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Thoughts lead on to action; actions form habits; habits create character; and character creates our destiny. – Debra Moffitt We often think that moving into a new year will automatically change our fate. But actions from the past will follow us. This is the law of action or cause and effect. It’s like a credit…

I recall when my uncle was wounded in war and the army sent home his purple heart to my grandmother. It lay in a beautiful little box and it represented blood that had been shed in the line of duty. Even more deeply it represented courage under the most difficult of circumstances – under fire.…

Money is a great servant and a terrible master.- Benjamin Franklin In American culture we hold attitudes about money that say money and spirituality are mutually exclusive. “It’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to go to heaven,” is one attitude that prevails. So…

“Dance when your heart is broken open. Dance when your spirit dives. Dance to the rhythms of life and let your heart soar.” – Debra Moffitt Dance can elevate a soul to the divine. When the Sufi mystic, Rumi walked through the market, he heard the jewelry makers hammering gold. Through the pounding, he heard…

Ok, so more often than not, this time of year we make New Year’s resolutions that sound good on December 31st, but don’t make it past mid-day on January 1st. Because most of these resolutions are based on superficial desires, they’re doomed to fail. But when we really take time to go deep and listen…

The time leading up to the New Year rush causes more stress than most any other period.  Between high expectations, financial pressure and duties to family and friends it’s easy to lose sight of one’s feelings and forget about self-care. Often explosions, depression and negative feelings come when we’re not keying in to emotions.  They build up beneath the…

In the New Year there are some surefire ways to be assured of an unsuccessful 2012. Here’s a list. 1) Hold on to self-defeating habits. Changing  self-defeating habits like overeating or negative thinking will  improve your chances of greater well being and move you into a place of confidence and courage. It will certainly change…

If you make no appointments, you will not suffer disappointments. – Sai Baba One of the biggest things I remember about Christmas as a kid was a pervading sense of disappointment. The holiday was so built up, so out of proportion and so filled with fantasy images of ecstatic children swooning over the perfect doll…

“There are so many gifts still unopened from your soul’s birthday. There are so many hand-crafted presents that have been sent into your life by God.” – Hafiz translated by Daniel Ladinsky Hafiz, an illuminated Persian poet who lived in the 1300’s experienced the awakened consciousness and revealed it through his exquisite poems. He saw…

Synchronistic events offer us perceptions that may be useful in our psychological and spiritual growth and may reveal to us, through intuitive knowledge, that our lives have meaning.  — Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD When we begin to wake up and pay attention to the world around us and look for meaning, Spirit begins to play…
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