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Stop waiting for your starring role
Do you want to make a difference in the world? Do you want to be a catalyst for positive change? The desire to contribute to the highest good of all is strong in most modern day mystics. We see the problems in the world. We feel the pain and suffering of those around us as […]
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Lower Your Standards!
There’s a great story about the poet and teacher William Stafford. He’s recognized as one of the most prolific poets of recent times and during the last twenty or more years of his life he wrote at least one poem every day. Yes… that’s one poem EVERY DAY! And, much to the dismay of his […]
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Learning to flow with the rhythms of life
Today was supposed to be the start of the Awakened Man Summit. But due to a last minute scheduling snafu I don’t have a speaker for tonight. Since I found out about this a couple of days ago I’ve been somewhat – to very – frantically seeking another speaker to step in at the last […]
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Did I Do the Right Thing?
As a child, my father often said, “Do the right thing, Edward.” From turning out the lights when I left a room to sending thank you cards after receiving gifts, he would speak those words. Back then I did my best to avoid doing the right thing… or at least doing HIS right thing. Certainly, […]
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Lessons in Divine Timing From a Loose Tooth
One night last week as my daughter was falling asleep she called down to me, “Dada, guess what?” “What sweetie?” “I’ve got a loose tooth!” “Yay. I’ll check it out in the morning.” And, sure enough, in the morning I saw that Ella had her first loose tooth. Now having your first loose tooth is […]
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Top 10 Life Lessons I’ve Learned From My Daughter (So Far)
Children bring a great amount of wisdom with them when they join us here in this world. I have known this for many years and have always loved being around children. But it was not until I became a father, a bit more than four years ago, that I discovered just how wise these little […]
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51 Ways to Expand Your Comfort Zone
Most of us love the familiar. Whether we realize it or not, we put a lot of work into ensuring that certain things in our lives remain constant.This personal “comfort zone” is the invisible, but very real area that defines the boundaries of what we know and understand. By staying within this comfort zone we […]
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10 Tips For Staying Positive Around Negative People
Let’s face it. No matter how positive we intend to be and how focused we are on attracting positive people into our lives, there are times when we will come into contact with negative people. You know the type: They love to talk about all the things that are going wrong in their life. They […]
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Serious Spiritual People Suck!
All right. I admit it. That title is a bit harsh. But I guess I’m qualified to write it, since the person I’m mostly talking about is myself! You see I spent a significant portion of my life being a serious spiritual person. And most of the time, when I was serious, I sucked! And […]
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Vision Quest Journal #6
This morning I was thinking how strange it was that I had not seen, or heard, any raptors since being here. Just now, I saw my first hawk. A small one, slightly smaller than a Cooper’s Hawk with thicker wings. Almost all white or light gray underneath. Slight darker above. No other distinctive markings that […]