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The Four Portals of Gratitude
In her audio book, Gratitude, Angeles Arrien offers the four portals of gratitude: Blessings – acts of kindness, consideration and generosity Learnings – life lessons that allow me to stretch, to...
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Generosity and Bakesale Betty
For me, the most gratifying Sunday morning involves a rockin’ celebration of worship at the East Bay Church of Religious Science followed by lunch with friends at one of the many great restaurants in...
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Bakesale Betty, Take 2
A tragic thing happened last fall. Bakesale Betty decided to close on Sundays – the day that I frequent Oakland. I am heartbroken – as is my mother who, now in her eighties, has developed both a...
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The Big Love Fund
I’m on retreat this week. Enjoy this post from my friend Clare Campbell in Liverpool and join in on the Big Love Fund. …as if for an instant we had all learned how to give all our money away, watching...
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Look For The Signs
In my top 10 list of favorite TEDTalks is Neil Pasricha’s the 3 A’s of Awesome. Neil started a blog to deal with heartache by savoring life’s simple pleasures. He offers The 3 A’s to Leading a Life...
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The Gratitude Visit
Gratitude can make your life happier and more satisfying. When we feel gratitude, we benefit from the pleasant memory of a positive event in our life. Also, when we express our gratitude to others,...
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It’s All The Mystery
This week on Fresh Air, Terry Gross interviewed first responders to the World Trade Center bombings. A comment I heard has stayed with me. After humbly relaying what by all accounts was the heroic...
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Calling All Allies
Many of us do not belong to an organized spiritual tradition. Some of us weren’t raised with any or are atheist or agnostic. Others didn’t resonate or couldn’t fully accept the whole package of a...
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Living in Gratitude
Angeles Arrien’s newest book, Living in Gratitude – A Journey That Will Change Your Life, has just made a timely debut. Like all of her work and past writings she brings multicultural wisdom to...
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What is Your Heart Dreaming Of?
Last Night as I Lay Sleeping by Antonio Machado Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvelous error!— that a spring was breaking out in my heart. I said: Along which secret aqueduct, Oh water, are...
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When it’s Over, it’s Over.
Beginnings, middles and endings. These are the natural cycles that all life experience moves through. We’re generally better in some and have strengthening work to do in the others. The first...
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Gratitude for You
In this season of gratitude, it is rare to spend much time reflecting on what we are grateful for about ourselves. We will include thanks for good health but don’t often go deeper into appreciating...
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Asking for Help
Why is it so hard to ask for help? When it’s offered many of us have a reflexive response to decline outright. Some of it stems from being raised in a culture of fierce independence, keeping up...
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Helping Allies
The important strangers who gathered this past weekend at the Women at the Well retreat were blessed with many helping allies from the natural world to assist us going deep in our work. Helping...
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Journey into Nature
It’s summertime here in California. Traditionally this is the season to take a break, slow down from the intensity of everyday life, relax and renew. A time when some of us take vacations, travel to...
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Most of us know Halloween as the time of year for carving pumpkins, kids (young and old) in costumes and lots of candy around to enjoy or tempt us, depending on the relationship we have with sugar....
View ArticleIn the Steps of the Ancestors – The Story Continues
Last weekend I participated in the Way of the Teacher – the concluding weekend in the four part, yearlong series of the new Four Directions program. Developed by Patrick O’Neill – long time student,...
View ArticleAs I Walk with Gratitude
As I Walk With Gratitude As I walk, as I walk The universe is walking with me In gratitude it walks before me In gratitude it walks behind me In gratitude it walks below me In gratitude it walks above...
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