It is easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting. — Millard Fuller, Co-founder of Habitat for Humanity. We are deep into January, and our New Year’s resolutions are becoming fading memories. I came across the above and it helped me…

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Yesterday, I used an old expression — “to die for.” My friend Davis replied asking what are we willing to die for? His reply got me to thinking. Certainly my organ donor died and over five people lived because of his family’s willingness to donate his organs. But no matter how generous, his dying was…

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Kindness is water, religion is tea. — Dalai Lama My Yoga instructor repeated the Dalai Lama’s words today. To her, his words meant that we can’t live without water, but every now and then a glass or cup of tea is nice. I went home to check the quote, and I was amazed at what I…

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And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church. — Matthew 16:18 Many of us relate to Peter myself included. Why? Because he screwed up every now and then in his understanding and relationship with Jesus. He brings me hope because of his denials, his eagerness, and his…

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Grateful living is possible only when we realize that other people and agents do things for us that we cannot do for ourselves.” — Robert Emmons. According to his website, Robert Emmons is the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude. I never thought of gratitude as a science, but his website, https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/profile/robert_emmons, is full of stuff. I look…

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