Barbara Thorne: The Point of Power is Now

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28 JUNE 2022 — EQUANIMITY

28 JUNE 2022 — EQUANIMITY To shrug our shoulders and move on from unpleasant circumstances without our feeling cross or needing to blame someone is being EQUANIMOUS. How hard is that!! Very hard, of course because our minds love to chatter and to praise and blame! Like ALL THINGS the…

Equanimity

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2 days ago

27 June 2022 — HAPPY MONDAY

27 June 2022 — HAPPY MONDAY Happy Monday! May it be the beginning of a very good week for us all. But, what does a very good week involve? Does it involve everything going ‘right’, going the way we wish it to? Or does it merely involve our accepting and…

Happy Monday

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3 days ago

26 June 2022 = FORGIVENESS

26 June 2022 = FORGIVENESS How many times have we or others told ourselves to’ forgive and FORGET’ when we are holding a grudge towards others or someone is holding one against us. It is another of those things which is not easy to do. BUT WHY SHOULD IT BE…

Forgiveness

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4 days ago

25 June 2022 — LOVING OTHERS

25 June 2022 — LOVING OTHERS ‘Loving others’ means accepting them as they are and NOT wanting to change them or wishing they were different. I have had cause to wonder how many people in my life I do accept as they are without wishing they were different or wanting…

Loving Others

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Jun 22

22 June 2022 — A WONDERFUL WORLD

22 June 2022 — A WONDERFUL WORLD ‘I see trees so green, red roses too/I see them bloom for me and you, And I think to myself what a Wonderful World… Lois Armstrong The above is just a short couple of lines from this song but I felt inspired to…

What A Wonderful World

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Jun 21

21 June 2022 — THE SUMMER SOLSTICE

21 June 2022 — THE SUMMER SOLSTICE The Summer Solstice is the longest day of the year with the most hours of sunlight and it marks the beginning of summer. The Sun reaches its highest point in the sky. It is of course also a day when people flock to…

Summer Solstice 2020

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Jun 20

20th June 2022 — SUCCESS FAILURE COURAGE

20th June 2022 — SUCCESS FAILURE COURAGE ‘SUCCESS is not final, FAILURE is not fatal: it is the COURAGE to continue that counts’. (Winston Churchill — former Prime Minister) CHANGE is the essence of our lives and sometimes all of us succeed beyond our wildest dreams only to find that…

Success Failure Courage

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Jun 19

19 June 2022 — ATTACHMENT

19 June 2022 — ATTACHMENT Three days ago my blog was about ATACHMENT and DETACHMENT. I write about Attachment today because having stopped in two cafes today I realised that in each there is a seat which I see as being mine! And I feel very annoyed when someone else…

Attachment

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19 June 2022 — ATTACHMENT

Three days ago my blog was about ATACHMENT and DETACHMENT. I write about Attachment today because having stopped in two cafes today I realised that in each there is a seat which I see as being mine! And I feel very annoyed when someone else…

Jun 18

BEING OR DOING?

BEING OR DOING? ‘What makes you think that ‘doing’ is so important? Be equal minded. Then you will not be bothered about ‘doing’ or ‘not doing’; success or failure, the balance will remain unaffected by either.’ (Sri Sathya Sai Baba) When we are able to be equanimous towards circumstances in…

Being Or Doing

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Jun 17

17 June 2022- SILENCE

17 June 2022- SILENCE How hard most of us find it to be SILENT — silent both in the sense of not feeling obliged to talk when we are with others, but most importantly SILENT in our minds through ceasing our incessant thinking. ‘Assume silence when others criticise you’ aware…

Silence

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