Mysticism Must Be Lived Mysticism is more than something we study. It is about strengthening our connection with the God of our Heart through prayer, meditation, silence, reflection, and service. Spirituality becomes real when it shapes how we live each day. The God of My Heart The phrase “God of my Heart” makes spirituality personal.
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What Our Spaces Can Reveal You can learn something about a person by looking at the space around them. But a room, car, or office can only tell you so much, so you should never assume you know the whole story. Our surroundings often reflect our habits, priorities, routines, and stress. They can also reveal
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Stick With the Plan One of the most underrated skills you can learn is how to stop letting every mood decide what happens next. Some mornings you are going to wake up focused, energized, and ready to move. Other mornings you may question everything, including yourself. You may not feel motivated. You may not feel
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Self-Love Has to Become a Practice The older I get, the more I understand that loving myself cannot remain something I merely say. Self-love has to show up in the way I actually treat myself. I can tell myself that I matter all day long, but my habits will eventually reveal whether I believe it.
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Humanity Has to Come First The older I get, the more I believe that being human has to mean something deeper than belonging to a particular race, religion, culture, or nation. Those identities matter because they help tell the story of where we came from and what shaped us. I am not interested in pretending
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People Will Try to Define You One of the realities of life is that people become comfortable with the version of us they already know. Once they have placed me in a particular category, they may expect me to remain there. If I have spent years doing one kind of work, they assume that is
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The Difference Between Loneliness and Solitude There is a difference between being alone and feeling lonely, and I think understanding that difference becomes increasingly important as we move through life. Two people can spend an evening alone in nearly identical circumstances and experience that time completely differently. One person may feel peaceful, free, and comfortable.
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Reality Does Not Explain Itself The older I become, the more I recognize that an event and my interpretation of that event are not always the same thing. Something happens, and almost immediately my mind begins explaining it. Someone does not return my telephone call, and I wonder whether they are upset with me. A
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Another Nervous System Inside Us For most of my life, when I heard somebody talk about having a “gut feeling,” I understood it as a figure of speech. We say something does not sit right with us, that we have butterflies in our stomach, or that our gut is telling us not to trust a
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What “Feel It to Heal It” Means I have heard the expression “You have to feel it to heal it,” and there is wisdom in those few words when they are understood carefully. Pain that is constantly avoided does not necessarily disappear simply because we refuse to look at it. Grief, disappointment, fear, anger, and
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