Cathy Self
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Day 234 – Growing and Change
Change involves risk and ambivalence, but is it the very place where we may embrace and fully engage life. Continue reading
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Day 227 – Being With
Compassionate care, presence, and healing all emerge from our willingness to be with our own heart and mind. We cannot give what we do not have. Being with others in ways that meet need with Love demands we first know… Continue reading
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Day 213 – Living Our Way Into The Answer
The questions in our lives may create anxiety and fear, even though truth itself lies just beneath our fear. Seeing and hearing that truth comes when we are willing to “live the questions now” as Rilke so beautifully writes. Living… Continue reading
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Day 164 – Centered in the Both/And
“Just because a rose has thorns does not mean that it needs to be fixed! The thorns tell us that all beauty in this creation is to be handled with love, care, attention, and the respect inherent in the present… Continue reading
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Day 157 – Gifts of Hope and Faith
Are there hopes and dreams alive in you for the difference Love can make in your work, in this world? I admit to days of discouragement and sometimes a readiness to walk away – frankly at times I think it’d… Continue reading
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Day 150 – Mindful Again
Mindfulness is love that resists distraction (italics added). It is a staunch refusal to fall into absentmindedness. It is focused, sustained attention toward the beloved. Continue reading
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Day 143 – The Power of One
Words carry great power, as we’ve been sharing this week in this pages; perhaps that power is felt most of all when we use simple, one-syllable words. With our words we can create harm and hurt, or help and hope.… Continue reading
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Day 122 – Authentic Living
Each human person is unique and original, and nobody has lived what we have lived. Furthermore, what we have lived, we have lived not just for ourselves but for others as well. Writing can be a very creative and invigorating… Continue reading
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Day 115 – Fear not the Broom!
Perseverance is the ability to thrive under the weight of mediocrity and the seduction of the average and the ordinary. It is the ability to remain faithful for the duration. Great things of Love come out of small acts of… Continue reading
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Day 108 – Courage to Be
It takes courage to move beyond convention, compliance, and imitation and truly be who we are called to be. Continue reading
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