What is a difference between wanting a pair of Louboutin’s red-soled shoes and wanting to help a suffering person? What is a difference between wanting to climb Kilimanjaro and wanting to walk Camino de Compostela? What is a difference between wanting to eat a gourmet dinner and wanting to become an enlightened person? I can […]
Spring is in the air. Love is in the air-this beautiful, fascinating and confusing something. So how about it, Love-I mean. Let’s have a closer look at it, let’s poke it a little. I can start by ridiculing it because Love is silly, quite stupid and unintelligent. Yes, it does not remember anything; it
Today I would like to dwell on a subject of attachment- this invisible but powerful connection we have with ideas, thoughts, stories, people… Attachment is a kind of mental glue that holds us joined with something or somebody so close that we seem to be one. We can’t imagine separation. I was once a witness
My husband and i got married four years ago, i wrote this little story, of how we went about it, for our Wedding Album, and i thought i would share it with you after seeing a status on Costa women on what steps to follow in getting married here in Spain ………….. “Congratulation’s you’re getting
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I feel sorry for “the feelings”. I am sorry for the way they are treated or rather mistreated. They are diminished, ridiculed and disrespected; they can be both dismissed and glorified. And above all they are misinterpreted. When we sense an emotion we get immediately busy with giving a meaning to it, explaining, justifying and
“If You Are Going to Lead, Then Lead.” Linda Cliatt-Wayman Leadership is about becoming the writer of the story of your life. I believe that to be a true leader requires:Vision: It is your vision, something you believe, see or feel called to do. It is where you see a need that you can serve, or hope
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The thinking, intelligent mind likes to take possession. It appropriates whatever is happening to “you” using words like “I”, “me” and “mine”. It loves telling stories in the first person. The truth is that it is not “You”. It is only a part of you-an aspect of you. It has a task to make you
A member of my family died lately. It was too soon, too abrupt and too painful; it almost always is. We are still shocked at that fact. We don’t know how and where to put this huge empty space that is left for us. There is a story about his life and about his death.
“I wish I could stop thinking “is a thought that probably pops up on everybody’s mind from time to time. Thinking in such cases instead of bringing a solution and help, has accelerated into a messy hurricane or a mental vortex threatening our sanity and giving us a headache or other even more serious malady;
It’s been a little over a year since my last entry, announcing our intent to move to Spain. Since then, there has been a flurry of activity. We made our first exploratory trip to Spain in March, as planned. We met with realtors and relocation specialists all along the way. Turns out, research-loving nerds
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