Connections are points where two or more people, things or ideas meet and share common elements. Things that join, unite, link or share other things together.
Key Concepts: affinity, convergence, empathy, failure, harmony, networking, opposition, relationships, sincerity, unity
archetypes: banana, bat, chain, flirt, ghost, hippopotamus, honeysuckle, marriage, oriole, river, shaman, threshold, tomato, toucan, turkey
We all have the desire to be part of a community. This search for connection is universal, and exists even among people who think of themselves as loners. To become part of this sense of community, we have to be proactive and put ourselves out there. We have to be open to being different from […]
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Taking Stock of Your Friendships If only we had unlimited numbers of friendships and all were perfectly encouraging, life would be ideal. But we all know that is not how it works. Sometimes ending friendships is the only way forward. Reasons for Ending Friendships: You Grow Apart Often this happens with friends from your
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I’ve been doing a great deal of thinking/meditating on how we are all connected. The most basic and obvious is that we are all connected simply by being alive on the same planet. I remind myself of this whenever I start to feel judgmental or start feeling a little superior or inferior to someone else. It
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Attachment is: adherence, faithful, loyal, devout, staunch, steadfast, constant, pious, adhesion, firmness, allegiance, love, affection, fondness, connected, stuck. Attachment is the state of being firmly affixed to someone or something. Our culture has long celebrated attachments of various kinds: romantic love, family loyalty, even attachment to our faith and beliefs. In our present society we
People are so taken with selfies, images of ourselves. I find the whole thing kind of amusing, but wonder what it says about us as individuals. Is there a way to move this idea for self documentation and self sharing into something more meaningful, a spiritual selfie? Is social media sharing in general just a mask
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Ralph Waldo Emerson “A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.” “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” “I trust a good deal
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