Books
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Get us back
As I was mowing the grass yesterday, I wondered if all Mental Illnesses mean you are not in reality? That the meaning of being ill in your mind, is when you can't see or be with reality? While there are… Continue reading
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Climbing through the darkness…
Last night at Dial Help, we learned a bit about suicide. Some of the statistics are shocking and then, not so much. There are 35,000 who die each year…more than in war or disasters. 90% have mental health issues. The… Continue reading
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Filled by Me
"If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home, we may miss our… Continue reading
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What is it Reflecting?
In Oprah's magazine, she interviews Deepak Chopra and she asks, Oprah: "What is that essence? In every conversation I've had with housewives,in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums – everyone says there is an underlying consciousnes of karma.… Continue reading
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Born to Cover it Up.
A few months back I met with Detective Tom Rosemurgy, who suggested a meeting with a woman who works at Dial Help. She is the coordinator for Sexual Assault Serves…and the Volunteers. All three of us met a few times,… Continue reading
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Will Bring in Awareness
" Most of us avoid confronting ourselves" Deepak Chopra What a profound statement. Most of us live our whole lives confronting others and never turn our scrutiny on ourselves; to see how our actions are impacting the world. It is so… Continue reading
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A New You.
From Mark Nepo's "Book of Awakening", he writes. " There is very little difference between burying and planting. For often, we need to put dead things to rest, so that new life can grow. And further, the thing put to… Continue reading
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Truth was the courage I clung to.
I would have a hard time remembering me being in the dark about abuse…of not even considering it or being drawn into conversations about victims of childhood sexual abuse. That me seems so far back there, like way way way… Continue reading
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Made up for what I lost.
"Hard as it is, we cannot shrink from our relationships or we simply become an audience or gofer for the dominant partner or friend. Like most of us, I have struggled with this my whole life; fearful of what might… Continue reading
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By Our Own Free Will
"In the Reality of nonduality, there is neither privilege nor gain nor loss nor rank. Just like a cork in the sea, each spirit rises or falls in the sea of consciousness of its own level by virtue of its… Continue reading