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Are You Entitled Or Worthy?

Friday, July 9th, 2010

By Staci Backauskas

When I was a kid, I remember a friend of my brother’s getting diagnosed with Osgood-Schlatter disease. His bones were growing too fast for his body and it caused excruciating pain in his knees. Recently, the growth I’ve experienced feels too big for my heart, like Osgood-Schlatter of the soul.

When my girlfriend called me selfish for always driving 20 miles to pick her up so we could spend time together, my default was to defend myself. I was being kind, caring, considerate. Didn’t I lend her my car on Saturdays to do her errands? Selfish? What in the world was she talking about? Read More→

Categories : Relationships
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Do Not Feed Your Ego

Monday, June 14th, 2010

By B. Jackson

Why do I let my ego torment me so? Is it not all in vain? Everything I am building and saving will I not eventually lose?

We live as if we are never going to die. Perhaps deep down we believe it to be true. And in a sense it is. That part of us which is eternal, indestructible and omnipotent will never die. But the part of us that we see everyday, the part of us that we give the most attention to, the part of us that wants to be correct. That part of us is going to die.

There is a part of us that looks to others for approval. There is a part of us that looks to others for definition. There is a part of us that needs to win. There is a part of us that hates to lose. There is a part of us that must be just as good if not better than everyone else. Read More→

Categories : Spirituality
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What the !*?! (Bleep) Does That Mean?

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

by Mary Tucker

ezine100303_meanEver noticed the meaning you assign to people, their actions, their words, even the way they “look” at you? As humans, we believe that we just ‘know’ what a simple expression another person makes means. We are certain that our interpretation of the world is not only correct, it is the only one!

I offer up this question: how do we know?

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