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My Five Step Spiritual Housecleaning Plan

This morning, in a hurry and late for the train I saw something out the corner of my eye that stopped me cold and had me running for the broom. Right next to the chair in front of my faux fireplace sat three very tiny, very fresh rat, er… let’s c...

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Anger and Your Driving Using Self-Talk to Create Safer Vistas Part 2

Date: January 28, 2001Place: Fashion Island, Newport Beach, CaliforniaThe incident: Jane, a middle aged professional woman had an altercation with another woman who accosted her after she refused to give up her parking spot.Jane clearly reached the c...

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Letting go of anger and awaken to life's grand adventures

Anger can make us feel good and enlivened for a little while. When we are angry we are often feeling self-righteous, critical, judgemental and we have someone to blame for our own problems. However, anger can easily turned to hatred and this can lead...

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Workaholism, Leisure and Pleasure - Part II

The emotional leap was only a question of time. Historically, people went to work because they had to. What they did after work was designated as "pleasure". Now, both work and leisure were pleasurable - or torturous - or both. Some people began to e...

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Good and Evil

What a wonderful time to be the President of the United States! If you are President, you are king. You can spend a trillion dollars of other people's money and thousands of lives, to hunt down one personal enemy. You can do it in the name of f...

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If Only, If Only, If Only

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them...

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The 45-second Meditation

The 45-second Meditation by: Steve Gillman Is Meditation Too Much Time And Trouble? If you haven't meditated before, you might think it's too much trouble to learn. If you do meditate, you know it can be difficult to find the time to d...

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Mystery Shopper 007

Mystery Shopper 007 by: Jon Castle Living a Double Life as a Mystery Shopper As a mystery shopper you are kind of like a spy. Just as James Bond gets briefed on his next top-secret assignment at some high-tech cave complex beneath a tropical isl...

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Get Blissed!

Elton John, Billy Joel, Phil Collins and Freddie Mercury all have something in common, aside of a smidge of talent and the fact they all became pop-stars. Watch Elton John perform I’m Still Standing or Billy Joel play My Life at their pianos, or wi...

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How Do We Know When A Relationship Has A Future?

Why is it that depending on others to fulfill our self worth is a concept that we all can relate to? Sacrificing what our thoughts, emotions, decisions, and likes or dislikes are, for the betterment of someone else’s. It is as if depending on the o...

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