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Finding Freedom
“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.” ― Thích Nhất Hạnh, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation Two women sat watching their sons […]
Read MorePresents or Presence, Every Day
“I wear the chain I forged in life….I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.” ― Jacob Marley’s ghost; Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol Heading out of the house, an update from someone […]
Read MoreThe Most Powerful Tool is the Tongue
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and help them to become what they are capable of being.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet and composer “You’re crazy!” The words stung and seeped into my mind more quickly than a sponge can soak up a glass of water. […]
Read MoreYou’re Grace?
“Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.” ~Frederich Schiller “You’re Grace?” The question was not so strange. My business name contains “Grace,” and the column which holds my blog is ‘Amazed by Grace’. If either of my sons had turned out to be a daughter, her name would have been Elizabeth […]
Read MoreThe Beauty of a Wrinkle
“Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.” ― Clarence Day Jr. Putting on eye shadow has never been a difficult task for me. Well, it wasn’t difficult until about a year ago […]
Read MoreThe Best Part of Life
“The best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.” ― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads It struck suddenly. An active young mother fell ill to a sickness that had no name. She aged many years in the first week after losing much feeling on her left […]
Read MoreWhat’s Right and What’s Wrong?
“There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do. It’s all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain’t nice, but that’s as far as any man got a right to say.”― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Hitting another person […]
Read MoreIf you don’t have a gavel, why do you judge?
“As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their “right” place.” ― Henri J.M. Nouwen What you think of […]
Read MoreLife is a people business…Make it a pleasure
Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer. ~ Dale Carnegie I have been dealing with people for a long time. It started probably fifty years ago, when I was born. There […]
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Thoughts to Encourage
Nothing helps like a good nap…
Birds are Beautiful
A Dog is Faithful…
