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How Do You Find A Destiny – When Readiness Meets A Need, Actualization Follows: FDR And John Paul The Second
(Excerpt from the third Emerald Key: The Roots Nourish and Grow the Fruit) FDR struggled immensely with polio away from the public eye. Unbeknown to him and to the American people, he was being made ready as he fought to get through his personal despair and depression. Roosevelt’s resolved determination and will power, which was fashioned during his painful ordeal with polio, is what America...
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When To Pray – Part Two
Prayer is an action petitioning to come into the presence of something. Therefore the best prayer is an action taken when you are already with and in the presence of what you are praying for. Pray for fitness and health when you exercise, when you enjoy hiking outdoors, when you swim in the ocean or in a cold mountain lake. Pray for love when you...
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Why Do People Stop Dreaming?
This post was triggered after reading the Cool Friend interview with Matthew Kelly on Tom Peters! I found Kelly’s reply to the question of why people stop dreaming incomplete and posted a comment. Upon further reflection I found my own comment also incomplete and added the following: “A person without a dream is like a bird without wings”. “Take a man away from his dreams...
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When To Pray
People most often pray when they need something. This is understandable, we want health mostly when it begins to fail; we want friendship when we are lonely, and money becomes much more important when you don’t have it. But praying from absence is not the most effective way to pray. It is much better to pray for something from within its presence. The best time...
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Iris: We Move Towards What Is Good
The movie Iris about the life of Iris Murdoch, played by Judi Dench and Kate Winslet, portrays the extraordinary journey of Iris from a vivacious young woman to a highly admired author and her descent into the darkness of Alzheimer’s disease. Here are some words spoken by Iris in the movie: “Every human soul has seen, perhaps even before their birth, pure forms such as...
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