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Hello all! I’ve had several requests lately to publish a few of the questions I usually ask Blessings Coaching clients. I did a larger post on this today in the Spirituality Blog so feel free to check that out! Here is a sample of the Questions, but you can read more on the full post at the Spirituality blog. Humans get angry or upset about a variety of things. What is upsetting to me may not be upsetting to you. What’s important to your spouse, boss, friends or family may not be important to you, or the other way around. Hurt feelings and reactions often result from unmet...
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Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground. Let the beauty we love be what we do. ~~Rumi I love this picture, taken when the Christ the Redeemer statue was under construction. One of the New Seven Wonders of the World, it was built in Rio di Janiero in the 1920’s and is huge, overlooking the whole city. It captures how I so often feel on the path and I look at it from time to time to remind me of what it symbolizes to me in my...
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The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson I’ve been reflecting lately on changes and illusions and all that happens as we age (even if we don’t grow up), all that happens as we grow and change and how much of life is how we see it. In the pic above, do you see two old folks, do you see the vase, do you see the woman coming through the doorway, do you see the young people? It all changes as your viewpoint changes. So much...
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Taiji and Qi Gong 太極拳 T’ai Chi Chuan and 氣功 Ch’i Gong Learn the Basics of the 24 Movement Form in a One-Day Mini-Retreat at MABA Saturday, September 11, 2010 8:15 am to 5:00 pm 11:45 am – Vegetarian Lunch included at the Mid-America Buddhist Association Monastery (MABA) Highway 94 & Schindler Road, Augusta, MO Taiji (太極拳; pinyin: tài jí quán; Wade-Giles Romanization: t’ai chi ch’üan) is a very ancient Chinese system of exercise, moving meditation, and energy development method, that, along with Qi Gong (Ch’i K’ong), was practiced in Shaolin, Taoist, and Buddhist...
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I am always with all beings, I abandon no one. And however great your inner darkness, you are never separate from Me. Let your thoughts flow past you calmly. Keep Me near, at every moment. Trust Me with your life, because I Am you, more than you yourself are… ~~~Bhagavad Gita I spent the last few days with my parental units, in a little town in Southeast Missouri. This is an area I blogged about last week when I was thinking of my grandmother and my memories of smells, heaven and so on. Lest I sound too romantic, the other reality is that this area located in the buckle of the...
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