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Self-image is the personal view we have of ourselves. It is our mental image or self portrait. Self-image is an internal dictionary that describes the characteristics of the self, including concepts like intelligence, beauty, kindness, selfishness or insensitivity. These characteristics form a collective representation of our assets and liabilities as we see them. Relationships reinforce [...]
(read more...)December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
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We first heard of the Freemont people as we hiked to Lower Calf Creek Falls in the Grand Staircase-Escalante region. The remains of their storage granaries perched at the edges of the high cliffs above us, and we were thrilled to spot [...]
(read more...)November 14, 2008 | 2 Comments
The new focus of energy medicine is based on the belief that our “life force” creates energy fields that are unbalanced during emotional or physical disease. Because our energy fields are part of an interconnected whole, the use of focused intention by one individual can aid in the health and well being of another. What [...]
(read more...)September 30, 2008 | 1 Comment
I heard someone say that everyone has had a secret sometime in their life. I don’t know if that is true, but it got me thinking…why do we keep secrets? Are they simply a form of deception or do they have an inherent value, like protection? Has a secret effected your life?
(read more...)September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Many of us, because of a critical illness, suicidal depression or life threatening accident, have been faced with having to recommit to life to go on living. Sometimes the road back is long and arduous. It raises questions about God and faith, the engine behind achievement, and the persistence of love, divine and human. What [...]
(read more...)August 19, 2008 | 1 Comment
I’m with the kids on this one: “Wa-a-ay too soon.”*
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All three head back to school on August 20th this year. Excuse me, but that’s a pretty big step over the edge of September into sacred Summer! I can forgive (and ignore) the store [...]
(read more...)August 19, 2008 | 1 Comment
“All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that [...]
(read more...)August 3, 2008 | 1 Comment
Road to Zion (National Park, Utah) [2:01m]: Hide Player | Play in Popup | Download
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The road to Zion extended from an Enterprise rental lot outside Las Vegas McCarran International Airport, past the Strip and well beyond tenacious Mesquite, Nevada. A “Welcome to Arizona” sign came as a complete surprise as we traveled northeast on [...]
(read more...)July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
“Not effort or
the absence of effort,
neither choice nor
the impossibility of choice,
neither self nor not self,
neither nothing nor something,
neither emptiness nor form,
neither unborn nor born,
the third thing…” - John Astin
The embrace of third alternative does not blot out any part of reality, or substitute it with a new shiny version - it very simply completes the [...]
(read more...)July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
There is an ancient Tibetan Buddhist saying: “When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. When you die, you rejoice, and the world cries”.
What is death, exactly, and what does it mean to us as we are living? Throughout the world, death and the rituals that surround it are steeped in taboos. [...]
(read more...)June 22, 2008 | 2 Comments
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