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“As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.”  (Pema Chodron) Think about it for a minute:  do you demand perfection of your best friend?  Do you shame them and call them names if they makes a mistake?  The answerRead more

“When you argue with ‘what is’, you lose.  But only 100% of the time.”  (Byron Katie) What a memorable way to put it!  Fighting ‘what is’ is simply insanity.  Things are the way they are; we can choose to accept them or to fight them.  Either way, life simply goes on its merry way. WeRead more

“I’ve come to see that the deepest source of my misery is not wanting things to be the way they are.  Not wanting myself to be the way I am.  Not wanting the world to be the way it is.  Not wanting others to be the way they are.  Whenever I’m suffering, I find thisRead more

One definition of insanity is ‘extreme foolishness or irrationality’.  It’s amazing how we can perform insane acts in our daily lives without even realizing it. For instance, have you ever held a belief that caused you pain and yet you wouldn’t let go of it?  That’s irrational — for if we create our beliefs, whyRead more

I’m sure you’ve all heard the saying that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, yet expecting to get a different result.  I always liked that saying because it rang true to me.  So many of us do this, even though it’s illogical. But last night I heard an evenRead more