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Category Archives: Finding Enough
Touchstone – Quenched
22 April 2016 We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. ~His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama This morning I scanned back over post titles from 50 weeks of this year-long exploration of … Continue reading
Posted in Being Authentic, Courage, Finding Enough, Touchstones, Values
Tagged Dalai Lama
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Quenched
19 April 2016 It seems that, in transforming our responsiveness, this is not only what allows us to be surprised by the world but to also be that surprise to the world. ~Colten Steele You’ve probably realized that I love … Continue reading
Posted in Connection, Finding Enough, Giving up on perfectionism
Tagged Colten Steele, Jena Schwartz
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Touchstone – Sculpting Good Questions
15 April 2016 Instead of being in the world, let the world dwell in you. Open yourself up to it all. You won’t loose yourself. You will find you are big enough, bigger than you ever imagined. ~yoga nidra My … Continue reading
Posted in Connection, Finding Enough, Touchstones, Vulnerability
Tagged David Whyte, yoga nidra
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Touchstone – Filling the Sieve
4 March 2016 Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcolm S. Forbes Often I turn outside to satisfy my hunger. To bolster my sense of being enough, I stuff myself with other people’s … Continue reading
Filling the Sieve
1 March 2016 [Sufficiency isn’t] a quantity of anything. Sufficiency isn’t two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn’t a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency isn’t an amount at all. It … Continue reading
Posted in Connection, Finding Enough, Gratitude, Wisdom
Tagged Lynne Twist, Savasana
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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 – Filling our Bowls
29 January 2016 The sun shines not on us but in us. ~John Muir It’s raining again, a gentle percussion on my skylights, a soft steady drip from the eaves. It reminds me of the … Continue reading
Posted in Connection, Finding Enough, Touchstones
Tagged Brother David Steindl-Rast, Desiderata, Jena Schwartz, John Muir
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Filling our Bowls
27 January 2016 Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. Max Ehrmann, Desiderata, 1927 The topic of … Continue reading
Posted in Finding Enough, Giving up on perfectionism, Gratitude
Tagged Brother David Steindl-Rast, Desiderata
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Touchstone – Devotions
15 January 2016 What matters is that one of the ways we grow up is by declaring what we love. ~Shauna Niequist, Bread and Wine After writing this week’s first post about creating intentions around the things I am devoted … Continue reading