Tag: Personal Growth
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The Power of Nature
“Seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their innermost being, their true nature.” -Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose p. 2 Location: Myakka River in Venice, FL Seeing the beauty in nature is how I know when I am…
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Letting Go of Happily Ever After
I stopped trying to find “happily ever after”. I learned to understand that it belongs in those one to two hour fairytales that I watch on screen. I realized, I didn’t see the person in front of me when I was focused on the unpredictable forever. I would create a story of how a partner should…
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People Act Differently Based on the Strength of Their Inner-Worth
People act differently based on the strength of their inner-worth. If we are reacting to someone else’s negatively, it means it is time to work on building up our own. Treat yourself kindly; you are your greatest strength. Our lives shine when we can: Look at people’s actions from different perspectives- Love is kind. If someone is not acting…
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Spirituality and Religion From A Loving Place
(4) Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant (5) or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; (6) it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. (7) It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,…
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Give Yourself the Love You Deserve
Thoughts are like data programmed into a computer, registered on the screen of your life. If you don’t like what you see on the screen, there’s no point in going up to the screen and trying to erase it. Thought is Cause; experience is Effect. If you don’t like the effects in your life, you…
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I’m Not Stupid After All: School Testing and Self-Worth
The divergent thinker has considered the problem from all angles and made connections between the question and each of the potential answers. He has now spent four times as long on the question as the person who is tuned to think convergently, and his likelihood of choosing the “right” answer is still no better than…
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We All Have Our Own Journey
Why do we feel it necessary to judge others’ journeys? I find it so easy to get caught in this web. When I can pull myself back from it, I can see a better way. I choose to embrace my own journey! When I put the focus back on me and see that I’m only…
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Discovering the Meaning of Love
“My negativity was as destructive to me as alcohol is to the alcoholic. I was an artist finding my own jugular. It was as though I was addicted to my own pain.” -Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love p. 9 Coming from a divorced home, it is not uncommon to have problems with intimate relationships. If there…
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A Better Life Begins With Gratitude
“What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.” -Oprah Winfrey I’m always amazed how fast positive changes start to occur when I focus…
From A Loving Place 