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Learning From the Butterfly – Are You Flying Free or in a Dormant State?

By Arlene
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

By Maryanne Pope

I was in Las Vegas with a friend last year and saw a magnificent sight.

In the atrium of a hotel was a greenhouse filled with beautiful butterflies. Also inside the greenhouse was a butterfly keeper, working diligently at what was obviously a very precious task.

From a small white box, the keeper would gently remove a little transparent envelope. Then, with a pair of scissors, he’d carefully snip off one end of the envelope and softly shake the contents out into a small shrub on the counter. And out fell a butterfly! Sure enough, within moments, the creature would flutter back to life – out of its dormant state – ever so slowly flapping its wings until it had gathered enough strength to fly. Read More→

Categories : Personal Growth
Tags : butterfly, change, dormancy, dormant state, flying free, freedom, friendship, growth, wisdom

Open the Blinds

By Arlene
Friday, February 24th, 2012

By Deanne P Wells

“‘How does one become a butterfly?’ she asked pensively. ‘You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.’” ~ Trina Paulus

How long have you been living your life as a “caterpillar?” How long have you been waiting to spread your wings and fly? So why creep when you could soar?! There is a horizon waiting for you… if you only open the blinds to see the view. Read More→

Categories : Personal Growth, Spirituality
Tags : change, Evolution, growth, horizon waiting, Metamorphosis, options open, self-discovery

Blessings You Never Knew You Had

By Arlene
Saturday, February 11th, 2012

By Christine Adnani

Girl looking in mirrorIs there something about yourself that you thought was a flaw but turned out to be a blessing?

We all have them.

For me, it’s the fact that I’m an introvert. Growing up, school sucked. No one understood me and I didn’t understand myself. I wondered why I couldn’t just be “normal.” I was sick of being asked, “Why don’t you ever talk?” I literally made myself sick every morning with this insane nervousness. Read More→

Categories : Personal Growth
Tags : change, goals, gratitude, great, Health, improvement, inspire, love, motivate, passion, thanks, think, wellness

Don’t Be Afraid of Getting Dirty

By Arlene
Saturday, December 10th, 2011

By Debra Smouse

If you were to peek at my personal emails, you’d see a common word come up: dirt.

Why have I been discussing dirt? Well, I’m not planning a vegetable garden. The discussion of dirt has been more metaphoric. As several of my mentors have said to me, “When you plant a seed, it isn’t a sprout that comes up first. The first thing that comes up is dirt.”

What does that mean? Read More→

Categories : Personal Growth, Spirituality
Tags : change, making changes in your life, resistance to change

Certainty – A Fallacy

By Arlene
Sunday, November 6th, 2011

By Kevin Abdulrahman

Life will always throw us challenges. Some we will expect, most we won’t.

As humans we have a number of needs. Two of those needs include the need for certainty and the need for uncertainty.

Although the need for certainty brings about peace of mind, the need for uncertainty brings about the spark of life.

We desire the need to have certainty. It is something many of us long for, the guarantee that we will know what will come up next. We wish to know that everything will be fine, Read More→

Categories : Personal Growth
Tags : certainty, change, uncertainty
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