Minton Sparks
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Days 151-156 – Openings To The Soul
Master storytellers are master chefs. They mix the finest ingredients in artful ways: Spice, but not so much it burns the tongue. Tastes that thrill Life’s palate. Love that burns away Fear’s toxins…How we describe our suffering determines not whether… Continue reading
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Day 144-148 – Lost
There are so many ways to become lost. I found one yesterday in a forest nearby, & ultimately far away, from home. Heaven & hell are the way-stations of the pioneer. There is a lot to be found when lost.… Continue reading
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Days 116-120 – Where Are You From?
Minton Sparks helps us understand where we are truly “from.” For example, I am from my father’s Hollywood YMCA where I spent every Saturday swimming…and I am from the older sister who helped raise me, my first friend Jill &… Continue reading
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Days 74-78 What keeps you safe?
[Essay by Minton Sparks] “When I get buried in the jail behind the bars that the monkey paints I come out shooting with a truth or two and the heart’s resonance shouts back at me, “I’m scared too”. He’s scared… Continue reading
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Days 286-290 – The Art of Self Healing
“Your worst wounds are self-inflicted. It is not that you are masochistic. It is that we all own egos whose ears are so finely tuned for praise that they bleed at every perceived insult.” Continue reading
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Days 150-151 – “Smoke Upon The Wind”
“Can we be companions that illuminate both our life together and the part of our path is solitary?” -Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 147-149 – How Stories Improve Care
“…if we could truly see into the hearts of others we would always feel more love and understanding.” -Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 40-41 Sacred Circle
Mandala is the Sanskrit word for sacred circle, there is no beginning and no end, a universal symbol for God as an all-inclusive Love without distinction. Representative of life, mandala symbolism has polarities or opposites. For example, night and day,… Continue reading
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