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Owning Our Mistakes

It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.

- Dr. Stephen Covey Read more

 

Proverb on Love from Madagascar

Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.

- Malagasy Proverb Read more

 

To Begin Anew

"Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.”

- Germany Kent Read more

 

Conscious Parenting

We cannot expect our children to become something that we are not willing to embody ourselves.

What conscious parenting does is take away the traditional focus on fixing the child and instead ask the parent to raise themselves, to heal themselves, and enter a stage of wholeness. Because if we as parents are in a place of brokenness, then we project this brokenness onto our children.

- Dr. Shefali Tsabary Read more

 

Healing Our Own Brokenness

To move away from all illusion that our children are maliciously intent on triggering us is an important step on the path of awakening. When we dare to let go of the mainstream idea that they push our buttons on purpose, we awaken to the true extent of our own immaturity. Without having them to blame on any level, we are now forced to confront our inner lack and discover the reasons why it exists.

- Dr. Shefali Tsabary Read more

 

Arthur Brooks

"First, we should concentrate each day on the happiness portfolio: faith, family, community, and earned success through work. Teach it to those around you, and fight against the barriers to these things. Second, resist the worldly formula of misery, which is to use people and love things. Instead, remember your core values and live by the true formula: Love people and use things. Third, celebrate the free enterprise system, which creates abundance for the most people—especially the poor. Read more

 

Be Tender, Compassionate, and Tolerant

Be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, and tolerant of the weak, because someday in your life you will be all of these.

- George Washington Carver Read more

 

You have to go to them sometimes.

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

- A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh Read more

 

In our own woundedness...

In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.

- Henri Nouwen Read more

 

Give cheerfully and accept gratefully.

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

- Maya Angelou Read more

 

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