Your work is to discover your life and with all your heart to give yourself to it.” – Buddha
When you claim your life, a life grounded in your own body, you discover your deepest self beyond the conditioned mind. As you integrate Presence into your life, you naturally share your unique gifts with your world.
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Posted in Joy, Making a Difference on Mar 11th, 2010
I focus much of my work on natural givers – those of you whose giving can get out of balance with receiving. This is a path that I, too, have walked. With this level of giving, you lose touch with your own self. You lose a sense of what you need and want. You give [...]
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If you’re a person who is naturally giving, there may be times when you indiscriminately direct this giving energy. In other words, you may hear and try to respond to everyone around you who is in need. You may forget that you get to choose where you direct your energy.
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What is love? When we go within to our very core and rest in the stillness/peace/spaciousness, we know and experience that love is ever-present. In our natural state, the heart is open and love flows through us, replenishing us and all those around us. Love simply is; there is nothing to do.
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Those of you who find your way to this site know what it’s like to be a giver. To give your unique gifts to the world is very beautiful and central to the heart path of being human.
You likely also know what doesn’t work in easily giving to others – the lack of inclusion of [...]
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When we direct our attention within to the very core, our true nature, we find ourselves experiencing a sense of peace and spaciousness that is always, always present. We are essentially that presence, that awareness, that stillness.
In this resting in our true nature, inner confidence flourishes. We trust life. We trust that our decisions come [...]
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In our culture, it is very familiar to read, hear, and deeply understand from our own experience what it is like to seek confidence, exude confidence, and feel confident or ‘a lack thereof’ which is usually labelled as insecure. Confidence is something to be desired and attained, and insecurity is to be overcome.
When I added [...]
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In Oprah’s newsletter this week, Marcus Buckingham reports on the statistical findings of a recent, 2009 survey concluding that today’s women are generally not as happy as women forty years ago (statistically substantiated by six major surveys in developed countries throughout the world). Also, the survey found that women get less happy as they age; [...]
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As givers, we know very well what it’s like to give the gift of time. It is time that we give to others in a myriad of ways that express our own strengths and are reflective of our true nature.
Take a moment to reflect on how you give your time to others – to your [...]
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I had the privilege this week of listening to Kofi Annan, the one-time Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997-2006) address a group of 6000 students at the University of Buffalo. As a backdrop, it might be helpful to know that this university has one of the highest percentages of international students in the United States. [...]
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