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  • Keep your friends close, your enemies closer. Many people believe negative emotion to be man’s worst enemy. So long as you condemn negative emotion (in yourself and others) you keep yourself...

    Keep your friends close, your enemies closer

    Keep your friends close, your enemies closer. Many people believe negative emotion to be man’s worst enemy. So long as you condemn negative emotion (in yourself and others) you keep yourself...

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  • Having walked on fire  several times, I can testify to the very powerful act of facing our physical fears.  Doing things that scare the living the daylights out of us...

    Facing one’s fear

    Having walked on fire  several times, I can testify to the very powerful act of facing our physical fears.  Doing things that scare the living the daylights out of us...

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  • There mere act of defining who you are puts limits on who you can be. It can close you in some way. Instead define what you love, how you to...

    The identity label..

    There mere act of defining who you are puts limits on who you can be. It can close you in some way. Instead define what you love, how you to...

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  • The workout (redefinition according to SuzyQ): The only time in the span of a day where no one else matters.  One is totally focused, totally empowered, totally in sync with...

    The Daily Workout

    The workout (redefinition according to SuzyQ): The only time in the span of a day where no one else matters.  One is totally focused, totally empowered, totally in sync with...

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  • I remember being 16 years old, with a freshly broken heart, writing a poem on a scrap piece of tracing paper and sketching pencil perched against the subway window in...

    Liz Gilbert on Creativity

    I remember being 16 years old, with a freshly broken heart, writing a poem on a scrap piece of tracing paper and sketching pencil perched against the subway window in...

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  • Lost By David Waggoner From Collected Poems 1956-1976 Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it...

    Lost – David Waggoner

    Lost By David Waggoner From Collected Poems 1956-1976 Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it...

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  • We were coming back down the mountain from our lunchtime run on a warm sunny Monday. Two women were walking in front of us.  ”I wish I could wear short...

    A shortcoming,… really?!?!?!

    We were coming back down the mountain from our lunchtime run on a warm sunny Monday. Two women were walking in front of us.  ”I wish I could wear short...

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  • I remember the first time I walked on a beach at night. It was on my first trip to Italy.  Were on a beach in a town not to far from...

    Spiaggia di Notte – Midnight Beaches

    I remember the first time I walked on a beach at night. It was on my first trip to Italy.  Were on a beach in a town not to far from...

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  • Life is but a mere string of moments, yours to seize. You are here today. The good, the bad, the ugly. The beautiful. The love. Say yes! When you are angry, say yes! Because that anger...

    A way to live (while you’re still alive)

    Life is but a mere string of moments, yours to seize. You are here today. The good, the bad, the ugly. The beautiful. The love. Say yes! When you are angry, say yes! Because that anger...

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  • February 7th, 2011 I remember being 13. I had a crush on the neighberhood bad boy.  It was a very long crush. Kinda like the ones you see in the...

    Going back to move forward

    February 7th, 2011 I remember being 13. I had a crush on the neighberhood bad boy.  It was a very long crush. Kinda like the ones you see in the...

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