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Monthly Archives: February 2016
Touchstone – Open and Receive
26 February 2016 The most exciting discoveries happen at the frontiers. When you come to know something new, you come closer to yourself and to the world. Discovery enlarges and refines your sensibility. When you discover something, you transfigure some … Continue reading
Open and Receive
24 February 2016 Stillness is not about focusing on nothingness; it’s about creating a clearing. It’s opening up an emotionally clutter-free space and allowing ourselves to feel and think and dream and question. ~Brené Brown On the way back from … Continue reading
Three Steps
16 February 2016 If you live the questions, life will move you into the answers. ~Deepak Chopra Often when I feel discouraged or weary, I’m resenting the way the world is. And asking it to tend to me in a … Continue reading
Posted in Connection, Facing fear, Gratitude, Mindfulness
Tagged Brene Brown, Deepak Chopra, Joseph Campbell, Martha Beck
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Touchstone – Full of Myself
12 February 2016 When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. ~Audre Lorde I’ve done my share of putting someone down … Continue reading
Full of Myself
9 February 2016 “Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved. ~Marianne Williamson, A Woman’s Worth This week I’ve been seeing … Continue reading
Posted in Being Authentic, Courage, Finding Enough, Vulnerability
Tagged Brene Brown, Marianne Williamson, Mary Oliver, Shonda Rhimes
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Touchstone – Yes… And…
5 February 2016 An emergent world invites us to use our most human of all capacities, our consciousness. It asks us to be alert in the moment for what is unfolding. What is happening at this moment? What can we … Continue reading
Yes… And…
2 February 2016 Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. ~Corita Kent In her biography, Bossypants, Tina Fey has a great section about saying yes to the moment. In her instructions for creating improvisational … Continue reading