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laboratory mindset paths + processes renovation space/home

Life Lesson on The Ordinary State of Affairs

During my recent week off to recover from moving house and getting repairs underway to my leak-damaged home, I continued the work of embracing a big life lesson…

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mindset quotes rules for living

When Things Fall Apart, I Turn to This Powerful Survival Manual

As the challenge that appeared in my life recently continues, I turn daily to the best survival manual I know, and this passage in particular.

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Gifts from Opening Books at Random: Bibliosophia? Bibliotherapy? Bibliomancy?

Daily we find ourselves opening a random book to find a kernel of something just right: an image, a bit of writing, a poem, an unexpected gift that resonates with the moment. We wondered what to call this mysterious occurance.

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Pema Chodron + A Site That Envisions Impermanance

+We spend a good amount of time looking for ways to be more accepting of change that seems to be moving faster and faster, the messy processes of life and our lack of control over them: what Buddhist’s call Impermanence. Pema Chodrun’s new book and this clever site help…

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A MOST Astonishing Message from a New Voice

The past two weeks on vacation yielded many wonders: an anonymous heart forged of pebbles and the incredible Fairy Sanctuary made of bits of this and that, below, both stumbled upon while wandering beautiful Omega Institute in upstate New York (Who MADE them, we wondered?). But MOST astonishing was this message we received via text message: It…

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