PurposeEverything exists for a reason. Even you, especially you. It is the key to who you are and who you were meant to be. You are your intention, and acting “on purpose” will get you in line with who you are. As easy as this sounds, many people struggle to find their meaning in life. This is normal; in fact, you can spend a lifetime discovering your it. Every action you take gets you closer. Listen to your self and find what you are meant to do.
Archetypes: The Cardinal, The Church, The Flood, The Gladiolus, The Mockingbird, The Nemesis, The Penguin, The Rhinoceros, The Salmon, The Square, The Squirrel
Creative People live their lives according to principles that are both universal and individual. All creatives share some creative common values. Artists share these common big ideas that draw them to their projects. Maybe you want to be an artist but are afraid to start. If you are afraid to go for it, these common […]
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Negativity vs Positivity I have always thought of myself as a happy person. Always consider myself to be an optimist. I believe in the basic good of people, and of myself. But at times I have been confronted with evidence to the contrary: parents growing up, spousal arguments and good friends risking our friendship to
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A False Start on My Path When I was 21 (way back in the olden days of 1996), I graduated from undergrad school with a major in English and a dubious minor in French. I thought I was going to be an academic, or a teacher at least. Failing that I was then going to
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The Idea That Wouldn’t Go Away Long ago, I made a pact with myself that I needed to expand my awareness. I wanted an active part in as many experiences as possible. In 2004 I created a personal website and Beholds seemed an unusual, strong and active name. This site has had various incarnations over
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Artistic driven people feel called toward an artistic pursuit and have a unique path in this life. The calling may be generalized or laser focused, but it always entails the need to create and explore. A life purpose that relies on imaginative connection requires that the person find a way to filter out the negative
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This is a personal question, and I think there is no one right answer as to what constitutes your personal values. What matters most to you is what matters most for you. To be able to truly create a life with meaning, you have to be honest with yourself as to what you think is/are
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Passion is: desire, affliction, appetite, craving, itch, agony, affection, sentiment, frenzy, transporting, lusty, craving, coveting, aspiring, aiming, intense, fiery, enthusiasm, zealous. Passion, in all of its various meanings, always suggests intensity. Intensity of emotion or belief, which can be experienced as an esoteric euphoria or great suffering. When you feel passion you are living right
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Pipher, Mary. (2006). Writing to Change the World. New York: Berkley. ISBN: 978-1-59448-253-3. paperback. $14.00 Probably the most common reason writers give for why they write is that they want to make an impact on other people, change the way people think or feel. Mary Pipher dissects how to best achieve this by going into
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Cather, Willa (1922). One of Ours. Another novel that shows the “American Story” of the early Twentieth Century, One of Ours is one of the most disturbing war account novels I have read. The American Dream collides with the horrors of modern warfare with beautiful flashes of poetic insight, tales and descriptions of death, suffering,
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I exist to keep people from being lonely, to add love and companionship to their lives. People need to feel cared for and nurtured. I exist to tell stories. I teach through words. I exist to learn that people are more important than things and that others are as important as myself. I exist to
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