMinds writes:

Does pulling out your business card make you feel proud or anxious?And if someone else gives you their business card, do you also judge them based on what their credentials reveal?In this short video, writer and philosopher, Alain De Botton, discusses the growing problem of status anxiety, and how we’ve become conditioned to make snap assumptions about someone’s worth, which are often based on very limited information.What do you think of the video? Do you agree that we’re too quick to judge others, and ourselves?

via What’s in a Name? How Status Anxiety Could be Affecting You.

May 4, 2013 0

You are the light of the world…

One of my favorites from the classic album Godspell. Crank it!

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Your task is not to seek for love…

You might reflect on someone important to you, and ask: “What is between me and loving fully?” Notice what happens. This talk explores the ways we create separations from others, and the power of inquiry and presence to awaken an unconditionally loving heart…

May 4, 2013 0

Oh longing mind…

“O longing mind

Dwell within the depth

Of your own pure nature.

Do not seek your home elsewhere….

Your naked awareness alone, O mind,

Is the inexhaustible abundance

For which you long so desperately.”

Sri Ramakrishna

Go to the source of this quote: Gestalt and Mindfulness | Gestalt Mindfulness

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All that we are…

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May 3, 2013 0

How to Be Kind to Yourself in a Busy World

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“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” ~Sydney J. Harris A few weeks ago, I had a panic attack. It was the first time in my life

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May 3, 2013 0

5 Tiny Steps to Move away from Unnecessary Busyness

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When we are busy, we forget to feel what’s going on with our own bodies. Let us not be the ants, blind to our own lives, oblivious to what’s in front of us.

Todd Lohenry‘s insight:

“It’s not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?” ~Henry David Thoreau

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Good Evening Kewaunee

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Like a pudgy, pink ghost rising from the sea, the full moon begins its ascent over Lake Michigan and the Kewaunee, Wisconsin lighthouse and pier.

Todd Lohenry‘s insight:

‘Pink, pudgy ghost’? Heh, heh, heh…

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May 3, 2013 0

The Power in Choosing Your Response [Podcast]

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You can’t always choose what happens to you, but you can choose how you respond to those situations. This is where our real power—and our real freedom—is found.

Todd Lohenry‘s insight:

Go to Michael’s site to get the podcast…

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Give up the Blame Game. Be your own HERO!

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Kute Blackson Inteviews Robin Lim – CNNs Hero of the Year! To find out more about Kute Blackson visit: http://www.boundlessblissbali.com To find out more abo…

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May 3, 2013 0

Spring Follows Winter Once More

Finally. It has been a long time coming…

Live & Learn

Lying here in the tall grass
Where it’s so soft
Is this what it is to go home?
Into the Earth
Of worms and black smells
With a larch tree gathering sunlight
In the spring afternoon
And the gates of paradise open just enough
To let out
A flock of geese.

~ Tom Hennen

I felt my blood pressure rising after hitting the send button a few minutes ago on the “bad manners” post. I needed something soothing…so I flipped open Tom Hennen’s new book and voila…magic.

Poem Source: Tom Hennen – Darkness Sticks to Everything (p.72). Image Source: Thank you TogetherGreen