Month: June 2013

Guest blogger Lorie Sheffer: Forgiveness step 4

Photo: Lorie Sheffer
Photo: Lorie Sheffer

 

The 4th step to forgiveness is knowing that…….

……we do not need to be loyal to our pain. There is no need for us to carry it around with us. It is such a heavy burden.

We should not allow our pain or hurt to define who we are. There is so much more to us than “victim”.

What a relief to give ourselves permission to live in peace and contentment, even amidst angry, miserable people.

“But how can I possibly allow myself to enjoy life when there is so much suffering around me?”  Because we honor the suffering in the world by seeing the joy in life.  There is so much pain and suffering in the world that if that was ALL there was to life, then life itself would be hopeless.

As the French writer Andre Gide said, “Know that joy is rarer, more difficult and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.”

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The only reason to not follow our heart?

List of top 10 interview questions
Number 9 ought to be a stunning, inspiring, courageous description, no?

 

The only reason to not follow our heart? Trick question. There’s none.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. – Steve Jobs

Life is not a dress rehearsal. Live like you mean it. – jeff noel

A hundred years from now, no one will remember anything you did. Go.

Let’s not allow embarrassment to stop us from doing something great.

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There is always a price to pay when we make decisions

Mid Life Celebration Facebook Fan Page
You run a business or it runs you

 

There is always a price to pay when we make decisions. For example, would we rather:

  • Have a dream, but work so hard we barely seem to have a life?
  • Have a life because we don’t work too hard, but have no dream?

We can thank people that help us think. We don’t have to agree, but we do have to think.

Otherwise, we could have no dream and never feel like we really lived.

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