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Tag: regret

  • Why risk regret?

    Q: What’s scarier than making a life change? A: Regretting not making a life change. Irrational forces hold us back. Yet if we think deeply, we recognize that we are the ones who empower those forces. Stop putting your energy into staying the same. Put that energy into becoming new. Why risk regret?

  • Consciousness | Growing, Pain, Healing and Joy

    “We cannot go back. We can only go forward.” -M. Scott Peck, M.D. Here in-lies a bittersweet truth of evolving into consciousness. Once we see, we can never unsee. We can never go back. Find comfort in knowing that ignorance is, in fact, not bliss. Since we cannot go back, we must grow up. Growing…

  • No regrets

    “Today I understand something I didn’t see before.  Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.” – from The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho (an encore classic) In the quoted passage, an old man becomes painfully aware of a timeless principle – that when you ignore your blessings there is a negative outcome.  If you substitute the word…

  • The Four Agreements

    Be impeccable with your word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do…

  • The Old Skin Has To Be Shed

    “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.” -Joseph Campbell

  • 3 Methods of Emotional Preservation

    It seems to me I’ve never stopped feeling anything. Healing seems to only ever take two forms. We can either distance ourselves from the emotion, which feels like temporary hiding, or find something to drown it out. This poses a unique problem as I retract from the New Age touchy-feely man I was to focus…